There are two types of people in this world:
-those who carry on a conversation on their phone, in a public toilet
- those who don’t understand what the fuck is wrong with those people
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Joshua McKinnon
@corduroy@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2Executive Director of Mobile at The Pants Institute. PhD in Crystallography. Now, creator of awesome technology products. He/him
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Joined April 25, 2022
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Pixelfed:
It was a mistake to get solar panels installed on what might be the coldest day of the year, with the power off most of the day so no heating. It’s obviously even worse for the blokes outside.
Ooh looks like I got curtailed today - my VPP prevented further exports in the middle of the day. That’s an unexpected problem. #pv
Good morning!
#bluemountains
I analysed my EV roadtrip - Katoomba to Gold Coast, via Sydney Airport, up the M1, then home via Grafton, Armidale, Gloucester. This was the longest roadtrip I’ve done in ~3 years of Model 3 ownership…
- 2285 km
- $228 spent on energy (almost exactly 10c/km).
My key takeaways:
- Charging was almost entirely easy. Plenty of chargers (while still mostly Superchargers, there are plenty of others now too). The only challenge was Grafton to Armidale, which did require some thought #.
- The cost saving of an EV mostly evaporates when public charging. I kinda knew this, but this trip confirmed it. Well, except that I’m really driving a sports car, not a Toyota Corolla, so while you can drive a petrol car this cheaply, you can’t drive a car nearly this fun.
- This roadtrip cost me the equivalent of 10 months of home charging, and that’s before I get solar and battery installed. It’s only road trips where this car costs money to run.
It was a glorious walk to the pub today
Im at a solar + battery seminar in Penrith, and based on the cars in the street around, every other EV owner in western Sydney is here too.
Was reading a one-pedal braking thread on an EV subreddit. I had to come back here because people are idiots and I’m telling you instead of them.
#idiots
My app is so popular it has taken down my entire hosting platform VentraIP
Ive decided it’s time to photograph these and chuck them out.
#D90
I moved my phone back to Optus, and it’s going just as you would expect it to.
Here I am reporting an error trying to activate my watch plan. The agent apologizes they had to restart their tools because of some unexpected system updates.
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I have complex thoughts about this new world, but I am sure as hell forming them by working in the new world, not standing outside and watching.
#iosdev
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@onekind@beige.party not yet, but it is on the list of ideas to implement, and now has one upvote!
How terrible an idea is it to go to the Gold Coast theme parks in the July school holidays?
I’ve spent a month in a support case with Optus, trying to get number share setup for my Apple Watch. They’ve no clue what to do. One idea was to get a physical SIM in my phone, but that was just a guess.
Anyone seen this issue where the mobile plan drops into the “not in use” section immediately?
#applewatch #droptus
Picking a kiddo up from the movies, and the carpark is full. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it even half full before. Is there some massive blockbuster on or are the cool kids all just going to the movies again now?
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@paulwakeford@aus.social yeah, sorry - it turns out this API won't accept my Application key and your API Key - they need to be matched. I can't see a way to contact the API developers to ask "WTF" about that, so there will be a new build where you need to enter both, soon.
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@decryption@aus.social that is unsurprising. It was one-shot, and I’ve not reviewed and rewritten it. But I will - several aspects of it irritate me too
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@onekind@beige.party cheers. The app is currently set with a 5 hour half-life, but I will add tuning before it goes in the App Store.
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@stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net cool, this is why I built it - "I think I am overdoing it in the morning, and crashing in the afternoon". I am also interested in longer-term patterns. Turns out the easiest† way to get my caffeine into Apple Health was to build‡ an app.
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@decryption@aus.social this is what normal people think, the number of not-normal people always surprises me
Oh man driving an #ev seems so awful
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@haruki_zaemon I am a shocker at under-cooking steaks, which I’m fine with but others are not, this seems like a better way to get consistent results.
First world problem, I know but having to dial 101 and shuffle through 36 new voicemails to get to the new one, is intolerable #mvno
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@vaempyr@aus.social your second one is on the list already, I will get to that soon. The first one, I'll look into.
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@mike805@noc.social mine can take 4 hours for a load - the tumbling is definitely much more gentle than vented dryers I’ve had before. I have not noticed any ill effects on the clothes, and because the drying is more gentle, I put pretty-much everything in it.
@joannejacobs@aus.social @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange
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@vaempyr@aus.social yeah it's on my end, my hosting service is still busted (hope it wasn't me)
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@madkiwi@mastodon.world “virtual power plant”. It’s the thing where I hand over some control of my battery system to the retailer to manage, in return for a big rebate. They can do things like ask (or force?) me to discharge/charge during critical supply events for a bonus tariff. My bonus tariff is:
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@jon@aus.social the app connects to the Ecowitt API. So if your weather stations sends to Ecowitt, then it should work. (Can you see your data in the Ecowitt app?)
Tell me you're a Product Manager without telling me you're a Product Manager
#claude
Oh BTW my Ecowitt weather station monitoring app is up on TestFlight now. Check it out at
https://corduroy.biz/verandah
#iosdev