Justin

At our student clubhouse we just run cat5 between the led strips, just soldered to the strip.

Codeberg is very good, and non-profit.

The goal is to take the car as little as possible. It sounds like visiting the beach and visiting your friend isn’t possible without a car, and that’s not something that you need to worry about. If there are car sharing services available in your city, like zipcar. You can still do that without committing to the $10k/year cost of owning a private car.

Let’s say you use a car 3 times a week, twice to visit friends, and once to go to the beach. Zipcar offers a $11/hour rate, and we’ll assume you spend 4 hours on each trip. That comes out to $132/week, or $6870/year, saving you over $3k/year over owning a car. You’d no longer have to worry about maintenance or car insurance. This would also be much better for the environment, since you can use a shared car instead of dedicating a car to yourself. Any week where you don’t go to the beach, or your friend visits you, would be pure savings for you, too.

This video is a really good video about why car-sharing is so useful:

https://youtu.be/OObwqreAJ48

Source for $10k/year number:

https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-YDC-Fact-Sheet-FINAL-8-9-21.pdf

Yeah, unfortunately transit options depends a ton on where you live. not just which city, but also individual neighborhoods in that city and where your workplace is. Even when you live near rail-based transit, often cities might not bother running proper routes and schedules to make it viable. But we should support public transportation and bike infrastructure efforts when we can.

No source, but I remember hearing that EVs earn back the cost of their manufacturing through their zero emissions within about a year. I extrapolated based on that with the assumption that a car will last about 10 years. I live in Sweden where our electricity is carbon free/ carbon neutral.

consider the cost of the car in those estimates. Cars cost over $10k a year to own and maintain in the US. Local corner stores encourage local business and walkable neighborhoods, whereas supermarket chains depend on government subsidies to exist.

First priority is to get rid of cars in general. Try to use bicycles and public transportation. If you don’t need a car to get to work, consider a car share service to replace your private car/private parking space.

EVs probably have around 1/10th the lifetime emissions of a gas car, which is still really significant.

Some Google searching shows that the monkey King in “Journey to the West” ate peaches that gave him immortality. Google also shows a martial arts move where you grab the opponent’s testicles.

It’s probably a chengyu, but I don’t know what story it’s from.

I’m not aware of a self-hosted push notification server for microG, but I’d run it if there was one.

I think you see the impact of that in a country like Sweden. One of the lowest income inequalities in the world, but also one of the highest wealth inequalities in the world.

Those Hisense phones are cool! Seems really nice for reading news and such that you can’t get on a traditonal ereader.

It’s not FOSS, but I have a Kobo Clara 2E, I like it a lot. There’s a bit of a sqlite hack to activate it without an account, but it works great after that.

Don’t bother with Overdrive on the Kobo, its a scummy company and it didn’t even work without a Kobo account.

Yeah, NVGs are probably the most accessible option.

They do. The eye doesn’t have “frames per second”, per se, because every neuron acts independently, instead of as a eye-wide “frame”. But the rod cells that your eye switches to for night vision have slower activation time than the cone cells, allowing them more time to capture photons, before telling the brain about what it saw. Just like how your camera switches to longer shutter times for night vision to capture more photons, before sending them to the SD card.

Rod cells also respond more slowly to light than cones and the stimuli they receive are added over roughly 100 milliseconds. While this makes rods more sensitive to smaller amounts of light, it also means that their ability to sense temporal changes, such as quickly changing images, is less accurate than that of cones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_cell#Sensitivity

I mean, it proves his point.

FreeOTP+, it was written by Red Hat and is now maintained as a open source project.

The problem I see with peer tube is that the code isn’t very advanced, and I don’t think it would scale well enough to be a YouTube replacement at this moment.

Video federation requires allowing all CORS requests, Remote transcoding servers were only just added, and there’s no high-availability on a per-server basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

Libertarian has another meaning outside of the American Libertarian Party.

my guess would be double shot injection molding, like high end key caps?