solarman5000

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by solarman5000 2y ago
I pay for it. I dont do anything super fancy, and its been working fine for two years now. I think the cost is low enough that I'm happy paying and not thinking about email setup, and happy I'm not paying google
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by solarman5000 2y ago
GrapheneOS is fantastic for de-googling. I switched years ago and have been happier ever since
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I'm not a gamer, in fact I think they are mostly poison for the brain, but I really REALLY appreciate what steam/valve/ proton whoever has done to help bring people over to the FOSS side. Ive converted a lot of kids when befo
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by solarman5000 3y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elzEOs2pY38 The real eggman
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I'm OK if Organic Maps isn't designed for the average ignorant user. I've been using it for over a year now and its great, don't need it ruined so a bunch of casuals can download it
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by solarman5000 3y ago
Tools are a lot cheaper if you don't listen to the hype from the snap-on guy
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by solarman5000 3y ago
In USA people get tax credits for installing solar. The cost of solar has gone down, the cost to the consumer has remained the same or increased. It is sales people eating up that margin, which is being paid for by tax payers
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I hope I live long enough to see sales people eliminated. In solar, they contribute the least to the process yet gobble up 30% of the money. It is a total waste of taxpayer money, adoption would be a lot faster if we got rid of the greedy f
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I homeschool my kids comp sci stuff, because public schools are not preparing children at all, they are just indoctrination centers for google, Microsoft or Apple. In my fight to let my kids bring their own laptops, the administration said
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by solarman5000 3y ago
Thank you devs, KeePassXC helps keep my family protected :-)
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I have to pay for about 30 adobe acrobat licenses a year I would much rather throw this money your way, but I need those features
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by solarman5000 3y ago
You must be new to politics... There are bad apples in every party, the actions of one individual do not represent the whole party
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I'm one of them. I want my children to meet him so badly. This news about his health is heart breaking
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by solarman5000 3y ago
Believe it or not, libertarianism is the entire bottom half of the political compass, and the vast majority of them are not anarchists
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by solarman5000 3y ago
This is mitigated with OpenADR and V2G technology. Consumers can set when they charge (or discharge) based on utility incentives. So its not like everyone goes home and charges their car at the same time..
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by solarman5000 3y ago
For a long time OpenRA was the only thing that would work on my kids Linux computers. The only reason I upgraded their computers is because OpenRA made an update that wouldn't work on first gen i5 integrated graphics. We play a game to
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by solarman5000 3y ago
The resources and social stigma is vastly different between the two, and way worse for opiate users. The path for getting addicted in the first place is also very different, lots of opiate addicts got hooked after getting them prescribed to
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by solarman5000 3y ago
I get the point, and appreciate their input to the discussion.. but I'd rather pay money to matrix / element.io and make their service better. These kinds of problems don't seem to come up so often with FOSS. I don't use
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by solarman5000 3y ago
What about the poor people who jumped out of windows or in front of traffic while on psychedelics? Oh yeah, that doesn't happen, because the govt has had a decades long monopoly on fear mongering BS when it comes to psychedelics.
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by solarman5000 4y ago
I also left California because of the regulations and hidden taxes everywhere. They made it Very difficult for a hardware startup company.. If you don't have angel investors, don't bother opening up in Cali, go to a more friendly
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by solarman5000 4y ago
https://ie.energy/earth_engine/index.html This guy is a Mormon, scamming other Mormons.. Not surprising given that the founder of LDS church was a convicted scammer, it's part of church history
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by solarman5000 4y ago
I hire apprentice electricians starting at $80k/yr, journeymen are $120k+ (about 3 years after becoming apprentice). Or for $60k I can hire a guy who smokes meth with the customers neighbors There's nobody in trades anymore, their
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by solarman5000 4y ago
I lose workers to foxxcon all the time. They are one of the best companies in SZ to work for, with high wages and good benefits.. I dont think many people in CN would agree with your definition of what slave labor is
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by solarman5000 4y ago
Sounds good, but it makes me uneasy when these 3 companies agree on something. As far as I'm concerned, they are all working for the govt
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by solarman5000 4y ago
I think this is VERY cool. I was never a fan of Tesla's 'solution' for EVs, I think it is fitting that this one was repurposed into something more useful. I hope the bidirectional EVs like the new F150 become the mainstream o
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by solarman5000 5y ago
>Because they handled it for hundreds of years, and it works all day everyday. Yeah that great depression that started in 1929 and sank the world, the stagflation of the 1980's, the crisis in 2008, the 7% inflation this year, all ev
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by solarman5000 5y ago
"Wahh free market sucks.. Let's bring government in so they can force the market to change for me"
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by solarman5000 5y ago
This is really cool! He should help write changes in NEC code book that allows salvaged EV batteries to be installed in houses. My state will allow it, tweets like this help promote the idea
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by solarman5000 5y ago
Pixel phone with grapheneOS, nextdns.io private DNS, a good VPN, and f-droid app store. Super easy, I've been using this setup for 1.5 years Be sure to donate to FOSS projects as well.
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by solarman5000 5y ago
I'm just a stupid engineer; Robinhood got me into trading stocks and crypto. I did a ton of research and started being really successful. Then, I was labelled a 'day trader', and was super pissed. It made no sense to me why I

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