There are two types of #EV chargers: AC and DC. The DC ones are generally known as “rapid chargers” and are the EV equivalent of filling stations, delivering a lot of charge in a short time. You use these to extend range on a long trip.
The AC chargers are what everyone uses at home, overnight, to slowly charge their car at a much lower power level. These stress the battery a lot less and also, the power grid can cope with them easily, which is harder with the beefier DC rapid chargers.
But there are also public AC chargers. These are generally used if you’re staying somewhere for several hours, as is the case here where I left my car overnight in Malaga, or by plug in hybrid owners who, for some reason, have to show the world that they can go three more metres before their engine comes on after leaving the supermarket 🤷🏻♀️👍🏻
Loving the vibe in Malaga! Not been here before (other than the airport)
I really like the place.
I am not a coffee drinker. Being cursed with supertaste, I have spent my life finding the stuff utterly undrinkable.
But now I'm nearly 50, many of my taste buds have died off and I have been slowly managing to acquire the taste.
The flat in Portugal came with an expensive coffee machine, which @Zoe O'Connell uses but I don't (it'll do hot water, but not hot enough for decent tea, so I reverted to the kettle very quickly).
But today I asked it to make me something called a "Latte Macchiato", which the picture shows in a glass.
And now I know why. The preparation is quite a show! The machine adds hot milk, then milk froth, then coffee. The coffee drops straight through the froth layer to form a new layer in the middle which then artfully diffuses into the milk below.
Tasted not offensive too. Actually almost pleasant.
But as a tea drinker, I have a very very low tolerance for caffeine and OH MY GOD ALL THE THINGS SOMEONE TURN THE WORLD DOWN!!!!!!!Eleven!!!!
@James Graham I asked it and it said,
Unconditional surrender to the mind means to let go of the ego and open one's mind to the possibilities and potential of what can be done. It means to surrender to the higher power of the subconscious, to surrender all preconceived notions, and to accept the potential of what can be accomplished. It is a surrendering of the sense of control and an allowing of the natural flow of life to take its course. It is a letting go of the need to be in control and a trusting of the process.
It then showed me this photo.
What fresh hell is this? AI search engine, you.com allows you to search social media handles. Here's what it says about me, most of which (in fact, nearly all of it), is bullshit.
When I tell it it's almost completely wrong, it castigates me for giving it "incorrect information"!
Can we burn these things with fire now, please?
#Friendica server now migrated from a 2 gig RPi 4 to an 8 gig early 2015 retina MacBook Pro running Ubuntu.
The MBP was headed to the skip, but it turns out it makes a pretty kick-arse #ActivityPub server.
Reuse is better than recycle.
Here it is, in my server cupboard! If you're reading this post, that dilapidated Mac in the corner served it!
Dateline: a petrol station outside Tavira on the main road between Tavira and Faro last night. Action: I park there and, a few minutes later, an older gentleman in a jeep pulls up and I hand him a brown paper bag through my car window.
We then both drive off.
I’m sure this all looked perfectly innocent to anyone observing.
(I was selling the old autopilot unit from my boat)
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A spoof email from Netflix. It reads, "Sarah, we've just cancelled a series you might like
Repost, as the first one seemed to get weirdly corrupted.
8km evening walk in the forest at Barão de São João.
Probably not what most people think of when they picture the Algarve!
Thanks to Herculean effort from @Zoe O'Connell, our little #friendica server has dealt with the backlog of my post about GRA reform going viral (Friendica is REALLY bad at that) and then the cheap PoS SSD I bought failing half way through.
The offending piece of crap is pictured after I disassembled it. Even when working it was only as fast as an SD card. Truly dreadful.
Anyway, the friendica server is temporarily running in a data centre in Madrid (apparently it’s that easy to move Docker containers), but because the URL is fixed for all time when you create a server, the little Pi is sitting there acting as a concierge for that VPS and sending all data to it via an SSH tunnel. String and sellotape, whatever.
I have bought it a shiny proper branded SSD from Samsung that goes like shit off a Teflon coated shovel and we will likely be migrating it back this weekend.
Lesson learned: you CAN host a personal instance on an RPi on your home network, but please, for the love of god, do not buy the cheapest piece of shit SSD you can find. You will regret it if you do.
This is my Friendica server. Left to right, the boxes are: Power over Ethernet splitter, Raspberry Pi 4b (2 gig) in official case, 256 gig SATA SSD in a USB3 to SATA enclosure.
That’s it. That’s what this post you’re reading federated from.
You can’t migrate using the Mastodon migrate feature, but you can import your follows. For now, I’m using both.
Some mastodon clients don’t work with it at all. Some like Metatext do, but present it as though it’s mastodon. The web interface on a phone looks like this.
Ok, so yesterday I tried to submit a bunch of photos. I'd turned the file size limit up on my #Friendica instance but it was creaking. When I got it to accept, the files were too large to federate.
This is a test with some of the same photos, but much smaller files. Hoping this one will federate properly. Facebook and Twitter marmalise your files when you upload them. Friendica doesn't.
