- It's a siren call for us techies, but reality is less pretty than our fantasies of "cheap base load".
I got an offer for a "essentially free" residential turbine including the pylon (8 to 10 meters, the legal limit for a "Kleinwindanlage") in SW Germany - just had to dismantle it and put it on my lawn. And of course pour a huge foundation [2x2m?] and have an accredited electrician do the necessary alterations. Nope. It didn't even produce enough electricity to offset the maintenance costs - no idea how I should offset the costs for moving it, even with the free capex.
And I did the math about 3 years ago: Prices for both PV and batteries dropped a lot since then. For late fall/early spring I would be better off by adding a PV carport (2 cars). I could also finally automate charging my batteries while electricity is cheap during Dec/Jan, might even be worth bumping my existing battery from 28 kWh to 42 kWh.
To be fair: The math might work out in the Northern Germany; but I would not bet on it.
- This is atrocious. I get it, some things are less trivial than they seem - but I would be ashamed for shipping something like this, and even more for not fixing it.
- Huh? S60? Can you clarify?
I've driven a 2003 Volvo S60 (plain 5 cylinder, no turbo), which matches your 20 years - and most diy repairs were quite straightforward. I suppose you're talking about some Mercedes or other brand I'm less familiar with?
- Ah, for me that would have been UT aka UT99. But chances are, I'm simply 3 - 6 years older than you ;-) Though I definitely I was not the intended age group upon release.
UT4 would have been pretty nice. I remember building the alpha from source when they put it GitHub.... .... Which is now closer to the release of UT 2004 than today. sigh
- Wait until you learn that some people abuse this to funnel potential subscribers to their OF. And I don't mean the kind that's about the artwork they show off (which would usually be on Patreon these days, I guess?).
Most woman don't run an OF of course. And wether they do or don't, anyone should be free to socialize over their hobbies on the internet, and/or present their art work for other to appreciate (and get validation with hundreds or thousands of up votes). But those on the intersection that choose to run thinly disguised ads ruin it for me :(
- Hm, if I understand this correctly
then you might be interested to learn about feature 'signatures':- awkward function argument syntax: my ($x, $y) = @_;
Not sure when it was added, but when I write the usual glue code, I love to use it these days.use feature 'signatures'; use strict; use warnings; sub foobar ($foo, $bar = undef) { # do something smart } # call it: foobar(1); foobar(1, 2); - Same here. Also happens when navigating there from within the all.
Open the website in your browser instead.
- Last time I read up on OLED in VR, it was said that pancake lenses dissipate too much light. Might be dated of course, and iirc there is now at least one OLED+pancake HMD on the market.
- They're entrenched. They have Telekom-branded stores (resellers) in every other town. They operate the network and hence have the best ability for trouble shooting. Non-technical users don't know what peering means, they just pay for Internet like they pay for water or power.
So for the "commoners" it seems a solid choice, while we, the Lords & Ladies of tech, are cursing in our basement home labs ;-)
Also, and that's why I'm stuck with them, for some reason they're the only one who offer combined DSL with 5G "boost". Our line is limited to ~45 MBit/s, and we get another 100 MBit/s over 5G. Doing this yourself with multiple links is of course an option, but costs a magnitude more than the 5€ extra I'm paying now; and the day only has so many hours to take care of such private deployments.
- If you missed physical objects, they did not do ftir with fiducal markers, I guess? There were some nice demos back when that was novel, like over a decade ago.
Some of the tables I saw at trade shows (e.g. E-World in Essen) this year also had them. On one you could place 3d printed power plants and various energy storage systems onto a map. To adjust their output, you could turn them like a knob. The company sold a management system for small grid operators, which then reacted to those demo inputs.
> The product is a concept that I want to work more than it, historically, has.
Sad but true. But then they don't exactly fit into the usual living room. However, as specialized board game tables are getting more popular every year, we might yet see a market for smart variants emerging long term. Not a huge chance IMHO, but larger than zero.
