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I’m not going to hold your hand. Just lose gracefully.

Oh honey.

I think you just gave us a really good view to how you arrived at your racist beliefs.

assuming I’m worried about a smash and grab

For your specific use case, how about this:

Get a cheap USB thumb drive and a long USB cable. Put your disk unlock password on that thumb drive, and semi-permanently affix the USB drive to your building. You said you're in a basement. Put it on top of a rafter with a metal fitting that would keep the drive from being taken without removing the screws. Run the long USB cable from the thumb driving in your rafter to the USB port on the machine. Alter your startup script to mount the thumb drive read the password from the thumb drive to unlock your main disk. Don't forget to immediately unmount the thumbdrive in the OS after the disk is unlocked for extra safety.

If someone is doing a smash and grab, they'll unplug all the cables (including this USB cable going to the thumb drive) and take your machine leaving the disk encryption password behind on the USB thumb drive.

Well, your own banned comment said you admit you feel "a bit" racist, so I know you are not asking me to present an argument that you're racist.

Are you.... asking me to present an argument that racism is wrong?

The moderator's opinion is better if the mod is deleting your racist comments.

I would be curious to know how ICE got access to the sheriffs’ systems.

The way the article reads, the Sheriff voluntarily joined the info sharing system in question:

"An administrative investigation from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office revealed Zwinck was part of a communication group that included local, state and federal law enforcement partners participating in “a multi-agency drug interdiction effort focusing on the highways throughout Western Colorado.”"

Whomever they’re contracting with needs to have it terminated yesterday, or they might as well be complicit.

There's no contractor to fire here. The Sheriffs office voluntarily joined for drug enforcement efforts. ICE use information shared for drug enforcement for immigration enforcement violating the purpose of the group. The Sheriffs left.

I see this as a good thing. While most of us don't trust trump's ICE, this is yet another example of other law enforcement arms also losing trust and cutting ICE off.

Presidential cosplay explains so much of the trump administration.

I could see your point about the questionable traffic stop for other possibly illegitimate reasons, but the Sheriffs actions to remove themselves from this information sharing with ICE afterwards is highly suggestive that its not doing the traffic stop for immigration enforcement reasons. I'll take the small win.

If it makes you feel better, I was shocked (pun intended) to learn this too, and I live here.

Are they somehow more expensive in the US? 40A 230V rated ones cost something like 30-50 € around here which doesn’t feel that expensive to me.

In my suggested hardwired 240V 20A EV charger the total parts cost is just the regular breaker on the left at about $18.

The suggested solution you had of putting an outlet in would have parts cost of $119 + the cost of the GFCI breaker, the outlet and the receptacle cover. So that solution is 660% more expensive.

"We were unaware that the communication group was used for anything other than drug interdiction efforts, including immigration," the sheriff's office said. "We have since removed all Mesa County Sheriff’s Office members from the communication group."

So it doesn't sound the like the local sheriffs are intentionally targeting people for immigration things in this case, but rather when the traffic stop happened, the data got put into a system that is completely unrelated to ICE, but ICE is apparently using anyway.

Your graphic is WAY out of date since trump's second term started.

Hell, depending on local codes, you might get away with slapping in a nema 6-20 receptacle to make it even easier…

If you do a receptacle, you've got to then do a GFCI. Check out the price difference between a GFCI breaker and one that isn't. If you hardware the EVSE, you don't need GFCI because GFCI is built into nearly all EVSE. If we're doing this exercise to keep low costs, adding GFCI outside of the EVSE jacks up the price.

#1 is a terrible idea if you ever need to hire an electrician in the future, plan on selling your house, etc. The National Electric Code prohibits using white, green, or grey wire for a hot/load connection. The 120V cable will contain a black wire for the hot connection, white for neutral, and green for ground. To properly convert it to 240V you would need a cable that consists of black & red wires for the two 120V legs.

I'll be the first to admit I'm no certified Sparky, but wire relabeling is used in a number of situations fully in accordance with NEC. My understanding is that some of this is in NEC 200.7. It requires relabeling both ends, but I don't think there's any code violation with it. If what you're saying was true, wouldn't that mean any -2 NM (Romex) would be code incompatible with 240v loads? I don't think that's true.

Edit: here's a Sparky doing exactly that

I doubt a renter in good standing would be kicked out of an existing apartment even at lease renewal. However, if the renter has to get new housing in the future your point is valid.

Except that those chunks of coal will be imported from another country where there are fewer safety and environmental regulations while the trump's pocket the savings.

Good video. Accurate information.

Two notes:

1. For North American homes: I agree with the overlooked value of a downrated circuit for EV charging, but I don't think he talked about a possibly better option for downrating: Using an existing 120v circuit (at whatever current rating) already wired in the garage . Remove the outlet, install EVSE (charger), and swap the breaker for a 240v one (at a current rating matching the original. So if you have a 120v 15A circuit (white romex) you can use the exact same wire for a 240v at 15A. If you have a 20A (yellow romex) you would end up with a 240v 20A. You get more than double the speed of charging with zero new wires added, only changing the breaker and removing the old outlets. Note: If you have multiple outlets in your garage all fed from this same circuit, this would mean all of your outlets in the garage are now 240v and not usable for regular 120v items.
2. He didn't like Smart chargers. Thats a valid opinion, but smart chargers can do some nice things that I like. Some will also talk to each other if you have two chargers, such as if you have two EVs. They can be configured to share the same wire to the breaker box, so you can plug both cars in at night, one car will charge, then when that is complete, the other will charge automatically without having to unplug one car and then plug in the other. It will charge the least charged car first ensuring the best balance of charge to both cars assuming both cars can't be charged to full in one night. If you have solar panels, some smart chargers can talk to the solar system and be instructed to only charge when there is excess power that would otherwise go to waste. It can do this automatically so if clouds go overhead and not enough juice is available from the sun, the charging stops. As soon as the clouds clear and there is an excess again, charging resumes automatically. For outdoor charging, you can also configure most Smart chargers to only charge you authorized cars. So you don't need to worry about someone rolling into your driveway when you're not home (or a bad neighbor) and running up your electricity bill.

The monkey paw curls

PC = General Purpose
Mobile devices = Purpose built

They are angry at how their life ended up, but can’t see how or why they got there, as it relates to their own actions. It’s all someone and something else’s fault.

Are sure it isn't narcissism they have?

Have you considered cooking simpler dishes that require far less work?

Here's a simple one:

• Brown one 1lbs of ground beef (takes about 10 minutes) in a skillet
• pour off the excess liquid fat (not down the drain of your sink. Put it in a container and throw it in the trash if you don't plan to use it for another recipe_
• Add 3/4 cup of water to the meat in the skillet
• one pouch of this:

Stir the contents of the pan on and off for about 2 minutes.

You now have a 1lbs of taco meat.

Empty a bag of lettuce into a bowl. Scoop out the taco meat and put it on the lettuce.

Sprinkle cheddar cheese on top of it.

You've got taco salad and it took you a bit less than 15 minutes.