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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.

When production is larger than local demand you’re feeding in into the power grid. If your meter can ran backwards, then you’re saving even more money.

These people are screwed, then. You can’t expect an uncaring universe to accomodate your wishes, if you’re not willing to move yourself. Stopping using stuff is always an option that doesn’t cost money.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power ?

Solar microinverters are usually for single phase (sync to 230 VAC 50 Hz) and the balkonkraftwerk ones are plugged in into wall sockets. Of course, if there are multiple phases in a household you can plug in an solar microinverter output into a socket that’s on a different phase. They turn off within some 20 ms or less, so this is safe if mains losing power.

There are regular solar inverters that can deal with three phases, and also some which can deal with battery charging and can operate in insular mode and are black start capable.

Google doesn’t give a shit about what you want. It only understands two things: credible legal threats and not giving them your money.

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.

I would go with a refurbished Lenovo TinyPC with a quad/hexacore and some 16 GB RAM. These used to go for 200-300 EUR, but this might have changed recently. I run an AMD Fujitsu thin client as my opnsense firewall.

Plot twist: it will be 100% biofuels. In the area currently called the US.

Much more interesting than peak power at a certain moment is energy generation over a meaningful period.

Obviously, you host your own hypervisor on own or rented bare metal.