It's completely full of spinning disks. Flash would be less power usage, but, would cost significantly more, and would end up being drastically more expensive.
if your streaming device requires you to have a certain type of phone to use, you should replace it regardless. Roku/AndroidTV/etc... They don't care WHAT type of device you try to stream media from. Have an IPhone? Sure. Android? No problem. Blackberry? That might not work.
their car chargers
Wait until you realize any 5$ charging cord from the corner store can charge your phone, and connect it to your car!
all their apps
Most of those work just fine on android. Just swapped my Dad's phone from apple to android a few months ago, and was able to find all of his apps without any issues.
ie- when people stop spending billions on iphones that don't use standardized hardware.... Then, perhaps Apple will stop being anti-competitive assholes.
Right now, they can get away with being anti-competitive assholes, because everyone keeps buying their products.
Money speaks.
Just watch- apple will indeed release a phone that has a USB-Type C port. Then, disable data transfer to any non-apple certified USB cord, due to "security concerns" or "fire hazards"
Everything on lemmy is synced (federated) to all other subscribing instances.
That is how i am currently reading/commenting on this post. I am interacting with the synced copy of the post and comments which was sent to my instance. As well- you are interacting with the copy which was sent to your instance.
I could technically flip a few values in the database and tell my instance that this is a local community, and I would then be able to manage it as such.
Then all of its content was already synced to the other instances. And, you technically can re-activate the down instance's communities on another instance, if needed.
So. my recommendation, take the amount of panels you think you need, and double it.
With the exception my capacity being a bit less then what I actually need. Happy with my solution. Power outages are a thing of the past now. Had a disaster knock out power for the entire area for around a week earlier this year. I was able to run completely off-grid during the entire ordeal, and that includes running the central HVAC.
But- a few notes....
Ohio doesn't get the best solar radiance. Install more panels.
For DIY, look here: https://signaturesolar.com/ Those guys have the best pricing you are going to find. I use their EG4 batteries. I hear good things about the inverters too.
But, in my case, I already had all of the capacity paid for regardless. I'd say, lemmy runs me around 20-30w of load total.
30w * 24 hours * 30 days = 21,600Wh / 1,000 = 21Kwh * 0.08c = 1.68$ per month.
In reality, the power load is quite a bit less, and my calculations don't account for the solar panels on my roof.
Given, I have around 140-160T of total storage capacity, its not really worth putting a price on the small amount used by lemmy. My internet is paid regardless, and lemmy usage is typically pretty low (typically measured in Kb/s). So, not really worth putting a price here, as it averages less then 1% of my total connection.
If, I wanted to put a price tag on it, my labor to actually support and maintain it, would be where all of the money went to.
But, I'd imagine with this recent growth, its only a matter of time before better administration and moderation tools start appearing in the native GUI.
That's the exact use case I got these for