That is why I said it depends. There are many places where the electricity cuts quite frequently for a short duration. Often you don’t even notice it, but a 24/7 server would be effected.

In general, I think the risk of laptop batteries catching fire is overstated especially if you limit the charge to 80% or so. So weighting these two issues against each other you can come out either way, but I think for most places it will come down towards a UPS being nice to have.

Depends. Usually it is still good as a UPS for a few minutes, and some laptops have a bios option to limit full charge which lowers the risk even further.

On another technical note: I finally got around installing the solar-panels on the roof of the place that acts as the “datacenter” for the SLRPNK servers. The servers were already running on battery charged at night since March of this year (mostly wind and geothermal grid power then) and now I will try to run them fully on solar-power.

It’s not a complete off-grid system, so if there is a power shortage it will still pull from the grid (which at peak times is sadly still 60% fossil fuel here), but I am reasonably confident that most of the time this will not be necessary as the battery has sufficient capacity.

You might want to first identify your main power consumption and at what time this occurs. 300$ seems very high in general, but if that is for example mostly AC usage during the day, you might be able to not have to buy as large of a battery since peak consumption coincidences with peak production.

While your post does mention notifications which really helps with engagement and was lacking from most forums, the main issue was IMHO lack of good mobile support of all the main forum platforms until as you said Discourse came along, but by then it was too late.

Rather than focussing on the real issues (like they promised in the coalition treaty) such as the lack of affordable housing in the cities, they try to appease AfD voters with stupid populism. This will backfire for sure.

It would be also really useful to have a database of oil company executives and other shitty people that aren’t easy to recognize but worth refusing service etc.

The Photon dev also made a greenish theme that is quite nice:

https://slrpnk.net/post/13869739

What kind of material and size limitations are there?

Indeed pretty nice.

Since Snikket is just an XMPP server, it can be used with desktop apps like Dino as well.

All the corporate gamification feature are probably quite annoying.

It really is an enterprise solution and I doubt your family will be happy with it.

Why not just set up a Snikket server and use that? You can easily create group-chats and share pictures and videos there and the interface is similar to WhatsApp.

AFAIK waren die schon immer in Riga und es wird nicht in Russland entwickelt. Aber ja, die Gründer gehöhren zu der relativ großen russischsprachigen Minderheit in Lettland und es gibt Firmenbeziehungen nach Russland, aber das war bis vor kurzem ziemlich normal in den baltischen Staaten.

Wenn dein Handy eSIM Unterstützung hat gibt es ganz gute ausländische Angebote. z.B. hab ich von BNE eSIM einen Datenvertrag der in ganz Europa gültig ist (nicht nur das zeitlich limitierte EU roaming) und mir nie ablaufende 20GB Daten gibt. Hab ich jetzt c.a. ein Jahr und insgesammt 3GB verbraucht (Ich nutze es fast nur für XMPP mobil), d.h. ein paar Jahre sollten die 20GB reichen, und sonst kann man auch einfach nachbuchen.

You can grow oyster mushrooms at home, there are nice ready made kits to buy.

“Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht, und da könnte ja jeder kommen” /s

Edit: alternativ natürlich auch nicht unwahrscheinlich heuzutage: ”Der Computer sagt nein".

Nicht hier auf Lemmy, wo die neue Studie durchaus verlinked wurde 😜

Aber bei aller durchaus berechtigten Medienschelte, ist dieser Artikel kaum besser. In der neue Studie geht es ebenfalls nur um einen kleinen Teilbereich des AMOC und der korrigierte Effekt ist laut der Studie nur geringer als bisher angenommen. Da den Halbsatz der erstaunlich stabilen Floridastömung herauszugreifen ist ebenfalls journalistisch nicht sauber, da der gesammte AMOC bisher erstaunlich stabil ist… bis das eben nicht mehr zutrifft, da wir hier mit nicht-linearen Effekten zu tun haben.

Mir würde es schon reichen wenn die aufhöhren würden den scheiß Fußball mit Millionen zu subventionieren und fast eben so große Beträge an private Produktionfirmen für blöde Polittalkshows zu verplempern.

Böhmermann vielleicht, aber das kann man auch besser im Streaming schauen.

Badly insulated and huge open spaces that waste a lot of power if heated or cooled. In addition the entire concept of car dependent suburbs and sprawling development into the country side is an environmental disaster all on its own.