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Yeah that warranty…

Anyways, solar is a bit unique in that regard, as it isn’t just an general improvement, but actively pays for itself. Heatpumps also fall in that category. Most people realize that if they get such a system for cheap that is actually a discount on the home price and adjust their expectations accordingly. Of course I agree with you that it likely isn’t going to increase the value beyond what it cost to install.

It is possible to install the panels flat onto a wall, but then east or west facing is slightly better as the angle of the sun is lower (same for solar fencing).

The problem with such a setup is mainly that if you are not at the ground floor attaching a panel to the wall higher up is not easy, and drilling the necessary anchors into the wall is likely prohibited if you are only renting.

That said, some balcon less buildings still have a kind of metal fencing in front of full height windows, and you can attach smaller panels to those relatively easily.

Today a DIY system usually means a fully integrated system from a single Chinese supplier: hybrid inverter, BMS and batteries together. That is no hack, and no major difference (other than price) from what a professional company installs.

Having such a system absolutely raises the price of the house sold. Maybe not a full cost recovery, but enough to not make it a total loss if you end up selling before the usual return of investment period.

Sounds like you paid 40k for a system that’s worth around 10k. That absolutely happens with some companies that do the full installation, but it is a total rip off.

Sure, if balcony solar isn’t legal in your place, that is an issue, but more and more places make it legal recently.

As for the realestate market, sure there are conservative realtors that currently undervalue solar systems, but people aren’t stupid. If it makes economic sense to have them in the first place, then most buyers will also make the same calculation and be willing to pay extra, because in the end they will save money compared to a house without solar.

To answer these:

1. Increase in house value due to solar system is likely making this moot.

2. Small “balcony solar” system work fine for renters.

3. See 2. and for larger systems 1.

4. Very unlikely to see a major market unheaval in the next 10 years that would make things cheaper. The real price improvement happend in the last 10 years, and the price difference between LiFePO4 batteries and Sodium-Ion ones will not be large enough for it to matter in small systems.

Why not have something moveable underneath to support it? That string seems impractical in general.

A water cooling block will fit 1U, but you will need to attach the other side of the water cooler outside of the rack most likely. Furthermore, it is unlikely that other people using the same rack space will appreciate you adding water cooling due to spillage risks.

You might be somehow locking your self out with fail2ban.

I believe raised beds for kids have a lot of space beneath them for putting servers. Just make sure they can’t pull the plugs 😜

The rate limit is a bit pointless as the scrapers cycle through IPs via residential proxies and large data centers with many IPs and sadly there is an increasing number of scrapers that seems to be able to solve the Anubis challenge.

Never the less, a nice tutorial for the basic setup that does still help to some extend 👍

Seems to be based on this design: motherearthnews.com/…/solar-food-dehydrator-plans…

Lots of down-cycling though, so it sounds better than it is IMHO.

These m2 adapters are known to overheat, but otherwise they are much more reliable than usb to sata adapters.

Yes, I am aware. But that is not very helpful if you want to host something publicly or even just want it accessible from the random wifi hotspot you might use that more likely than not is IPv4 only.

Like literally all mobile internet connections are behind CGNAT, as is Starlink for example.

For landline internet connections it is indeed uncommon.

If it is really only a private server for your friends, and they are not completely computer illiterate, then a Wireguard VPN or similar seems like the safest option.

But generally speaking it isn’t that big of a deal to temporarily open a port and forward it to a game server if you want to play a round online.

A VPS is not really cost effective for that kind of usage. Maybe one with hourly billing like this: tierhive.com

This was sadly the worst option, but I guess the least controversial one.

Debian is already short staffed with maintainers to do quality code review for contributions, and taking away their option to blanket refuse reviewing slop will increase their workload and inevitably lead to more poorly written slop making it into the codebase.

“Responsible” LLM use is a silly fig leaf that people use to bullshit themselves and others.

Plantfiber reinforced plastic would have been the more accurate description…

I honestly don’t get why the don’t just use hydrogen for unmanned blimps like that; better lift and can be produced relatively cheaply on site via electrolysis. And with modern membrane materials the fire risk is minimal.

I think the main advantage is that at a certain hight you always have some wind, so this is rather complementary to other forms of energy generation.

A mobile version like shown a few months ago could also be useful during emergencies and to help restarting and stabilizing the grid after large scale blackouts.

The original article has some details that Techradar forgot to copy:

The developers estimated that the costs of electricity generated at 3,000 metres would approach those of conventional ground-based wind power generation. At 9,000 metres, they said, the systems could operate for more than 8,000 hours a year, generating power at 0.03 yuan – less than half a US cent – per kilowatt-hour.

You can, but it doesn’t make it legal in your home state. You can also order one from China, same thing more or less (but probably cheaper).

This is partially why grid level solar farms by large operators are only cheaper on paper than roof installed decentralized solar panels and combine production with consumption. Yes the economies of scale make it cheaper to build, but everything after than, including the service fees to the home owners just adds up to them rarely being economically more beneficial to the society as a whole.

The exact issue that was finally fixed in the above release caused Conduwuinity to fail federation all the time. Synapse never had that issue. Yes, Synapse sucks in other ways, but be careful to think the grass is greener on the other side.

I mean yes, Microsoft and slopcode probably plays a role, but it only got really bad once the LLM mass scraping started, for which I assume Github is also a major target.

Why bother with the last 2.5% at all?