Nice!

We're just about to cross the 8MWh line for the year.

We don't have battery backup set up, but we did just get a Ford Lightning with that in mind.

I really need to setup home assistant.

Next time just tell Noem that the rain didn't have a visa to enter the country.

And I helped! With my tiny 15MWh/yr

Make that 3!

If you need a half step on your journey, convert your crontab to systemd timers first.

Trump tried to cut NOAA funding by billions over the first administration, but Congress basically kept funding steady.

NOAA isn't under homeland security, so who knows why Numbskull Noem even talked about it.

Why didn't they ask her if this was going to affect her ability to meet the arrest quota for illegals? Or if the weather response would take eyes off the border allowing the cartels to use this distraction to increase fentanyl shipments?

At least give her the proverbial rope to hang herself with questions in her own purview.

7/29 is TACO Tuesday!

Had a smoke detector going off randomly one night and I pulled it down only to have mama crawl all over my hand as the babies were running around like maniacs, some casting off. Mama still had a bunch on her when I got the smoke detector outside.

Sorry to hear that it's also a bad thing.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/07/07/croatian-right-wing-singer-marko-perkovic-and-fans-make-pro-nazi-salutes-at-record-breakin

Hopefully it was also bringing ultra right wing nationalist types from other countries and not drawing exclusively from Croatia.

I do enjoy the irony of idolizing a puppet regime though. Strange that people want even their government leaders to be boot lickers of others again.

At least it will be a reminder to talk to the kid about the dangers of the past I guess?

... It will be in the past, right? Please say it will.

I started off with fan grills and led fans and cold cathode lighting way back when.

Now, my gaming PC, which is about due for its 5 yr update again, is in an old antec sonata case from 2008ish. I'll probably splurge on a new one next round, but if it's fancy, it will be one of those unassuming fractal cases with wood.

No lights if I can help it.

If you read the article or regulation, you'll note that there are some ways to get around this by dividing the battery into cells.

Also, that is a fucking hilarious "phone."