KillingTimeItself

politics has an ugly way of forcing itself into your life, if you don’t already think about it.

i was not ready for the furry posting, but here i am

it really is so true.

you install linux on one machine, and then suddenly every other machine you own has linux on it, ssh, and you use shit like rsync to manage shit over the network. Before you know it you’re running a snapcast server to manage multiroom audio automatically configured into your smart home network. (i haven’t gotten this far yet, but it’s eventually going to happen lol)

The pipeline is real.

yes, the answer is yes.

this is only effective in the US btw, this doesn’t apply outside of the US, why google has done this? Probably the appease trump, and honestly, anything that keeps trump busy that isn’t overthrowing the US government is good in my books.

not very much, especially during the winter, the best way to optimize panel production is by pointing it towards the sun most effectively, the farther north, or south, of the equator the less effective it is, the less directly it points towards the sun in general, the less power you make.

It might still produce a decent amount of power overall, through a reasonable period of time, but it’s probably WELL below what you could be making with an optimized install, especially one with solar tracking, granted some solar power is still better than no solar power, so you do get tradeoffs at the end of the day.

as another commenter said, there are solar power calculators out there, if you’re looking for rough figures, use them.

how very on-brand for a nation that dismantled nuclear plants to cozy up with Putin’s pipelines.

classic german meme, to be fair, they do actually have some pretty decent renewable production, they just really shot themselves in the foot while hiking up a mountain with that move.

it’s not actually that bad, unless you live next to a gen 1, or maybe gen 2 plant. Unless you’re next to one of like, three existing operational RBMK plants.

By the time you needed to evacuate from that area due to a nuclear disaster, you would be well informed, and probably gone already. Even if you didn’t the radiation exposure is likely to be incredibly minimal. Probably under the regulated limits.

microgeneration purely in DC only really makes sense in stuff like campers and RV’s where you’re going to be using primarily nearby, low power consumption devices.

AC is still better, plus modern switching technology while still fairly expensive, is considerably more efficient now. If you’re doing AC you also get a number of other benefits, notably, literally every existing appliance and device uses and works with AC voltages, the entire standard around electricity and home wiring is based on AC mains, all of the accessible hardware is also produced for AC mains, not that you can’t use it for something else, it’s just not intended for that.

Certain appliances will use induction motors, and similar other tech (clocks for example, often use the frequency of the power grid to keep time) based directly on the AC sinewave. You could still run them on DC, it’s just significantly sillier. Plus transmission efficiency is a BIG loss in DC (even now with modern solid state switching components, it’s still just, not ideal), granted thats less of a problem on a micro grid scale, it’s still a concern and potential restriction, nothing beats the simplicity and reliability of a simple wire wound iron core transformer. There are a handful of other technical benefits, and drawbacks as well, but fairly minor.

Having a dedicated DC supply side might be nice for a home environment, but the question is what do you standardize on? DC/DC voltage conversion is fairly efficient as it is already. Converting from AC/DC is incredibly easy and not particularly inefficient at lower power consumption, it’s more of a problem with higher draw devices. But you can easily get around that by using a higher voltage to convert down from.

a mix of both is good, there’s arguments for doing local co-generation. Where you essentially turn a community into it’s own power plant, and when you’re talking about things like micro inverters, the cost doesnt really change.

Is it more efficient to do it at a utility grid scale? Yes, does that make it overall better? Not really, you still have to deal with grid inefficiencies, and maintenance, and well, you still have to deal with installations, so the cost isn’t that significant at the end of the day.

Solar is one of very few renewable energy sources that you can actually locally build and maintain on a small scale, no sense in removing that utility from it, that’s part of the reason it’s so popular.

i mean, it’ll work. You should probably just collectively work together to install a solar array on the roof of the apartment instead, assuming it doesn’t already have one.

Granted this is in the EU, so ideal solar tracking is kinda just, fucked. It matters more closer to the equator, because you can get significantly more power from pointing them correctly, and tracking, if you decide to use that.

look that’s not my problem, you want to continue being glued to your screen and wasting your time on shit that’s trivial and unimportant, be my guest, but i can more than assure anybody in the world that literally nothing will happen if you stop using social media. Just try it. It’s literally free.

i’m very fundamentally apathetic, so i just find it really hard to care about anything, i’ve also been practicing a sort of “focusing on the things that really matter in life” way of living, which helps with that a lot.

There are ALWAYS things to worry about less.

you got me on that one, i am in fact not a real person, i am merely an ethereal being who resides in this weird place known as the internet.

Most people aren’t very privy to it yet though.

you gotta love people like that, i mostly just enjoy posting obviously stupid shit, and i tell people that i post obviously stupid shit, but people can’t help themselves from interacting lol.

If i’m ever confrontational it’s in a largely shitposty manner.

Its wild to watch society at large do this more and more often, from the outside, as a non corpo, algorithm driven social media user.

ironically, i’ve sort of done this at a smaller scale among some of the communities im in, and you would not believe how stupid people are, even when you literally inform them to their face that you’re saying stupid shit for the purposes of saying stupid shit.

rage bait is incredibly effective and there’s a reason everything using it goes so far. It’s innate to the human psyche.

oh and by the way, for anybody who thinks this is like unethical or whatever, trust me, they LOVE eating it up. You would not believe how much shitpost you can do, before people realize that you might be shitposting.

slang is the way it is for a reason, it’s why its called slang lmao.

Sick literally didn’t make any sense the way people used it when it was new, same shit today, just different words, times change old man!

excuse me good sir, i would like to inform you that i am running i3wm on my arch workstation, therefore, i am superior to you :) good day sir. or madam, or whatever you please, this was intended as a shitpost and has quickly outgrown it’s skin, oopsies.

i find it helps me to view other people explicitly as separate entities with free will.

Makes it harder to do any sort of funny business when you’re more aware of their autonomy on a fundamental level.

the problem with this is that A LOT of people needs to do it.

yeah, and they should, it’s worth the time investment, or in this case, time gain.