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  • Generally export to the grid. Farms don't use 500kW-1MW of energy usually.

    Since industrial farms and oil company corruption have killed produce profits for human consumption, selling the energy is often more viable financially than the crops that grow under it, especially as far as upkeep with the absolute proprietary planned obselescense shit show that is the Agri equipment industry. Not to mention the insane Monsanto seed corruption and abuse. Many farmers are operating on a loss which has lead to regional monopolies as megacorps buy up bankrupt farms.

    Going the agri-solar route could be the saving grace for many many farms. (Where it is viable at least and transmission is doable)

  • As an engineer, hybrid works best for many of us.

    Design phase can be wfh with some in-person idea sessions or important meetings because I have yet to be at an online idea session that was as productive as in-person being able to draw things out and visualize better, and people tend to not speak up or just check out and agree at the end in online meetings.

    Testing phase has to be mostly in person for lab tool access and collaboration on physical things.

    I have worked with a contractor that did everything from home and had a whole home lab, but it was a big time sink and cost shipping parts back and forth 5 times and you couldn't physically probe behaviors together which leads to slightly different setups and sometimes different results.

    Socially I moved to a place where I had no friends so I like getting social contact at work since in Belgium, it is extremely difficult to make new friends after you are done with school because of a culture of not talking to anyone else unless people are obnoxiously drunk lol. I like wfh on overwhelming days and in-person on days where I want more social contact.

    That being said, I work 100% in office now because I live a 12 minute bike ride from work, so very easy.

  • We use Belgian Bancontact, not visa/MasterCard here

  • BASED?

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  • This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

    Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.

  • And there were tons of ones back in the day that didn't cost that much either.

    Surprise, cheap stuff existed then too, it just didn't survive like the expensive appliances.

    The difference is now the expensive stuff ALSO barely lasts at all.

  • They also have a batshit judicial culture and women apparently never get justice and most courts are a kind of semi-scripted kangaroo court.

    Ace Attorney was specifically made as a parody of Japan's courts IIRC.

  • Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away.

  • That's literally how much they cost now, or even much more and they last 10 years or maybe 15

  • Kopia is great for this. Choose your encryption, built in support for different provider storage tyoes in the GUI to choose where to go, dedupe, folder structure scramble, etc...

    But their flatpak hasn't been updated in ages...

  • Axon tried to recruit me to make payload drones that definitely won't be used to drop grenades and "definitely" won't be sold to US police and paramilitary to drop chemical weapons on civilians because it is "against their company values" (the company that tazes each other as an initiation rite).

    I was debating on doing it to try to make everything work as badly as possible and learn how to make civilian countermeasures, but I ended up telling them to go fuck themselves and that they were liars, in no uncertain terms.

  • I have yet to use a consumer ADF scanner on a printer that didn't feed the paper at an angle until they are crushed and folded, doesn't matter if the guides are perfectly set for A4 either. It has never worked for me.

  • Yes, but people are forgetting how it was discovered.

    It was discovered because there was a visible performance impact by running benchmark tests on other, time-critical software.

    Do you know how it was not discovered? By maintainers looking through changes of the software and looking through the code, exactly the way that the commenter and you and others are saying things would be caught.

    If the attacker hadn't been so eager and only set it to start working after a time delay a year later or multiple updates later? It would have infected almost every server in the world, even if it got noticed immediately, it would have been a giant problem that would have reaped the benefits for the malicious party before it could be regressed and changed.

  • KDE Discover also is good if you want to see/be notified that you have updated things and be able to uninstall/reinstall apps without the GUI bugging out.

  • Switched my cloud storage to Koofr.eu yesterday, everything went smoothly. What are your latest EU changes?

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  • Switching my electronic component choices for PCBs to STM, NXP, Nordic & ublox (these 3 have the best MCUs), Wurth, and Infineon. Then as second choice Rohm, Toshiba, Panasonic, JST.

    Sadly, only american companies currently make new AFEs, especially biomedical.

  • Opencloud is a fork from Owncloud Infinite Scale just as nextcloud was a fork from the old Owncloud version.

    Apparently much much simpler and more performant than nextcloud in almost every way. It also has a secure file sharing link feature.

    They are also based in Germany.

    I am about to spin up opencloud behind traefik and authelia hopefully this week or weekend.

  • But who is seriously looking at the sudo code at every update. I would bet a lot of money that the vast majority simply trust him and gloss over it maximum.

    The chain of trust has to exist otherwise distrobox maintainers would spend 24 hours a day reviewing code changes and only update once every 6 months.

  • Oh yeah I was quite annoyed with bazzite initially with embedded toolchains... The default arch distrobox also runs vscode variants horribly with tons of freezing for some reason. I had to create a new arch distrobox.

    Also Saleae Logic2 has a Fedora bug where it takes between 2 and 10 minutes just to open because of logfiles and errordumping and timeouts that is very annoying.

    Also menu shortcuts for distrobox only work like for 20% of programs (luckily code-oss is one of them)

    And don't get me started on running a VM that can see the local network...

    After you get a setup going though, then it is breezy though.

  • TPM chips are not a mythical thing that only Google makes.

    STM makes the ST33 series of TPM that I would trust a hell of a lot more than google to not have a dozen government backdoors.

    Microchip, Analog Devices, Infineon, NXP, and onsemi also make TPM chips of varying security levels. Infineon is the premium TPM maker with the highest security if I remember right, a German company.

    The issue is they are 3-10€ for the chip alone, which is a significant BOM cost, and it takes a lot of very specific knowledge in firmware and software to actually implement and google probably keeps the android integration methods very hidden. It is very much an intentional vendor lock out.

  • It is literally no more secure than any other email. Almost all emails support E2E encryption with passphrase, and any email that can use IMAP can through clients too.

    The problem is that 99.99% of emails (not counting deltachat) have no way of utilizing that, so it is just as insecure on Tuta as anything else, just better marketed.

  • So I am in the designing of the circuit and PCB stage right now.

    The usecase is for Meshtastic/Meshcore nodes because those sit outside in a tree or in a high place outside year-round and are solar charged. I am designing it as a RAKwireless Wisblock power module that will be charged by 2, 5V, 200mA small solar panels in series. The whole project will be released on Codeberg like all of my home projects.

    Later I can copy the circuit over to other PCBs for more general formats. One of my future projects is going to be an 8S pack BMS for driving a 12V water pump for off-grid rainwater collection barrels.

    I am targeting 2S systems now because then the entire sodium cell can discharge if the system voltage is set to 3V and I don't need any buck/boost, just a buck which is significantly cheaper and easier on the batteries.

    I am using an STM32C011 as a custom BMS + buck charger because my original idea of using a very cheap, small mixed signal FPGA (greenpak SLG47105) wouldn't work well for sodium because it didn't have enough comparators to have a soft constant voltage region (gradually increasing CV voltage from 3.8V per cell to 4V along with the natural current decrease to prolong charge cycle life), it will have overvoltage/over current protections, 1A or 2A max current, resistive battery balancing, and some safety features and an I2C readout.

    (Sorry, wall of text)

  • Programming @programming.dev

    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?

  • Buy European @feddit.uk

    Where to buy Canning Jars?

  • networking @sh.itjust.works

    It is so confusing in europe having a Cca required rating vs CCA cable makeup.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?