Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #385 "Paul Braren with Travel Tech, Ring Stick Up Cams and a New Tesla 3 – HGG385"
This new podcast episode 385 is now available at the averageguy.tv here, where you can also view, listen, and/or subscribe. Here's an excerpt:
Paul Braren from https://tinkertry.com and on Twitter at @paulbraren joins this week as we catch up with him and his job with VMware, some travel tech from his trip to Europe, his new Ring Stick Up Cams and his new Tesla 3. All this and more!
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Best watched on video below, as I show you around my new TinkerTry workbench area in my basement, re-capping vSAN, home lab and NVMe SSDs, and a brief view of the Tesla app too. A little TMI (Too Much Information) actually, with Jim kindly turning on some YouTube blurring effect to cover my blunder. I really appreciate all that time Jim took to handle my mistake. Oh well, such is doing live video, always exciting!
Our discussion includes some review of my recently-published often updated article:
- Tesla Model 3 replacing my 13 year old Honda Civic Hybrid, let's see how that goes. So far, so good!
and I think I may have even mentioned the very well regarded 11 speaker sound system which brings chills to my spine. Not sure I should share what song I played first to test it.
Thinking back to my first car, a 1965 Dodge Coronet with a water pump I replaced like 3 times in 3 years with my own hands parked by my college dorm, going through nearly as many car stereos when home. Next car was a Toyota Tercel, and a Ford Fiesta, then many Honda Civics, including my first new car, a 1 month old Honda Civic, totalled when a drunk rear ended us at night.
Back to the on-air discussion, where I mentioned the Model 3's Dual Motor/All-Wheel-Drive, which, it turns out, may mean the Tesla Model 3 is actually quite good in New England snow.
By the way, today I logged in to my tesla.com account, and discovered that by remembering to hastily tell my saleman a referral link when placing my $2500 down payment with a credit card, it earned me and our Model 3 six months of free Supercharging! That means that in theory, should Jim do a meetup before July 23rd, I could actually drive from Connecticut to Nebraska for essentially free, using Superchargers along the way. Who wants to calculate whether flying or EV driving makes a bigger carbon footprint?
It would seem that Tesla's route calculator is VERY conservative about ensuring folks don't run out of juice, with what seems like twice as many stops than necessary, given my 310 mile range. I guess they'd rather ensure folks safe, not sorry.
Shownotes
Edge:
- New 1U Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-9D 4 and 8 core Xeon D-2100 models bring back the E300-8D's M.2 slot and network ports
- Hands-on GIGABYTE Server MB51-PS0 motherboard featuring 4 core Intel Xeon D-2123IT: unboxing in 4K
VMware vSAN (essentially drive pooling):
IoT:
- First look at the Ring Stick Up Cam
- First look at the Ring Alarm Home Security System
- Insteon Hub first impressions, easier home automation, configured right from your smartphone (2012 article, my hub just failed in 2019, replacement from eBay on the way)
Travel Tech:
All sorts of gear, including that extended range Gl.iNet travel router I showed/mentioned:
- Travel Tech for my 10 days of driving around Germany, Poland, and Czech Republic for Veeam Vanguard Summit in Prague
For more secure remote access to your home lab: - Ian Sanderson's walkthrough details configuration of roll-your-own MFA using free Cisco Duo Authentication for Windows Logon and RDP
Receiving shipments more securely at home
Step 2 583199 Express Parcel Delivery Box (in Black, Mocha, or White), available at:
Tesla
Tesla Model 3 (compact) aspires to be a $35,000 electric car, the same as the average car cost today in America, here’s my first story:
- Tesla Model 3 replacing my 13 year old Honda Civic Hybrid, let's see how that goes. So far, so good!
- Tesla Model 3 known-good accessories
Thank you again Jim, for you being you, and for inviting me again!
Referrals
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See also
Shownotes & Video
Detailed shownotes, podcast feeds to subscribe to, and an easy way to leave greatly appreciate podcast reviews, all found right over at Jim's source page:
See also at TinkerTry
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- My Ring Video Doorbell story starts a new chapter with Ring Video Doorbell Pro
See also
- All Tesla articles.
- Tesla Model 3 known good accessories
Jan 05 2019
- Tesla Model 3 replacing my 13 year old Honda Civic Hybrid, let's see how that goes. So far, so good!
Dec 23 2018
