To be fair, the farmer bailout is a drop in the bucket of what they’re down over lost sales to China and higher fertilizer prices. Like, have the day you voted for and all that, but 12B is 1% of this years military budget.

The thing is the concepts were nothing new, the “science” was handwaving bullshit that didn’t pass the sniff test, and the character development was so incredibly bad it beggars the imagination that it was written by a literature prof. Everything was a slap in the face that kept you from engaging in what little there was to recommend the story. And the deus ex machina plot device at the end that obviated everything else that proceeded it was the icing on the cake.

I wanted my money back at the end.

If it had been written in the last 3 years, I’d have been utterly convinced it was written by a bad AI.

I lost my last shred of respect for the Hugos when that won for its year. Execrable trash.

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IDK how Frigate handles alerts, but Blue Iris will write an alert to MQTT topic if it matches object recog, and I have an app MQTT Alert that watches that and goes nuts if it comes up. The BI android app is underwhelming in its alerts.

I’d have to figure Frigate has some sort of MQTT capability. I tried using Frigate but it was pretty basic for my needs, so I moved on.

Three Body Problem

What kind of cancer is this website? Some fukcing “pur” subscription required.

The algorithm loses some victims for a few years, maybe

Doesn’t feel like Christmas without the smell of a real tree. I go out back and cut a small one.

I’m starting to think that maybe a responsible country like Eqypt or Lebanon might be better able to take care of the historical treasures of France.

Crockpot.

there’s a box at the bottom of that page for them to help assess interest from other countries, supposedly. It never asked me for anything other than my email, idk if they’re geolocating the IP to know where people are signing up from.

I’m tempted, because I really like SailfishOS when I used it on an Experia, it’s such an intuitive interface for gestures. But I’ve never spent that much on a phone, and no guarantee it’ll work in my neck of the woods.

Glad to see they hit their target and I’ll be watching.

Good luck Dan. You have an uphill battle.

Idk who the fuck decided monochrome was a good idea. It’s so goddamn ugly and impractical. Must have been a rust dev

Edit: 7 rust devs with no sense of humor and counting.

Element

I use Matrix with the Jitsi plugin. I know everyone talks shit about Matrix, it’s been flawless for me.

IDK about watching videos, that’s a lot to ask of a screensharing app.

Yah, that’s a PWM charger. You’d likely see up to another third more power stored with an MPPT at temperatures below freezing from my experience running various offgrid livestock pumping systems over the years. I still use old PWM controllers on things like fencers because they’re pretty low draw, but I haven’t bought a PWM for years now since MPPT prices came down to earth.

Just a suggestion, idk what your particular scenario is but it sounds like you’re running out of power pretty quick. And for batteries, I’ve personally moved to LFP with heaters in insulated boxes for the sheer life expectancy, power density and reliability compared to LA in cold temperatures. But I wouldn’t say it’s the cheapest way to do things.

Well, I guess whatever camera you get should give you a power requirement and you can work backwards from there as to storage and panel requirement. My off the cuff notion would say you’ll need a deep cycle or a group 31 of 100aH to last for a day or two depending on weather and length of day, and lithium batteries will get plating if you try to charge below freezing so they’re out.

It’s all in the math, then double it because nature hates you.

Do you have an MPPT charger or a PWM? The amount of extra power you get off your panels in winter can be significant with a good MPPT charger because it isn’t clipping the higher voltage/power you get in cold.