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BearOfaTime @lemm.ee
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Solar powered server rack
  • 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.

  • Solar powered server rack
  • 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.

  • British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe
  • More than a third of 15-year-old girls in the UK have been drunk at least twice, compared with less than a quarter of boys the same age

    How was the study done? Is there an angle where girls are more likely to admit this/click on a button than boys? (Yes, studies should account for this kind of thing, but we know what "should" means).

    Interesting either way.

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  • Sounds like a convo is needed.

    And lots of us have worked night shift at all kinds if jobs. I did it many years ago, did it some in IT (many, many night shifts in IT - stuff had to be maintained, and off hours is the time for it).

  • What app do you use for backing up your files on Android?
  • It's really frustrating there's no proper backup/restore without root - that's my primary reason for having root.

    Yea, Syncthing-Fork is still maintained, though there hasn't been an update for a while. The company that makes Möbius Sync for iOS is a big supporter of Syncthing, hopefully they'll help in some way. Alternatively there's Resilio Sync, but it's hard on phone ram - I'd have to manage it a lot more often. Though it has Selective Sync - I can browse a shared folder from my phone and tell it to sync specific files. This is great for my media server - I can grab any movie/music anytime.

    I like Syncthing-Fork better because it moves sync conditions to within each folder. So my DCIM folder syncs on any network or battery condition (so I don't lose photos), but NeoBackup folder only syncs on wifi and while charging.

    Pretty much all folders now sync 2-way, and I export the Syncthing config on the phone whenever I change something. That export folder is also synced, so when I switch phones I just install ST, import that config, and after a couple hours the new phone has all the same stuff as the old phone. Then I launch NeoBackup and start restoring.

  • LOL
  • Ooh, I like your thinking even better.

    That makes much more sense, I've actually seen that on the top of wooden posts for that reason. Being a steel post, I didn't think of it.

  • The front-right tire of my car has 1 PSI higher pressure than the front-left
  • Yep - like an AWD version of a car may use different pressures than a FWD version, to manage traction.

    I've seen an AWD version use lower pressures in the rear than FWD - this helps keep the rear of that car from sliding due to a combination of torque transferring to the rear wheels and more weight back there.

  • Anyone else struggling with not being able to stick to things long enough to fully enjoy them?
  • that I really should finish

    That word "should" is a tricky little fella, he implies a judgement, the question is what's the source of that judgement?

    Wayne Dyer discusses the issues and challenges of words like "should" in his book "Your Erroneous Zones" by using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach: examining and rewriting how we think about things.

    When I find myself using that particular word, I ask myself "should, according to who?". Almost always I find I have an old "script" in my head about priorities, values, etc, that upon re-examining I find it's no longer useful. Like "I bought this game, therefore I must get maximum value from it".

    Sometimes things run their course, and that's that.

  • 39 A-10 Warthogs Went To The Boneyard This Year, More Than Double Over Prior Year
  • I thought I read last year that new variants of the F16 were replacing the A10 in close-support/low altitude/ground target roles. I assumed circumstances and tech had changed in some way that made the F16 more viable at such low altitudes (hundreds of feet) than when the A10 was initially deployed.

    I don't really know, just thought it was an interesting perspective.

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  • This, so much.

    What my parents grew up with - always cold and hungry. Not starving, just hungry. And I can go to the store and get almost anything - like fruits my parents never saw/knew of before they were adults.

    My grandparents waited something like 2 years to get a fridge - that's the wait list at the time. Even when I was a kid stuff wasn't always immediately available, and they'd sell you the floor model for full price if you were lucky, otherwise you waited a week to a month for an appliance that I can buy by the dozen today.

    I grew up being told "you have no idea how easy you have it" (not in a mean way, just my parents explaining how different things were just a few decades ago), and they were right. Now I'm surprised almost every day at the difference since even 1970, let alone early 20th century and farther back.

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  • The world is getting worse?

    Yea, methinks you need some history. Go watch Edwardian Farm on BBC or Amazon. We have it so much easier than our forbears did.

    Are there problems? Of course? Humans gonna human, and in that way things haven't changed since, well, forever. "We only get 80 years on the planet" (to quote a Brian Setzer tune), so we all get a limited time to learn to be better people.

    But there are a lot of people who continually strive to make their local circle better - which is really about all of us can actually do - work on our own little corner, and hopefully have influence on others nearby.

  • Recent Study Seems to Indicate ADHD IS Related to a Nearly 3x Greater Risk for Dementia

    Cross-posted from Health

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    Project Liberty

    www.projectliberty.io Home Page - Project Liberty

    Project LibertyTM is leading a movement of people who want to take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet.

    Home Page - Project Liberty

    From their About page: >Project Liberty is stitching together an ecosystem of technologists, academics, policymakers and citizens committed to building a people-powered internet—where the data is ours to manage, the platforms are ours to govern, and the power is ours to reclaim.

    I just heard Frank McCourt on a podcast plugging his book "Our Biggest Fight".

    It was great to hear someone with a voice talking about the problems we see with user data and social media, especially the problem of the Social Graph (the map of all your social connections, which includes weights and values).

    Their solution to this problem was to develop a social networking protocol that enables any compliant app to use (think how email works - a standard protocol, SMTP), but encrypted and user data controlled by the user. They call it DSNP - Decentralized Social Networking Protocol.

    I see both sides of their approach, I'm kind of ambivalent, lots of concern here long-term.

    They've already acquired MeWe and have converted some users to this protocol. He wants to buy the US side of TikTok (if it becomes available) and convert it to DSNP, which would encrypt about 30 million US accounts.

    I'm always cynical about stuff that sounds promising, but I don't have the tech background to really dissect what they're doing. Anyone understand this better?

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    Healthcare Social Graph Scoring - Talk About Dystopian.

    I have no idea where to even start to combat such things. Healthcare professionals must appease the masses of their peers.

    I've seen this first hand in the corporate world, where it's called a 360 review. It's a popularity contest.

    While there's value in the idea of such reviews, they're ripe for abuse. It codifies an environment of dishonesty - where people who are good at masking (err, sociopaths anyone) excel.

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