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realbadat, 8 days ago

Solar powered battery banks which keep a few things up and running in my office (glass sliding doors, so I get plenty of light. Also use them to charge my phone and such.

My bike, which I used to ride to the bus to get into work until I went full remote. Has a small solar kit for my lights to stay charged on long rides. It’s been a bit due to some joint issues, getting back into it now, but used to do centuries every weekend. Didn’t need to it charge to full, whatever trickle worked just to extend it past the 4 or so hours it would do from full, then charge on the battery banks.

Gardening and associated sensors. Working on moving those over to lorawan, right now the updates are a bit spotty even at once every 4 hours updating due to distance.

I’ve got a bunch of stuff that’s running on lightweight chips, like esp8266’s and ESP32s, to do things like Bluetooth beaconing, lights (wled), etc.

It’ll be a bit, but we are going to need to move to something with a bit more space, so other plans (solar + battery for the whole home, indirect solar water heating, etc) will be on hold for a bit.

realbadat, 8 days ago

EU Waste Framework Directive

…ec.europa.eu/…/waste-framework-directive_en

realbadat, 8 days ago

The bottom is disposal, and recovery is energy recovery - as in, burning it. Part of the disposal process.

Yes, recycling is the bottom for what individuals can do.

realbadat, 8 days ago

So a few comments…

• I’m not a fan of Ubuntu server, in part because their distribution of docker through snap can conflict with snap from the docker repo. My preference here is either Debian or Proxmox (debian + great virtualization setup). Mint is good, though I like LMDE (Debian edition) more, in part because I prefer Debian in general.
• You may want to check out dockge. You do need to have docker running for it, but it’s a simple setup, and it has a clean interface for docker compose. Good for getting used to it imo.
• grub has no part in docker, so it’s something else hanging.
• What are the exact errors when you enter “docker-compose up”?
• what is in your docker-compose for each of these?

realbadat, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Iirc, there is a bill up that would change that. Which, surprisingly, has bipartisan support.

Edit: yup, even maga support. Mike Lee thanks AOC for bringing up the issue, and here’s the bill.

It looks like the best regulations currently for UVA and UVB would be the EU.

One thing to look out for with the imported stuff is that it’s not a counterfeit product. There are a lot of reports about that, including a lot of dermatologists testing them live on video and showing some counterfeits being less than 1% of the claimed effectiveness.

Keep safe in the sun folks!

realbadat, 9 days ago

The top ingredients which outperform US approved sunscreen ingredients (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide) are: Tinosorb S, Tinosorb M, Mexoryl SX and Mexoryl XL. No idea which brands, doing some digging around myself.

realbadat, 10 days ago

Biden can’t fire DeJoy. It’s a 9 member committee that has control.

That committee can have only 5 members of one party. Biden also can’t just remove someone from the committee, there needs to be specific cause.

It’s that committee which would need to remove DeJoy.

realbadat, 11 days ago

Depends. Smaller townships without regular access to a breathalyzer, yes. Or cops trying to get you to admit that you are intoxicated.

I walked a straight line while touching my nose because the cop smelled alcohol in the car (rightly so, my wife, then gf, was smashed). Took about 10 seconds for him to go “So obviously that’s all her, have a good night!”.

So yes, it does happen.

realbadat, 11 days ago

“will alwaaays love you…”

Easy. No other answer.

realbadat, 11 days ago

Just run windows in a VM for when you absolutely need it. It’s how I can do my job but not be constantly barraged with ads in a start menu.

realbadat, 12 days ago

Or listen to her screaming about the ants biting her face.

Like she was in the bodycam video.

realbadat, 13 days ago

Does that really sound like a big hurdle? Or more like… Stepping over a small twig?

Edit: to be clear here, they are selected by a commission that the governor creates, which makes a recommendation list to the governor to select from. Of the 7 justices, 5 of them became justices during Desantis’ time as governor.

realbadat, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

So not tough at all, considering recent complete 180’s on precedence based on whether it suits their agenda.

Sounds about right.

It’s hard to believe the Fl supreme Court has any ethics. Considering what they’ve pushed through with education, diversity training, etc., etc.

The 5 that came in through DeSantis are all heavily conservative. One of whom is married to a representative who wrote the bill for the 6 week ban, and refused to recuse himself. Not to mention having put forth his own anti-choice bans (mostly nonsensical partial birth abortion bans, which isn’t a thing) in the 90’s.

Another one has a husband elected to the oversight board for Disney.

I really think you’re overestimating their ethics and underestimating the lengths they will go.

