epchris 7mo ago • 100%
I can't wait for this. I've gone down a few rabbit holes looking into solar and battery storage, and even just battery storage by itself to replace the generator we have for when power is out and/or to offset peak use time rates. But batteries are really expensive and I've already got a hundred kilowatt hours sitting in my garage.
epchris 7mo ago • 100%
I'm not sure what you mean by cost-effective resources, are you wondering what things are worth investing into inside of a total budget versus which things you could be more frugal on? Overall I would say there's not a big difference in terms of what to consider differently from running Windows: Linux will benefit just as much from good hardware (maybe more?) as window as will.
If you want to do plex and utilize hardware video transcoding you'll probably want an Nvidia GPU but I've had better experiences with AMD graphics cards in Linux. The best home management tool I can recommend is home assistant, and it doesn't have particularly high system requirements, you can run it on a raspberry pi.
epchris 7mo ago • 100%
Would love to have seen OpenPilot form Comma on this list to how it compared.
I just installed the [Kia Uvo](https://github.com/Hyundai-Kia-Connect/kia_uvo) integration via HACS but am concerned with settings causing 12v battery drain on the car. Anyone else have this set up and willing to share their experience with it?
epchris 10mo ago • 75%
I could never get hardware accelerated video working with Firefox on my Linux laptop, and Google Meet (used for work) doesn't work well ( but I guess I blame Google for that).
epchris 11mo ago • 100%
It looks like they've changed the way they do it a bit they now have these (this is light to med, there's another one for med-dark roast): https://happymugcoffee.com/products/roasters-choice-a
epchris 11mo ago • 100%
I have been buying from HappyMug for years, I do a subscription thing with them that gets me one bag of one of their blends that I picked and then one bag of single origin coffee every month. I'm very happy with it.
epchris 1y ago • 100%
I don't know about natively, but I've played both FFXIV and EVE Online in Linux in the past, and they ran well, but it's been a little bit.
epchris 1y ago • 65%
From the downvotes it seems like many people might be this:
epchris 1y ago • 100%
It's an XWing! 👍
epchris 1y ago • 77%
Yeah, I like overwatch, have gotten my money's worth from it and the steam integration makes it so much easier to run on Linux, so I'm happy with it.
epchris 1y ago • 100%
Just out of curiosity, since I'm also considering bonds, what is "close to retirement" enough to consider non insignificant bod allocation?
epchris 1y ago • 100%
hm, I'm not sure I know :) not really into jump scares, but do often love kitchy B horror. I also love scifi so blends of the two are good. Overall, I'll take any suggestions for what you've liked on the platform!
epchris 1y ago • 100%
Thanks for the input! I've been thinking that'd I'd probably just stick to index funds and avoid (for now) individual companies. My financial advisor does do individual companies (to fit the allocation targets), and does do tax loss harvesting, but I think that might be a bit complicated for my initial attempts.
I had thought about doing something like S&P 500 fund + some set of small and medium cap index funds, rather than trying to identify individual companies that fit into "large/mid/small cap & industry spread", but even in those broad realms there's lots of "index 500" funds and lots of "medium/small cap" index funds, how do I figure out which ones to buy and how to compare them?
Came across this tool on HackerNews last week and gave it a try and thought it was a really comprehensive (in my experience) tool for doing long term financial planning yourself. It costs money, but you can even self host it for a certain price tier.
About a year ago I hired a financial planner to manage assets in my retirement accounts but am starting to think about doing it myself. I don't disagree with the general approach they're taking, but it seems like it should be simple enough for me to do myself every 6 months or whatever. The gist of the strategy is a balance across large/mid/small cap and sectors at certain percents along with some % of bond funds and some real estate funds. I think my main questions are how do I identify and compare various funds that fall into these broad categories to try and pick the ones I want to actually invest in.
epchris 1y ago • 100%
Any other recommendations for what to watch on Shudder?
epchris 1y ago • 100%
I'm confused. In the 5% bracket, a $16k tuition: this comes out to like a 900k/year job...is that where the top 5% is?
epchris 1y ago • 100%
I would love a suggestion for a ups that could tolerate running off my generator when the power is out for extended periods, anyone have a decently priced recommendation?
epchris 1y ago • 100%
I don't think that's a bad extension of the analogy
Developers are operating and building in more and more heterogeneous and complex systems. This article offers some thoughts on how to think about "developer experience" in this world that's increasingly more like a "rainforest" than a "well tended garden".
epchris 1y ago • 100%
Basically I get 30 minutes to an hour after they're in bed and that's about it :-(
epchris 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, I have one of those and love it. I use it between PC, SteamDeck and Switch all the time
epchris 1y ago • 60%
I use cloud flare DNS and it has support for dynamic IPs, my current setup is through a plug-in in my PFSense router
I'd love to hear some stories about how you or your organization is using Kubernetes for development! My team is experimenting with using it because our "platform" is getting into the territory of too large to run or manage on a single developer machine. We've previously used Docker Compose to enable starting things up locally, but that started getting complicated. The approach we're trying now is to have a Helm chart to deploy the entire platform to a k8s namespace unique to each developer and then using [Telepresence](https://telepresence.io) to connect a developer's laptop to the cluster and allow them to run specific services they're working on locally. This seems to be working well, but now I'm finding myself concerned with resource utilization in the cluster as devs don't remember to uninstall or scale down their workloads when they're not active any more, leading to inflation of the cluster size. Would love to hear some stories from others!