I don't understand why seemingly well informed people would advocate for burning coal to produce electricity. Even if we ignore the emissions and pollution, there's the glaring problem of cost. Electricity from coal is expensive. Maybe it's short term thinking? Maybe they place a huge value on flexible sources of power instead of having a flexible load? Maybe they're just trying to get more attention than if they promoted doubling down on the least expensive sources of electricity? Of course, these same people also seem to promote nuclear, which is basically the most expensive option possible, so maybe it's the latter explanation. At least natural gas comes close to the cost of geothermal, wind and solar. I get why people would advocate for that. And I get that hydroelectric isn't an option in some locations (although, if it is, it wins on price, emissions, pollution, and reliability).

This is the fruits of our labor tonight. Beautiful.

Just got a 1W #Meshtastic node up and running. This is going to be fun.

I re-posted this on ActivityPub. I think more people over there need to hear this message and might be receptive to it. It I had accounts on centralized social media, I'd cross post it there too. View quoted note →

Linking to the block explorer is 🧑‍🍳💋 View quoted note →

Crypto means cryptography Crapto means alt-coins #shitposting

I spent a few hours reading the #Matrix specifications last night (I still have much more to read). Overall, they seem good. There's a lot there, but it's laid out in a way that makes it work reasonable well as reference material. I can jump to what I'm interested in at the moment, and there are links to the other sections that I might want/need to read about in order to understand the task at hand. My current focus is cross-signing and the trust between accounts and devices.

I only recommend things that are high quality, a good value, and that I've personally tried. It's hard to hit those both of those first two points. Sure, you can get less expensive coffee, and if it's as good as this, please LMK because I'm always interested in better options. And, sure, you can pay 10x the price to show everyone how rich you are. It's probably as good as what I drink and hopefully the farmers are making more money than the middlemen. But I'm not buying coffee to make a statement. And I don't get paid anything to share my awesome finds. My incentive isn't money, it's trying to make sure the companies I like don't go out of business, and helping the cool people on nostr live better & save some loot at the same time. So if you want me to hype your product, I'm down... so long as it's solid quality, a good deal, and something I actually want. And if you are a person who buys the most expensive thing on the market and are getting mad that I'm trashing overpriced status symbols... sorry, not sorry. 🤷‍♂️ View quoted note →

I just recommended Virgina Freedom Tech to someone in NoVA. He already has 3 or 4 mesh nodes, but I told him that if he wants more, or if other people ask him where to get them, that's the spot. If I start selling Meshtastic nodes, I might just skip the Heltec v3 and just point people there who want that make & model. Why compete when we can compliment, right?

If you're looking for a good deal on some excellent coffee, I can personally recommend this:

Equal Exchange

Organic Peruvian Medium Roast Coffee, 5lb whole bean

This Peruvian medium roast is juicy and bright with tasting notes of maple, grape, and floral. No added flavoring. 2 Pack contains two 5lb bags of ...

Under $13/lb when bought in bulk. Grown and sold via worker co-op. They also have Colombian, Ethiopian, Mexican, and many others.

I've become pretty OK with my inherient nature to just STFU and just build stuff. I makes me terrible at being social, and even worse at social media, but I've come to accept that. The trade off is that my friends, family & I will have some nice things. I'd be okay with partnering with someone who wants to help people do self-hosting, or self-host for others, but social media is too much effort for me and just not enough reward.

I finally moved the last of the mulch off the driveway. We finally managed to get enough places weeded and ready for mulch, that we could put it where it goes and the remainer fit into buckets. 17 buckets to be exact, but we've got that capacity. Transplanted some ferns while I was at it too. And filled the remaining empty buckets with rice hulls. That's exciting because it was enough to allow us to move the remaining rice hulls without a forklift (which we don't own) nor a pallet jack (which we also don't own). They have been in the driveway for months because they were just too heavy to move. Haha It feels good to make progress that is so clearly visible. Follow me if you want more yard chore reports, brutally honest reports on lightning software, 3d printing reports, talk about meshtastic, and occassional mentions of @Signet. That pretty much covers everything I talk about on here. If you only want a subset of that... 🤷‍♂️ I guess mute some words to filter those topics out.

@EVAN KALOUDIS said I should give Zeus Wallet another try. I did and here's what happened. There were some rough spots with broken links when I tried to find documentation for the initial setup. Evan helped me out and said he'd fix the broken link. I was able to find documentation on how to open a channel from my server's lightning node to my Zeus lightning node and that worked. Donation to my local makerspace worked on the first try, and accurately reported that is succeeded (which is not the case with LNBits+LNDHub+BlueWallet which frequently reports failure when the payment went through). Big point in Zeus's favor here. The problem I had with Zeus previously is losing sync with graph/chain data and not being any to use it anymore. I had to close all my channels and recover funds on-chain, and I couldn't even do it with Zeus; I had to use Sparrow. I've seen multiple people I follow state that they had this same problem. My conclusion is that the jury is still out on this one. The new type of node is too limited in functionality for me, but if the embedded LND node really can stay in sync with the graph/chain data, then Zeus will have earned it's reputation as a reliable wallet. For me, reliability is by far the most important feature. If I ever go to make a payment and it fails, there better be a damned good reason (e.g. no internet connection, no path to recipient). If I get wedged into a situation where I have to close all channels and recover my funds via a desktop wallet, I don't expect I'll give Zeus a third try. God, don't let me down! PS if the new Rust-based embedded node reaches feature parity with the embedded LND, I'd like to switch to that. Sending backups to some server somewhere is 100% a deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll be able to switch to that before the embedded LND node gets wedged. 🤣😅😶‍🌫️

The Wio Tracker L1 Pro case was clearly designed to be injection molded, not 3D-printed. It's a nice case, and I say that as someone very familiar with it, as I just recreated it from scratch in #FreeCAD I have three main goals with my remodel: 1. Modify it to be easily 3D printable 2. Keep compatibility with stock parts (e.g. buttons, faceplate, etc) 3. Make it modifiable to fit a 3Ah battery The 3Ah battery version will only lose backward compatibility with the faceplate/shell. #meshtastic

"Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price." ~ Victor Hugo

OK, didn't expect to get any offers on this one, but I figured it was worth a try. View quoted note →