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  • Is it possible that Home Depot’s supply chain is contaminated with knockoff parts? I guess.

    I never suggested anywhere that knockoffs were the cause.

    The idea that there exists some lesser standards for home builds is a myth I’ve seen repeated over and over again and it simply is not true. But the idea that there are somehow separate standards for home and commercial electrical fixtures, and that home Depot is selling people the former, inferior standard is absolutely, 100% nonsense.

    There are absolutely mechanical difference in residential and commercial constructed receptacles in general. Hospital grade being even higher.

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    Is it your belief that Home Depot and Leviton are simply fleecing uneducated buyers by charging more for “Designed for EV charging” NEMA 14-50 outlets?

    Leviton “Designed for EV charging” NEMA 14-50 receptacle


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    …vs the cheap contractor grade outlet?

    Leviton contractor grade NEMA 14-50 receptacle

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    How about Enphase/Clippercreek including their own NEMA 14-50 outlet which is a $60 Bryant receptacle? Why isn’t Enphase putting a $10 NEMA 14-50 in the box instead?

    Here’s the official Enphase Training Installation video from the company (timestamped to the NEMA 14-50 receptacle instructions)

    Enphase Training video timestamped to the NEMA 14-50 comment

    “Even if you have a NEMA 14-50 already, Enphase is requiring you to replace that as we’ve seen some overheating from some older receptacles”

    Is your assertion that Leviton and Enphase are just scaremongering unassuming consumers?




  • This is complete nonsense.

    You don’t need to take my word for it. Simply search “ev outlet melted” and you’ll get piles of results showing the gory melted results (just equipment, not people gore).

    Charging a Tesla:

    Charging an Audi:

    Charging a Rivian:

    People are finding the cheap NEMA 14-50 outlets just can’t handle the high current EV charging long term. The recommendation is for a Commercial grade NEMA 14-50 outlet instead of the cheap residential ones. Keep in mind the cheap ones work for weeks or months. Sometimes years, but this is the result of many of the cheap ones eventually.

    Enphase/Clippercreek chargers actually ship with the high quality Commercial grade outlet specifically for this reason because they don’t want you buying one from Home Depot for $10 and damaging the charger or your home.

    Any UL listed plug will sustain a load indefinitely. There are millions of them running dryers in the US for hours at a time already.

    Home clothes dryers aren’t drawing 40A continuous current for 5-6 hours. Even when a clothes dryer is running for an hour its not drawing the full wire rated current. It cycles on and off the heating elements during the drying cycle.


  • Citation needed. Where does one buy an outlet like this? Certainly not from the big box store.

    Yep, Home Depot, Lowes, etc is where you’ll find them. They cost about $15 each.

    These cheap outlets are okay for 240v loads that are only on for short periods of time at lower current, say 20A or maybe 30A. This would be fine for an electric clothes dryer for example. However, once you start pulling 40A through it for 5 or 6 hours, the minimal metal in the construction of the outlet can handle it, and they will literally melt from the heat. When they melt, they can cause fires.

    The outlets that are built to handle the heat and current do exist but they cost $60 to $100 each. Also, putting an outlet in the garage requires GFCI. The cost of a regular 50A breaker is about $20. The GFCI version of the 50A breaker is $120. So folks looking to go cheap will buy the $15 outlet and the $20 breaker and set themselves up for multiple problems.



  • Sincerely: How the fuck are your users utilizing Sharepoint that they don’t need to navigate the file/folder structure concept? Just using the search bar every time? Maintaining a list of shortcuts or browser favorites?

    How does a file being shared from another user’s storage invalidate the need to still know how to get to it?

    Users are horrible at file management, but you know this part already. When your users have fully evolved away from SMB/NFS shares to Google Drive or Sharepoint it works like this:

    User1: “Can you update the financials for your project for this quarter in the file QuarterReporter?”
    User2: “Yeah absolutely, where is QuaterReporter?”
    User1: “Its in the Reports folder, but theres a few version of it. Don’t use QuaterReporterV1. Use QuaterReporterV1-restored_02-02-23”. Thats one we maintain with current data in it. Here’s the link to the file."
    User2: “Uhh, I clicked on that link but don’t have access to it. Can you grant it?”
    User1: “Oh sure, let me add you to the doc. There, try it now”
    User2: “Yep, that worked. Okay do you just need the financials update one time or would you like me to do that for each quarter ongoing?”
    User1: “Ongoing please”
    User2: “Okay, I’ll bookmark this file then and use it again in 3 months. Hey, my financials only cover the top of the project, do you want the tactical detail too?”
    User1: “I do actually, yes.”
    User2: “Okay add, Jim Smith to the doc, and I’ll forward the link you gave of the file to him.”

