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Haha! I reported it to ebay. Man that was a faff, there's no category to report dangerous / lying listings. The chat system was crap too. I had to say "I want to speak to a human", and it put me through.

no kidding. Even 35A is enough to melt a 12v plug spring into the plastic surround.... don't ask me how i know....

I've never seen that connector in a car......

Yes, I first found out about MorningStar when I was trying to find a charge controller that had a proper network port and didn't need a stupid app to configure it. I bought one and I really liked it, so I have 4 of the now.

I've spent a couple of years trying to find a decent inverter (eg. not cloudy and supports standard protocols), and it has been hard work. So far so good with this one, although their modbus support is buggy :(

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Sorry! Added 😊

Yes!

I recently installed @q4os@floss.social on an old laptop that could only run a 32bit OS and a max of 4GB RA, and it's great. It has up to date packages for Firefox, LibreOffice, Dino (for XMPP), VLC etc

It isn't my main computer, but it totally could be!

This had potential: https://github.com/adulau/Forban, and i tried it at a hacker festival soon after it was released, but sadly it is rather rudimentary and hasn't been updated in over a decade, which is a real shame. I did try and contact the developer years ago with some bug reports, but heard nothing 😢

"For security, the car’s built-in online connectivity feature has been disabled to prevent remote access" - cool, can normals request that too?

so not really much of an apology.....

No licence is required for this model. I wouldn't give away something that needed a shitty licence without mentioning it (but then I probably wouldn't have taken it for myself in the first place).

I made that mistake with an Infobox device at an auction a few years ago. You can use all functionality for 30 days, then after that you need a licence or NOTHING works and you have to wipe it all and start again. What a pile of shit, I only wanted to play with it and run a few DNS zones.

It's a shame, I was hoping to learn something from it as they cost a fortune, and usually overkill for what I need, but instead i'm never going to recommend their products. I could open it up and see if I can run Linux on it, but I don't need yet another device that runs bog-standard Linux - any boring hardware could be used for that purpose. 😞

Me: "Not enough" My other half: "waay too much!!!"

Most of it is from friends who know me well, tbh, although I will take old wood from skips :)