Just a reminder that Texas has safe haven drop boxes at fire stations and post offices specifically for dropping off unwanted babies,
In case anyone thinks this is a new concept, one of the most influential pieces of early Renaissance architecture (Ospedale degli Innocenti) had a rotating drop-off port for babies. There was someone on the other side of the wall 24/7.
Edit: Atlas Obscura has an article on it
2017 RAM Promaster 159" high roof. Most of the year I boondock on public land but in winter I come to a city where my VA provider is located.
What tips/ideas do you have for getting better at navigating the terminal, and getting a better understanding of how the os works
Running an OS as a virtual is liberating. Dive in, make mistakes, fix them (or not and have to reinstall or redo from the last save). No real consequences for exploring.
fruits typically are made to be consumed, in the sense that it benefits the evolution of the plant
I suspect some fruits are made so that only particular spreaders can/will eat them. Like some flowers are shaped to allow certain pollinators and exclude others.
Abbott's assholery knows no bounds.
I would like to get an idea of what their actual performance would be like before I do the installation
PVwatts and similar models are quite useful for estimating harvest in a given time/place.
Its a strange location with some over hanging trees and some shading by neighbours fromntine to time but it could help provide some redundancy
Partial shading is brutal on solar harvest. It will be the tail that wags the dog in this scenario.
distrohoped
This should be a word. It would mean "trying yet another flavor because it might be The One"
What problem does this solve?
The need to demonstrate performative piety to the base.
My father switched to linux (Mint, I think) in his 70s. I was in another state so he did it solo. He had a few questions but otherwise it was smooth sailing.
it accomplished my goal
That's the most important part, IMO.
I was in the boonies once with another camper and rigged up something similar for them. The goal of this one was to run small loads off the inverter while the sun was out. I had a spare motorcycle battery from another project, a small spare inverter, and a relay. The battery was basically just a way to stabilize the solar charge controller and was not intended to run loads in the normal sense.
Basically whenever the sun was out they could run their small loads. When the battery voltage dropped below 12.7v (ie, sun no longer out) the relay would turn off the inverter and the loads would no longer be powered.
Since the controller was a single statge charger I set it to the Vabs of the battery, 14.5v.
I had a gasoline heater in a 1973 VW bus and it worked very well. For now it looks like most of the gasoline versions are still very expensive, although I've started to see knockoffs below $1000.
I was outside the zone of totality, so was still making some power.
Notice that panel voltage did not decrease like many think, it does. Vpanel is stable above ~10%-15% insolation, depending on the panel
I follow mild weather and so am very rarely in freezing temperatures. On chilly mornings making coffee and breakfast over propane warms the interior significantly.
If I ever did install a vented heater like that it would likely be a gasoline version, since the PM's tank already has a place on it to tap.