Brodysseus

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[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah for sure. You could get an all in one inverter battery bank, but I prefer piecemeal systems because of repairability/replacing parts/upgrading parts.

Basically you'd get a battery, when I was shopping around I found eg4 or gyll batteries to be the cheapest. Small Texas company. That could have changed. Some ppl make their own or use them from a car, but soldering plus making a management system seemed like more than I wanted to deal with.

You need a way to charge the battery (panels etc) and also a way to get the power into the battery safely and efficiently (charge controller).

And then you need a way to get energy out of the battery to your apploances. You can get DC appliances that match your battery voltage or get an inverter.

For all of those parts you need to run some simple calculations for efficiency and compatibility and use case (how big of a system etc), as well as some fuses and possibly lightning arrestors and grounding.

Totally doable and a good bit of fun

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't know enough about it but I'm sure there's a way, maybe get isp's to flag traffic going to known vpn servers and fine them if they connect users or something like that?

Why, is it impossible or difficult to enforce?

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Don't want them to ban vpns

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Cool so it actually sucks, it's not my incompetence

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use discord but i can't stand it as a platform for discussion. Forums, even reddit, seem so superior to me as a format for discussion and storing information. Maybe I haven't figured out discord yet

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's your duty to vote to stop fascism (again). I'm so tired of that message. They can earn my vote, I've tried stopping fascism twice now, what have they done besides maintain the status quo

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If we do have a 28 election, surely they'll have a primary and not just run whoever the leadership picks and proceed to campaign on our civic duty to prevent fascism (every 4 years)

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've set up an off grid solar system out of necessity. Used to be an electrician so I know a good bit (but not everything by any means). What are your questions I can maybe point you in the right direction.

Based on your initial question, it depends on local zoning. You can likely legally grid tie a set up and have a battery backup. I think if you want to be legal I'd go that route.

If you want I think you could set up a completely separate system in a more sneaky fashion that is completely isolated from the grid / your existing house circuitry. But when grid tying (including into your house circuitry) you have to be pretty safe because that power can go upstream and feed the grid or the house when workers think the power is off, which is obviously very dangerous and could get you in a lot of trouble if it went wrong.

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Articles are so much better than videos a lot of the time. I'll watch a video for kinetic things, like how to flush my radiator etc.

Its annoying when information is in a video that could easily be written out and skimmed.

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does anybody have any suggestions for alternatives for chats?

I use it a lot for classes (students use them) and video games.

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Does anybody have a screenshot of the chat the article is referencing? It's a slack chat with journalists iirc

The screeshot was at the top of my feed yesterday and now I can't find it anywhere

Edit nvm it's ay the bottom of the article yaaay

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Ah thanks for clarifying, I got mixed up.

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