So much of the country is dark at 5pm on standard time. With the work day centered around 9-5, having some daylight at the end of the day would be nice. I always thought the solution would be making the work day center on 8-4, but work til the sun goes down has been engrained in our society for a long time.

I do grow crops on it.

Mine is 8100. Everything I was looking at, at that time, could only handle half at best.

My problem with them was they never seemed to be able to handle a yard large enough in order to justify their price.

https://openmower.de/

Here is the github: https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower

Been following them for a bit, was going to build one a few years back, but instead bought a riding mower to pull double duty on teaching my daughter driving skiils

And alternative stores with alternative servers so I don’t have to buy a subscription for online capabilities and the ability to install whatever software I want… I guess a PC will do just fine.

Just wanted to share because I’ve seen people act like it’s some anti-democratic conspiracy that these (bad) laws are going into place.

Democracy at its worst is tyranny of the masses. It’s 2 wolves and 1 sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Classifying it as antidemocratic isn’t the right frame of mind. It’s more anti-freedom and anti-minor rights.

Is there a loops app on f-droid yet?

I would imagine you could host a BBS on them. Doubt it could handle many if even concurrent connections

GoG is the best place for offline installers

Undecided Matt Ferrell did this with his new home minus the springs, he uses his underground for geothermal. I’m basically doing a retrofit. Solar panels on roof and in my yard if I need them to meet demand. Sodium batteries if I can get a good deal, else I’ll find a wrecked EV on the cheap and get the batteries.

Here me out, talk to your neighbors, form a co-op and supply it via solar farm and battery bank

That’s my plan, I’m cutting myself off from the grid. My electric company announced rate increases just 2 weeks ago. AI data center rumors while pro AI data center propaganda is being aired on commercial slots on local news affiliates. They are slow boiling the frog

And today’s Apple isn’t yesterday’s Apple either or the one from the 2010s. I’m just saying I bet Apple expected another cheese grater or all aluminum design reminiscent of a cybertruck from Ive if they let him design the exterior.

You must not remember the beige boxes they had in the 80s and 90s

I guess I misremembered then. Once I saw this car, my suspicion is that this may have been the canceled Apple car. My theory is Apple saw how much it cost: or something and decided to sell to Ferrari to recoup some of their investment. Apple’s biggest mistake (or saving grace to keep them out of this industry) would have been to not let him design the whole thing and Ferrari was left with this.

That’s because it was designed by Jony Ive.

For real napalm-2 you need benzene. I’m not entirely sure what the ratios are for each, but the anarchist cookbook called for 50/50 on gas and polystyrene, but it might be too thick. Either way, when testing don’t breathe the fumes

I work on my own vehicles as well. I’m looking forward to my first oil change at 100k miles, lol. With gas at $4/gal and paying 14.48¢/kWh, I’m getting 107 mpg equivalent dollar for dollar not even hyper-mileing. As far as long term costs go, I’m expecting to get 250k miles out of my batteries and if the Bolt doesn’t last that long, I’ll repurpose the batteries into a whole home battery backup. Even then, if there’s a battery swap that becomes available to her a faster fast charge, I may turn my bolt’s battery pack into a home battery pack sooner. I’d much rather reuse what I got than recycle

I’d recommend buying used over new. Before Iran war bolts were going for $12k