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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Yes. And don’t let the “no it’s a meta account only now” crowd play that card. It’s the same company sucking the same data in to the same ad drenched glory hole.

    This wasn’t the case with the Quest 1 until it was. You could run that completely standalone with SteamVR after the backlash over a required account, then once the blowback subsided, they reintroduced the requirement.

    We learned this last year after dusting off the OG Quest and trying to get it running with SteamVR. It straight refused to work without a FB/Meta account. Creating a new one has a bunch of bullshit hoops that failed when attempted behind any type of ad blocking DNS so I gave up and put the paperweight back in the case and moved on.

    Fuck Meta. Fuck FB. And Fuck anything else Zuck and co touch.

    Sorry for the rant it’s early and I haven’t had caffeine.







  • Just moved down to Oregon from the Seattle area a few years ago and have a Mach-E.

    Similar setup to the other poster here. 50a installed at home. We plug in at night and have charging set to 80% and synced with the local utility to prefer off hours. Price wise, we’re spending about $60 a month compared to the $200+ we’d spend on previous ICE vehicles. Combined with solar on the roof, it’s been a pretty good value. Not a net zero for sure but overall good.

    If there’s a long trip planned, we over ride settings to 100%. There’s a ton of 300kwh chargers along I5 (0%-90% in 20 or so minutes every 3-4 hours). We’ve driven from Seattle to LA with no trouble a few times. Takes a little bit more planning but not too much of an issue.