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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Kind of. I am a CEO (that's the easy part) of a small consulting company in healthcare.

The hard part is to explain what we actually do: We do consult organisations about (healthcare related) disaster preparedness/risk management and contingency planning. So you call us if you want to have proper plans in case your hospital catches fire, COVID and monkey pox have baby or if you are a city and need to know how to plan for "the day X". But as we work mainly on a systemic level you can also call us if you need a more intelligence focused plan e.g. "I am going to South Sudan, what do I do if I have an accident?".

Additionally we also consult for ambulance services, e.g. how to plan vehicle allocation, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You can absolutely install a raspberry on a USB stick/SSD? I do it all the time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, a proper solar setup would absolutely work - I did something similar with a Pi zero 2w and Motion OS. Actually Pi's are fairly nice webcams for some speciality applications - e.g. when you want to use multiple cameras from the same device, need special cameras or want something done appliance-sided. And the form factor is decent with the RPI02w.

I intentionally didn't use a solar panel as the main power source, but used a regular large USB battery with an analog timer/clock that simply powered the pi on for 20min a day and gave it enough time to take the picture and mail it to me. (I had WiFi at the site)

The solar panel was only an add-on to increase the time the battery lasted but it worked pretty well during the summer months. During winter it didn't do too much, but that's okay - I still got two weeks out of the USB battery which was pretty comfortable. I simply replaced the battery on the days I was on-site and never had a problem.

I now power a Lora to NB-IOT gateway with a complete solar kit, though with one of these camping kits that provide 60w and charge a battery. The NB IOT gateway takes 12w max(4w on average)so it is more than enough to both charge the battery and run the gateway even on cloudier winter days. But this project is in a pretty sunny spot and it's placed outside - I would highly discourage you to use one of these in your friends house - the first set I had almost caught fire. No biggie in that location, huge problem if it is your friends home.

PS: Do you have a chance to use PoE maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stay away from the combo units. They are shit. And the reduced throughput is a major issue.

A tower design has to have the washer below the dryer, as the washer is creating more vibrations and simply weighs more.

Not all manufacturers allow a dryer to be placed upon their washers and not all washers have a big enough top.

Some (Bosch-Siemens-Appliances does i.e.) do offer specialised "tops" that you can use and that are working quite well. (Example

Personally I would put another lashing strap around the combination, though,just to be extra safe, especially if you have children or pets.

Other than that the combination works without a problem,we have been using that for around 15 years by now, only interrupted by our experiments with combo machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The combo units are shit. Believe me,I tried.

Efficiency sucks, you can often dry less than you can wash. And especially if you have larger amounts to wash/dry you can only have half the throughput.

And according to a few customer protection/test organisations they seem to be less reliable as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Still waiting for it to get better ten years later.

And yes,I had world class treatment with no financial limits.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Or pirate radio it and make people think it's a new number station. Then someone will surely put it on YouTube so you can listen to it there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Mullvad until you are often in the PCR, there I had a much better experience with ExpressVPN compared to basically everyone else.

If you need a lot of exit nodes in different countries Proton or Pure, but I grow increasingly wary of Proton these days and Pure is getting more and more enshitified these days.

So I simply use Mullvad for privacy and my own WG service for security.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I must actually revoke my statement,it seems like it is now being revived and is developed again, at a much slower pace,though.

But much better than nothing and at least security updates seem to be working.

Sorry for the misinformation, my bad, the different sources are quite misleading sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

And sadly MeshCentral is pretty much death development wise, isn't it? The main dev left Intel and now has not enough time for the project, wasn't that the story?

Edit: it seems to be developed again, much slower,though. But better than nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

OF was generally a masterpiece that nowadays is often forgotten.

The massive conquer the island battles alone, often taking more than 12,sometimes more than 24h were epic for the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You can, without much work actually, remove the brain through the cervical hole (the hole the spine is "connected" to)

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