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  • Sell me a properly, >22cm ground clearance station wagon with 1.8 tons of towing in fully electric and I’ll buy it. And no, I have decided, I am not going back to a used ICE car.

    We had that kind of cars, they have gone the way of the dodo.

    So, it’s either some dumb electric SUV with no ground clearance at all or the electric Audi SUV that I have now with at least the airride that I can lift going offroad.

    Apart from that: This right here is a glaringly visible example, but all over their lives, people make decisions based on tribal closeness. Everybody using something from China accepts slave labour or at least extremly unfavorable working conditions for some unknown people. Everybody wearing brand sneakers (and offbrand sneakers) accepts some kids manufacturing them instead of going to school. Every chicken nugget from a fast food chain includes extremely bad living condictions for the contents of the nugget before being puréed and fried.

    Imho, all of this should be questioned from time to time and usually not having/eating/experiencing something is the honest answer that everybody has to work out for themselves. Feeling extremely superior because one’s own answers differ from the the next person’s answers is not something I can see anything good coming out of, for the entire society.





  • Yep, neutral is blue, ground is green/yellow striped. The latter everywhere, e.g. in a server cabinet you’ll mostly find the strap between body and door in yellow/green.

    Phases, L1 to 3 are brown, black, grey. Or you may use numbered cables for rail interconnects if necessary. You can see me getting a bit sloppy with all brown 16mm² for L1 to 3 leaving the meter slots, but they are numbered then.

    Every outlet gets ground, neutral and one phase, so usually I’d enter a room with 5x1.5 NYM and then connect the phases alternatingly to the outlets while forming a chain throughout the room, so phases get loaded equally in daily use.


  • Whenever I look at US domestic electric installations, it all looks so… temporary. Seems like there are no standards regarding cable colors, cable configuration, central distribution of N and PE, segregation of the panels contens, suddenly there’s a length of uninsulated copper in the middle of it all and a yellow isolation - I mean, you guys don’t die more often than we do, so I guess it works all out and is probably a lot cheaper.

    I have no good counterexamples, but I snapped a few pictures when I redid the main distribution in the basement

    …and that’s what the sub-panels per floor look like:













  • I lived in the city and moved into the country side when I was 40. I’m never going back. I’m a volunteer firefighter, I know someone who can do something in every trade, I can see my neighbors but I don’t have to because land is cheap and the fence is far away. People need each other occasionally and let each other be.

    I feel that the whole aversion against village life is stronger in people that want to consume the lifestyle without contributing. Easy said, one needs to have something one can contribute. I build the weirdest problem solving shit with embedded controllers and lora, I help wire new things into our firetruck, I calculate photovoltaics for people, so that’s easy for me to say. I’ve found a niche where a nerd can fit into the village ecosystem, I’m not going back.


  • Da gibt es sicher noch was zu holen.

    Absolut gesehen ist es natürlich nix. Aber es setzt Zeichen. In unserer Firma ist das einzige was eine Klimatisierung hat, der Serverraum. Nicht, weil wir uns das nicht leisten können, aber weil die Besitzer ganz klar sagen: Die Jungs und Mädels in der Produktion arbeiten hart und schwitzen wie Sau. Und die haben ganz genau im Blick, was die Führungsetage sich so gönnt und was nicht. Und deswegen, als gekühlte Wasserspender beschafft wurden, standen die unten als erstes. “Unsere” kamen in der Woche danach. Der neue Dienstwagen - muss es der Stern sein? Tuts nicht auch der Skoda für die gleiche Rate, pack dir halt Ledersitze rein wenn du willst. Der Chef parkt immer auf den “unbequemen” Parkplätzen - er sagt, er hat nix zu schleppen und er hat nach acht Stunden nicht 7.5 davon gestanden.

    Natürlich ist das finanziell alles völlig hupe - aber es sendet ein Signal was gesehen wird, vor allem wenn es sich durchzieht. Und DAS haben Merz und seine Buddies glaube ich überhaupt noch nicht verstanden.