That episode also gave us this meme:

There’s really not much to it. The ebike battery just sits in an empty space in the housing and is the same voltage (36v-40v) as the original packs (just bigger). I padded it with some upcycled packing styrofoam to keep it in place and cushioned.

I’d have to take it apart to get pictures, but in a nutshell:

I cut the positive lead off of the original battery socket and spliced it to a XT-90 connector. I left the original ground connected to the socket and also spliced it to the XT-90. That left the ground and the yellow “data” wire going to the original socket. I drilled a hole in the mower housing to bring out the barrel socket for the charging input.

I only disconnected the positive from the original battery socket for 3 reasons:

1. The mower will only stay running if it detects an OEM pack, and the data wire and ground are needed to trick the motor controller. I have to leave my old/dead OEM pack in the battery bay. I was going to pull the board out of the dead pack, but this works well enough so haven’t bothered.
2. I don’t want to parallel the OEM pack and the ebike battery for safety reasons. In theory, I could have extra capacity that way but the batteries aren’t the same chemistry, capacity, or charge level.
3. If I ever want to return it to a stock config, I just have to solder one wire back.

And this is the mower itself (stock photo). The batteries are interchangeable with other tools, and are far too small for the mower. They draw about 2C (twice the capacity) so that’s 10 amps from a 5 amp-hour pack and that’s pretty rough on them. With the 10 amp-hour ebike battery, that’s only 1C so I get both better runtime and less wear and tear.

Lemmy-UI is also an “app”.

FWIW, many “apps” are just web apps

Don’t blame you. It’s one of the small handful of covers I prefer to the originals

Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you’d normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group’s product was a weight-loss product called “FlavorAir” (“Anorexia Fast” didn’t test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00’s and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

I’m not a fan of crossposting since is clutters up my post history, but feel free to.

While I totally understand those communities, my preference is to not relegate anything that isn’t rage to a special community since it distills regular news down to just the rage. Just my personal preference.

I’m beyond tired of the Tr*mp Rage Show Spectacular, so here’s some uplifting news for y’all.

RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.

Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I’ve happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

I honestly think that’s my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

Relatable. And I don’t so much tan as my freckles just converge.

I haven’t had time to build out or promote the community, so there’s only one post right now, but this would be perfect for [email protected] if you had a side-by-side image.

Chaotica still appears mostly monochrome

In all fairness, so do I. Summer can’t get here fast enough.,

That was a super fun truck to drive when it wasn’t breaking down on me, lol.

The worst part is I really want one of those now and am sad those probably aren’t things that exist.

A Dax symbiote Matryoshka doll

Best of luck, and hope you have fun. I definitely did.

I get that. But considering how many times I’ve needed a reasonably sized truck lately, I’d at least think twice lol.

At least working on them is fun. Despite the money pit it turned out to be, I did enjoy the time I spent tinkering with it and getting it going.

Hood stayed attached, thankfully, but was a total loss. Thankfully there were plenty of donors at the local scrapyard.

Here’s the bastard the day before the brake line broke and the last time everything was working and I gave up on it: