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Electric Scooter Reviews From Friends
Since I decided to buy an electric scooter, I thought it would be a good idea to get some insights from friends who own an electric scooter. After asking around in a couple of groups, I got some feedback. Out of more than 70 members in those groups put together, I got back 4 responses which only reinforced my previous assumptions. I got some interesting details from one person but that’s about it.
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Electric Scooters Shortlist
In the previous post I mentioned that I was looking to buy a new electric scooter. In this post I will list the scooters that I have shortlisted and the reasons for excluding some others.
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Time For An Electric Scooter?
In about 7 months, our petrol scooter will be 15 years old. That means we have to decide whether we want to extend the registration by another 5 years or buy a new one. If we decide to buy a new scooter then the question arises whether we should go with a petrol scooter again or go for an EV.
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Fixing Electric Weed Cutter
About a year ago we purchased an electric weed cutter to mow some weed around our house. We live in a house where we are surrounded by plots of land on which no one has yet built their house. This is a welcome boon because we don’t have to worry about neighbors and have ample light and breeze coming from all sides of our house. The problem however is that a lot of weeds grows soon after the rainy season and that attracts rats, snakes and scorpions. The owners of these plots don’t seem to care about the up-keep. So we clean up parts of the plots surrounding our house.
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Homelab is ready
I’ve been quite busy setting up my homelab for the past few months and did not get any time to update the blog. Thought I’d do a quick post on my setup if it interests anyone. I will not go into too much detail. If you need more information, let me know in the comments and I might expand on it a bit in a future post. Let’s begin with a screenshot of the containers I am running.
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Kaveri Water vs Water Tanker
If you are not from Bangalore, you may not find this useful. Currently, the water source for our household consumption comes from water tankers. Every few weeks we get a 6000 liter water tanker to fill our sump. The water from the sump is pumped to an overhead tank for our water needs. Recently our layout was being connected with Kaveri water pipes and we have the option of choosing Kaveri water or continue with water tankers. As usual, I have to make a spreadsheet to check which is more financially viable :).
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Seven Years In Retirement
Well, well, well. what do you know? It’s already been 7 years since I retired early exactly on this day in 2018. There isn’t much to write about since nothing much has changed since what I wrote last year when I completed 6 years in retirement.
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Meet-up #2
It’s been a while since I arrange a meet-up. The last virtual meet-up one was more than 3 years ago. Recently, a reader reminded me about meet-ups and I thought I should send out a form to see if there is any interest in meeting me. I held just one physical meet-up way back in March 2020. After that it was all virtual meet-ups. This time it will be a physical meet-up again after 5 years. The meeting will be held in Bangalore, so if you are around, feel free to sign up using the form below.
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Poor Man's Air Cooler
I try some crazy experiments from time to time. One of them happens every summer. We don’t have an air conditioner in our house. We actually never felt the need for an AC until about a few years ago here in Bangalore. The temperature is very pleasant most of the year except for a couple of months in summer. In particular, March and April tend to be hot. So I have been trying out some experiments to bring down the temperature. I did one such experiment this year as well.
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Disabling Comments
Since I was not actively planning to write to my audience, I have disabled comments section. You cannot read old comments either. Have to figure out a way to at least show the comments in a static format. Again, that will take some time. So perhaps I will do it some day, but not today :). Disabling comments also frees up some resources (compute engine instance), so I don’t have to continue to pay for the VM. If you really feel the need to comment, use contact me form for now. Just wanted to give an update.
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