Alexandrite is lacking a lot of features to be comparable to the original Lemmy-ui. It’s ok for normal users, but for mods and admins it is basically not usable because of that. Also development of it has been very slow in recent months. Not quite abandoned yet, but close to it.

As for Photon and splitscreen view: that sounds like a bug with the automatic resizing. Please report the issue here.

Yes to both.

It can be programmed to do so, but I disabled it as I am not particularly concerned about it, and the solar thermal vacuum tubes also connected to the same tank will occasionally push it to near boiling temperatures.

I originally also thought it would be useful to dehumidify the air, but in reality the times when you need to heat water and the same time have a humidity problem rarely overlap in my case. Maybe if you have a perpetually humid cellar that you don’t use much otherwise (as the exhaust air is quite cold) it would be a good addition.

I think this is mostly interesting for repurposing existing fossile fuel powerplants.

Add a relatively small geothermal power-plant on site for baseload demand plus a well sized grid battery and you can continue using a lot of the existing infrastructure of these older powerplants.

Due to security requirements this will not work with nuclear, even when using (largely theoretical) small modular reactors.

I have such an air to water heat-pump. It reaches 55°C without the supplementary electric water heater, which is more than sufficient if you have a hot water tank. The supplementary electric heater is really only used when too many people want to shower in a short timeframe or to occasionally heat the tank up to 70°C+ to kill off any bacteria that might be growing in it.

I don’t think you will find a heat-pump with a variable drive compressor like you are proposing, but a DIY solution might be feasible.

But why not just install a vacuum tube solar-thermal water heater? They are more efficient anyways.

Good article, but ugh… flipping houses that you know are going to be flooded soon after is just evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

Powerful part:

Even if he doesn’t call it anxiety, he admits he sometimes has trouble focusing, and there’s a tenseness in his body that can be hard to shake off. But he’s usually able to turn it around by talking to his friends or elders, or by reciting his favorite proverb:

“They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.”

“It’s not about what I need, it’s about what my community needs,” he said. “There is joy in caring for one another. There is joy in coming together to fight for a future that we believe in.”

edit, delete, etc.

Can you do that with a letter once it is send? And the instance admin of the mirroring server can delete posts if that is legally required for some reason.

And how would that even work technically? Bulk import posts and spam other instances with mass updates? That would immediately detected as a spam-wave and blocked. And back dating technically new messages is also not exactly a great thing to allow.

Other implementations of nomadic identity like Hubzilla get around this by letting you run two accounts in parallel and syncing them from your main account, but they will also not back-port old messages before you linked up the secondary account.

Basically anyone with some experience with federated systems agrees that importing old messages in bulk on account migration will never happen, and I don’t really see an issue with that, since messages are not lost.

I don’t think that’s even desirable and also legally questionable. But anyways, these posts are not gone with an instance shutting down and thus I don’t really see a problem. You can always add a link to a mirrow of those old posts in your profile.

Content is mirrored on all federated instances and it is very rare for an instance to shut down without notice.

It’s super easy to migrate accounts on Mastodon. Even works fine to move an account from Mastodon to Akkoma for example.

I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.

Mbin is a fork that was startend to add some stuff the original Kbin dev didn’t like. These days it seems Kbin is dead though, so basically Mbin is the new Kbin.

I thought about it, but apparently it needs higher water temperatures than what my solar-termal water heater and air-to-water heatpump usually produces, so I scrapped the idea again.

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn’t good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

Ahh, was me being stupid. I somehow thought that was the report button. Thanks.

Looks like the hardware replacement went mostly as expected, just the additional cooler for the still working SSD in the raid pool didn’t fit due to some mainboard plastic part in the way, so it will have to continue with somewhat elevated temperatures. But I removed an old network adapter that was producing a lot of heat and improved the overall airflow in the case, so it should be ok. The new NVMe ssd came with a small cooler and so far the temperature looks much better.

Lemmy.world used to cost that much, but I think they downscaled a bit recently, or are at least planning to as the current growth of the userbase has slowed down.

I was actually surprised by that 150 figure when I first read it, as it is much cheaper than what the BlueSky documentation makes it sound.

It is certainly possible to collect that much in monthly donations, but then again… how do you build a loyal base of supporters for running a mostly hidden piece of infrastructure? People always complain about the instance focussed nature of the fediverse, but the ability to build communities around them and get people actually emotionally invested in their home instance is IMHO rather a strength of it. That is also why I am slightly sceptic of easy account migration tools, as it devalues the instance as yourhome base to a certain extend.

There are some people hosting their own identity server, but yes the centralisation of the main aggregator server seems to be by design as they even scare people away from trying by talking about the high resource requirements of doing so.

IMHO Bluesky is only federated in the sense that responsibility for content and moderation can be outsourced, but the user endpoint stays mostly in control of Bluesky. This makes a lot of sense if you think about it from a company perspective… outsource the legally and personnel critical parts and keep the ones that are lucrarive for advertisement and can be easily scaled by throwing hardware at it.

But you must be a real sucker to take them up on that very one sided offer…