Spent a while trying to get EPS wired up on my solar inverter last night. Couldn't get it to stay powered after turning off the mains. It seems it needed to detect an actual load to stay active, just the freezer wouldn't cut it as it was idling. I had to plug a 6W lamp in just to make it […]

Bugger. Discovered my model of Kia EV3 won’t do V2L. That was my emergency backup plan. Now I need to wire up the EPS port on the solar inverter instead, which will only give 5.8kwh assuming it’s actually full. I think it’s time to invest in bigger house batteries.

I’ve just realised the mosque in my home town has taken over what was the old Mecca Bingo hall when I was growing up. I can’t work out if that’s coincidence or not.

@wishy ah I'm mostly looking for cooling and a bridge in late Autumn / early Spring as we've got an A2W pump for the radiators.

@wishy however did you guess 😅 Don't suppose you have a recommendation?

Why why why is it so difficult to get tradespeople to respond to a request for a quote, or actually come out to visit when they say they will? I'm gaining quite the catalogue of excuses – today's was that they got flooded by their upstairs neighbour.

I do love Fedi but the dogmatic anti AI rhetoric on here is starting to get really toxic. Barely any nuance allowed, no appreciation of “right tool for the job”. It’s quite sad.

The dodgy af electoral register update apps now seem to be hosted on a <authority>.gov.uk address! That took how many years?

@Floppy Black Hole Sun, won’t you come And wash away our previous misconceptions about the early phases of the existence of the universe

Spending some tokens this evening getting a hobby Rails + Turbo app entirely ported to Go + htmx. Scarily quick, using existing Rails system specs as a grounding for the port.