Generation enough to maybe keep the house from total death in winter for a week or so, but it won’t be pretty.
A few months of non-perishable food.
Some spare parts on the shelf
Some offline backups
But reality is, if the apocalypse really happens, it’ll look like the bronze age collapse on steroids, and we’d be lucky if only 90% of people died without our supply chains, especially once winter hits.
a lot of dell workstation class laptops have an “always plugged in” option in the bios for situations where the battery won’t be exercised much.
What you’ve been talking about here makes perfect sense to me.
A good chunk of myself hosting journey has been hardware. Figuring out the benefits and limitations of different thin clients, the capacity and limitations of various fanless PCs, and even stuff like worrying about the durability of ssds compared to hdds. So to say that you can’t talk about hardware doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, however, of course you want to keep it strictly scoped within the subject at hand, which is self-hosting. My driver work on the haiku operating system may be interesting, but if it doesn’t somehow relate to self-hosting, this just isn’t the place for it.
It’s based on conduit, which itself is really a lot better for self-hosting than synapse or dendrite.
I ran conduit on an atom d2550 alongside other services and it basically idled. Running synapse or dendrite on the same machine made the whole machine max out permanently.
Irc is fine, but not federated…
interesting piece of trivia: In 2003ish, there was a major power outage across the northwestern US and much of eastern Canada. One major issue was that the grid became desynchronized so resynchronizing was a major problem they had to solve to bring the grid back up. The province of Quebec uses high voltage DC lines (and also massive amounts of hydroelectric power, but that’s a conversation for another day) so they didn’t have that same problem and had returned their power to normal long before the rest of the region.
I really like this post, it gets down to nitty gritty brass tacks and brings some data.
That’s usually the thing that gets me grumpy about such conversations, people don’t bother discussing the realities of actually doing the thing, they just trade feel good articles about how everything is fine.
One thing about the paper is, the cost of high voltage DC lines is likely assuming you’re on land. Bringing the energy in from sea could be even more expensive, since you need much more expensive equipment, the environment is brutal, repairs involve sending people and material into that environment, and I have a feeling but I don’t know, I think that the movement of the offshore wind turbines could be mechanically stressful on cables that are relatively safe up in the air only dealing with wind (and they still can cut right through insulators swinging in the wind and vibrating at 60hz)
My dad found one solution that’s specifically for the task (whose name eludes me at the moment), but for me, my nextcloud is a Swiss army knife.
I didn’t like synapse or dendrite at all, but conduit has been great.
I thought about switching to the forks for new features, but I like that conduit is a nice boring piece of software that I’ve got set to auto-update so by the time I hear about a new update I’m usually running it.
I like boring server software. Excitement is not something I have time to enjoy.