schmorpel
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- Comment on Server as heating device - how do I do this? 10 hours ago:
I wonder how to take on the efficiency question when considering waste heat. Would and older model generating more heat be the better choice? Has anybody started to dig into the complexities of calculating efficiency for circular systems?
- Submitted 11 hours ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 21 comments
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 1 week ago:
Hmm I would personally categorize both the portable hydro as well as the capsule as junk gimmicks. I would want something reliable and farm-worthy for permanent use.
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 2 weeks ago:
I’ve looked into some models I can purchase, but haven’t played with them. I like the rams because they are so low tech even a stupid like me can handle them, and the energy supply is direct. The one I’ve set up the other day (dumped into the river and tied to a stick) is still pumping.
I also love solar thermal, for the same reason. To me it just seems to make more sense to develop tech that doesn’t transfer energy from one form into another a million times, because that is something pitifully underdeveloped in our electrical monoculture. That’s why I keep building and advertising the rams.
For my daily life micro hydro power would be a useful addition, really want to get into that when I have time.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
No, conciseness is the ability to describe things in few words. You probably meant to say consumption.
- Comment on I have so many lists... 4 weeks ago:
oh no you just reminded me
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 4 weeks ago:
Oh there’s a lot of info in this that I didn’t have, thanks for sharing!
I don’t think anybody knows them around here. I showed mine to my neighbour and explained her that it doesn’t use electricity or fuel and she looked quite impressed. The mountain areas here with water running from every hill are just ideal grounds for the rams. I’m still trying to figure out how they could be not just used for gardening, but wisely integrated into fire prevention. I know I can’t just water an area indiscriminately with a ram pump - the pump works till July or August, grow lots of vegetation, which then dries out and is a fire hazard. But maybe something with restoring vegetation around old waterlines first, or storing the water in reservoirs. Ram pumps in combination with reservoirs make great energy harvest and storage as well.
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 4 weeks ago:
Exactly, I’m working with just 60cm head, which is on the lower end of it working at all. Maybe next year I add another 100 m of tube to reach a spot where the pump can sit outside the stream.
If you have been diving into ram pumps before, I’m curious if you have found any infos about one thing I haven’t had time to research or experiment with: does the distance between the two valves make any difference in terms of efficiency?
- Comment on Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 4 weeks ago:
IBC for collection, I plan to set another on top
Sorry, just those two for now. I’ll need to gather courage before I wade into the stream again for a closeup, especially with my phone in hand. With the heat returned I also was busy installing the hose from IBC to garden to water the veggies. I’m still figuring out the connection between the two IBCs and mixing water coming from a heating panel, and waiting for a washing tank to arrive to go next to it. And then the summer heat and the corn field will dry the stream out in no time … I hope this system runs till End of July at least, but to be honest I don’t know. But even if I have this running only one month on ‘stream energy’ and 11 on electric it will be worth it.
I think ram pumps are lovely, they are so robust - it just took a couple of hours to get it back into the stream and back working (it also got a couple of hours of maintenance in the workshop, of tightening the connections again). This year it runs on a really slow frequency compared to year 1, and it seems to pump the water higher. I’d like to get some numbers one day, but it’s hard to measure anything exactly around here with our installations. Only thing I know is they run so robustly. They find their rhythm and then they just go and go and go.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 14 comments
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 5 weeks ago:
This reminds me very much of Riddley Walker, have you read it?
Is physics true now? Is truth something with exactly defined borders?
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 5 weeks ago:
It’s great to be able to run a server with functioning stuff on it when one doesn’t know anything about servers. Anything else around self-hosting would have been too much of an intimidating learning curve for me, but in the meantime I’ve picked up a lot of knowledge and terminology just by running the YH. It’s like training wheels, it’s great if you know a bit of tech stuff, but not enough.
I think it will last me a while before I outgrow it, don’t have enough time to really sit down and study server administration to the point where I feel safe to not fuck it up. I’ll let you know 😅
- Comment on Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms 5 weeks ago:
Are they anti-container or just anti-Docker, I wonder?
