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• Post #3548829

  Been reading about #BSD systems lately, as I'm trying to set up a tiny #HomeServer. Fascinating systems, I really like the whole "the base system should serve most needs" concept and the docs are delightful. I feel a lot of that lost sense of discovery I last felt while first learning Linux. I just wish they weren't surrounded by so much superiority-jerking. It really feels like a vocal minority of BSD proponents define themselves less by what they stand for a...

• Post #3548828

  Installed AC in my room after several years of experiencing 30+˚C indoor temperatures. It uses almost a kilowatt of electricity, but it turns out my two-panel #solar setup can drive it, so now I'm using the sun to keep out the sun, at no additional cost. Totally magical.

• Post #2517085

  Learning about #Emacs 's `C-M-` keybindings made such a difference when editing #Scheme code. I used to think surely structural editing is overrated and I can get by with just the normal movement keys, but no, being able to grab entire forms with `C-M-k` or jump around with `C-M-b` and `C-M-f` is amazing. Now if only I could grok Paredit too... `C-<left>` and `C-<right>` suddenly doing something completely different definitely sent me into a spin a couple of...

• Post #2355794

  Installed a #solar panel in my garden. It cost only 65€ but generates over 300W of power for several hours on sunny days, which (by feeding into a power station) allows me to use my computer completely disconnected from mains grid. It's so cool that PV tech had come so far that powering random appliances is not only feasible, but reasonably cheap. I'm currently working on a write-up about the project, which I'm hoping to post soonish. #RenewableEnergy #OffGrid #electri...

• Post #2355793

  My biggest #Mastodon pet peeve so far is the fact that in the "Advanced Web Interface" a good 30-40% of my screen is simply left unused and the fix would be one line of #CSS: Putting `flex-grow: 1` on the `column` class. And yet despite numerous issues raised about this since like 2018 (see https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8632 for the list) it was only ever met with silence or the issue being closed with an irrelevant PR being linked. I know how to use Tampermonke...

• Post #2355790

  https://nemin.hu/solar.html I recently installed a solar panel in my garden and have been running my PC off it for around two weeks now. Aside from a couple of hitches and unexpected setbacks, my experiences have been very positive and smooth. I wanted to collect what I've learned in the form of a blogpost which you can read below, I hope you'll like it and maybe even get an interest in running solar yourself. #solar #blog #RenewableEnergy #OffGrid

• Post #2355788

  $DAYJOB asked me to transition away from TypeScript and start learning #golang First impressions so far is that Go is so close to being an incredible language, but it feels like the creators just decided to be overly cautious in the weirdest places. `val, err` over discriminated unions, the rules around `:=`, use of `_` to make in-dev code compile, etc. Still, I'm excited to finally use a properly static-typed language after so much ducking and dodging TS's, uh, unique behavio...

• Post #2355787

  About a month since I switched my PC over to #solar. My household's electricity usage dropped by a third(!) and the bill nearly halved (around here you get a limited quota of cheaper electricity every month, above which the price nearly triples, hence the discrepancy). I did occasionally need to plug my power station into the mains during gloomy days when I needed my PC urgently, but generally my daily usage easily fits into the 1kWh limit of the battery. Very satisfied! #renewableEn...

• Post #753423

  For some reason #Firefox keeps freezing and requiring a hard-restart after waking from sleep. I figure it must be another #nvidia driver shenanigan, based on a cursory search for similar issues. Annoying, but I guess it can be mitigated by just closing FF before clicking Sleep. #Linux #cachyOS