Mobile Virtual Network Operators. They’re only buying capacity on other operators’ networks.

So, only MVNOs will notify you.

It’s really fucking depressing

If your school is not supporting teachers with a cell phone policy you should try to find another place to teach and tell them exactly why when you leave.

Edit: this is also something your union should be pushing for. I’m surprised parents haven’t demanded it.

And this is the answer to why it makes sense in Europe and not the US.

How are you getting power to your appliances? Someone else suggested back feeding into an outlet which is illegal in the US.

Back feeding is illegal in the US.

While I agree with your sentiment, I’m not sure the cell tower is a good comparison. Very few if any cell towers are installed on a residential single family roof. Leasing part of your plot of land or space on a commercial or multi unit building is a completely different problem than giving a company rights to part of a frame residential home. Who maintains the roof? Who insures the roof? What insurance company will write that policy? It’s already getting more complicated to insure rooftop solar because claims are climbing. Now you’ve got a roof leased to someone else with solar panels on it? Seems to me like any commercial venture would skip all that and go straight to buying or leasing land. Land with no homes. This is the US after all, we have plenty of that laying around.

Companies are offering rooftop solar owned by the residents because they want it, they want the benefits. The problem is that it’s rapidly growing and a great target for scams. Especially considering the age demographic of homeowners who have paid off enough of their mortgage that they have collateral for said loans. These companies should be regulated and vetted somehow.

What are you powering with it? How are you storing the energy? It just doesn’t make any economic sense to me. I’d love to see some statistics on the total cost of one of these systems and how much power people are actually getting. Maybe it makes more sense in Germany where energy prices are nearly double the US average. But I’d still love to see some real examples to back that up.

Quite the stretch. But also, who enforces that? The guy who wears a fucking gold Trump head pin?

The FCC used to.

Llama signed the collective bargaining agreement that prohibits this. So they are indeed suing the correct entity for breach. It doesn’t matter if the IP owner gave permission.

That wouldn’t be an off grid building then.

He also explains how to offload storage to another service for $5 a month if you want to add images back in.

https://paulstamatiou.com/hosting-your-own-mastodon-server#choose-how-youd-like-to-host

Digital Ocean is used as an example because they have a quick setup Mastodon option. It looks like $14/mo minimum if you’re going to run Elastisearch. Without that tool in memory you might get away with 1GB of memory which is $7/mo. But the author also notes that with Elastisearch his VPS uses about 2GB of ram so he’s actually running the 4GB $21/mo plan.

In all seriousness, we can’t really give a cost estimate because you haven’t given us your hosting scenario. Are you hosting on your own hardware, on a VPS, or using a provider that specializes in hosting Mastodon servers?

Storage costs should be pretty low for an instance very few would want to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Emby development is dead in the water. It works, it’s stable, but it’s treading water. And because it is partially closed source and not changing much the addon development community is not as robust. If you try it and it has what you want, it works just fine. But I want an active community making new features and developing add-ons and extending what I get out of it. I did not need premium to get a similar feature set out of Jellyfin, I am an experienced self hoster so I was able to switch without missing a beat. And now I can click a button to skip and intro, or the recap for the episode I just finished watching. And I can try the very large set of add-ons that are out there.

As someone with lifetime Emby premium, I switched to Jellyfin.