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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • Agreed.

    The way I think it should be is:

    • mandatory 25 days of vacation, plus statutory holidays
    • mandatory vacation is subtracted from any performance targets (i.e. it is accounted for in business planning and not offloaded to the employee)
    • vacation beyond that is unlimited, but may impact your performance
    • major anniversary events within the company grant paid leave of absences

    To the last point - I don’t recall which company it was - I have seen one where after a certain period of service your granted a 3 or 6 month leave of absence to go do something else. Travel the world, get really deep into Japanese joinery, or build a new version of DNS. I think that’s something that is healthy for humans.















  • I still haven’t figured out how to make a firewall rule with slaac on pfsense, with an ISP that hands out addresses at random. It’s my understanding’s slaac is the “right” way to do things, not dhcp and reservations.

    Granted, it’s been a minute since I tried so I don’t remember the issues, but as I recall, when ipv6 prefix changes, device gets new IP (and it seems not just the prefix part. I can get the firewall to register IPs into DNS and use a dns based firewall rule, but unbound restarts and blows out its cache when a device joins the network. And there another part to it but it’s all gone fuzzy.




  • The simple approach is a LiFePO4 battery bank with a charge capacity (A) and charge controller that is appropriately matched to your generator’s output. Fire up the generator to run heavy draw appliances such as electric stove, or when batteries are low.

    It’s somewhat frustrating to me when I’m running the generator to charge my laptop and run internet (150w) and the thing is rated to 5kw. Worse yet if you were running only lights. This can be mitigated, somewhat, by having an inverter generator which responds to load.

    There’s many problems with a UPS:

    1. UPS are designed to handle short term load. That is, a brief power interruption as a cable is relocated, or the time between an outage and the generators starting. Therefore, even if it has the capacity to run the home in current, it’s not likely to have the batteries behind it
    2. UPS usually charge very slowly after discharge.
    3. A UPS sized for a home - even off-grid cabin - is going to be obscenely expensive.
    4. UPS usually use lead-acid batteries which, while by far the cheapest option, lag behind lithium based alternatives significantly in terms of depth of cycle, cycle count, and charge/discharge current.

    Depending on your projected load, those “solar generators” may be a good fit. Ecoflow, for example, has a “smart generator” which hooks up to their inverter/battery pack and fires up when the battery is low. You can easily connect some solar panels as well. However, if you consider your money worth more than the ease of use or you need capacity exceeding what is readily available, there’s more affordable solutions.

    Personally, unless you have a strong need for it, I would strive to find a solution using solar generation as the primary source, with the generator only providing backup. It’s regrettably the “expensive” option.