    So yes, the file still lives in a folder somewhere, users often don’t even have the right permissions to maintain the folder structure properly and they just route around that by ignoring it and using links, bookmarks, and email forwards of links.



  • Look, I’m just trying to say that this same thing has been posted thousands, yes, literally thousands of times. I’ve seen it hundreds of times, and it’s just eye-rolling bullshit.

    You’re in a Lemmy Community called “Microblog memes”, and you’re complaining about things being reposted? You get that this entire Lemmy Community is built on reposts from elsewhere, yes? Its literally its purpose.

    Talk to me, tell me WHY im wrong,

    I did, and it looks like you ignored it. This whole thread has nothing to do with US politics, GOP, trump, the “Dems”, or “converting MAGAts”. The world is more than just US politics. Not everything has to be about them. Yet here you are trying to do exactly that. The only person talking about US politics or MAGAts is you.

    Convince me I’m wrong. Don’t just downvote me, convince me that repeating copypasta is an effective tool. If you can’t convince someone that is on your side, then you have no chance at converting MAGAts.

    Your whole argument here is a strawman. You’re saying we’re failing at converting MAGAts, but no one here is trying to convert MAGAts with this thread.


  • In fairness, offing someone means your share goes up less than 1%, making the risk-reward for murder math out beneficial for everyone.

    Less than 1% (106 kids), so each share would be $160m each. However, if the murdering offspring has crossed the line into murder, why stop at just one murder? A single murder would net each surviving offspring an extra $1.5M. This also assumes there is only one murdering offspring. As soon as the first murder occurs there might be a second or third copycat murderer. With only 90 surviving offspring each survivor is getting a cool $188m each.

    However, if that 17 billion was split between two or three children, we might have the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel.

    Maybe not an Agatha Christie book, but the interesting novel would arrive where in the story one of the offspring figures out this math, and identifies common locations where more than one offspring would be at one time. So a single incident would net them multiple hits, and be hidden from obvious intent.

    “Tonight, sadness grips the city as the roof of the Claridon Center Arena fell in during the sold out concert. At this hour officials confirm 37 dead as the search for survivors continues. No cause has been reported for the roof failure yet.”

    “A city bus was engulfed in flames when a stolen fuel tank truck collided with it at high speeds. There were no survivors on the bus carrying 42 people. Curiously, the tank truck driver escaped unharmed at is being sought by police even now for questioning.”



  • Folder structures and network drives are how all company data is handled.

    Eh, kinda of, but modern enterprise document storage is largely evolving away from it for general business users. I say this as an IT professional that has been an active consumer of the evolution over the last 25 years. Yes, SMB/CIFs/NFS shares still exist in the corporate enterprise, but modern enterprise systems are doing document storage more in Sharepoint, Google Drive, or even object form (storage buckets). All of these last three don’t use a traditional file system where folder (directory really) navigation is a required skill.

    This is especially true with Google drive. Yes, there are folders, but its equally likely that the file you need isn’t even in your folders because its been shared to you by another user from one of their folders. Links, bookmarks, and free text file searches are often more useful for locating document that navigating a traditional directory tree. This is somewhat true in Sharepoint too.


  • If its okay to harvest organs from prisoners without their consent, even after they’re dead, then the state now has a vested interest in sending people to prison.

    There’s some terrifying speculative fiction based upon this premise by Larry Niven:

    “The ultimate danger, when a citizen could live for as long as possible if enough organs were available? The cause of it all was the organ banks. With good doctors and a sufficient flow of material in the organ banks, any taxpayer could hope to live indefinitely. What voter would vote against eternal life? The death penalty was his immortality, and he would vote the death penalty for any crime at all.”

    The story continues where the need for organs continues to rise and there aren’t enough murders to harvest organs from. So lessor crimes are then promoted to the death penalty so that those prisoners organs can be harvested too. Eventually you get down to jaywalking being punishable by death so that others can live longer on your organs. Obviously there’s a bit of creative license here in this fiction, but you can easy see where it can go in reality.


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    I’m hoping you’ve read the original post and see that this thread has nothing to do with MAGA, GOP, trump, or any US politics. I honestly am confused but your over-the-top reaction to a simple post of mine including your doubling down on three or four other followup threads spawn from it with other people. I can sense your frustration even if I can’t understand its cause. Friend, I think you may just be having a bad day. Things suck for lots of folks, and I want you to know you’re not alone. I hold no ill will toward you for anything posted here. I have no idea whats going on in your life today, but I truly hope it gets better for you.