xtremeownage

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xtremeownage,

Eh… Mutually assured destruction.

It’s a very scary phrase.

xtremeownage,

Unless you have a wall of old nokia phones… it should be quite scary.

xtremeownage,

That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

xtremeownage,

Its a going. One day at a time.

xtremeownage,

esp32-c6 (supports zigbee), is pretty cheap.

xtremeownage,

I agree, I’d be picking up a bunch of those, if that were the case.

xtremeownage,

No.

I wouldn’t vote for Hillary period for many reasons. Her sex is not one of them.

A random fact, I actually did vote for a woman to be president. But, it damn sure was not Hillary. There is too much stink associated with her. Too much shit swept under the rug.

xtremeownage,

I’d say, you have a small instance.

I used to host lemmyonline.com, which has somewhere around 50-100 users.

It was upwards of 50-80g of disk space, and it used a pretty good chunk of bandwidth. CPU/Memory requirements were not very high though.

xtremeownage,

The other admin now “owns” this instance, and hosts it in the EU.

I am just a glorified moderator now.

xtremeownage,

Nope.

Still just feel like a kid, with extra responsibilities, while raising my own kids. Guess sometime around 50 or so i’ll start feeling like an “adult”

Although, at least I call myself a dumbass, after doing something stupid, or wasting money on crap.

xtremeownage,

Coming from someone who owns them-

Nah, it’s not worth it… at least, if you strictly look at “saving money” overall.

ROI is on average 10-25 years, depending on your current cost of energy. The components/inverters/etc, are usually rated for 20-25 years.

At least- this applies if you have a properly licensed contractor install everything. If you do everything yourself, its extremely worth it, and would achieve ROI in a decade or less.

xtremeownage,

If the ROI => 25 years, then it’s not worth it- because the hardware and equipment is considered deprecated at that point.

If it lasts 30 years, sure, its making good use of itself. But- everything is rated between 15-25 years. As such, after that period, it’s considered end of life, and no longer supported.

Now- I will note, it is not worth it for the “Rate I currently pay”, which is 0.08c/kwh. If next year, my electricity rates tripled, it would vastly reduce the amount of time until this solution reached ROI. And- I am betting that electricity does not get cheaper in the future, otherwise I would have not have pulled the trigger on a 50,000$ project, where the math told me it wasn’t the best idea.

Also, if you really want to see everything quantified- I plan on publishing all of the math, and numbers at the one year mark… which will be around march. -> static.xtremeownage.com/pages/…/Solar-Project/

xtremeownage,

How did you get that rate? We pay 33 cents, and it was 24 cents just a few months ago… wouldn’t be surprised if it goes up again next year and the year after since even 33 cents is government subsidised (so - there’s no cheaper option available).

All about location. There are supposedly many in my area on a different coop utility, who are only paying 0.03c/kwh.

Ooof. Why’d you do that? We simply put (a bit over) 5kW of panels on the roof, and a good 5kW inverter. One day of sun generates about as much power as we use in a week, and even if it’s overcast we still come out ahead.

I had a few other goals I wanted to accomplish-

  1. Reliability. The grid here isn’t the most stable, and blinks a few times per week. And, a time or two per year, we have an outage. This solution has handled this fantastically well, so well, that I don’t even notice when the grid has dropped unless I specifically go for it.
  2. Apart of this, was bringing some of my wiring/electrical up to code. This accounted for 10k of the price-tag… I relocated/replaced the mains panel across the house to a location more suitable then my daughter’s closet. Also- the panel itself, was pretty old, and needed to be modernized.

One more issue- my PV is undersized a bit. Adding another 3kw, would yield much better returns for me.

Its undersized, because if I oversized it, and sent more energy than I consumed, my lovely utility slaps on a 42$ fee… which is no-bueno.

xtremeownage,

I’m gonna wait a few years, until prices go waaay down… and I plan on doubling/tripling the PV capacity, which will make everything much more effective, as well.

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xtremeownage,

This platform* is getting overrun by trolls and tankies. I’m going back to Reddit

xtremeownage,

What will realistically happen?

Nothing. Companies will just spend a hair more money finding ways to circumvent the new taxes. And, if the new taxes were not easily circumvented- they would just relocate the company to another country with lower taxes.

In the end, the consumer is paying the taxes, and not the company itself, either way.

xtremeownage,

Anti-DDOS, eh?

You lost me there. There is no self-hosted anti-ddos solution that is going to be effective… Because any decent DDOS attack, can easily completely overwhelm your WAN connection. (And potentially even your ISP’s upstream(s) )#

xtremeownage,

It could end up being a shart.

xtremeownage,

But, it has no network connectivity! That is against God’s will.

(Thus, no telemetry either)

Very interesting os though. Lots of very cool concepts

xtremeownage,

unbound as a DNS filter and resolver

Its… worked as a recursive resolver, with filtering/blacklist features for years now?

xtremeownage,

I use vlans to work with it.

xtremeownage,

Not a clue.

Maybe they like the pretty dashboard pihole has.

xtremeownage,

Nope, not at all.

Behind every successful story, is a lot of failures. (or- really rich parents).

xtremeownage,

Yes.

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