Mastodawn

Stash Dec 3, 2024

Aaand done! (dang, why is it 3AM?) #OSINT #Bellingcat

Stash Dec 3, 2024

I found a photo of the actual place in the first Bellingcat #OSINT challenge, but apparently the mountain isn't named where google maps says the photo was taken? Argh

Stash Sep 9, 2024

Screen swapped my kid's android phone! Heck yes, not having to replace it entirely!!
Interestingly, the fingerprint sensor works after the swap, retaining the recorded prints, but not out of the box. It's all glitchy and needs a kind of calibration: you need to fastboot the phone and _install the calibration software over web-USB!_ Fortunately the screen worked enough to put it into dev mode & do a backup first.
Very proud of the kiddo, who helped through the entire process.

Stash Dec 22, 2023

I did the math on what the new opt-in peak pricing model proposed by #BC Hydro would cost me.

From the handy CSV export of my usage, I calculated hour-of-day-average for December 2022, our heaviest month.

On average, per day in December:
Usage: 113.5 kWh
Normal pricing: $15.98
Peak pricing: $16.38

Makes a simplifying assumption that it's all charged at the BC Step 2 residential rate of $0.1408/kWh.

My home uses electricity only; no natural gas, propane, or wood. We're well above the usage avg for a SFH in this area, but there's a lot of wood & natural gas usage here.

The not-too-invasive shifts we could make to smooth out the peak: clothes dryer, dishwasher, and hot-water (getting our teenagers to shower faster? drainline waste-heat reclamation?). When to charge an EV is super obvious.

More on the new rate plan: https://www.bchydro.com/about/strategies-plans-regulatory/rate-design/current-activities/residential-rate-design.html