Plug in Batteries backup and solar panels are being quite cheap today and more interesting than a gas powered generator since you can use then even when there grid is up to lower you electricity bill.

I don’t know the situation in the US but in Europe you can get the Zendure solarflow for example.

For less than 3000€ you get 5KWh batterie + 4 solar panel. The battery AND solar panels whether the grid is up or down.

You can join movim.eu as well, it’s hosted in Germany and the main maintainer is French

The Lemmy instance slrpnk.net automatically provide a XMPP account as well with the same ID and password as your federated address.

Je suis d’accord sur l’idée de séparer les deux machines, un ordi et un NAS. C’est ce que je ferais à la place d’OP (mais je ne suis pas OP)

L’idée de mélanger mon ordi perso et mon NAS me prend la tête rien que d’y penser ^^

Ça me parait tellement plus compliqué en termes de maintenance, pour gérer les accès, s’assurer d’avoir plusieurs backups et gérer la fiabilité du truc.

Mon NAS, c’est vraiment le truc que j’ai paramétré une fois il y a 6 ans et depuis tout tourne. Le seul truc que j’ai changé un peu depuis c’est le reverse proxy pour que toute la famille puisse y accéder à distance de manière sécurisée. Mon ordi à l’inverse, je change constamment des trucs dessus, mais je ne me veux surtout pas que ça impacte mon serveur de fichiers.

Et en termes de consommation électrique, je pense que OP y serait gagnant aussi.

Honnêtement, je pense que ça vaut le coup de sérieusement considérer l’idée même si ce n’est peut-être pas la bonne option.

Steam released the CAD files of the Steam controller, on gitlab, under a creative Commons license !

I was on the edge about wanting to buy a steam controller but now definitely want one. I’ll keep an eye open for when they are back in stock.

Ion thrusters are an example of electricity used for space propulsion.

In ion thrusters electricity is used to create a magnetic field that accelerate the propellant particles at very high speed. This way the propellant of used much more efficiently.

Edit: I forgot to mention that it’s not a concept, it’s actively used in a lot of satellites

In Paris a lot of apartments had a cellar opening on the outside.

Like this one:

Unfortunately a lot of them have been removed since it’s much easier to have everything in the fridge at constant temperature and energy used to be cheap.

When we believed the future would be better.

Now when we looked at the future we see climate change, rise of fascism some the world, destruction of the biodiversity …

Wrong, there was a vote few months ago at the UN to make food a human right. Only two countries voted against it, the USA and Israel.

So the US don’t consider food to be a human right.

There is a law in France, all new washing machine since last year need to have a micro-particle filter installed.

A Bamix is bifl.

So far it’s just a plan to come up with a plan for this winter. It’s not like the French government is ready to switch all the workstations this year.

But, things have been going on the right direction for a while.

Another counterpoint

It’s not just fertilizer:

it takes about 7.3 units of (primarily) fossil energy to produce one unit of food energy

Assessing the sustainability of the US food system: a life cycle perspective

With all the fertilizer, heavy equipment and agricultural practices the food production today is very inefficient from an energy perspective.

Without cheap, abundant energy available the whole food production system is not sustainable

I had a similar issue, also with a company that looks like a UK store but ship directly from China.

It took a while to arrive, the products looked fake and with no CE marking, we have to ship it back to China to get a refund.

The age pyramid looks like the age pyramid of European countries at the end of the XIXth century.

Some monks are still doing that.

In Monastics rules that have been written centuries ago it’s wrote common to have an hour or two of prayer in the middle of the night, around 2-3 am.

At the same time, if the time traveler could prevent the American vines to be imported in Europe it would be great !

Obsidian is great, in using it extensively for work and personal usage.

Not open source unfortunately

For the last 15 years I’ve bought 3 pairs of headphones from AKG and I’m extremely happy with them (why 3 pairs, because the first one was stolen, I gifted the second one to my dad and I am still using the last one)

They are extremely durable, especially if you pick a model with removable cable. I’ve used the K702 almost every days for the last 6 years and it barely shows any sign of wear.

I personally love the way they sound but it’s not for every one. They are more built for professionals with a very neutral sound but very precise.