For someone like me who wants to see Lemmy be a place that's owned by users, run by users, and moderated sensibly, what should I do? I have a problem with supporting the lemmy.ml instance.
It's run by the main developers of Lemmy, and they're both authoritarian communists (which I just got from Wikipedia as I'm trying not to use the pejoritve "tankie").
Anything that could be perceived as speaking down towards Russia, China, maybe even North Korea, ends up with your comment getting deleted and your account banned for a period of time.
They started Lemmy because @dessalines got banned from Reddit. The backwards thinking is that people shouldn't be banned for speaking their minds, yet their instance is the absolute worst for that.
By avoiding .ml you are helping Lemmy be what it should be -- a decentralized, user owned, user moderated place with sensible decisions behind the scenes.
I agree with Ambient Weather. Spend as much as you're comfortable with. Make sure it has a WiFi base station. I'm using this integration installed through HACS. It's solid.
I just discovered (thanks to this site) that you can click the uBlock Origin icon, then "enter element zapper mode" (the lightning bolt). It just gets rid of whatever you want to disappear.
Yeah, it's hard to find good ones. You could invert it to 120v AC and plug in a regular charger, but you lose efficiency doing that, not to mention the added danger, weight, and complexity.
Oh I think I get it now. So you can terminate the solar panel with something like this and then charge phones with a standard car charger with PD. I like that idea.
I'm having trouble imagining what you're setting out to accomplish. 12v solar panels are higher than 12v. This one gets to 18v, for example. You need a solar charge controller to convert it to 12v, and then you'd need something like this to convert it to 5v to charge your battery bank. Whether your battery bank will "take" 12v without electronics to tell it to is beyond the scope of my knowledge, but AFAIK 5v is universally accepted.
Good to know. I had heard Anker did some shady stuff but never caught wind of a good replacement. The phone charger scene is obscene as seen by OP, and and I would rather buy from Anker than buy garbage.
I could be wrong, but I just did some quick research and it looks like the PD spec always supports all of those voltages. I also did a reverse image search of the image you posted, and it's some no-name brand from Amazon. Don't buy no-name brands from Amazon. Stick to Anker.
Will you be recording the video? HA doesn't do that on its own, but you can install the Frigate add-on if your hardware supports it. I recommend a good HDD for recording to. I have a WD purple just for video recordings.
I'm not sure how well an HA Green would do with Frigate, although it is possible to run it on a Raspberry Pi if you add something like a Coral via USB (https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/) to handle the heavy lifting... so a Green should be fine. Don't take my word for it, though.
Some fraction of my donation would go towards the $30. Any amount of money going from me to .ml, be it $10 or $.00001, is too much.
I know $30 is "not much", but the amount doesn't change my principles.