Chewie
@Chewie@slrpnk.net
I run a Mastodon instance (mammut.gogreenit.net) for myself and friends.
I am interested in IT, Electronic Music, Winter Sports, Renewable Energy, Off-Grid living, Sustainability and The RIght to Repair.
- Comment on Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US 1 month ago:
Got a link? that name isn’t very unique :(
- Comment on Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US 1 month ago:
I like the MorningStar brand, but they aren’t cheap. I wrote a review here if you’re interested: www.gogreenit.net/index.php?page=morningstar-tris…
- Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on Ideation - What to Run? 2 months ago:
Sounds good. Maybe some sort of forum system, like github.com/hometown-fork/hometown (activitypub-based) or karrot.world or even an instance of lemmy ? Nextcloud is good as it has a lot of plugins for sharing photos and chatting etc. Video conferencing It would be worth looking at something like www.freedombox.org as it’s all self-contained, and might be easier to set up. at least as a proof of concept?
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 2 months ago:
True, but it still seems rather excessive…
- Submitted 2 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 57 comments
- Comment on am i an idiot: selfhosting a Signal Proxy and/or a Tor Relay 2 months ago:
Yes. There are a few other chat clients that you can run relays for - Tox, SimpleX, Jabber/XMPP etc, which are worth investigating.
- Comment on What inspired you to get into clean energy? 2 months ago:
I like camping and festivals, and it was fun to get a small solar panel to charge my phone etc. about a decade ago. My parents were in to gardening, and used a lot of water butts to store water at our house. My other half and I watched a lot of Doomsday Prepper episodes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Preppers) during Covid lockdowns, and while some of them were a bit crazy, others had really good ideas. It felt like a sensible idea to try and be a bit more self-sufficient.
It will all take a long time to pay for itself, but I am learning about DC circuits and it feels good to have a backup for everything, even though we live in a city and are grid-connected to water, electricity and gas.