- Building diy multitouch tables has been possible for a long time now, given time, space and budget for that project.
I fully agree that it ultimately boils down to software: Can I implement my favorite board game for my multitouch interface? Yes. Can I bring that game to the table faster by just buying a physical copy? Yes.
I happen to have two 42" touch displays set aside for such a project - a unused backup unit destined for the living room for 200€, and damaged unit for dev work (for free). Since I bought them about 2 years ago, I also bought at least double that value of physical board games in retail, plus a Kickstarter board game. Go figure why.
However, I did play the digital version of Root on one of them, and enjoyed it very much. I should get Dune, too.
NB: I regularly see multitouch tables at trade shows. Nice eye catcher and useful to present some products or the multitude of services big companies offer.
- This isn't exactly novel. I was recently visiting a gas peaker plant in the EU, built 10-15 years ago. It uses two jet turbines as found on a 747 (didn't ask for the exact type).
- > I do not see anyone being willing to put the effort in to build a different community.
There is a small community on Discord: https://discord.gg/tfPVDGQuYm
To manage expectations: It is less active than the official channel of course, but then it is not as old as the official TG groups and it's not exactly endorsed by the developer (e.g. it's not linked to on the Valetudo website as an independent/alternate support platform). But it's an option to discuss Valetudo and related topics, and get some support if the official way doesn't work out.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with that Discord, I just happen to hang out there.
- The trick is to get an inverter with a 48V battery interface, that's not locked down to a specific manufacturer.
But you're right, most installers do high voltage batteries.
- Residential batteries are not that expensive anymore, at least not all of them. That's a misconception I also held until a few years ago ;-)
My first 14.3 kWh pack cost about 2800$ DDP from China, delivered 03/2023. For that one I did calculate how long it took for amortization, which I projected at about 5 years.
The second, identical pack was delivered 08/2024 and cost 2000$ DDP. Since we got an EV that's drawing about 14kWh per day, I didn't bother doing the math and just ordered it.
These are 280Ah 16S 51.6V packs, based on the EVE LF280K. In an enclosure, with a BMS (Seplos, 200A) and a dedicated balancer. They are good for 6000 cycles at 140A or less [each]. Mind these were both part of small bulk orders - I think each time we ordered 6 to 8 of these, which reduced shipping costs.
- This is what Cory writes about: We need laws and regulations if we want to prevent enshittifiaction.
In the US these laws have been dismantled since the 70s (if I get the text correctly, I'm not expert on US labor law). And in Germany there is a chancellor who is pushing to increase the 40 work week (which still meant up to 50 hours) to a 48 hour work week - that's the change necessary to have Amazon (and others) treat their drivers and warehouse workers with more dignity. /s
- Depending on what you're building, memory is still scarce. Of course in the past that was much more common, but even today just doubling memory doesn't always fly: Embedded is still not a land of plenty; and not every computational expensive task is a money earner, which might put you in a difficult spot when arguing with controlling about a bigger server or at least a memory upgrade.
Also: Caching.
- You can monitor https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php - they have a "Great Deals" and a "For Sale/..." section. There is a 'Enterprise SSD "small deals"' topic with recent activity. That's relevant for both EU and US: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/enterprise...
I got my enterprise SSDs (1.6TB, 3DWPD, drawback: SAS3) from our Craigslist-equivalent. First I got 2 for 150€ and had a nice chat with the seller, who seems to had a big box of these. A week later he offered me his remaining 3 disks for another 150€. On eBay it seems you have to make offers.
Some local info: I also noticed on the German eBay getting Chinese cards to be much more expensive than on eBay in the US. The same seller asking 80€ or 100€ for the same LSI 9400. However, finding the article on eBay.com and then using the item ID on eBay.de allowed me to get it for the better price.
And I do own two proper dedicated speakers + amps setups. I also know how to use REW and Sigma Studio. So I guess I qualify regarding "cares".
Sadly I lack time to build a third set of cabinets to the constraints of our living room.