That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

I agree, I’d be picking up a bunch of those, if that were the case.

esp32-c6 (supports zigbee), is pretty cheap.

The other admin now “owns” this instance, and hosts it in the EU.

I am just a glorified moderator now.

I’d say, you have a small instance.

I used to host lemmyonline.com, which has somewhere around 50-100 users.

It was upwards of 50-80g of disk space, and it used a pretty good chunk of bandwidth. CPU/Memory requirements were not very high though.

I’d gladly donate a few TB, but Not about to fill my entire array for books i’ll never read…

I’m gonna wait a few years, until prices go waaay down… and I plan on doubling/tripling the PV capacity, which will make everything much more effective, as well.

How did you get that rate? We pay 33 cents, and it was 24 cents just a few months ago… wouldn’t be surprised if it goes up again next year and the year after since even 33 cents is government subsidised (so - there’s no cheaper option available).

All about location. There are supposedly many in my area on a different coop utility, who are only paying 0.03c/kwh.

Ooof. Why’d you do that? We simply put (a bit over) 5kW of panels on the roof, and a good 5kW inverter. One day of sun generates about as much power as we use in a week, and even if it’s overcast we still come out ahead.

I had a few other goals I wanted to accomplish-

1. Reliability. The grid here isn’t the most stable, and blinks a few times per week. And, a time or two per year, we have an outage. This solution has handled this fantastically well, so well, that I don’t even notice when the grid has dropped unless I specifically go for it.

2. Apart of this, was bringing some of my wiring/electrical up to code. This accounted for 10k of the price-tag… I relocated/replaced the mains panel across the house to a location more suitable then my daughter’s closet. Also- the panel itself, was pretty old, and needed to be modernized.

One more issue- my PV is undersized a bit. Adding another 3kw, would yield much better returns for me.

Its undersized, because if I oversized it, and sent more energy than I consumed, my lovely utility slaps on a 42$ fee… which is no-bueno.

If the ROI => 25 years, then it’s not worth it- because the hardware and equipment is considered deprecated at that point.

If it lasts 30 years, sure, its making good use of itself. But- everything is rated between 15-25 years. As such, after that period, it’s considered end of life, and no longer supported.

Now- I will note, it is not worth it for the “Rate I currently pay”, which is 0.08c/kwh. If next year, my electricity rates tripled, it would vastly reduce the amount of time until this solution reached ROI. And- I am betting that electricity does not get cheaper in the future, otherwise I would have not have pulled the trigger on a 50,000$ project, where the math told me it wasn’t the best idea.

Also, if you really want to see everything quantified- I plan on publishing all of the math, and numbers at the one year mark… which will be around march. -> https://static.xtremeownage.com/pages/Projects/Solar-Project/

Coming from someone who owns them-

Nah, it’s not worth it… at least, if you strictly look at “saving money” overall.

ROI is on average 10-25 years, depending on your current cost of energy. The components/inverters/etc, are usually rated for 20-25 years.

At least- this applies if you have a properly licensed contractor install everything. If you do everything yourself, its extremely worth it, and would achieve ROI in a decade or less.

Anti-DDOS, eh?

You lost me there. There is no self-hosted anti-ddos solution that is going to be effective… Because any decent DDOS attack, can easily completely overwhelm your WAN connection. (And potentially even your ISP’s upstream(s) )#

Don’t make the same mistake reddit did, by assuming active users = engagement.

Look at reddit’s stats, active users didn’t drop very drastically when everyone left. However, engagement/comments dropped drastically.

I’d love to see the same comparison with more real-world use-cases.

Code golf, is mostly pretty simple use-cases, which have been optimized many times over.

When, you build out an application with a user-interface, proper event handling, etc… c++ is MUCH more verbose then c# for example, and they are ranked pretty close together.

For me, that would have been over 15 years ago. Even my NAS from 2014 was pushing 16T or so.

yea… every modern IDE makes it extremely obvious of the unicode character…

SO… yea…

If you really wanted to be evil, zero-width space is the worst.

https://symbl.cc/en/200B/

You don’t see it.

I built a homemade one. 2.4kwh of capacity.

Should be good for a few decades easily.

Wouldn’t call it cheap. But, it will be around for 15 or 20 years.

https://xtremeownage.com/2021/06/12/portable-2-4kwh-power-supply-ups/

Its only a problem when you get the electric bill! (Or the wife finds your ebay receipts)

None… because I don’t see any of them. Ever.

If I were subscribed to them, I might see them.

But, I do not see them. EVER.

I use twitter. So, let me piss on mastadon. I use reddit. So, let me piss on lemmy. /s.

Seriously, stop pissing on alternatives just because they don’t work for you. More choice, is generally a good thing (with the exception of streaming services…)