Very nice writeup. Don’t have the time to fully read, but did a quick skim. Def saved for later reference though.

You sound like you might have the latest news on the 30% tax credit. Do you know how much longer that’ll be a thing/what you’d need to do now to get it?

This is good info and makes sense. Thanks!

So I’ve heard a typical set up is still dependent on grid power (typical set up => able to push power back to the grid), and so during a power outage, you still lose power at your home. Its my understanding one of the components required for the hook up to The Grid requires continuous power (in case you need to push/pull power from the grid) and since it can’t guarantee power from your panels, it gets that power from the grid (thus grid goes down, your whole home’s power goes down.

Don’t suppose you know more about this or can explain why this is/isn’t the case? This setup seems unintuitive and undesirable to me, and so I’d love to have proof that’s not the case, if it exists.

Can you explain how/why its the same?

My instinct says its actually trying to reach 127.1.0.0 (which is still local host), but that’s an educated guess at best.

Edit: Question was answered later on thread

Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.

One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.

TL;DR: Cancer is coming for us all.

So what I’m hearing is we just need to return to tradition and start curing our own meats in our backyard smokehouses?

Looks unpleasant but generally not dangerous.

I think that’s the point he was trying to make.

Damn it.

Could we perhaps grow a whale in the vacuum of space?

You’re right, its a suboptimal example.

But I can conclude that its not so dangerous as to lead to imminent death / disability within 30 years. So how “unsafe” is eating processed meat anyway?

The article makes like you’re doomed to develop colon cancer if you mom ever fed you a single bite of hamburger helper as a kid. Obviously, that’s a ridiculous conclusion.

Hmmm, could we perhaps make a large enough one from a whale stomach?

Also what definition of “safe”.

My grandpa eats at least one burger per week and he’s turning 90 next year. So obviously “safe” isn’t a measure of imminent and near term death?

Exactly

Maybe I’m just a newb, but it still looks like PNG is the goto to ensure lossless image storage.

Everything else on that list that is “better” does/can do lossy compression. I’m not sure how to force apps to use lossless compression, so to me, all those lossy-capable formats are a drawback.

Thanks for the heads up.

Saw it wasn’t on F-Droid and was going to ask for source page (to get through Obtanium), but looks like they’re allergic to android and derivates. Appreciate you pointing to references.

I need this in green text format

Article postulates that we’re under-reporting, in case anyone doesn’t want to read the article.

Wow, wasn’t expecting a reasonable and emotionally grounded response as one of the top comments.

Keep up the good work my dude.

Was going to be skeptical about an obscure distro, but I see they are currently #2 on Distrowatch. Can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before.

Appreciate the recommendation, I’ll def look into it!

When my win 10 gaming box EOLs this fall, I’m probably going to jump it straight to arch, since it looks like the most straightforward way to build a Steam OS like system.