u/lesser_terrestrial

QQ: New EV Owner - "My Devices"

Hello!

I'm very excited to be picking up my first EV at the weekend. I have a system at home with solar, Tesla PW3, and a Zappi charger.

The installation was done in a way, I believe, that the Zappi won't draw from the PW3.

My question is around Intelligent Octopus Go and setting up My Device in the app. I noticed I can either add the car (i4) or instead select the Zappi charger.

I'm just wondering what the real world difference is between adding the charger vs adding the car in the app. Is one more preferable? I may be wrong, but I imagine choosing the Zappi will let it work better with solar, whereas selecting the car might give it more accurate info about the battery charge?

Thanks in advance - my head is very muddled ☺️

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u/lesser_terrestrial — 2 days ago
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QQ: Reward Flights

Hi all,

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Just wanted to do a quick sense check to confirm my understanding is correct here.

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If I have a companion voucher and wish to use it for a long haul flight, it seems the best option is to plan for the 355 day release window. However, that only secures me an outbound flight because the return flights wouldn't yet be available.

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So is it correct that you can absolutely secure return flights on the same voucher, but that in order to do so you have to ring (in my case) BA and book them over the phone in order to for the agent to add the to your booking?

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Thanks in advance!

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u/lesser_terrestrial — 2 months ago

Firewall Direction Question

Apologies, as I'm sure this topic has been done to death, but I wanted to use a common real-world scenario to gauge what the difference is and to help cement the logic in my mind.

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Crowdsec creates aliases with known bad IPs. We all know this. It can also create floating rules to block inbound connections from those addresses. However, I have seen different approaches recommended for blocking OUTBOUND connections to them.

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One method is to have interface: LAN, dest: Crowdsec Alias, direction: IN

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The other is to have interface: WAN, dest: Crowdsec Alias, direction: OUT

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I'm struggling to understand why one would be beneficial over the other. Can anyone help me understand the fundamental differences here and if there's a consensus on which is best?

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u/lesser_terrestrial — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/skiing

Hello folks!

My wife and I (40, 43) are relatively new to skiing - we did a day's course in a snow dome in the UK followed by a week of lessons in Norway last year where we managed to navigate a blue run without making complete fools of ourselves though we're yet to get confident in full on parallel skiing.

We'd like to go away next year (Jan or March) to get some more practice and will likely head to a snow dome a couple of times before now and then.

After doing some research on where seems suitable for our ability, not wanting to spend a fortune, but having some facilities like decent apres and a couple of spa options, I feel like Soldeu and Val di Fassa would both probably fit the bill.

I was wondering if anyone who has been to either has any insights that might be useful to sway me one way or the other?

Thanks in advance!

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u/lesser_terrestrial — 4 months ago