Edit: autocorrect typo, refuse/recuse.

realbadat, 11 days ago

I’d second this, if only because it’s super easy to run things on and OP explicitly said they don’t want to tinker with it. There is a limited list, imo, of buy and forget.

That’s said, I personally think a cheap little 4th gen or higher Intel based tiny/mini/micro would do a way better job on the services side, and just store on the NAS.

realbadat, 14 days ago

SCP or a share on a NAS, personally.

realbadat, 13 days ago

What does that have to do with the question I replied to?

realbadat, 13 days ago

With the tiniest, slimmest, barely existent bit of effort to make an alias - yes.

But OP would clearly prefer to complain.

realbadat, 14 days ago

First off - loved hunt the wumpus when I was little.

Second, I’d consider what’s possible as well - as in mesh network solutions that would apply to a community.

You can get over a gig with a 24ghz point to point for around 50W max draw. For point to multi, you can do something like the prism station for only 10W or a simple AP for less noisy environments. You can then extend with mesh for another 10W max or so.

Its perfectly viable imo to get 100mbit or more on pretty low power. You could get more than 24hrs of backup off a wheelchair battery for even the point to point stuff which will require more power for the long distance transmission.

With a bit more money into equipment, speeds can go even higher, but even at the lower price point you can get quite a bit more than 10mbit with large scale mesh. More than enough for most use cases!

realbadat, 14 days ago

Ground up, sure, wired becomes an easy solution. Ad-hoc growth though (which is what I would expect to be more likely) wireless becomes advantageous. Running new lines is going to be way more than the couples hundred for an antenna stand and couple hundred to low thousands for gear (distance dependant) if there isn’t a pathway already there and usable.

And yeah, the pipe out is the kicker always. That would either need to be a bunch of locations with a solid, but lower speed connection, or a high speed line (with fail over ideally). Which mostly means a shared cost and management.

I’d love to see something like this for a community, though you’d have to have enough folks to get it started.

I remember years ago there was a town/small city, I think in NZ, that started doing fiber distribution to everyone in town. It was optional to light it up, but with distribution like that it was real easy for them to have a singular community wifi solution as folks went around town, and they used (again, iirc) copper on utility poles for distribution to homes where they could, antennas on poles for those further out. That was super exciting to me, especially as a locally run initiative.

I’m hoping to find a community when we next move that has that sort of local drive to get projects done (and also has decent schools for my kids), though still searching on that.

realbadat, 15 days ago

For lots of services that require little CPU and ram, I use tiny/mini/micro PCs, bought used. I get them for anywhere from $100-$400, and usually all I do is drop in an SSD. That includes Linux VMs when I’m testing distros or deployment on a distro, since 32gb ram on the host is more than enough to leave 4-8gb ram to the VM.

For some heavier applications, I also have a 4RU case stacked with drives, which I use as a third NAS (VM with drives passed through), large DBs, etc. Its just a 1700x with 64GB ram, and that’s plenty.

For most things (DNS, a few web servers, git, grafana, Prometheus, rev proxies, Jenkins, personal fdroid repo, homepage, etc) I just use the tiny/mini/micro’s. Imo, you can’t go wrong with those for your services, and a big case with spare parts and lots of drives for your NAS. Especially at the price you mentioned. Just remember you can separate your services easily, so don’t focus on getting everything in one spot, you can make your requirements (and cost) go up quickly.

realbadat, 15 days ago

Agreed, I prefer trunk with native to the vlan for services, each container that the reverse proxy will hit in its own vlan (or multiples for differing sets of services, but I can be excessive).

I’d block any traffic initiated from that vlan to all others, and I’d also only allow the specific ports needed for the services. Then fully open initiated from the general internal vlan.

realbadat, 14 days ago

I used to bike daily for my commute (to the bus), so I wanted something decent for both clipless and regular shoes. That lead me to Shimano Click’R, which seems to still be available (but only one model left, T421) which does still have reflectors on it. May be worth a look.

SPD, still on my bike today. Whether I keep my bike or go to something new I will personally be keeping those pedals as long as I can.

realbadat, 16 days ago

Installed a while ago just never got to trying it out, Google isn’t showing updates in the play store for it.

I’ll uninstall/reinstall.

realbadat, 16 days ago

Removing and reinstalling has it on 1.36.0 which is working, no idea why Google Play considered it as not having an update available, but that resolves it.

realbadat, 16 days ago

Just to mention, multi communities are the main reason I’m checking it out (and replying from it now).

Very clean work flow on multis, nicely done!