Very nice! I want to do something like this… it’s just hard to make the jump since I live in Western Washington where it rains for half of the year.

Good idea on the adjustable angle!

Olympic is by far my favorite national park, so much so that I moved as close as I could get!

Thanks for sharing.

Have you thought about battery chemistry? LiFePo4 batteries last a lot longer because they don’t degrade as much as lead acid during cycling, and they’re better than standard lithium in that regard as well (draining them to 0 or having them charged at 100% doesn’t harm the cells). Plus, they’re a lot less explosively flammable than lithium.

They are more expensive, especially the rack mounted ones that allow for easy replacement. But goldenmate makes affordable ones that work really well! I have one that connects up to NUT via USB. I think they have that offering in smaller ones close to your budget, but you’d need to make sure it has the USB connection before going that route.

For example, this one is $229 usd and is 600W. You could run 100W on it for hours: https://goldenmateenergy.com/products/goldenmate-8-outlets-1000va-ups-lifepo4-battery-backup-and-surge-protector-with-nas-interface!

Ah, got it. That’s at least better than what I thought, but still not great.

The money is gone, because the FCC gave it to private companies. Unless the FCC stops giving grants to private companies, people will have to deal with spotty, unreliable internet that is overpriced. It was very much given to private companies (such as Comcast, Time Warner, and now SpaceX) in much more massive quantities than public fiber. There is definitely at least some “instead of”.

I didn’t say there weren’t legitimate uses, but fiber is more often a better solution and it doesn’t fall out of the sky in an unsustainable way. Once the fiber is there, it’s there, and unlike LEO satellites, it can be repaired. It also doesn’t create an ungodly amount of pollution every time they need to lay some more, no where near as much.

I’d be curious to know what the astronomical use you’re thinking of is.

They can’t always filter it out. A lot of times the satellite tracks are RIGHT in front of what they’re observing. If it weren’t a problem, why are astronomers speaking out about it? Space telescope time is priceless, and it takes years to even get the chance to have a window of time where you’re able to use it. Have you ever seen how booked up they are? Saying they have satellite options only serves to minimize the actual problem to those that have no idea what that looks like.

The point isn’t that there are more internet users than astronomers. The point is that we had a better solution, most of the grants for that solution were given to private companies, and now one of the private companies (owned by a nazi billionaire fuck) is exploiting that for financial gain, while astronomers are catching strays. The point, in the end, is that SpaceX, like other private companies, should have never been given a grant from the FCC, especially when the nazi owner is one of the richest people on the planet.

I agree for the most part, but if instead of giving FCC money to a nazi billionaire scumbag we funded public utility fiber, we would have no need to ruin ground based astronomy and we’d have faster, more stable, lower latency connections. Switching to my county’s PUD fiber was huge. I pay $65/mo for gig up and down and get sub 15ms pings in most things.

The FCC should have never given money to any private company, and certainly not one owned by one of the richest scumbags around.

It has a shitty LLM company attached, so that magically makes it one of the most valuable companies in the world!

While I believe this to be relatively true, since it’s CBS I wouldn’t be surprised if the intent of the article is to shift blame about the fucked economy from Trump to the lower class.

Wait, is WoW owned by paramount now?

Not surprising, fucking scumbags.

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

I heard there’s two gold bars in each one!

Yeah I’ve only seen the shitty merch at airports and nothing else, and I live near a host city.

This summer, I believe. Starting early June.

Raid 10 is and interesting idea for sure. It would certainly help with write speeds, although if I want to utilize the “self-healing” of ZFS, I’d need to do two (separately striped) vdevs that mirror each other to get the equivalent to RAID10, right?

I should have mentioned that I was (and still am) using XFS for my primary pool. XFS has been great, I was just hoping for a solution which would make it so I don’t have to hit my backups unless absolutely necessary (such as full array loss, for example). ZFS’ data corruption protection is very intriguing, it’s mostly the rebuild time and write speed that is making me think about doing something else.

Would this just be to help with the rebuild time? Raid10 in ZFS is an interesting idea, which would also require two mirrors and striping.

Yeah, I’m leaning towards ZFS for sure after reading about btrfs’ past…

Interesting idea.

Absolutely, 4-3-2 is what I use now! MDisc backups have been great.