I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.

That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don’t understand the constraints at first.

I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

That’s fucked up

Wow, install Tailscale or Wireguard and you’ve got a killer remote support solution.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Drives me crazy that accounting software is SAAS. The last thing I want is my business accounting on someone else’s systems, regardless of how encrypted, backed up, etc.

Just look at the recent large company whose entire business data set was deleted by Google. If it were a small mom n pop, they’d be out of business before Google even responded.

I swear I see a business opportunity as an IT consulting service that implements nothing but local solutions.

I also don’t agree that we don’t know what it [consciousness] is.

… most can’t agree on how to define it.

Which is it?

1999 - DSL After that, cable was pretty much everywhere I lived.

I thought the Big Thing with BS was being open and federate-able?

(Yes, sarcasm)

This can already be done with a tiny camera and a pocket computer, and we don’t have regs around it.

Glasses would make that simpler, but the cat’s out of the bag.

That movie was so much better than I gave it credit for at the time.

Rewatched it recently, a B movie that had more depth than appeared at first (and yes, the irony isn’t list on me).

Because they match standard nav light coloration.

And you need nav lights for takeoff and landing where other craft are coming/going

And they won’t work anymore with the retirement of analog years ago, 2G years ago, and now 3G for consumer use (I’m assuming that phone was analog/2G).

Yet Another Call Blocker -

I block all calls except those I know.

*syntax

(Just an FYI, I’m guessing autoincorrect got you).

Great notes too, good point about the device name vs device ID.

Immich is part of FUTO now? Great, congrats!

I look forward to implementing it on my new home box.

After Signal’s lie about dropping SMS support because of “engineering costs”, I really can’t believe anything else they say.

Plus the app experience sucks, it’s no better than SMS.

Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.

Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!

To Broadcom’s credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they’re getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.

“The mystery in New Jersey”

There’s no mystery, the FAA issued an air restriction for the Picatinny area from Nov 21 to Dec 26, for “special security reasons” - aka some dark development group doing testing.

Why else would these things have nav lights?

“distrohoped”?

As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?

Sounds like S.O.P