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- Comment on Plug-in solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US 1 week ago:
And to be clear, conventional renewables such as solar and wind would not direct causal elements in the collapse, they were second order elements. One of the big issues was a lack of spinning synchronous generators, and one of the reasons that there would have been a lack of spinning synchronous generators is that things like solar were using igbt inverters instead. That also means that other conventional renewables such as hydroelectric we're not implicated because hydroelectric has large synchronous spitting generators.
- Comment on Plug-in solar panels that fit on your balcony or deck are gaining traction in the US 1 week ago:
I have done work with a large industrial plant that wants to be able to connect its local generation to the grid in order to supplement what it gets from the grid. The amount of permitting and everything required is surprising. Unfortunately, there are legitimate concerns about putting extra sources of electricity onto the grid. Hypothetically speaking, if poorly engineered sources of energy were placed on to the grid en masse, it has a potential to cause problems that ultimately bring down the entire grid in ways that make it quite difficult for the grid to come back up.
Effectively, you can say that the electric grid is not just a big truck that you can stack more power on, there are a number of precise things that need to be done right, and if they aren't things get really bad really fast.
This isn't related to that, but earlier this year there was a major grid collapse in Spain that almost turned into an even bigger collapse, and that was just related to conventional renewables rather than a bunch of individual households connecting to the grid.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 1 week ago:
I moved to proxmox earlier this year and it quickly became a huge deal for me.
One nice thing is that I can easily create lxc containers for each service that has exactly what that service needs. Each service lives in a container that acts a lot like bare metal.
A second nice thing is it's really easy to administer everything remotely. All your machines end up accessible through the proxmox interface, and you can hop into virtual machines or lxc containers via the web.
A third thing is you can easily handle hot standby and backups through an easy UI.
Totally changed the game for me.
- Comment on ‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Most people who care about such things probably are thankful to the Arab world for maintaining and curating The works of the ancient Greeks prior to the Renaissance. I know I'm thankful to the Arab world for doing that.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have a pretty narrow view of things like ownership and cultures, and the concept of knowledge as something collectively owned by the human race that happens to be in the hands of a certain group at one moment is difficult to conceive, especially for those who don't like whatever group happens to have it.
As long as it is accessible to the world, I don't really care whether the first person curating a certain piece of global history is from beijing, baghdad, or bath.
- Comment on Can you Cook and eat tree bark ? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the tree. Some are a great source of nutrients, some are poisonous and will kill you dead.
- Comment on Clowns were meant to be funny, but why do lots of ppl find them scary ? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of it is mass media as I understand it. John Wayne gacy being all over the news as well as horror movies like It changed the popular consensus on clowns.
- Comment on Damn 2 weeks ago:
You will up vote because the joke is funny. I will upvote because I'm racist against knife ears. We are not the same.
- Comment on Home batteries are saving America from blackouts | Home battery storage systems are keeping lights on during summer energy crunches in Puerto Rico and elsewhere across the United States. 2 weeks ago:
Lots of posts on here have me arguing against solar, but I totally agree with you here. When you need AC you usually have sunlight to help you run the AC.
Isn't going to help with heat or light, but AC? Definitely. Especially paired with some batteries to smooth out higher load and lower load periods.
- Comment on Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero day hack requires manual update to fix 2 weeks ago:
I was gonna register this week but that's the final straw! No way Jose!
- Comment on Fan Subber 2 weeks ago:
Just as keikakku
- Comment on 91% of renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, but Trump just defunded a vital US grid upgrade 4 weeks ago:
Au used to have power that was comparable in price to the USA. Since then it's gone up in price by several times. Used to be like 7 cents per kwh, now it's like 30 cents per kwh.
It's ok though, people can just trade houses between each other! That'll pay for all the solar panels!
And don't worry, Australia sells only the greenest coal to Asia (second largest coal importer on Earth), and as we all know, burning coal doesn't produce CO2 if it happens over there instead of over here! Putting the coal on a boat before burning is making a pretty noticeable difference.
- Comment on Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms 1 month ago:
Maybe it's little babies who haven't learned to read or something watching Redo of Healer dubbed?
