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.

That sort of thing isn’t anything new. My grandpa made my dad burn his baseball cards because he thought they were becoming “idols.”

I’m always amazed that my dad managed to rebuild their relationship later in life.

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.”

Effectively. Transportation safety with exemptions made for batteries under 20Wh.

It’s Nvidia that that jumps out in your question.

They are /were notorious for lackluster support on Linux and sleep/wake issues are /were significant.

IIRC you still need to configure a few bits to get it to work properly (maybe just a systems service enable?).

… And it looks like it’s still a constant issue.

Thread with various fixes and tweaks: https://gist.github.com/bmcbm/375f14eaa17f88756b4bdbbebbcfd029

Anti-clickbait title: the US federal regulation limiting cell phone battery capacity.

If you want to skip the click through: 20Wh maximum

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-173/subpart-E/section-173.185

There’s a couple options from before the ps2 standard, but I’d guess it’s a 5-pin DIN connector on an AT keyboard (e.g. IBM model M). You’ll need to know more about the keyboard to make a determination, but you might get lucky with a passive adapter to PS2 and chain to USB. Before the ps2 standard, there was more variety between manufacturers in both signaling and connectors.

There are so many dumb regulations and circumstances that functionally push people to giant vehicles.

For instance: I replaced my 2016 VW golf base model with an electric F150 this year for a multitude of reasons. I got a refund from insurance (with the same coverage). None of this makes sense except that I’m less likely to be injured by other motorists in my 3.5ton truck. I found this depressing.

For the uninitiated.

Good news, the gators will have an even bigger feast.

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