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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

    But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

    It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

    But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.






  • And their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

    “It was too expensive from an engineering standpoint”. Nonsense, Android handled it, your app merely reads and writes to the SMS database via an API.

    Or are you telling me the free SMS apps like Handcent, QuickSMS, etc, had a massive engineering team?

    This is when I stopped using Signal, when this lie was so blatant, I can no longer trust them.



  • Some people like to suffer.

    I’ll go a long way to reduce my data exposure, but ffs, Windows and Office are the standard worldwide, for a reason. It’s just naive and foolish to fight this battle while you have enough pressure and time limits as it is.

    And I run multiple Linux-based systems in my home lab, but my laptop is windows, because “ain’t nobody got time for that”, as Sweet Brown would say.