Frater Mus

Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.

LIKE dogs, books, thoughtful people of all flavors DISLIKE bullies, sh1tposters, partisans, noise

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • TL;DR: laws based on emotion (especially those named after individuals, or that include the words children or patriot) are rarely good laws.

    I tell her imagine if that was our kid missing, youd want as many people to see it as possible.

    AMBER alerts don’t do what the public thinks they do; they do what the politicians know they do: demonstrate doing something when the base demands “somebody’s gotta do something”. It’s political equivalent of looking Very Serious and intoning “thoughts and prayers”.

    If we actually cared about the kids we’d notice the majority of AMBER alerts are due to frustrated non-custodial parents taking their kids, and to runaways. We could address the problems at first base, or we can continue to be shocked, SHOCKED I say, and go through the kabuki once again.








  • Off-leash Chihuahuas and mini dachshunds are the bane of my (leashed) pibble’s existence on walks. They are forever running up and getting right in her face. When they bite her or latch onto her throat she lays down on them. After a few squishes the dog usually gives up while the panicked owner wails “I’m so sorry… Princess! Come here Princess!.. I’m so sorry… I’m so sorry.”

    My dog is chill but if she eventually ragdolls a biter I don’t want to hear any complaining about it. FAFO.







  • Frater MustoLinux@lemmy.mlTips for getting better at Linux.
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    What tips/ideas do you have for getting better at navigating the terminal, and getting a better understanding of how the os works

    Running an OS as a virtual is liberating. Dive in, make mistakes, fix them (or not and have to reinstall or redo from the last save). No real consequences for exploring.





  • I would like to get an idea of what their actual performance would be like before I do the installation

    PVwatts and similar models are quite useful for estimating harvest in a given time/place.

    Its a strange location with some over hanging trees and some shading by neighbours fromntine to time but it could help provide some redundancy

    Partial shading is brutal on solar harvest. It will be the tail that wags the dog in this scenario.





  • it accomplished my goal

    That’s the most important part, IMO.

    I was in the boonies once with another camper and rigged up something similar for them. The goal of this one was to run small loads off the inverter while the sun was out. I had a spare motorcycle battery from another project, a small spare inverter, and a relay. The battery was basically just a way to stabilize the solar charge controller and was not intended to run loads in the normal sense.

    • 200w of panel -> 20A single-stage PWM like pictured in the OP -> 12Ah AGM
    • PWM load output -> relay trigger
    • battery -> relay power -> inverter -> 120vac loads

    Basically whenever the sun was out they could run their small loads. When the battery voltage dropped below 12.7v (ie, sun no longer out) the relay would turn off the inverter and the loads would no longer be powered.

    Since the controller was a single statge charger I set it to the Vabs of the battery, 14.5v.