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  • 800w is less than half what you could pull from any outlet in the US. Standard electric breakers are rated for 15amp continuous at 120v. Most heating appliances designed to run for long periods of time (like electric heaters, or countertop cooking) run around 1800watts. So you could pretty easily plug in two 800w solar panels to back-feed a single circuit.

    50amp 220v is about the limit on one circuit for most residential homes (for ovens, or electric central heating) which is what would be used for the fastest electric car charging at home.

    That’s plenty of headroom for in-circuit solar generation.









  • I worked at a big box electronics store back in the day. Problem was we only sold two kinds of cables.

    1 - shitty cables with the ends crimped on that will fall off after three uses.

    2 - way overpriced gold plated cables that cost 10x or more.

    I’d love it if we sold something in-between, but you absolutely could tell the difference between those options. Mostly cause the RCA ends didn’t make an actual decent connection to the equipment, so it wiggled around and induced static into the signal.


  • My previous laptop is my home server. It was retired as a laptop because the screen died, but the rest was fine.

    I run a lot of services.

    Plex and Calibre are the two that I share with my friends.

    Home assistant is the main one that’s only used by my household.

    I have a bunch of other stuff like audiobookshelf, gramps, etc. that aren’t used much, but are kinda fun to have.

    Then there’s the stuff that is used to manage the services, like portainer, watchtower, uptime kuma, etc.



  • Depends on what the surgery is.

    If you’re doing a standard surgery on an organ, for example an appendectomy, you just start by taking images of the organs, then if everything is where it normally is, they just use landmarks like slightly left of the bellybutton.

    If you’re doing surgery on some broken bones, you might have to make more measurements to ensure things are put back where they should be.

    A lot of times, for really important surgeries, they’ll make a full 3d model and have a template created that you place over the surgical area to ensure you get everything exactly where it should go.