[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This sent me down a rabbit hole since it's something I've half-considering for a while. I prefer text configuration rather than GUI so I ended up installing graph-easy on my debian laptop:

sudo apt install libgraph-easy-perl

and made a first attempt to diagram the power setup in my campervan

It's a perl module but the graph-easy wrapper makes it behave like any other CLI tool. cat or echo the config text to the wrapper and the graph pops out on STDOUT

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I had a dobie who was obsessed with eating tubes of chapstick. Had to put them way up high when they weren't in my pocket

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Are you living on a space station? What is this shitload of power?

Some of us live off-grid and make every Watt-hour we consume. So it may be that one man's fanciful bullshit is another man's daily life. For context, this is my 2,461st day offgrid.

A whole 60 watts?

Over the last 30 days I've averaged 2.01kWh/day, or an average constant consumption of 84w. All in. And that's on the high end for folks in similar use cases. In this scenario adding in another 60w would be significant (ie, impossible for my rig during winter months).

As Sesame Street taught showed us it's a matter of perspective.


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My geeky take on the DC-DC charging video that is getting a lot of attention.

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snow is tough on solar (img.mousetrap.net)
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Boondocking site at 7,500ft in the Sandia Mtns. Just east of Albuquerque.

Forecast called for some precip, but I was't expecting this much. I've swept 9" off the panels so far.

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It does discuss LTVA, but much of the article deals with the tweakers and squatters that are trashing public land. Absolutely stereotypical pics are posted.

Moral of the story: don't be a tweaker and/or squatter and fsck it up for the rest of us :-)

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Experiment rather than product, but still an interesting read. Plus it looks cool.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40497343

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I've been procrastinating because it's relatively expensive. But a confluence of factors (mail forwarding dependability, vehicle registration, eligibility for SNAP) finally nudged be to sign on.

Details and costs in the blog post above.

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VictronConnect 6.x on Linux (mouse.mousetrap.net)
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For folks who get aborts/dumps on 6.x check to see if libxcb-cursor0 is installed.

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Bartlett’s proposed ordinance amendment to control the parking of recreational vehicles and similar things is a dicey situation. It seems easy to manage, but the specifics pose issues that need addressing. The overall purpose is to protect property values.

Yes, this discussion is about RVs owned by homeowners but the financial incentives are the same

Cf. homevoters

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I hope everyone is doing well and catching some of that low December sun on their panels. The good news for folks in the northern hemisphere is solar harvest will start going up again. Those starving battery banks will start getting some relief. :-)

When I built the rig in 2017 I estimated my power requirements then used insolation models like PVwatts to figure out what it would take to meet them year 'round. In practice this meant sizing the array for Decemper in my wintering spots. It's worked surprisingly well. Just enough power in deep winter and power to waste the rest of the year.

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Bob Wells, the Cheap RV living guy, has sold his last van-based rig and moved into a Subaru Forester.

He explains his reasoning in the video. I am all for people doing what makes them happy. :-)

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Forked from a discussion on reddit. There is widespread belief that charging freezing is ok. That's not necessarily the case.

This situation is a bit different because OP will have access to shore power.

[-] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago
  1. vasectomy
  2. divorce
  3. campervan
[-] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you ever created your own job perks?

No, but I had a small company and asked the worker bees to define their own perks.

There were four employees. Three of them played paintball together and wanted paintballs. So I brought a case of their favorite balls into the office before their outings. The fourth guy wanted to have baby carrots to snack on. He ate ~3 lbs a week. Dude would code for hours as long as he was crunching carrots.

I couldn't have guessed what any of them wanted but they were absolutely cranked by getting it. This was a huge lesson for me: ask people what they want.

[-] [email protected] 70 points 2 years ago

It's... inconceivable no one has said Princess Bride yet.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

what controversial thing would the vettong process uncover about you?

Nice try, FBI!

:-)

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

I was driving with a friend on in Louisiana about 3am one night in the late 90s. I thought I saw something ahead in the right lane so I moved into the left lane just in case.

As we got closer there was a giant shadow of some kind with only tiny reflectors at the edges. It was a HUGE matte black boat filling the lane on a matte black trailer with no plates. Closest comparison I can come up with would be one of those river patrol boats from the Vietnam war.

We were on cruise so it took a few seconds to pass them. The boat was being towed by a matte black F-550 (?) MDT with no plates and no lights other than headlights.

I did not look up at the driver when we passed. I have no idea if this was a drug thing, an intel thing, or what.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

No. My behavior is derived from ethics, not from law.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago

I once had a b2b customer (store owner) tell me that having different pricing for wholesale and retail customers was racist.

I'm pretty sure meant discriminatory but even that doesn't make much sense.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago

Why doesn’t Lemmy implement this seemingly obvious feature?

It's so obvious I won't even mention it in the thread title

[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Given that it'd already killed someone, I'm going to nominate the second guy who thought he could cowboy criticality testing with the Demon Core at Los Alamos.

By coincidence, at this moment I am camped on a mountain overlooking the Los Alamos NL.

“Win stupid games, earn stupid prizes”?

BTW, I think it's play stupid games...

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