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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • Yea, I went big so I could charge an EV or two in the future. I wish I had the yard to put them in instead of roof. I get a lot of snow here and I’d love to be able to easily clean them off. They’re basically useless for half of the year. Even worse when the snow melts it slides down, catches on the gutter and breaks the gutters. It pops the mounts out and I have to pop them back in every spring.


  • Nice! I’ve got 19.2kW of panels on my roof with optimizers and two inverters for 17kW A/C. I got them a couple of years ago and love em. They’re south facing and do a pretty good job (far north US). I installed a circuit breaker monitor so I can see how much electricity I’m producing and consuming per circuit. My power utility doesn’t show me nice fairly realtime graphs like yours.

    I’ve been wanting to get batteries or a bidirectional EV that can power the home, but I haven’t been able to swing that yet. I’m still tied to the grid. But I’m working toward being grid fault tolerant. I’m jealous of your progress.




  • When I built my NAS I intentionally bought the latest gen cpu, but kept it in to the 65W series with a GPU chip onboard. It’s an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core @ 3800 MHz. My coral usb does frigate and the integrated graphics chip does jellyfin just fine. I started with ssds, but half of them burned out pretty quick, so I replaced them with spinning rust. But, as-is it can run for an hour on my desktop grade UPS before it shuts down. My proxmox cluster is old laptops that mount an NFS drive from my NAS. So, yes, I took power efficiency into account.



  • A few tips I just remembered: run away from harder encounters at first. Blow all your money on the front line (first 4 characters) for armor and weapons. Grind your way to level 6 or so before exploring the city and taking out the statues. Make sure you go to the advancement office to level up and to get new spells. By level 7 or so you should be good to start the dungeon. Save often, don’t go too deep, repeat the process of fighting and leaving to heal and grind your way up till the fights are easy, then start exploring.



  • I remember this game. I got pretty far in it. It’s super grindy. I remember there’s a part of the city near the starting tavern where there’s a little alcove with two doors facing each other. I spent a long time holding down the forward button and it would auto go in one door, out, into the other one, and back. Opening doors can randomly spawn mobs.

    I’d go there fight a battle or two and heal up at the tavern, save, and go back. It’s close enough I wouldn’t normally random encounter before getting back.

    I actually just bought it again on gog today. I was a little dissapointed that the legacy mode doesn’t show me the old graphics.




  • One thing you may want to consider, amazon and others do free tier instances. You can get a free EC2 instance, throw hugo on that and set it up for serving your text sites. Benefit being, if you mess something up and it gets hacked or compromised, it’s not infecting your home network. They’re about as powerful as an old pi.

    If you’re just serving static html, you can also serve that up straight from a bucket. Which makes backup/failover very easy to setup. And even if you don’t want to give amazon your money, there are plenty of hosting providers that offer similar capabilities and free tiers. The thought being that once you grow beyond the free tier you’ll pay for their services since it’s annoying to move elsewhere.







  • For work, or for hobby?

    Hobby: have AI document what it’s supposed to do, then work through it like the ship of theseus one function at a time replacing it with not bad code.

    Work: use it, document the bugs, ninja in and clear them out one at a time until it works. Keep blinders on and ignore anything not directly related to each bug. Same strategy as legacy code.