I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.
– Titus Andromedon
rained like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock,
I absolutely love this brand new sentence. Or, at least that’s one I’ve never heard before.
Sustained straight-line high winds scare the bejeezus out of me. There was a derecho in my area many years ago. Didn’t seem too awful at the time and in the midst of it, but when it was over, we were without power in a heatwave for almost two weeks. Fun times.
Glad your electric co is on the ball.
Ever lived in a small town? Drama and gossip is fun
Yes, I have, and no it’s not. It’s just all there is except for high school football, making more kids, and the same drama and gossip but on Facebook. IMO that’s why small towns are so toxic once you get past the thin veneer of “small town charm”. Couldn’t wait to leave the one I grew up in.
And after re-reading OP’s opinion, I starting to see the parallels.
That’s really cool. Must have missed that post.
Is that reading from a rain gauge or rain barrel or what?
I’ve got 4x55 gallon rain barrels and have wanted to add a sensor so I could check how full they were from Home Assistant. So curious where you’re getting your graph data and if that’s something that might help me with mine.
Lol. We had ours set to 74 during the previous heat wave. Wasn’t sending any power back to the grid since we can’t do net metering, but we weren’t drawing any from it either.
Nice!
I don’t have an EV (yet!) but the last couple of days have been fairly cool for July and haven’t had to run the A/C much. The house batteries ended up charging fully by about 2 in the afternoon. Since we can’t do net metering here, any excess is just wasted right now.
When I do manage to get an EV in the next couple of years, I’d like to setup something similar to charge it when I’m producing an excess.
(Hopefully this is OK for this community. Not news, but could be a nice highlight/discussion. If not, glad to find another spot to share it.)
!solardiy@lemmy.world would probably love to hear about your setup.
I feel like this is the kind of joke Frasier would have told Freddy when he was a kid.
Literally this.
Twice a year I fill in as DBA when our lady graybeard Oracle DBA takes vacation. This month is one of those times. Yay me.
For my org, it’s just the massive in-house developed line-of-business application that’s tightly coupled to Oracle that keeps us chained to it. It’s technical debt from top to bottom, and has been accumulating steadily since the early 2010s, but no one seems willing to start replacing it.
The new projects typically go with Postgres, MariaDB, or if all else fails, MSSQL. But the Oracle monster in the closet isn’t likely to leave any time soon.
Ugh, I wish I could add “reasons” for my user blocks as well as have the dates I blocked them available. Would make this easier. But yeah, Striker is in there.
I’m inclined to believe it’s part of the “group”. Every post I can see of it’s is a question which is the same thing seen with the others in the list here; none of them have a single post that uses a declarative statement as the post title. That’s more than a little sus given the context here.
Regardless, I tend to block accounts that I feel camp out and/or abuse the “ask” communities.
Ah, the War5oldier account is banned on its home instance and I guess they just didn’t re-use the name with another alt.
The only one of those that wasn’t in my blocks was raptor, but I guess I didn’t notice them as much. Comparing raptor to one of the others in that list, yeah, the posting is pretty similar.
Yep, I recall blocking at least Dan for the same reason as the other two. Not sure about the other one but can’t recall seeing posts from them anytime recently so probably did.
Are two of them “commander graves” and “war soldier”?
Because I noticed similar and blocked them ages ago
That was the first fix I made after we bought our current house.
It was noted during the inspection that it didn’t work, so I bought a replacement. When I started to install the new one, I took the vent cover off the old one and noticed there was a 2-prong plug inside that was unplugged. Plugged that in, and the fan started working.
Apparently previous owner just didn’t like the fan or something? There’s clearly nothing wrong with it because it’s been working perfectly since I “fixed” it 7 years ago. And if/when it does go out, I’ve still got the replacement I bought way back then.
Oh, yeah. SSH from laptop or Termux on my phone.
Not sure if there’s a CLI way to deal with captive portals or not. Maybe a text-based browser like Lynx/Links2 if the portal isn’t super fancy, but I’ve used the MAC cloning method for ages and it’s just my “go to” for dealing with that. Honestly, I don’t deal with them very often since I just use a hotspot much of the time with it.
I’ve only had to go through a captive portal once with it but MAC cloning was sufficient
Security is pretty minimal, not gonna lie.
There’s a 50 GB LUKS partition that stays locked unless I’m actively using it. It’s got backup copies of my important/critical documents and password manager exports but the rest of it is just media and doesn’t really merit encryption.
All applications have local accounts but I’m not using LDAP or any kind of SSO like I am with my main stack.
At home, I keep the firewall disabled on the interface configured as “WAN” so I can access its services directly via their hostname (I point its wildcard DNS record to its local “WAN” IP) but do enable firewall when I’m using it on an untrusted network. Granted, I have to manually remember to do that, so that’s kind of a security risk if I forget. Generally, though, when I’m using it remotely, it’s using my secondary phone as a USB-tethered uplink so even if I leave its internal services exposed to WAN, the NAT from the phone blocks that. One of my goals, eventually, is to automate some of the firewall rules depending on where I’m using it.
Ah, yeah, you can have most devices with lithium batteries in your checked baggage, but they have to be off and packed so they’re protected from damage. It’s preferred for those to be carry-on items but isn’t required.
Power banks, vapes, spare batteries, etc are specifically prohibited in checked baggage and must be in your carry-on or on your person.
I think it’s the other way around, at least in the US. The last time I flew, anything with a lithium battery had to be either on your person or in your carry-on and couldn’t exceed a certain amperage/watt-hour rating. I remember having to check specifically on that since I wasn’t sure if I could bring my vape.
But mostly, a bare PCB with two 18650’s visible isn’t something I want to have to explain to airport security lol. They may let it pass, but it’s definitely going to be a hassle. Easiest to just use an approved power bank or just power it from my phone’s USB port. The UPS was mostly so I could make it mobile and use solar chargers with it.
Definitely. In modern society, they’re right up there with firemen, paramedics, etc as far as “thank you for your service” goes.
When they’re working near me, I always offer them cold drinks or snacks. That’s something I started doing during the earlier mentioned two week outage when they finally got to our area. The temps were in the mid 90s, the air was swampy, and I was roasting in shorts and a t-shirt. They’re out there working in heavy protective gear. I appreciate them as much as I do not envy them which is a LOT.