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Personal Cloud Storage seems outrageously expensive. Virtually all online storage vendors have settled on about 10 bucks per TB per month, and those figures are substantially cheaper than AWS (20/TB-month generally AND…

So I'm out of work and playing around with FreeCiv, which is a BAD IDEA for productivity, and I'm digging around the guts of it and thinking "this might be fun to do ... in my favorite language. You know what would…

I guess you could file this under the "van down by the river" chuck everything and go down to basics plans, like vanlife but a bit more extreme. Ok so here's my basic plan: - basic ebike (50-100 mile LFP battery, dime a…

I have a nascent OSS project that helps deal with cloud infrastructure and want to test it on the free tiers of many cloud providers. Unsurprisingly, the cloud providers only provide partial tooling to limit charges,…

https://pushevs.com/2022/03/29/guoxuan-closer-to-mass-produce-230-wh-kg-lfp-battery-cells/ Other LFP chinese makers are also about to release 200wh/kg cell density LFP production within a year as well. This is a…

As of this posting, we are one cent under the record average high for gas prices, with higher prices projected to come. I would qualify this as a economic danger to our economy given it's state. What can we do? The…

Setting aside recent hipster posts about logging being dead... I continually run into the issue when making CLI apps: where does logging go? stdout is terrible, logging would pollute information you want piped to other…

For a peripheral that has been manufactured several billion times, and is used by a billion per day, keyboards are pretty feature-lacking. That all-in-one raspberry pi keyboard? That thing should just be the beginning.…

I don't know if systemctl is fundamentally better under the hood, but the CLI is mystifying. You can't autocomplete a verb on the command line without the noun for context, or to put it another way, you can't…