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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

My octopus rate gives me 15p per kwH I export. The overnight rate is 7p per kwH so it makes sense to export as much as I can and charge the car on cheap rate.

The gap between sunset and cheap rate is about 4-8 kwH so rather than getting a battery my next step is a bi-directional charger so my car can cover the gap.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For Home Assistant? There are several about but this is the one that worked for me.

You need to enable it via the webconsole on the inverter. There is a magic reset sequence that will boot it up as an Access Point and then you connect via WiFi: full instructions

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've got a SolarEdge system but I've enabled the local ModBus to get the data so I don't need to connect to the cloud for it.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

No - the inverter needs the 50hz signal from the grid AC to work.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From my recollection of the BTS in the special editions they built a lot of "bigitures".

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well Trump had a go in his first term but unsurprisingly didn't get far.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are you familiar with the Korean war? There was a massive conflict which got drawn out into a stalemate and everybody agreed a temporary ceasefire was preferable to even more destruction.

Trying to topple a regime that has nothing to lose and a highly indoctrinated population is not an easy ask. We can only hope that like most authoritarian regimes they eventually succumb to the weight of their own opression. It's better than torching the whole continent in the name of freedom.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Instead, she pointed to a £25m package that will be allocated to councils to fit "cross-pavement gullies", to make it easier for people without driveways to charge an electric vehicle (EV), alongside £63m for charging infrastructure.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Public transport doesn't work everywhere. It's great in big urban areas but once you get out into lower density countryside it's hard to run something comprehensive.

If the choice is between a diesel or an EV then we should insentivise the EV. However direct subsidies for buying cars probably won't work as well as widening access to charging. I see they are trying to make the process of adapting pavements for curbside charging easier which I think will help more.

Charging from the socket is about a tenth the cost of public charging infrastructure and with solar it becomes functionality free.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Whatever it shows it's always fuel for the disinfo fire. Apparently the fact years of underinvestment and poor servicing schedules could lead to a not quite up to scratch surveillance system is too unlikely for those drinking the disinfo firehose.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Sorry to hear that. Good luck finding a new gig without needing to interact with Teams again.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I used to update my tickets from Emacs org-mode where I kept my working set off knowledge. The org export functions dealt with whatever format Jira expects. Nowadays I'm mostly tracking stuff so my comments are generally never more than a "thanks", 👍 or occasionally a link to the patch series or pull requests.

 

Perhaps the biggest libvirt related piece of work here has been to reworking of the QMP API docs to make them easier to navigate. QMP is how libvirt probes for functionality as well as handling things like introspection of the machines and dealing with things like hotplug.

 

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.

In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.

 

For virtualization there are improvements for VirtIO, vfio and Loongarch CPU hotplug. On the emulation side additions for Arm, RiscV and even some speed ups for x86 string ops. On the documentation side a whole bunch of work has been done on QMP API to make it clearer and more navigable.

 

I was trying to add a Matter device from my phone but it kept saying I needed to install the companion app from the Play store even though I was in the companion app (from f-droid). I've installed the Bluetooth proxy app as well but it made note difference.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It's left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump's return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?

 

This is an interesting article of the fish shells journey of covering to rust which I found quite interesting. I'm especially interested because of projects I work with that are currently experimenting with rust.

 

The long awaited Cass report has been published looking at gender affirming care in the NHS.

 
 

Are there any good recommendations for water control valves? I want to control a automatic watering system and need something to attach to the garden tap. Open firmware would be a bonus.

 

I found this post interesting for my layman's understanding of LLMs and some of the underlying architecture choices that are made.

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