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I am not an electrician so am giving no advice on doing this or not, I am just posting my one anecdote to add a data point/warning for others.

One of the first things I did when I got my rav4 prime was wire the included charger to 240 volts in my garage. This gave me a "poor mans L2 charging." I loved it, nearly halved charging time. I figured in Europe and places, it would be 240 volts anyway, so should be fine.

After nearly a year, I started getting warnings on the app "charging interrupted, check power supply" or something. But later it would start again, so I ignored it. Figured maybe it was related to the cold. But last night the charger fully died and never came back. I cannot even g

I just got the winter package from the Toyota dealership. They put on new winter tires on rims, but the rims are so ugly. Did anybody else do this, is there any simple practical thing I can do to make it less ugly? It almost looks like it's mean to have something more threaded on?

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Is it safe to cut off the cover on the charger port? I see other plug-ins or EVs don't have the cover, or have the cover only over the DC ports.

Has anybody here looked at the book Seventeen To Millionaire by Doug Price? I took a quick look and it talks about utilizing TFSA and such, make sense to me, but I am no expect. I really like the premise "Stuff I wish I knew when I was 17." because I didn't learn this stuff until years into my career. So I was thinking this would be a good gift for my nephew who just finished high school. But I am worried it's nonsense, or has bad advice, and I am just too newb to know?

Is it normal for a WD Red drive to be louder than a normal drive?

I just got a new drive for my Storage Spaces, a WD Red. I find it's really loud when I first power up, then calms down, but gets loud randomly during running. It will be really inconvenient to exchange it because I would have to remove it from my Storage Spaces, and I am worried if I did exchange it the new one would be just as loud.

Edit: Resolved. It turned out to be a mounting issue, not a drive issue! Thanks everyone

Edit: Thanks everyone! I got lots of good advice and offers for help!

I hold some YFDAI from before March 16th. When do the drops happen? I haven't seen anything in my MetaMask. Do I need to do some action to claim a drop?

I want to improve performance of my storage space. I am using two-way mirror with two spinning HDDs, and I just added an SSD I want to act as a cache. But the SSD actually added storage capacity to the pool. Is this normal? Is it possible to configure it to behave as a cache?

I have the X950H for causal gaming. Game mode works perfectly well for the picture, but the audio is very delayed. The audio is perfect in every other mode. So, is there a "game mode for audio?" Or some setting I can turn off for audio? I tried googling about it, but I only find results about the picture, never the audio. Thanks!!

The keys for my Chevy Cruze feel loose. I fiddled with it and it opened up like this. I don't think this is normal? It does not seem like the part to replace the battery? Has anybody else had this problem?

Edit: Another angle

I am looking for the best way to install a dash cam in my Cruze. I don't want any wires showing. Has anybody done this? Do they have any recommendations? Pictures of the results? I was thinking of doing something like this. Thanks!

I have two Sony Bravias. Old very old, and a newish one with ATV. The newish one supports ARC and works beautifully with my soundbar. But I moved my soundbar to my old TV without ARC, and hooked it up with optical. Now the sound is delayed significantly from the picture. I googled this and found it is a common problem, with no solution.

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So I am looking for some kind of HDMI splitter that supports ARC in the same way my Bravia does. Something like 1 source input and 2 outputs, the ARC and the video. Does such a device exist? And has anybody had any luck with one?