I have 54 solar panels that are 1x2m apiece (108m2 total), and they generate barely enough to keep my house running in the winter, and have to be supplemented by a generator in the winter for December and January since it’s entirely offgrid.

I don’t think a couple panels on a balcony are doing much more than charging a couple phones.

I stood in one place for 3 hours while they meditated and stopped thinking so the time would go by quickly until they were done and we could go for lunch. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish in that time.

If you get a camera that is ONVIF compatible, you won’t need an app to set it up. Vikylin, amcrest are a couple I’ve used.

Use tailscale to access your cameras, don’t portforward them. They are pathetically terrible for security.

OPNsense

Thanks, Ron.

It’s so the sides don’t sag or bulge when full. It’s like corrugations in metal roofing/siding. Lets them get away with thinner walls.

NC is fine. Ignore the haters.

Why the hell would the FUTO guide recommend OpenVPN? It’s a nightmare. I guess they also recommend pfSense instead of OPNsense so there’s that.

For your own sanity, learn about Wireguard.

Happy to help.

The docker setup is probably less maintenance than a straight install, but your usecase might need the bare install. there’s also Home Assistant that can add Piper as an Addon (which is a docker container inside the HassOS docker container). Also the Hass install will let you add faster-Whisper and Openwakeword for a full voice assistant that autoconnects via the Wyoming protocol.

I’ve bought several Dell laptops over the last 20 years, the Windows install on them was strangled in it’s crib every time, and it was still miles cheaper than these other vendors.

If anyone needs to have Linux preinstalled on their computer and can’t click through the 3 steps in a typical Linux install nowadays, they probably should use something like a SpeakNSpell instead of a computer.

If a home automation product isn’t self hosted, it can fuck right off

Piper just moved to https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

It’s fine, and it’s probably the best TTS you’re going to run locally.

Linus makes me laugh.

If you think Elon has the coordination to wipe his ass without poking his finger through the tissue for a chocolate pinkie, then I have a bridge to sell you. That’s why he has professional ass-lickers around him 24/7.

That smile just lights up the ring.

Slackware was doing this before you were born.

Rebuilding containers is trivial if they supply the dockerfile. Then the base image is up to date, and you can add any updates/patches for things like the recent react vuln.

I mean, it was a show about old retired women to start with…

Someone linked this fork, seems maintained:

https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower

Watchtower, the automatic container image update platform notorious for breaking things

That’s kind of a bullshit allegation. Watchtower did what it did, if you set it up to grab unstable tags, then too bad for you.