I’ve just used Ubuntu since the early 2000s. I know people have plenty of grievances with Ubuntu and Canonical but Ubuntu has always just worked for me. There is tons of documentation and the user base is so huge that it’s easy to get questions answered.

I would have responded.

I don’t know about OPS but Redacted wasn’t hard to interview into.

But not Signal? I use Signal but I’m not sure I can get my chat groups to use something else.

I carry around an Anker battery bank and a USB fan that I keep pointed at myself.

I’ve stopped wearing a shirt.

I sit in a lawn chair in the shade and move as little as possible.

Is there a good online tool for calculating the cosign of solar Zenith so I can know how much solar my my panels could be making in ideal conditions? I see that you’ve used it in your blog.

This was gonna be my suggestion as well.

I also go in and prune the library every so often to get rid of my sister in law’s trashy reality TV shows.

I am responding to you on an LG V30 that I haven’t been able to part with because of the things you mentioned.

The battery life sucks and sometimes the fingerprint reader on the back doesn’t work right but I can’t bring myself to buy something new that doesn’t have the features I want. It just feels like I’d be downgrading.

I can’t speak to any of the newer litter robots as I have a LR1 and an LR2. The only issue I had was with the LR1. The hall effect sensor wore out and I was able to replace it with parts from their site.

I and many people I know swear by the litter robot. Off the top of my head I can think of 5 different households in my social circle with 1 or more litter robots.

For 4 cats you might want two litter robots as they tend to fill up quickly with multiple cats. Or set up the litter robot in addition to a traditional litter box so the cats can choose where to poop.

I’d rather just close the lid and have it not be dead the next time I open it. Sure I could do a proper shutdown if I know I’m done for the day, but in an office running from meeting to meeting that’s not always how things work out.

I’d like the option of choosing between partial sleep and full sleep. When I pack up my work laptop for the weekend it sucks getting to a Monday morning meeting and having the laptop be dead.

I get love letters from my isp whenever I share torrents from public trackers. I’ve never gotten one from a private tracker so I only use private trackers now.

Yes, I would need to run a larger gauge wire but the connection point on the vehicle is capable of 60 amps. I just don’t want to run more wires though because I’m lazy.

I typically only relocate every few days but when I do I’m usually driving for at least 3-4 hours. My 30 amp Orion plus my solar panels is usually enough to get my 272aH battery to full. I do wish I had gone with a larger DC-DC charger because I occasionally have to idle the engine to charge the battery when the weather is cloudy even if I’m not driving anywhere. A 60 amp charger would reduce the time I’d need to idle in order to get a decent charge.

One minor annoyance is that the Orion doesn’t charge my lifepo4 to 100% on its own. I don’t think the voltage knob goes high enough to hit the top voltage that my BMS considers 100%. It’s probably only a few amp hours of capacity missing, but it bugs me to drive all night and end up with only 95% charge.

Download a torrent file and put it into a torrent client. Let the client download the torrent. Take the resulting file and watch it using the video player of your choice.

Yes but don’t tell anyone.

I had no idea he was an artist but I recognize his name from a song by Feed Me.

https://youtu.be/C3oPz5uzeqg?si=B5MBUwme404WJfQi

I’ve been enjoying BG3 quite a bit but I actually feel like DOS2 is more accessible as someone who has never played D&D. All the modifiers and weapon proficiencies and armor class things are really confusing to me as a noob. This complexity adds a ton of depth to the game but I feel like combat in DOS2 was more straightforward and I think I like it more.

Still haven’t gotten out of act 1 in BG3 yet so my opinion may change as I get more familiar with it.

Congratulations! I just hit a year. Hope to keep doing it for the next few years at least.