The SolarEdge isn’t delivering DC directly to your car, the SAE J1772 charging standard doesn’t support that. What that inverter does is save you the cost of a second 240V circuit back from the breaker panel by integrating the EVSE into the inverter, the power delivered to your Leaf is still 240V AC. You’re still…

I can’t blame anyone for wishing for better from their media even if there’s a long established pattern.

There’s a stage that structural batteries might like to reach eventually where the cells are integrated into the frame like bone marrow, but that’s not the first step. Right now the battery pack has to be designed like a bucket full of chain, the cells are solid objects but they’re linked together with floppy little…

Literally everything you quoted was true, and he was largely recounting stories he’d heard secondhand, a very normal thing for a guy who founded an information sharing website to do. If he’d spoken about his personal struggles at any point I’d have laughed about it but he’s relaying the stories of people who mostly are…

It’s also possible that she’s still pan in the game but just doesn’t go for FemShep in particular for some reason. The only concrete difference between the two versions since their appearances are customizable is the voice. So clearly she just finds Jennifer Hale’s voice a turn off.

Nothing is really that original. Most of the games-first AAA franchises are either from extant genres or are effectively licensed adaptations of their own past versions at this point, Rockstar didn’t need to pay Sergio Leone or Martin Scorsese to license gangsters and cowboys, but they are definitely as much an…

Adding my voice to the notion that standardized batteries are good. Most professional equipment, including AV gear made by Sony, provides options for how you want to power it in the field. I miss the fact that I could dip into my stock of nimh AAs when my Wii remotes went flat.

Sure, but you don’t go looking for buttons by sight when you’re playing, you go by pure touch. Since the PS button is used to turn the system on, you need to be able to find it by sight. After that, it’s out of the way in its current placement because you don’t have a lot of reason to try and extend your thumbs down…

Oh, it’s a game that stared in Hawaii played with these paper milk caps...

Hit by a storm off Hawaii? Clearly the spirit of king Kamehameha does not like that show using his name.

Yes. And no, basically if some of you are sharing accounts up to 4 profiles from one account can be in at the same time. So to get to the full 7 screens requires at minimum 2 accounts and some passwords shared around.

Oh yes definitely, don’t misread me here, I can recognize how likely my flip reply was to come off as a slam on your position and I swear it’s not. When CDPR decided to venture into this territory they should have recognized how fraught this particular topic was going to be.

The fact that they don’t let you put RGB lights and a water cooling solution on your genitals is a miscarriage of justice.

Pretty sure that snowrunner doesn’t feature vehicle mounted wenches.

The best part of it is the dashcam aspect, the fact that the system is always holding the last few minutes ready to be saved if you decide something cool just happened. Most people can’t be bothered to set up recording ahead of time for every session hoping that something amazing happens, but almost anybody can be…

That’s not Carlin, that's Gallagher. Or possibly they both did that joke, but I remember it from Gallagher specials I watched in heavy rotation on Comedy Central in the 90s.

Cyberverse Grimlock is probably my favorite take on Grimlock: erudite friendly warrior who goes caveman when he changes into the dinosaur mode.

They sell some lovely combination convection oven/microwave hybrids. Small enough to heat up super fast and cook, via hot air but can still nuke things.

I’d suspect that the “strangest cartoon phenomenon” from any given decade wasn’t.

The ‘90s strangest cartoon phenomenon was clearly Liquid Television. Though I have to admit that the use of the Jurassic Park scene for the Animaniacs revival trailer is just great on a lot of levels, it’s a touchstone for grown up kids of that time and it’s a perfect Spielberg connection.