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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Sounds like one of the cells has died; fully agree that it’s best to replace the battery (given its 7th gen, I doubt it’s still under warranty).

    Alternatively, if you like tinkering with stuff just for the sake of it, you can replace the offending cell (often slightly expanded compared to the rest of them), or all 3/4 of them: in my experience, replacing only the dead one results in another one dying relatively soon after, but may still be a viable temporary solution if you’re short on money or have something of similar size lying around. Also, if you decide it sounds fun, be sure to look up how-to’s, as just disconnecting a cell will make most BMSes lock themselves + possibly burn the fuse, and you probably don’t want to play the game of “is this BMS unlockable without paying 100500 kilomoney for specialized equipment”














  • Somewhat disagreed: the lack (or lousiness) of physical security doesn’t somehow magically make self-hosting work worse. Given I live in the middle of nowhere in an average house for the area, I can pretty much live the doors unlocked when I go out. Alternatively, if I live in some fancy neighborhood in a fancy house, I likely need some security system.

    As for self-hosting, it’s more convenient in the long term, I think. “We change our terms of service, and now require the soul of your firstborn” – idgaf; “unavailable due to legal reasons” (tnx, tailscale, much appreciated you giving 0 notice, not that I’m salty about it or anything) – idgaf; internet outage – idgaf; and so on. Well, you may need to invest into duplicating critical infrastructure like password managers or the VPN host, but that’s a relatively small price to pay, IMO.

    And for loosing the contact, a couple of those I care about agreed to move the communication to matrix… So, it feels like friends who don’t consider talking to you on platforms other than snoopbook despite them requiring little to no PII (signal is a bit of an exception here, but that have a relatively good track record) aren’t too much interested in talking to you as a whole. And, well, should you be interested in talking to them in return? Although, I’m admittedly quite comfortable alone, and more extraverted (or less schizoid) folks may still feel uncomfortable with that course of action.