- Comment on Karrot - Start a group, become a community 5 weeks ago:
Just before your post about Karrot I finally (re-)installed Agora on Yunohost as a collaboration suite. First few users onboarded and praying it works. It’s a bit ugly but does the job. Karrot looks to be more map-focused than Agora from a very fleeting look, I don’t think I’ve seen it in the Yunohost catalogue.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Karrot - Start a group, become a community 5 weeks ago:
Is this a self-hostable platform? I just see a signup option.
- Comment on Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply 2 months ago:
It’s getting better. We have become pretty good at sharing cat pictures. I guess it’s just time to direct our focus more efficiently. This instance is just one of many tiny efforts in that direction.
- Comment on Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply 2 months ago:
Our local aquifer didn’t need the introduction of solar pumps. They manage with fuel powered pumps and corn, all along the stream. In August the water is gone.
The farms without accessible water just drill a deep well, 120m or thereabouts, and now you have magical water - and the problem gets worse!
The solar just makes it more accessible, so even the remotest areas can participate in the destruction.
At same time there is only very little collection of rainwater from any roof and/or water storage for use in the dry season, and not much education about drought resistant plants. I think that’s where efforts need to point towards: share knowledge of different people all over the world as to how to farm with less water and how to farm in respect of the existing aquifer.
- Comment on Community server for a local community 2 months ago:
Interesting writeup, thanks for sharing! Friendica seems … friendly and reassuringly boring, I did a test install and will have a look at the details in the next days.
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 5 comments
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 3 months ago:
Mushroom
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 3 months ago:
Captcha buster is taking care of the captchas now at least. A robot that proves I’m not a robot. Is this the singularity yet?
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 3 months ago:
What if I ask my averagely smart child to ask an AI for me because my idiot luddite brain can’t be arsed to do it myself? I just hope all the different sorts of stupid cancel each other out.
- Comment on From heat pumps to pumped heat: Octopus backs tech that reuses data centre heat 3 months ago:
This is something I’ve been waiting for. It seemed a little absurd that water is wasted for cooling the stupid things while elsewhere necessary heat is generated.
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 4 months ago:
I decided to check if it was any better than my current specialized job portal, which has enshittified a little in the last years. But Linkedin enshittification can’t be beat. It’s like prostitution level of job seeking for brainwashed people. What jobs are you applying for?
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 4 months ago:
LinkedIn just isn’t for Jobs Anymore. It’s Now a Pile of Trash.
Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I’ll pass.
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 4 months ago:
I made her mine using the command line and sudo
- Comment on Solutions to the server-centric nature of the fediverse 4 months ago:
I do think it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving, but would maybe some sort of instance integrator sites help keep the fediverse open and easily explorable?
- Comment on Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language 4 months ago:
What is this idea about not eating non-humans I communicate with. I speak with my plants too and they entertain complex thought. Do I have to stop eating them? There is nothing out there that isn’t a person. Continue eating as you see fit and be kind to the living.
- Comment on Cooperativism and green energy 4 months ago:
I like that Portugal finally starts to use energy that makes sense for its climate, but I’ve also seen the growth of solar and am not too sure I like the common way it’s being done: buy the cheapest of lands in rural areas, and then plaster it with panels at 100% density. It looks awful, the whole landscape turns into a desert. So my approach would be to space the panels out more and use the shade they produce as shade for certain plants. I’ve seen both high density solar and artificial shade on blueberry plants constructed within the same town last year. I see herds suffering in full sun and workers with machines clean beneath panels. It’s a bit insane and I will definitely inquire why that happens and how it could be changed.
If small-scale turbines for wind or hydro existed as a more normalized concept, you’d probably be able to repair them at your local tractor workshop. Solar panels can’t really be repaired. I really wish we could get some people to produce more small scale hydro and wind, and that to become a thing.
