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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All
  • You dont need to explain email so federation does not seem to be the issue here IMO. The problem is money which FLOSS projects usually don't have. The successful ones have perhaps enough so that the devs can put food on their table, but not much else. Most of the apps are after Dayjob hobby projects. It's hard to compete with those who have teams of paid staff.

  • Just wanna know about disroot
  • Disroot founder here 👋 if you have any questions I would be glad to answer. Been doogfooding all services myself as primary communication means. We are small team of ethusiasts and we mainly reuse code writtem by awesome FLOSS contributors in form of services. Not reinventing wheel here. Next year we will celebrate 10 years of existance \o/

  • DisNews 24.10 - Update on our 2024 goals

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    Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.

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    Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app
  • Will GPG be baked into the app or still relay on third party like open key chain?

  • This Ukrainian guy has been trying to develop his home brew solar focusing system to power homes on the cheap for the past 10+ years.
  • Yes. been following his work for over a year now. I am in the process of building my house but hopefully next year I will have more time to work on energy side of things. I plan to build solar collectors similar to the one from videos where you concentrate sunlight using mirrors and heatup oil. If I manage to get good results and warmup the oil to over 100C (400C should be possible), I plan to build sand-battery in the ground.

  • This is just a test. Sorry
  • Just another test.

  • Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
  • Not everyone, but is majority is covered its fine (probably half of it would do the job). Usually parking places or places where you are allowed to park a car are marked so actually shouldn't be an issue.

  • Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
  • That's undoubtedly perk of having a house, parking or dedicated spot. But even without those at least here in NL infrastructure as is is pretty good even for those without didcated charging spot. I thin what should be easily done is slow charging spot on every parting spot. Cost wise it's not much and pulling max 2.5kw should not be much of an issue for the grid. In that way every car would have a dedicated charging to fill up over night if needed. Cost of such implementation wouldn't be to big either.

  • Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC News
  • It looks like the goal will be more people getting pissed at the climate activists. Which will make it harder for those who are actually doing something more then just publicity stunts.

  • Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
  • Yeah infra is the issue. Which is stupid as providing simple (16A) socket per car would be sufficient solution for most cars. You come back from work or your commute and just plug the car to slow charger. Over night you are charged enough for next day.

  • Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
  • Nah. Anxiety is something you have for first month owning your first EV. Once you adjust to the different way of using the car you realize you drive the same way as petroleum car. One important thing is being able to charge at home IMO. Even from just a socket (16A) is sufficient for most daily cases.

  • Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC News
  • But all those actions are exactly same as signing petition. Just louder and in many cases made more about the protesters then the protest. It's more like doing something so that you feel you tried and media writes about it which males you feel like you did the change. But nature doesn't give two shits about the protests neither is the current economy of consumption which leads us to the disaster. Being on the internet, discussing this matter right now is contributing to the problem and only shows that our life style, which we are happy with is the problem.

    And yeah blocking the street causes much more pollution plus losses off everyone, so not sure what's the goal there either

  • Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC News
  • But how is that action going to stop the water from rising. I am too very much concerned with climate change but I don't see much point in those actions. They don't really bring anything to the table nor have any impact on the matter, apart from antagonizing people to the issue perhaps.

  • This is just a test. Sorry
  • Nope. We failed.

  • This is just a test. Sorry

    Just testing image upload.

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    Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Battery size I think here is the difference. Leaf, specially the old ones come with 22kwh battery. My Zoe is 52kWh. Think newer Leafs also come with 52/64kwh packs but are much more expensive then Zoe. At least that was the case when I was researching it when buying a car last year.

  • Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France's Macron and Germany's Scholz
  • And this is the most scary part of it. Specially that it isn't just France or Germany but pretty much across the board young people voted for biggest populists out there.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Yeah. I did quite some research and found Zoe to be the best price for range while not being a giant expensive suv. I think specially on european roads its pretty good choice.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Though those are dirt cheap so as a second car to drive in low range (if you work close by or when need to do shopping etc) it's perfect.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Second hand Renault Zoe user here. I have the model from 2020 with 52kWh battery. Things are pretty ok I think as far as the interior and exterior, but we had major issue with the engine that had to be swapped (good the car was under warranty still in the dealership we bought it from). For the rest it's pretty smooth ride. The range of the car in spring/summer gets to about 350km so its pretty good. The SOH is 91.3%. Ranault's warranty on battery is still active until 2028 or 80 000km or when battery's SOH drops below 75% so for now I am not worried about this. I think once the battery gets low and outside of warranty there will most certainly be more developed infrastructure of third-party battery module maintenance so it should be possible to get the pack to it's original state for not gigantic sums of money.

  • Home Assistant 2024.6: Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs
  • Ok. Npw Its definitely time to migrate my instance to something more powerful then my raspberry pi

  • DisNews 24.03 - New services and Lacre hitting the server

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    Multiple small wInd tubines in ongrid home setup.

    I'm starting to think about diversifying my energy prodution. I have a solar panel array (5kWp) on the roof for a year now. I see that adding more panels does not make much sense as the production in summer as is is already hard to consume it all, and in winter the production is rather symbolic while consumption is through the roof.

    So I thought of looking into wind turbines. There is plenty of wind the whole year where I live. But, rather then buying a big 5kW turbine which is quite expensive on its own (plus a pole and all the other stuff) I thought, how about using multiple small turbines (up to 1kW) connected together, similar to how solar panels are. Either into one inverter or using microinverters. Does anyone have any interesting links to follow or some experience in similar setups?

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    Hello world

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