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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.

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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.

https://startrek.website/post/41513045

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.

How’s the humidity in the UK? I can deal with the temps (to a degree, pun intended) but the 95% or higher humidity just makes it miserable here. A lot of times I can make do with just a dehumidifier, even if it slightly warms the room, just to make things less “sticky”.

Our houses are very energy efficient as designed for cold wet weather, so retain heat extremely well.

Different construction, but our house is block and works similarly. Great in winter but just soaks up and holds heat in the summer.

Ugh. Years ago I rented a house like that. Landlord’s fix was to permanently install a massive window A/C up there. It helped, true, but even running it full blast 24/7 the best it could keep the temp was low 80s. There wasn’t a door to close, unfortunately, so any cool air just sank down the stairwell to the 2nd floor.

We tried using that as the master bedroom for all of two weeks one year, and noped right out lol.

We can run the HVAC in fan only mode, and it doesn’t seem to help much for cooling with the windows open. Just moves the same air around unless there’s a breeze outside pushing outside air in/out.

We used to have a pair of window fans we put on opposite sides of the house, one pushing and one pulling, but those both failed in the last few years and we never replaced them (Why do window fans cost ~$60?! lol) Those worked great, so I guess I’m just gonna have to pay the ridiculous prices and replace them.

Probably a pretty common scenario, I’d guess. Apparently Scantron had an interesting business model where they basically rented the machines to the schools for free as long as they bought certain amounts of the official Scantron forms.

It’s really messing with my sense of time realizing that Rosa Parks (2005) outlived John Ritter (2003).

Yeah, I should get one of those, lol, but I generally don’t need one since I do most of my work on the ground and near a table or bench or something. This is the first, and probably only, time I will ever be doing work on the roof. Plus, I was the only one home today so unless some religious proselytizers show up, no one would be in the fall zone.