- Comment on Free Life Affirming Observation 2 months ago:
And to leave behind a legacy which may be fragile, but is nonetheless proof you existed, and a ripple throughout the rest of human history, and you can choose to make that ripple positive.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 2 months ago:
I was going to say "I don't use em-dashes in my books for when they sole all those books" but then I went into my first book and found 22 em-dashes so... oops. I thought the word processor changed -- into an en-dash and not an em-dash.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 2 months ago:
I think you'd probably be ok with using em-dashes (I typically use en-dashes myself but I'm lazy), but don't use cliche phrases like "It's not [x] -- it's [reframed x]"
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 2 months ago:
“This is not just a leak – it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation,” the researchers said.
Are the researchers chatgpt? Because that looks almost word for word how chatgpt would write something like that, right down to the em-dash.
- Comment on Fresh Proxmox install w/ full disk encryption—so install Debian first, then Proxmox on top? 2 months ago:
I had to do it for my atom d2550s because of the odd hybrid x86/x86-64 systems they are. I had to install what ended up being linux mint debian edition 5 because that was the best way to get an OS on the odd bootloader system for various reasons, then upgraded to 6 to get to the latest debian, then I installed proxmox and removed all the debian stuff.
What do I do with something as weak as a pair of D2550s? Don't you worry about that. I've found uses for both. :P
It's an unusual use case, but it's one reason you might need to install debian before proxmox.
- Comment on China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica 2 months ago:
China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.
This matters a lot, because it doesn't matter that you're "using electricity" if it's coming from a big ol' coal pollution factory.
In some ways, it's preferable to directly use the coal in some applications -- changing from chemical energy to thermal to movement to electricity back to thermal energy can be less efficient than just changing the chemical energy to thermal energy and using that directly.
- Comment on What personal habit are you proudest of? 2 months ago:
I'm on year 3 of making a habit of going outside every day I can during the summer.
- Comment on Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released 2 months ago:
I have to admit, it's something I'd like to see done a bit better (not that I'd be the one posting about it typically)
"Crocoslut version 12 released!"
Uh... great?
Though sometimes you go to the website and it's not much better.
- Comment on Backup for important files/pictures? 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Backup for important files/pictures? 2 months ago:
I use nextcloud and I love it.
You want to follow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies of your data on at least 2 different forms of media, and 1 backup being off-line.
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 2 months ago:
(just in case people misunderstand and think I'm making a more pointed attack than I really am, I'm just making a reference to the 1880 essay "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain)
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 2 months ago:
"does not have to be clearly masculine or feminine, as was the case until 2008, but may also be neutral."
If my child is a boy, I will name him fish. If a girl, Fishwife. If non-binary or it doesn't like the other names, scaly skin.
- Comment on Tumult in U.S. Treasurys shows Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' might be disaster 2 months ago:
https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2025/01/10/future-lives-social-mobility/index.shtml
The government of Canada.
"People may start to hunt, fish, and forage on public lands and waterways without reference to regulations."
- Comment on Economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter, updated GDP shows, as trade wars sapped U.S. growth 2 months ago:
It's cool guys! We had two consecutive quarters of economic decline and found out that's not a recession because (checks paper) because I said so.
So everything is fine forever and it's actually good if the economy shrinks!
- Comment on "Kinks" 2 months ago:
"I'm invested now so fuck it" hrm... Phrasing?
Aw, nevermind.
- Comment on Gov. Tim Walz Suggests It’s Time for Democrats to ‘Be a Little Meaner,’ Calls Trump a ‘Cruel Man’ 2 months ago:
Oh! They just didn't call orange man bad!
If only someone had the guts to say orange man bad, but nobody was able to do it!
Shamefur dispuray!
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
Speedrunning destroying your platform.
- Comment on Humble Bundle have launched their 2025 Pride Month games bundle 2 months ago:
Something that I have been warning about for years now is that all of these establishment voices that claim to support a thing are just going to use that thing up and then discard it like a used tissue.
The sooner people realize that, the better off everyone will be. Global megacorps are not your friend.