Interesting. I've specifically searched for some fairly unique content (Python scripts, etc) I posted in my time over there, and it hasn't shown up at all.
So you left your Reddit account intact?
Edit: Fucking. Cunts. I just searched (had been a few months) and at least some of my data is back. I reckon they've done it ahead of the planned AI move and IPO.
Edit 2: joke's on them - my posts were linked to an alt account I setup on Pastebin years ago. Still had the creds, so have deleted the pastes. Fuck Reddit. 🤘
I use rclone, with encryption, to S3. I have close to 3TB of personal data backed up to S3 this way - photos, videos, paperless-ngx (files and database).
Only readable if you have the passwords configured on my singular backup host (a RasPi), or stored in Bitwarden.
And that's why I deleted all my posts and comments before deleting my account. Sure, they could probably go back and restore it if they wanted but, so far, they haven't.
Look, I'll happily admit that F360 is an excellent CAD program. It kinda sets the standard, but the constant shifting of the goal posts for the free personal use license, plus the Hotel California nature of cloud streaming the app, just pisses me off.
My brother's using it professionally and he's quite happy with it. But his business is paying for a full license for him, so he gets all the benefits, and very few of the annoyances. He's readily admitted that, were that not the case, he'd be looking at FOSS alternatives himself.
Thanks for this - I think I remember reading about Ondsel recently (used to design a toilet roll holder key, so they could replenish toilet paper at FOSDEM?). I'll give it a look. Cheers!
Thanks for the reminder! I remember reading an article recently where Ondsel was mentioned - hadn't clicked that I should be considering it for myself too. Cheers!
Thanks for that. One of the things that really helped me start using F360 was the 3x20min videos made by Lars Christensen. Looking at the channel you've just recommended, he appears to have done something very similar. I'll enjoy working through those. Cheers!
I might take a look - the learning curve on FreeCAD is pretty steep. Not that I wouldn't expect any other CAD to be much easier, but I feel there's a lot of assumed knowledge about concepts that appear to be unique to FreeCAD. Kinda increases the study load, if you catch my drift.
Jesus, mate! Calm down. Poor OP already feels like crap for losing their daughter's essay, and you level some heinous shit at both of them. Plus, they were passing on a PSA for other users of LibreOffice, in case they get caught out by the same thing.
As a lot of people have already said, breaking water down into hydrogen and O2 requires more energy than that produced by running a car on hydrogen.
Luckily, there's some promising research underway, on solar panels that converts water vapour in the air into hydrogen. Last I read, they're approaching kilowatt scale, but it takes a big system to produce just 500 grams of hydrogen in a day. Which will only produce around 2kW of output power.
Assuming they can somehow make all of that much smaller, and produce much, much more hydrogen from that smaller system, there's the secondary problem of storing and pressurizing the hydrogen produced, for use in a vehicle. That will take more energy again.
My 2021 Samsung QLED 65" consumes a little over 100W, manufacturer's spec says typical is 117W. My 2018 Sony LCD 65" consumes around 115W, manufacturer's spec says 171W. I'm on 230VAC.
This is tricky, as power is calculated as voltage x current. Measuring (or knowing) voltage is usually pretty straightforward. But accurately measuring current requires setting up the circuit so it flows through the multimeter (while set to whatever current measurement mode it has - usually "Amps A/C", or similar). However, this method isn't safe, or practical, for non-electricians to measure A/C appliances.
As someone else mentioned, you could buy a multimeter that has an "amp clamp" - effectively a non-contact way of measuring current. BUT, you need to be aware...
A typical appliance's cable will have both active and neutral wires inside the outer layer of insulation. Current flows through a circuit - up one wire and down the other, if you will. So an amp clamp can only measure the current on one of those wires. If you were to measure both at once (ie. clamp the whole cable), the readings in each direction will cancel each other out. You'll measure zero net current. The only way is to cut the outer insulation and clamp a single wire inside.
I would absolutely NOT recommend this for an A/C appliance. The possibility of accidentally cutting through the insulation of one of the inner wires, combined with the possible death of the person handling it afterwards, should make this a non-starter.
Your safest options for ANY A/C powered appliance are to either:
rely on the manufacturer's label; or
buy a smart plug that measures the current for you.
There's many, many brands for the latter available, and most are really quite affordable.
Edit: as another commenter said, you could possibly buy a short extension lead that splits the wires out for you, but now you're buying a non-standard extension lead and (possibly) a new multimeter, all to validate what's on the appliance's label.
A $20 smart plug with current measurement will still be your cheapest and safest option.
Tossing in my vote for Proxmox. I'm running OPNsense as a VM without any issues. I did originally try pfSense, but didn't like it for some reason (I genuinely can't recall what it was).
Either way, Proxmox virtual networking has been relatively easy to learn.
OK, I can definitely see how your professional experiences as described would lead to this amount of distrust. I work in data centres myself, so I have plenty of war stories of my own about some of the crap we've been forced to work with.
But, for my self-hosted needs, Proxmox has been an absolute boon for me (I moved to it from a pure RasPi/Docker setup about a year ago).
I'm interested in having a play with LXD/Incus, but that'll mean either finding a spare server to try it on, or unpicking a Proxmox node to do it. The former requires investment, and the latter is pretty much a one-way decision (at least, not an easy one to rollback from).
I was saying elsewhere I deleted all my content before deleting my account, but now some of my content is back.