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Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.

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I love seeing beaten up trucks, doing truck stuff. Why anyone would pay the money to commute in a harsh ride and terrible millage has always confounded me. Dont even get me started on Wranglers.

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I have no apptettie to bail out all the idiots all over Plum Island and Cape Cod who insisted on investing on super expensive ocean side sand instead of something practical. I went way out of my way to ensure my property isnt near any body of water that could flood and I'm on the high ground.

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Everyone misses this point. Lawyers have turned into leeches of society sucking the empathy and fun out of everything so everyone is scared to get sued. On the flip side its so god damn easy for corporate lackeys to say 'no cuz lawyers' just to make their job incrementally easier rather than actually doing it. Its a shitty cycle and I've seen it too much in corporate America.

Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I'd ...

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Wow you invoked a name I hadn't thought of in a very long time. Shit did I use that playing Unreal Tournament, StarCraft or was it late enough to be WoW?

Edit: final release 2003, guess it was unreal.

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Here is the context you all are missing. The novel was offered for free so folks on Amazon could 'buy' it so it was number one on Amazon instead of the new documentary.

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Just bought 10 acres and plan to grow the shit out of some veggies. I stare at a screen all day and deal with technical problems, at the end of the way I just want to dig in the dirt and stare at the plants.

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I really don't understand the esp32 Lora radios, they use so much power they're useless for anything battery powered. I only use one as my home gateway since it has WiFi and I keep it plugged in. It hops through my low power tree node as a proxy.

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From New England but I lived in Texas for awhile in the early 2000s and to me Tex-Mex is Mexican food made by gringos for gringos and Mexican restaurants were Meixcan food made by Abuelas.

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Live in MA and pay a nanny about $55k a year. Its brutal and pushing our finances to their limits but we tell ourselves its temporary pain (2 years) to ensure the long term wellness of our child.

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I looked into Greece and the heritages citizenship went away for children born after thr early 80s.

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Sweet summer child, did you read his shirt?

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Different standards and playbooks because the democrats pander to largely educated voters who want facts and the illusion of accountability where as republicans pander to uneducated reactionary tribalism and any educated folk who allow themselves to be swept up in it. Some folks just need to be told what to think, others need to be convinced. You can call that imbalance if you like.

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Faux feudal lord

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Something I do which I've come to find is unusual is a Mexican-ish side dish. Soak and cook black beans. Then cook some onions in another pot, when soft add some cumin seeds and bloom then, deglaze with tequila, add the black beans and orange juice. Smash some of the beans to make it thicker. Cover and simmer for an hour. Its a magnificent side.

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After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship ( mashable.com )

Alex Karp, the CEO of controversial tech company Palantir, raised eyebrows during a recent live interview with the New York Times. In a viral video of the discussion, Karp defended his company to the Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin, gesturing dramatically with his arms, bouncing up and down on his chair, and struggling to make his ...

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That was my first thought, dude looked coked up...

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Dont be so rigid in your perspective. First off, when you are towing anything big your range always gets cut in half, it just matters more for electric. Still, my next vehicle will be the electric 150. I have solar panels for free electricity, the truck can also work as a whole house backup power station. It can plow, it can tow well for most of what I need to do, I can commute to work on solar and my whole family fits in it. Its a great truck, its not for everyone but it most certainly has its place.

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To be more succinct, the way I always describe it is wealth is not just money, money is too abstract. Wealth is power and that degree of power should not be so concentrated in so few private individuals.

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I was an American large T-shirt for most my life but for the last 10 years I have to get a medium. Americans are just getting too fat and companies dont want to upset them.

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Esp32 will demolish a full sized battery, never mind a coincell.

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If you want this to be powered by a coincell battery or any battery you need to figure out a power budget and pick a wireless protocol. WiFi is incredibly power hungry and won't happen with a battery unless you like charging it every few days. If you are willing to make it a powered setup it will open many options otherwise youre stuck with zwave, ZigBee, BLE and LoRA. If you want to mix this project with other fun stuff like LoRa/meshtastic look into these. They snap into a main board and you can add a temp and humidity sensor and collect the data over BLE, add a screen and communicate over LoRa for miles. I can get these to run on a 18650 battery for about 3 weeks.

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All fair points, assuming you write all your code yourself. But WiFi is still a pig even with optimization, coin cell is impossible which is what he/she asked to use.

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Sigh. 20 years ago. Thanks for that...

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Greek American's take: from left to right it gets more progressive, pointing out that even progressive Americans are still conservative in Scandinavia.

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I feel similarly and to expand a bit its more the fact that second time around electing this fool proves that that majority of Americans are either horrible people or useful idiots which is incredibly depressing to know with certainty. For me, first time around was a fluke, second time is reality. I'm exploring citizenship elsewhere as a backup plan.

