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Lemmy and the fediverse entirely. I guess you could also say social media entirely as this was my last vestige of it.

Planning to re-join the real world and put my energy into actual positive things.

Thanks. And yep. This started as a fun project 2 years ago and it turned into a nightmare. Best thing I can do is leave.

Thanks for being one of the sane ones lol.

While I regret clicking on the video (I saw the title and apparently didn’t know what I was expecting) I do have this nostalgia for when TVs were freaking furniture.

The only thing missing is the newer TV sitting on top of this one.

Who has two thumbs and is excited?

Bob Kelso Admiral Patrick

I don’t ever see myself disconnecting from the water company since I have to use sewer service and lack the space to install a septic system. Though I have been looking into plumbing in a grey water system to capture from sinks, showers, dishwasher, and the washing machine. Can do some simple filtering to re-use that for flushing or watering the lawn/garden.

I’ve got 4x55 gallon rain barrels for watering (they’re food grade but advised for non-potable water only). Definitely not enough to cover the household usage even if they were potable. I couldn’t imagine living without water service or a well on my property (not sure if a well would even be practical/possible here).

I’d love to be self-sufficient but not quite able to do so right now.

In this one, it’s all in the inverter. You just plug it into an outlet, and it can do up to 1000W (though 950 was the most I’ve ever gotten from 1.2 KW of PV coming in at ~90 volts).

You can have multiple inverters; they match the frequency and voltage of the incoming utility power and won’t output anything if there’s no utility power coming in (anti-islanding protection).

The only thing to be aware of is not over loading a circuit where you have them connected. I do have a dedicated circuit/outlet for that.

They’re useless if the power’s out, but I’m looking into something of a transfer switch to redirect the PV output from the grid-tie inverter to a regular one, but I haven’t gone too far down that path yet.

Edit: It’s the same principle that’s used in balcony solar

Hey, I may be ugly and hate-filled, but…what was that third thing?

The only silver lining here is that it’s lit a fire under me to get my small grid-tie solar setup out of storage (haven’t installed it at my new house yet) and expand it.

When I had that running at my old house ($0.09/KWh), my 1.2 KW setup was only saving me about $7-10/mo at most, but at $0.29/KWh, I’m looking at about $27-30.

I like to joke that it takes me 3 hours to watch “60 Minutes” because I just keep pausing/rewinding because I’ve zoned out and have to go back and catch up.

I like the length, especially when not constrained by broadcast TV time slots (e.g. you can get a few extra-long episodes for finales and such). I think my biggest gripe is the hyper-serialized format making every season a 10 hour movie.

Getting back to the episode length, then I guess some series could benefit from being twenty, 30-minute episodes as opposed to ten 1-hour ones. Never thought I’d say this, but sometimes you just need a “filler” episode.

Edit: Gonna tack on my second gripe. You only get ten episodes and then it’s nearly two years between seasons for some shows. By the time the next season rolls around, I’ve completely forgotten the prior one and have to re-watch it to have any idea what’s happening.

One particular spite house in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_House_(Boston)#History

According to local legend, the structure was built as a “spite house” shortly after the Civil War:

… two brothers inherited land from their deceased father. While one brother was away serving in the military, the other built a large home, leaving the soldier only a shred of property that he felt certain was too tiny to build on. When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted and built the narrow house to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight and ruining his view.

Another source states:

Not much is known about the city’s narrowest house. Legend has it that … its unnamed builder erected it to shut off air and light from the home of a hostile neighbor (also nameless) with whom he had a dispute. … Believed to have been built after 1874

Anytime someone is the first of their species to join Starfleet, they tend to bend some rules. Which seems pretty consistent across the franchise.

Even in The Orville (which is a love letter to the franchise) they do acknowledge that, especially when there’s a Xeleyan applicant. Xeleyans typically don’t join Starfleet the Union fleet due to their preference for academic and scientific endeavors. When one does sign up, they get fast-tracked.

Sadly never came up.

I generally dislike editorialized headlines (when used as post titles) but this is the exception. Nicely played.

I noticed that, too. I think it’s just the lighting, color balance (it’s got a heavy yellow tint), and the sharp focus only on Briones’s face that’s making it look off. Pretty sure it looked the same in the episode.

Or maybe Briones wasn’t available to shoot that scene and they filmed it with a body double and added her face on in post? I don’t think I’ve read that, but it wouldn’t be unheard of.

Lol, I was gonna say:

If you’re Worf, “Whil Whheaton” is also acceptable.