Are you talking about disconnecting power entirely, or just generating as much as possible yourself?

Because the first, depending on local laws, is going to be something you can’t necessarily do and keep your occupancy permit and be allowed to stay living in the house.

The other is going to be a matter of figuring out your maximum power requirements and sizing a solar and battery system big enough to fill your needs.

Just as a thing to consider: you’re talking tens and tens of thousands of hardware if your power bill is $300 a month, and the ROI on this is going to be 10 or 20 years, so if you’re not living there that long, it’s maybe not worth doing.

Do the math on how much power you use at peak draw, how much power you use in a month, and how big of a system you’d need to generate enough power, and how many batteries you’d need to store your non-solar needs (days with lower production, no production, overnight, etc.).

(Edit) Meant to give example numbers for what I did in 2022. I ended up spending about $11,000 on the solar panels themselves, and the batteries would have been ~$23,000, for a monthly peak usage of about 1500kwh.

I did not spend $23,000 on batteries, because that would have been (and the math has tracked afterwards) more than a decade payback time, which was longer than the manufacturer specs indicated that I could expect the batteries to last.

I’m sure prices have decreased some in the last 2 years, but solar panels aren’t too badly priced, but the rest of the storage stuff around it was just a bit too expensive to make any real sense unless I was somewhere doing the no-grid life, which isn’t the case here.

“Debian is too far behind! Packages are too old!”

The best rule of thumb I’ve ever heard regarding Debian Stable is that if the kernel in stable’s default repo fully supports ALL your hardware, and the software in stable’s default repos fully support your workflows, it’s fine.

If those are NOT true, then you probably don’t want to use Stable, because you’ll either end up fighting it via manually compiled and installed software, or you’ll venture into so many 3rd party repos for updated packages that updating it later becomes problematic and prone to making the whole system catch fire and burn down.

But consider that if you get a more powerful card at the same price you don’t need as much upscaling or frame generation. FSR being sightly worse is irrelevant if you can run the game at native.

I’m on a 3080, and if I’m getting 40fps in a title at settings I’m happy with (which is ending up more common than I’d like), not even a 7900xtx is going to give me the 90fps I’d much prefer. And, lest you think I’m being vastly unfair, I’ll also say there are no nVidia cards that will do so either. And yes, this is entirely dependent on your resolution, but the ultrawide I’m quite fond of is essentially the same pixel count as 4k144, which is a lot of pixels to attempt to draw at once.

The only way to get there (at least until the 5090 shows up, I guess?) is to do some sort of upscaling. And, frankly, FSR is - subjectively - not ‘slightly worse’ but rather such a artifact-y mess (at least in games I’m playing) that I’d rather have 40fps than deal with how ugly it makes everything.

XESS is a lot better, and works fine on AMD cards, but until FSR gets a lot cleaner, or everything starts supporting XESS, DLSS is still the best game in town.

As for NVENC, you’re absolutely right, unless you’re using it for streaming, and have a hard cap on upper bitrates because you’re not Twitch royalty. I’ll admit that’s an edge case that most people don’t have, or even need to consider, but if you do need low-bitrate streaming, and don’t want to deal with x264 doing it in software, well, it’s NVENC or sub-par quality from AMF. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t invested time in fixing the one real use case that hardware encoding still has (real-time encoding of low bitrates), but I suppose someone somewhere has an excel sheet that shows that the market that cares about it is so small as to be of no value to spend time on.

You know, the older I get the more I respect the people who come out and say ‘I’m not going to learn that, and I don’t want to.’

It’s a LOT better than dealing with someone who half-asses and kinda wishy-washes around and says they’ll maybe do something but then doesn’t and well, wasn’t ever going to.

If you’re not interested and won’t, say so up front so you don’t waste your or my time trying to get you to do something.

Have some stuff on a VPS, some stuff hosted as static pages at Cloudflare, some stuff hosted at home too.

Depends on if 100% uptime is required, if they’re just serving static content, or if they’re in some way related to another service I’m running (I have a couple of BBSes, and the web pages that host the clients and VMs that host the clients run locally).

Though, at this point, anything I’m NOT hosting at home is kinda a “legacy” deployment, and probably will be brought in-house at some point in the future or converted to static-only and put on Cloudflare if there’s some reason I can’t/don’t want to host it at home.

Biebian is VASTLY superior to Hannah Montana Linux. You should consider switching.

It’s not just price, at least for me.

It’s also the fact that FSR is worse than DLSS, that AMF is worse than nvenc, that their raytracing performance is not even close, and that AFMF isn’t as good as DLSS frame generation, and that the drivers aren’t as stable, and so on and so on and so on…

The whole product is just… not strictly equivalent, and the price difference isn’t the reason that I don’t really look too hard at AMD cards.

If AMD gets to equivalency with FSR, AMF, and AFMF that’d make their cards FAR more compelling than a $100 lower price tag would.

And PeerTube is pathetic. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”

You’re not wrong, but the biggest flaw Peertube has is that the search on an instance is utterly worthless and defective.

They do have a good search engine for finding content you might want to watch, but they don’t use those results in the instance-level search which befuddles and confuses the shit out of me, because you won’t find shit you actually want to watch.

https://sepiasearch.org/ is where you probably want to start, but yeah, there’s a LOT of Linux shit, but you can at least find other things when you use a non-broken search option.

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normalized microtransactions

I’d say it’s maybe a little more honest to say they normalized the gambling exploitation in gaming with the TF2 lootboxes.

You didn’t buy cosmetics, you bought a key to open a box that might get you the cosmetic you wanted.

You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking.

Which, at any of my last few corporate jobs, would be grounds for termination, if not immediately throwing you out of the building and telling you if you come back we’re calling the cops.

You really don’t bypass controls in a corporate environment like this if you like working there.

(And yes, not EVERY job will react that way, but any that’s got any compliance requirements absolutely will.)

A 3 day old kernel build? Will that have support for my hardware? Feels like it might be a little outdated.

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It’s that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns is only alive because all the things that would kill him are cancelling each other out, but in PHP form.

I tend to use Squarespace because uh, they have a marketing budget and everyone tends to already know (or at least one of the people in the meeting anyways) who they are, which makes things an easier sell.

I don’t particularly think they’re the best or whatever, but they at least do what they say at a price that’s reasonable enough and I’ve yet to be burned by suggesting them, sooooo…

I’m not giving access to my Mastodon account to some random service I’ve never heard of for no reason.

If it makes you feel better, it’s all client-side: there’s nothing executing on the server (I’m running a copy of it on a server that just… can’t execute anything) so it’s not doing any data stealing.

Buuut, since it’s trivial to host, you could grab a copy of the code and host it yourself as well.

The FTC commissioner opened her Fruit Loops and a Zuckerbot fell out, probably.

Not quite: it’ll drop a v2 captcha for you to solve when a v3 one can’t clearly classify you one way or another.

So if v3 isn’t entirely sure you’re human, it’ll make you do a v2.

It’s still mindboggling that Kia sells any cars without immobilizers.

I get they’re cheap cars and the way they’re cheap is to skimp on everything but uh, maybe that’s not the right place to skimp?

He announced on GitHub somewhere that he’s wanting to push out the next major version of UptimeKuma first, then come back and work on dockge.

So it’s not abandoned, but it’s just a second priority.

Those 5k panels were goofy: they’re two DisplayPort links merged via software magic into 5k.

Might be that’s a proprietary thing that requires OS X?