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If you mean solar charging performance for a solar battery bank - yeah, there isnt much panel on there so they aren't going to charge quick. A foldable set of panels can get you anywhere from about 15W to 75W, so keep in mind this isnt rapid-charging, never-ending power in the sun.

I have some solar battery banks, I keep them by my windows and rotate through, except for a few connected to low power devices (like some LED strips), which are only drawing about half the wattage at max that the panel can gather during the day, and the battery has plenty to take it through the night.

The ones I rotate through I take for trips out, if I expect to charge my phone and my wife's (and maybe something for the kids). The reliance during that trip is on the battery, two phones and a random device are going to drain that battery several times as fast as what the panel can charge, so its a bigger bank. It can take several days to charge from solar after that, with good sunlight. Because I have a few of them though, they never touch utility power. Ive had them for the better part of a decade now, and they have held up really well. They are inside when charging so they don't get too hot (and damage the health of the batteries), and solar charging them helps in that regard as well since its a slower charge than the USB PD I could drive them with off utility power.

The diy community was already mentioned, that would be a good spot if you want to plan a build or something.

A recent t480 purchase may replace my second workstation tower, which I think is about to become my most powerful server in the cluster....

So nothing new hosting-wise, but that tower I can shove the spare 12tb and 4tb drives I have and net myself another 30ish TB's of usable storage, more once I replace the 12TBs in one of my NAS boxes with 18tb or more.

Speaking of which - where the hell do I track prices these days? diskprices.com seems to be a mess of inaccurate pricing and shucks.top can no longer track even half of what they used to. What a mess.

Well this is really cool.

Ive seen the large data centers handling heating for nearby residential units or in the same building, but not with a localized unit like this like you said.

I'm (hopefully) going to be getting some decent property for a farm, most likely will have to build, and this makes me wonder if a small setup like mine (a dozen or so machines) feeding before the heating system as a preheating (like solar water heating) would be worthwhile.

Going to have to have a chat with an ME I know!

Thats a slim and trim article there. You'd have to think they'd at least put the email info in from the dump.

Edit: I a whole word

I'm not sure when it was a good idea and I also don't know a time when it was not being abused, if I'm being honest. At least in IT (and in general, engineering, or so I've heard) going back to the 90s...

Well the H1 came decades before (and still exists, its more generic), and the B was supposed to be specific gaps for skilled workers - longer term allowed, you can change jobs on this one (the original requires you to get a new visa, the h1b you just need to file a petition), allowed for a longer stay which was helpful for people trying to become citizens, it was meant to be used far, far, far less than it is today and has limited that are constantly ignored, etc,

The H1B came out in 1990, it only took a few years for companies to work around the limitations that were intended and use skyrocketed.

So probably for around 2-3 years it was a good idea.

Is the logo ai generated? I've had coworkers who could rip out a logo like this in no time from scratch. I'm on my phone (without my readers) so maybe I'm missing something. As far as style goes, I'd just note that every time a new style is "the thing", everyone did things in that style - long before AI.

That said, that looks pretty cool and I'm going to check it out. I don't really give a crap about branding unless its something problematic (like the person mentioning the qanon distro - I won't touch framework anymore, won't touch ruby on rails, Omarchy, etc, but thats less branding and more leadership). Ive seen terrible branding for amazing tools, and amazing branding for terrible tools. As long as they aren't parroting the proud boys or something, its fair game to me.

I did not realize postmarketos had pi3b support...

Well, time to take a spare out of the bin and hook it up to the only working touchscreen I have (my 7" appears to be damaged... But ive got a 27" on my desk)!

Top image, the man in the image is circling the -39 in bright green. You can see half of the circle at this frame.

Yes

Cue, BTW.

Queue is for making a line, cue is the signal for them to say their lines.

I would love to ask why they didnt have laptops without WiFi/BT in them in the first place.

This isnt exactly a jail in west bumblefuck. They have laptops for this purpose.

I'm thinking of it as an alternative to a software emulated RISC-V more than anything else

I think the rk3588 based boards are a better bang for the buck than pi (aside from my continual disappointment from how the managed things during the pandemic, but thats a whole other thing), and some esp32 boards fill the other gaps, but thats how I think about things, obviously not an answer for everyone.

But even with the really comparatively bad performance of this little guy, its still going to be way better than emulated I think. Of course, I'll have to buy one to confirm that. A perfect excuse! 😄