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  • Nah.

    Honda has a much better product in the first place, their engineering approach has always been better than Nissan (I say this having worked on every major brand, and some unknowns).

    Nissan is one of the better ones, but they're still a big step away from Honda.

    And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now, which seems poised to suplant batteries (again, maybe).

  • I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.

    That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don't understand the constraints at first.

  • I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I'm pretty sure it's solar.

    But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

    It's not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

    But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

  • It's really frustrating there's no proper backup/restore without root - that's my primary reason for having root.

    Yea, Syncthing-Fork is still maintained, though there hasn't been an update for a while. The company that makes Möbius Sync for iOS is a big supporter of Syncthing, hopefully they'll help in some way. Alternatively there's Resilio Sync, but it's hard on phone ram - I'd have to manage it a lot more often. Though it has Selective Sync - I can browse a shared folder from my phone and tell it to sync specific files. This is great for my media server - I can grab any movie/music anytime.

    I like Syncthing-Fork better because it moves sync conditions to within each folder. So my DCIM folder syncs on any network or battery condition (so I don't lose photos), but NeoBackup folder only syncs on wifi and while charging.

    Pretty much all folders now sync 2-way, and I export the Syncthing config on the phone whenever I change something. That export folder is also synced, so when I switch phones I just install ST, import that config, and after a couple hours the new phone has all the same stuff as the old phone. Then I launch NeoBackup and start restoring.

  • that I really should finish

    That word "should" is a tricky little fella, he implies a judgement, the question is what's the source of that judgement?

    Wayne Dyer discusses the issues and challenges of words like "should" in his book "Your Erroneous Zones" by using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach: examining and rewriting how we think about things.

    When I find myself using that particular word, I ask myself "should, according to who?". Almost always I find I have an old "script" in my head about priorities, values, etc, that upon re-examining I find it's no longer useful. Like "I bought this game, therefore I must get maximum value from it".

    Sometimes things run their course, and that's that.

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  • This, so much.

    What my parents grew up with - always cold and hungry. Not starving, just hungry. And I can go to the store and get almost anything - like fruits my parents never saw/knew of before they were adults.

    My grandparents waited something like 2 years to get a fridge - that's the wait list at the time. Even when I was a kid stuff wasn't always immediately available, and they'd sell you the floor model for full price if you were lucky, otherwise you waited a week to a month for an appliance that I can buy by the dozen today.

    I grew up being told "you have no idea how easy you have it" (not in a mean way, just my parents explaining how different things were just a few decades ago), and they were right. Now I'm surprised almost every day at the difference since even 1970, let alone early 20th century and farther back.

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  • The world is getting worse?

    Yea, methinks you need some history. Go watch Edwardian Farm on BBC or Amazon. We have it so much easier than our forbears did.

    Are there problems? Of course? Humans gonna human, and in that way things haven't changed since, well, forever. "We only get 80 years on the planet" (to quote a Brian Setzer tune), so we all get a limited time to learn to be better people.

    But there are a lot of people who continually strive to make their local circle better - which is really about all of us can actually do - work on our own little corner, and hopefully have influence on others nearby.

  • Wow, install Tailscale or Wireguard and you've got a killer remote support solution.

    Weird people would downvote this. I usually don't care (still don't, lol) but someone downvoted the idea of installing a mesh VPN on this KVM, yet it's already been done.

  • I run rooted just so I can backup/restore apps, using NeoBackup. It backs up to a local folder.

    That folder, along with pretty much every folder on my phone is synced to a server at home using Syncthing-Fork. This way new data (photos, downloaded files, etc) are always replicated, and I can effectively manage the phone file system by moving files around at home. Any changes I make will sync back to the phone.

  • I think it's one of those "technically" things, that isn't useful.

    Someone from The Americas is American, technically. That's how language works.

    But I'd venture* that 97.3% of people mean United States when they say "Americans", or better, it's what people mean 97.3% of the time. The only time I've seen people bring it up is when they're from a South American country.

    So I'd say context and scale of detail/granularity influence the meaning in the moment.

    *Totally Made Up Stats

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