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They already clean up automatically if no one accesses them.

Why are you posting it under their “litterbox” version that will die in at most 3 days?

This is just spreading link rot.

Vegans: Why does no one like us?

Also Vegans: (Always “on” and going out of their way to insert themselves into situations so they can act exactly like that).

Yes I know not all vegans are like that but I also never see them telling the militant ones to STFU and stop making them al look bad.

I hear that. Ironically, I really appreciated the cloud cover when I was up on the roof two weeks ago installing my panel array. Those clouds were okay but now that I’m done, I’d appreciate if they only come out at night lol.

Had to go out of my way to find the Betty White one.

I’ve never heard of any studies definitively proving that Parmesan cheese shrinks people.

Yep. The QR code is only the encoded BT address to make connecting in the app easier than…selecting it from a list.

Nice. I did get a few nodes talking with NomadNet but like I said, I needed more out of it before I could see myself using it.

As a simple but functional “hello world” I was trying to make an MQTT relay to receive/push messages and just couldn’t get things going at all. The MQTT part was straightforward but getting those messages to and from the Reticulum network layer was an exercise in frustration. It was more of a side project at the time, so I may double back and put some more effort into it.

Other than being a starter project, my goal was to work toward a higher-level abstraction that I could use TUN/TAP interface to interact with. Basically a low MTU virtual ethernet port. Kind of like the highly experimental VPN function in the Meshtastic python library. Or a virtual serial port between two Reticulum nodes would be nice. Just something so external programs not written specifically for Reticulum can communicate across it.

I really want to like Reticulum, but none of the stock applications fit my needs. I was going to write my own but I just cannot grasp interacting with its network layer. Maybe the docs are lacking, maybe I’m just sane and the project is written by a madman (or vice-versa), maybe it’s a bit of both, but I just cannot wrap my head around it.

+1 for hybrids lol

I used to drive a lot of 4-bangers and remember having to do that with pretty much every one of them either to overtake another vehicle or even sometimes driving up a steep hill lol. The air conditioning just sucked so much power from those little engines.

Been driving a hybrid for 6 or 7 years now, which also has a little 4-cylinder engine, but the electric motor more than makes up for that. It’s got a dash display showing the electric motor/ICE power split, and when you punch the gas, you can see the electric motor doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Love it.

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I thought about that, but one of the safety features of these batteries is an active fire suppression system that fills the interior with some kind of fire-extinguishing foam. I’m terrified to try to take these apart for fear of somehow triggering that. Plus, they’re hella expensive lol.

Yeah. These are pretty short range and my house (block construction + metal roof) blocks the signals pretty well. Batteries are installed in the basement, and even upstairs I struggle to keep a signal, especially with a crowded 2.4 GHz wifi with all my smart bulbs, etc.

Someone would have to be right at my doorstep to pull this off unless they hook up a directional antenna and point it right at them. Still, would be nice if I could just turn off Bluetooth since I can just use a wired serial connection. At least the inverter has an external Wifi/BT module I can just choose not to connect (it also has a serial connection for monitoring/config).

My house batteries for my PV system are also susceptible to this. Ugh.

They’ve both got Bluetooth for monitoring and configuration. Some config changes require a PIN but not the settings to enable/disable charge and discharge. Someone could just get within range of them, install the official app, and set discharge to “off” and shut down my house.

I’ve also not found a way to disable bluetooth on them. Gonna have to put them in a damn Faraday cage if I decide to worry about that possibility. :sigh:

Lol, that would certainly make the station regulations much more concise.

Other than the alternate timeline Ed Begley Jr Odo from “Children of Time”, I dare say this is the happiest we ever see him.

It’s so prevalent we can literally say “I’ll verb your noun” and it still gets the point across.

I’m looking to switch banks. Who do you bank with, and would you recommend them?

That’s a project I’m gonna have to move up in priority. And yep, house is from the 50s and the thermal mass of the block itself is basically the extent of the insulation. Plan is to have those foam insulation blocks installed but put siding over them rather than spackle.

One side effect of my PV install is that I have a lot of large, thick foam inserts that I have to get rid of. They’re very similar in size and material to those foam insulation blocks, so I may hang onto them and ask the contractors if they can use them. That’ll re-use something I’d otherwise be tossing out and also save some money on buying the foam panels, though I’m not sure how much those cost.

Yep!

That’s how I found out our 18 cu-ft refrigerator is normally very efficient at around 100 watts for cooling, but it goes into a 400w “defrost” cycle every 2 hours. I’ve found no way to turn that off and it doesn’t seem to be affected by the “energy saver” mode. I get why it does that since I remember old freezers completely encrusted with ice, but I also remember only having to run a manual defrost of them like once a month or so.

On the other hand, looking at our power bill is very comforting. I’m really concerned about the rate increases power companies are going to push through whether or not all the AI data centers come up.

I’ve wanted to have a PV system for a decade or more and finally decided to just do it. Battery prices and capacity were finally within reach, and I wanted to insulate myself from further electric rate increases. Rates have more than doubled in the last 5 years and there’s another rate increase working its way through the PSC (aka the “rubber stamp anything the utility companies want commission”) right now.