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Yup, I showed up to the dealer with my OBDII adapter and LeafSpy Pro. Passed that test and I bought it!

Yeah, we got a 2016 30kwh last year. It was good for 85mi... for like 6 months. Looking into salvage batteries or VIVNE kits for it now. The car is in great condition otherwise, and I wouldn't get much for it. I wouldn't go this route on purpose for $4k, but I'm here now! 😅

We also have a 2016 Leaf with a kaput battery that we got last year for $4k. (Battery was old, but ok at purchase. Since had a couple cells die. 🫤) I'm eyeballing VIVNE kits or salvage batteries for it.

Super late, but I did go equipped with LeafSpy Pro. It looked good there too!

"AI uber eats youtube ad" is some real dystopian cyberpunk shit.

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Yep! I'm on a ferry now omw to trade in our old Mirage for a '22 Leaf S+ with a full battery SOH gauge and 46k miles listed for $14k.

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I wish I energy had stats for you, but I'm only now getting to setting up whole home energy monitoring. Just wanted to share the idea with you in case you hadn't considered mentioning pairing heat pumps with heat-making electronics into your script notes.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 26/02/2026

@techconnectify.bsky.social I saw you mention getting an AOSmith hybrid heat pump on the podcast. I've had the 80gal model for 4 years & love it. Heat pump mode the entire time. I also put every heat-producing electronic (modem, router, NAS, PC that I remote into, etc) I can in the same room with it

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If you're wandering downtown Port Orchard today, come say hi at the Sidney Art Gallery!

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 11/02/2026

Buying from AliExpress is (often) cheaper and morally better than buying from Amazon or Walmart. It's the same cheap junk made in China by underpaid labor. The only difference is whether or not it goes through a distribution network running on more underpaid labor.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 08/02/2026

Or am I just getting old and out of touch? I assume a bit of both.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 08/02/2026

They're probably terrified to even be seen together. Even if they secretly met up, we'd only ever hear anything if they felt it was worth re-ruining their lives. But the monoculture is gone, and music so new and different that everyone hears it isn't really a thing anymore.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 08/02/2026

I'm so fucking bummed that I'll never get to hear a new Daft Punk album. They're innovators who got caught in a money making hit machine and booed for continuing to experiment. I get why they stopped. I just want to hear what they would've done next if we'd let 'em.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 07/02/2026

Any of the Samorost games. Great vibes and art style. Plus, the first 2 are very short. amanita-design.net/games/samoro...

amanita-design.net

Samorost 1

Samorost 1 – Short Puzzle Adventure Game – Amanita Design

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 07/02/2026

Later Alligator, of course. Super cute game from @smallbu.bsky.social www.lateralligatorgame.com

lateralligatorgame.com

Later Alligator

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 07/02/2026

The Neverhood is one of my all time faves. Claymation point and click from 1996 with a great (wacky) soundtrack. www.myabandonware.com/game/the-nev...

myabandonware.com

The Neverhood (Windows)

Remember The Neverhood (Windows), an old video game from 1996? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 28/01/2026

Except book/movie spoilers, I guess.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 28/01/2026

As a teen, I mocked the U2 lyric "It's everything I wish I didn't know". My mom told me "You'll understand when you're older." I've been pondering that for 21 years, and I still can't think of anything I wish I didn't know.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 08/01/2026

I'm volunteering at the Sidney Art Gallery and Museum in Port Orchard today. Come say hi and check out the January show: "Winner's Circle" spotlighting the 2025 Helen Norris Open Art Show winners. #portorchard #kitsap #smaa

Wide shot of the art gallery. Old rustic wood floor with a faded area rug. An assortment of shelves and cases around the walls are full of a variety of art. Found object sculptures, fiber arts, pottery, etc. An equally diverse variety of art adorns the walls.

A poster hangs on a white wall. Primarily text with a large circle made of a variety of pinks and oranges. It reads "Sidney Art Gallery presents...
Winner's Circle 2026
Winnera from the 2025 Helen Norrris Open Art Show
Oil/Acrylic: Christine Hella Thompson
Photography: J. Louis King
Mixed Media: David Lewis
Drawing: Janette Stiles
Watercolor: Kim Spence
3d Media: Dan Spence
Winners unable to participate:
3d Media - Jessica Parker
Watercolor - Linda Carey

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 08/01/2026

Oh no, ACAB means them too? 😢

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 28/12/2025

I made a page on my site with more photos and details of our past solstice fires here: farbolin.me/solstice-fires

farbolin.me

Solstice Bonfires

Big burning sculptures to celebrate the longest and shortest days of the year.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 26/12/2025

I've started having collaborative scrap wood sculpture bonfires on the solstices. This most recent one was the tallest and most colorful so far.

An effigy about 20 feet/6 meters tall with a triangular head and crude outstretched claw-like hands made of random slats of wood, many painted pink, and a white cabinet in it's belly stands at dusk, engulfed in flames.

The aforementioned effigy earlier in the burn. We see the fire just beginning to catch in the lower layers. We can also see the pink slats adorned with white painted repeating curl patterns. Some say things like "feed me", "please", and "thank you". We also see the huge glorious... horns? antlers? atop the head made of a single sprawling, twisting tree branch.

