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Yeah, sadly this nothing new for us.

Just came back from hauling 4x 500 Wp modules from a nearby solar vendor. When installed, this will double my already present capacity. In terms of net usage hitherto I was making about 2/3rd of our electricity demand. No storage yet, since grid acts as a backup.

I’m doubling mine today for the huge price tag of about 500 EUR. Bringing me up to 4 kWp, which is well over 100% of my net use.

The main reason you can’t compete is because energy is so cheap there. And, no, you can’t make renewable infra with just renewable energy.

A fanless thin client with Opnsense and a four-port Intel NIC.

If I fire up everything in the rack it’s several kilowatts. Probably more than a 230 V wall socket can handle.

Usually it’s way less, though right now it’s just a switch and the router/firewall, mere 57 W.

I make most of my own net power with solar PV, soon 4 kWp in total.

There’s nothing wrong with hating AI DCs.

Decoupling isn’t real if you look at the global compartment. That’s the reason you have to look at the whole planet rather than formerly industrialized countries, who’ve outsourced everything energy-intensive to Asia and elsewhere.

As to individual scale, it depends on how much pain you can stand. I heat with locally sourced firewood, though there’s also gas for hot water and the rest of the house. I DIY net electricity demand (currently 2 kWp, will be 4 kWp this month). Food calories are just not an option, though we garden a little, and have a small greenhouse for the veggies/herbs.

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There is no energy transition anyway, renewable is added to the mix while primary energy use is growing, keeping the fossil fraction effectively constant.

I would have liked to have seen OpenBoot with Forth resurrected, rather than coreboot/libreboot. It would have been nice to have hardware-independant drivers bundled with hardware and available at boot stage. I still have a SunFire V210 (I think) sitting in my rack. Not sure it still boots.

How much is a Chrome box with those specs?

300 EUR for refurbished devices with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD is very reasonable.

Check out refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad TinyPCs. Small, quiet and durable.

You can also buy refurbished Lenovo Thinkstation TinyPCs. These are low-power, small and quiet.

In order to find content, we used to have webrings, directory services, and then search engines. Most people don’t enter URLs by hand.

You do understand that a P2P proof of work backed global store is just infrastructure? And as egalitarian as DNS servers? And it doesn’t have the storage/compute footprint of a full bitcoin node.

The space of human-readable names is quite small, so proof of work is needed to protect it from being flooded. An alternative is to have your servers have names to be or derived from their public keys, or dissolve content from its location. Which brings its own problems.

There are authorityless blockchain-backed name registration services. In general, it is important whether you can localize a resource. If you can easily find it, it doesn’t have to human-readable.

Opnsense is also that, and more. Compare the list of its packages with OpenWRT. Plus, it’s BSD based.

Postfix, but even with full spf dkim etc. monty not guaranteed to be always delivered to Gmail and Outlook. Because these don’t give a shit about standards.

As to PC, there are coreboot/libreboot and RISCV as more open options. Phone and tablet, GrapheneOS and LineageOS. Projectors, any dumb projector.

Is it shipping yet? Looks US-only.

Opnsense is a great router/firewall. OpenWRT is fine for WiFi APs.

The reason for grid-tied inverter shutdown is that they don’t feed back into the grid in case of a shutdown for maintenance. What you’re doing within your home is entirely your problem. Maybe tie your smoke detectors to your inverters/battery so that they’re shut down in case of a fire alarm.

Grid-tied solar inverters are designed to switch off within some 10 ms upon loss of grid voltage.

I am one of few people who runs a proper dual-stack with a single static IPv4 and a static IPv6 subnet.

Nevertheless I also participate in experimental network overlays like yggdrasil-network.github.io and distributed storage like IPFS.

What about just night?

It’s not the same, since it’s not dispatchable. So you need gas turbines or very large battery systems, which isn’t exactly helping with that upfront capital.

But Uruguay has 55% renewable power of its primary energy demand.

There are solutions like IPFS for decentralized content hosting so downtime of a primary resource is less important.

The radioactivity at ground zero can easily kill you within the first hours to days. Puking you guts out and ankle deep in bloody diarrhea, what a great way to go.

Can’t even watch it with my always on VPN.