People get away with a lot, but as you note it’s regional. All it takes is one gust of wind.
But I do have a steady average 8kt wind (I mean average over last 5 years day and night), but gusts and storms push 50kt. I wish wind power was more accessible like solar has become; I live in an area that’s frequently the windiest in the country. I’d be able to use it as primary generation and solar for top off.
Ground mount has to address wind load which can be significant. I think the standard is around 500kg wind lift per standard panel. I’ve got a number of 200w panels I haven’t set up because I don’t have an inverter but also because they’re a pain to anchor.
You’ve got to have space you want to use for them. Just because I have 10 200w panels for free doesn’t mean it makes sense to mount them on my roof (which is the only space I have facing the sun), because 400+w are available now and it costs money to mount them.
But it might not make sense to take down my 20 year old 200w panels and replace them, or maybe I can sell them to someone with more space.
I have snort running on my firewall monitoring my LAN port. Does it help? No idea. Does it make me feel good because it blocks stuff? Yup. It does enforce IP blacklists from a feed, so it’s a start.
Keeping an loose eye on things and watching for extra network traffic, cpu, ram usage is what I do.
I get that. It’s never been easier to self host with minimal knowledge and people still say it’s too hard. I said terminal but I don’t mean that to limit to bash. It could be any server interface.
I deal with the tech all day. I get paid to. I’d rather spend my leisure time touching grass, but I’m at that point in my career where it’s difficult to get excited like I do in my 20s.
Well, like i said, I don’t wanna stare at a terminal at home. I’m running too many services as it is.
Automate the updates with a cron job and use family for outage notifications.
I get that but the setup investment up front. Wow. I’ve built out my services exactly once (over 10 years now), so I don’t really see the value for myself.
That’s not what I meant. I can self host without building layers upon layers of infrastructure and infrastructure management tools.
In fact your post could be misconstrued to suggest that if you can’t build out a home server cluster with enterprise tooling and automated deployment as in TFA, you shouldn’t self-host. Realistically, it’s not necessary.
The advantage to using something like terraform is repeatability, reliability across environments and roll-backs.
How much fucking work do you do at home anyways? The last thing I want to see when I clock out is another terminal screen. I’ve been doing this too long.
I’m looking forward to seeing these trends in the care homes in 30-40 years.
Buccal fat removal + fillers is going to be pretty striking at 95yo.
Pure bare metal is crazy to me. I run proxmox and mount my storage there, and from there it is shared to machines that need it. It would be convenient to do a pass through to TrueNAS, for some of the functions it provides but I don’t trust that my skills for that. I’d have kept TrueNAS on bare metal, but I need so little horsepower for my services that it would be a waste. I don’t think the trade offs of having TrueNAS run my virtualisation environment were really worth it.
My router is bare metal. It’s much simpler to handle the networking with a single physical device like that. Again, it would be convenient to set up opnsense in a VM for failover. but it introduces a bunch of complexity I don’t want or really need. The router typically goes down only for maintenance, not because it crashed or something. I don’t have redundant power or ISPs either.
To me, docker is an abstraction layer I don’t need. VMs are good enough, and proxmox does a good job with LXCs so far.
Why would I spin up a VM and virtual network within that vm and then a container when I can just spin up a VM?
I’ve not spent time learning Docker or k8s; it seems very much a tool designed for a scale that most companies don’t operate at let alone my home lab.
Any ONVIF/ RTSP camera is probably going to work but I still keep them segregated from the Internet.
Motion triggered recording works fine to a SD card on many cameras. I’m so far happy with Reolink.
For remote access look into Tailscale.
It’s great but it’s $$$.
My understanding is that you can’t really get an espresso grinder that’s good for French press and vice versa. It may be a cost thing though - why pay $800 for a grinder and use a $20 coffeemaker. Manual grinders do narrow the gap though if you’re willing to put in the work. Usually, I’m not.
Heard good things about Commandante.
It’s interesting that the places that make lots of babies are also the source of emigration to places that make fewer babies.
I would give it more effort if it wasn’t the third tier coffeemaker in my house but routine is routine. Also for a while I had a stove that didn’t work with it as the base was too small vs the burner.
The videos came out well after I’d given up on it. Maybe I’ll dig it out again next weekend. Hot water in the pot and not tamping it probably makes a big difference.
I’ve never been able to get on with Moka pots but certainly a good grinder will make all the difference!
This is your sign that it is now time to use the spice grinder for spices.
You should consider testing your RO water and replacing the membrane more frequently. There shouldn’t be that much hardness there. My water comes in at about 550ppm and leaves about 20-50 (90% is when you’re “supposed” to replace the membrane from what I remember). I know it’s different than a boiler, but i don’t have scale in my kettle over about 7 years. I recently got a water softener and plumbed my RO into it which should help with longevity (RO was originally invented for desalination).
In the image it looks like there’s some pitting starting, so I’d stop there with the chemistry or see if I can find an alternative.