A detail shot of the head of the effigy on the grass before hoisting into place. It has a triangular head made of pink slats, wears a maniacal grin, has a long triangular nose, and eyebrows of protruding nails. Around the head, we see tools and scraps of wood. Also a plastic shopping basket from Ace Hardware. I didn't steal it. It was in my basement when I moved into the house. But it is really useful.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 12/12/2025

A little while ago, I labeled and sorted everything in my bin of power supplies. It's been SO NICE to be able to find what I need quickly. #maker #homeshop #tinker #electronics

4 stacking open front plastic bins, each about a foot deep, 8 inches wide, and 6 inches tall, in a grungy basement shop. Each containing a mass of wires. and power supplies. From bottom to top, labeled "AC", "<12v", "12v", ">12v".

A caucasian hand holding up a power supply in front of the bins. On the power supply "12v 2A" is written in permanent marker.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 12/12/2025

Every time I fill up at a gas station, I think about how much I look forward to switching to only EVs and never having to do this again.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 21/10/2025

I saw someone trying to make an app/site for that, but (you'll never believe this) last I saw, the project looked abandoned.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 04/06/2025

I live making a weird adapter. Today, we have a 5.5mm barrel jack to PC fan connector. Now I can directly power a fan from an old 12v router power supply!

The adapter as described. Just 2 plugs sticking out of heat shrink. This view shows a close up of the barrel jack.

The adapter as described. Just 2 plugs sticking out of heat shrink. This view shows a close up of the 4 pin PC fan connector.

The adapter as described. Just 2 plugs sticking out of heat shrink. This view shows the overall adapter from the side.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 31/05/2025

That is an impressive run! Here's hoping it continues! The customers I've seen so far are a delightful bunch. Young hobbyists, older folks with long histories with typewriters, and anyone who just thinks they're neat!

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 30/05/2025

Nah, they did what tech companies do: sold off our department and laid everyone off.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 30/05/2025

We see the stoned man with ADHD don slippers and descend a set of basement stairs. A minute or so later, we see him re-emerge. He pauses at the top of the stairs, hands empty. "...fuck" He goes back down the stairs.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 30/05/2025

I've completed my first week of the typewriter repair apprenticeship at Bremerton Typewriter Company! My desk is next to a giant window in a showroom full of beautiful old machines. Best job ever.

A desk covered in tools and typewriter parts in a room painted the color of terra cota. On the wall hangs a poster reading "Fight Fascism. Defend Democracy and the Constitution. Dissent is Patriotic." There's a huge window to the left off the desk.

Alternate view of the same room showing 2 large windows and shelves full of restored typewriters of all ages for sale.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 27/05/2025

But also, much like a Miyazaki movie, there is an ominous shadow of military industry nearby.

View from the water of a US naval shipyard.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 27/05/2025

Foot ferry between Port Orchard and Bremerton. This is the Carlisle II. She's the oldest Mosquito Fleet ferry still afloat! I made a model of her in Blender last year. I still gotta go back and finish up a couple details on that, but here's one of the test prints.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 27/05/2025

Today is my first day of work as a typewriter repair apprentice, and I'm commuting on a 108 year old ferry. I feel like I'm in a Miyazaki movie.

The 1917 ship the Carlisle II comes into port under clear blue skies and serene waters.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 24/05/2025

I've lived on the west coast for over a decade, and last week I was buying mayo and thought "wait, why is it not Hellmann's?". Thank you for letting me know this is a regional thing I've just completely not noticed.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 23/05/2025

Something on my website is acting really weird and this page is broken right now. I'll have to sit down and diagnose that later.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 23/05/2025

Measure twice, cut once. Realize you wrote down the measurement wrong and don't have enough material to make a new one. Glue cut piece back on. Secure it with dowels. Cut again. Like it never happened. 😎

Close up of the end of a board about 6 inches wide. There's a noticeable seam about 1/4 inch from the end of the board.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 22/05/2025

I thrifted this cheap ukulele that had nail polish spattered all over it. Now I'm sanding it down to bare wood to see if I can make it look nice. Never worked on or played an instrument, but hey why not. Full project log at farbolin.me/ukulele

The front of a cheap ukulele held outdoors over grass. The ukulele is blue with an ocean theme showing hammerhead sharks, sand, crabs, starfish, etc printed on the front of the body. The paint in the top right of the body has been partially sanded away, exposing the bare wood.

The back of a cheap ukulele held outdoors over grass. The ukulele is blue. Just over half of the paint on the back of the body has been sanded away, exposing the bare wood.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 22/05/2025

I've had the Kei truck for almost 2 years and finally took it on the ferry today. #keitruck #PNW

Here we see a rather dirty kei truck in the front row on a Washington State ferry facing the water under a bright blue partly cloudy sky.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 16/05/2025

Previously, I was using my 90s Nickelodeon "Blast Box", which looks cool as hell, but doesn't sound all that good.

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Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 16/05/2025

Celebrating scoring this pristine Panasonic RX-CW43 at goodwill for $15 with @ajjtheband.bsky.social's "Disposable Everything"

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 10/05/2025

I'm a "windows open as much as possible" guy. If it's above 50F (10C) and not raining (mist is ok), my windows are open. The only exceptions are highways or so hot/humid that I need AC to not sweat my ass off.

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 10/05/2025

It's 63F (17C), sunny, dry, low pollen count, with light breeze. We're on rural roads lined with 100ft (30m) tall douglas firs. There's almost no traffic. I can see two different mountain ranges and the Puget Sound. It's stunning. WHY THE FUCK ARE YOUR WINDOWS CLOSED????

Sean Farbolin @farbolin.me · 10/05/2025

I'm baffled by how many people keep their car windows rolled up in nice weather.