I’ve had to plan on a PV+battery+load sharing solution because my utility provider will fine the absolute crap out of you if you export any power without an interconnect agreement in place. I used to be able to stealth grid-tie with the old analog meters (I never produced more in a month than I used), but these new digital tattle-tale meters will rat you out instantly.

Yeah, I may have to settle for woodworking. I could set that up in my basement safely enough but definitely can’t be welding or have other fire hazards.

Only limitation with woodworking in insufficient ventilation if I want to paint or varnish or something.

Metalworking. It’s not so much beyond my ability so much as it’s out of my price range to get into it. I just don’t have any of the necessary tools nor an appropriate workspace, and I’d basically have to build a workshop and start from the literal ground up.

They kind of do, or at least used to.

If memory serves, they would take higher-end chips that didn’t pass QA for that product line, disable some cores or whatever, and sell it as a lower-end chip.

I’ve always observed them to be the largely the same thing but on different ends of the ideological spectrum (libertarians holding a more right-wing stance to anarchism’s left-wing stances). Otherwise, they’re both essentially petulant toddlers stamping their feet and saying “I don’t want to, and you can’t make me”.

You talking about charging an ebike from [balcony] solar? If so, then yeah, I’ve done that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4SL5C2X

I don’t have an ebike anymore, but I built one in ~2013 and still have the battery for it and use it for camping trips and power outages. It’s 48v 20Ah and I used that charger to boost a couple of 12v solar panels and charge it.

If the artist is constantly in the news reminding me what a POS they are IRL, then no, I can’t enjoy their works because that’s always in my mind. Otherwise, if they just fuck off into obscurity, then I can enjoy the works independently for what they are.

Last fall I bought a 1 KWh Anker power station, and I’m loving it. It charges from 800 watts of solar and powers all kinds of random stuff around the house each day. Useful for power outages, too.

Yeah, I was just hoping for something a little more granular than KWh per year.

Nice!

Any idea the running wattage? I’ve been looking to add a mini fridge to my basement but would want to run it from the solar system I’m putting together. My big kitchen fridge is 100-400 watts depending on the cycle, so I’d guess maybe 50-100 watts for a fridge that size?

That’s what I’ve done for years. Makes managing things much easier, and I run multiple APs (all with the same SSID/PSK) and you can just roam to the best one. One upstairs, one downstairs, one in the weird dead zone in my office, and one on the back patio (it’s not hardwired and uses the mesh connection for uplink).

These are all old Aruba APs running OpenWRT but that’s the plan for this Cudy Model. I may pick up a few more and just replace all of my trusty but very old Arubas.

I bought this one last month when it was on sale for $39: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRK3CYY3

Haven’t deployed it yet, but it’s fully supported by OpenWRT. I would only be using it as an access point, though. My router is a USFF Optiplex with an extra NIC and runs OpenWRT.

I am probably the wrong person to answer, but I usually just get a light buzz going and work on stuff around the house or yard.

Mowing the yard, pulling weeds, or working in the garden with a light buzz is pretty darn relaxing to me lol. Doing the dishes, laundry, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom? None of those are particularly fun but are necessary and greatly improved by having a light buzz.

On the rare occasion I accidentally get too buzzed and end up glued to the couch, the dogs are more than happy to take advantage and receive lots of pets and lap time.

Only if the USB Implementation Forum doesn’t get a chance to name it. Otherwise, it’d be something like DNA 3 2.0 Super Speed

Honestly, for me, it’s when someone knows when to keep their mouth shut or opinions to themselves. I could, in theory, consider the dumbest person in the world “intelligent” so long as they don’t open their dumb mouth and make situations worse.

Basically, any idiot can speak, but it takes intelligence and/or wisdom to know when not to.

I’d get a new weather app that only shows the weather. If you’re on Android, try BreezyWeather (F-Droid link).

The F-Droid (“freenet”) one only mainly uses OpenMeteo as the source (which is pretty good) but the releases on Github offer additional sources. Not sure why there’s a discrepancy, but I use the Github release and Accuweather as the source. YMMV which gives the best results for your area, but I often wasn’t getting severe weather alerts with OpenMeteo.

The world is just as fucked up as it ever was. The only difference now is that every fucked-up thing that ever happens anywhere is getting pushed to your always-on doomscroll device in real time with people attaching their mostly ignorant opinions to it.

This is where the “touch grass” advice comes into play. In broad terms, the real world is not nearly the hellhole social media portrays it to be.

Star Trek lied to us about the competency levels of our co-workers.

:sigh: (high five) ✋

I have that same broom, but it’s to unevenly worn to stand up.