I'm Removing My ChargeAmps Halo: A Critical Review

If you are looking to install an EV charger at home, or if you are considering the ChargeAmps Halo, read this review first. I recently bought a house that came equipped with a ChargeAmps Halo charger and an Enegic (now Perific) current load balancer. On paper, it sounded like a decent setup. In reality, it has been a masterclass in how not to design smart home hardware. After months of frustration, support calls, and failed attempts to get basic functionality working reliably, I have decided to pay an electrician to rip the entire system out.

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Tips for importing CSVs in GnuCash

Condensing some information so that others can benefit from my experience with importing CSVs into GnuCash. Having several banks means some difficulty in getting a proper overview of your finances. Hence, I use GnuCash to import all transactions and get a good overview of my finances. Getting the data into GnuCash is quite tedious though. Banks don’t typically provide API access. So every once in a while, I log on to each bank, one by one, and download exported transactions.

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The biggest update to Feeder so far

Just a placeholder so far. Needed a known blog to test a few things with. Images Red dot Text formatting Headers Lists Bullet 1 Bullet 2 Bullet 3 Videos Audio Images And at long last animated in the reader itself! Base64 encoded inline data image Text formatting A link to Gitlab. Some inline code formatting. And then A code block with some lines of code should be scrollable if one very very long line with many sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss A table!

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How to setup Transmission-daemon over a Wireguard VPN

Quick post to immortilize the configuration to get transmission-daemon working with a wireguard tunnel. If you don’t have a wireguard tunnel, head to https://mullvad.net/en/ and get one. Transmission config First, the transmission config is really simple: #/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json { […] "bind-address-ipv4": "X.X.X.X", "bind-address-ipv6": "xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::xxxx", "peer-port": 24328, "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0", […] } I also run the daemon using the following service for good measure:

/etc/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service [Unit] Description=Transmission BitTorrent Daemon Under VPN After=network-online.


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A comparison between fixed and variable interest rates

The data I am using is originally from SwedBank and all data and code is available at GitLab. The data contains interest rates at 5 years fixed term, 2 years fixed term, and 3 months fixed term (also called variable rate in Sweden) for those dates when any rate was changed. The first rates are from 1989-11-01 and the last are from 2018-02-12. Example of the data: 5y 2y 3m Date 1989-11-22 13.

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