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My daughter always helps me with oil changes. We love it.

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My install is bare metal, all SSD, redis and php-fpm optimization and I'm extremely happy with the performance. Also use transcoding from an Intel a380 and use Memories for the whole family. Works snappy and flawless. You need to tweak the php settings.

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I saw Coheed open for Thrice and Thursday around this time frame in Worcester, MA in a tiny shit hole. Very fond memories of early Coheed, still love these guys.

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"I've amassed all this wealth and now that I'm retiring I no longer want to fund the system responsible for my success. Also, fuck welfare. But not Medicare. Dont you care touch my Medicare."

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Rabbits are popular in Greece for this reason. My grandmother always made Stifado with rabbit. Its wonderful.

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This is brilliant. I could use this with a grow lights grow micro greens all winter long in my basement. Just tall enough for baby kale. I love how its clear on all sides.

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Endured 9 years of Catholic schools. By grade 6th I realized everyone was full of shit and contradicted themselves regularly. Stopped believing in god and the only person I could trust in myself. Thanks for the hard knocks you Catholic nut jobs.

How would I make a HVAC simulator to see what a thermostat would do if the indoor temp was 425°F (frozen pizza cooking temps)

I bought a nest gen 2 thermostat to play with a open source project that revives old nest thermostats (https://nolongerevil.com/). Since I don't want to install it into the home, because it will be a toy. I was thinking of building a test rig using a arduino or esp32 to simulate a HVAC and indoor temperature. I'm IT guy, not a ...

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Everyone is over thinking the hell out of this. Almost all thermostats use a cheap NTC resistor, just change the resistance so the hardware thinks its at the whacky temperature. Or you could figure out the bias voltage the system uses through the NTC then apply your own external voltage to trick the system.

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I bailed on rocketchat a few years ago for Mattermost and never looked back. Rocketchats update cycle was insane, sometimes two releases in a week but often several a month. A few pdates required full database dumps and manual tweaking. It just wasn't for me.

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Why can't I prep all the things? I have bullets, beans and bytes, oh my.

Is it insane to run a home server on an old laptop instead of a Raspberry Pi for self-hosting - what do I need to worry about?

I have an old ThinkPad-ish laptop gathering dust and a Raspberry Pi 4 on the wishlist for small self-hosting projects. Hot take: the old laptop might actually be the smarter, cheaper choice for a year or two. Is that insane, and what are the real tradeoffs I should be planning for? ...

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My previous primary server used to be a 12 year old laptop with an SSD. I deployed a laptop server in rural Greece and its bulletproof, it VPNs back home to the US and works during short power outtages. Only caveat is the CPU fan, if you run the server with a high load the fans are not designed for years of high usage. I got crazy enough with one server where I cut the bottom out and mounted a large aluminum plate to the CPU heatsink and made it passively cooled.

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This is exactly how I conduct myself with my maga mother in law. Any bigoted shit in front of my daughter gets publicly squashed and any political topics are quickly dealt with and put in its place. She lives a life of ignorance, dont be mad, feel bad.

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Attatch a sausage to a soneloid and make a capacitive button pusher!

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May I ask why 18650? 21700 have better energy density and theyre easier to get these days. The price has also come down a lot.

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Way better to use your old junk. I like that youre make your own home battery, ive considered it. I have solar installed and would love to not consume grid power at night. I'm thinking of installing a bank of lead acid batteries under my ground mount solar that would dump power into my home at night.

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That's silly, they really don't use much power in the grand scheme of things. It uses a lot of power for a very short period, a small blip. Big power consumption comes from things that run often or all the time. It compounds.

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Does anyone remember older 747 jets having these types of projectors to show movies on international flights? Always thought it was so cool.

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My right nostril prefers Careless Whisper.

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My goodness you must have lathered yourself up in stinky THC tar grabbing it like that. Fortunately you have plenty. You must have smelled divine for days.

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Thank you for putting into words what ive subconsciously been thinking for years. Every search result prioritizes videos at the top and I'm still annoyed every time. Or even worst I have to hunt through a 10 minute video for the 30 seconds of info I needed. Stoohhhhpppp internet of new! Make it good again!

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Tax the offshore engineering and R&D, too. My company plays both these cards with a China office to hire local, cheaper talent plus manufacturing is local so they help domestically on their side. Thats a win. Then they hire tons of Indian H1B for engineering in America.

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So, I design battery packs for a living. 115F ambient operating conditions are doable assuming you dont add solar loading. Can you paint your enclosures white? Or cover them? A high quality 18650 will operate fine up to 50C especially with a very light load and a low charging current. Do you have more details on your setup, chipset and average load?