I’ve been slowly making my way into the smart home ecosystem and was incredibly concerned about these not because of paperweight necessarily but because of needing to send data to a company over the internet which might not be available when it’s needed.
So I ended up going with Home Assistant and I’m really happy about the launch of the Works with Home Assistant program with the logo on devices.
Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.
I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.
I found out that Fdroid has SFTP servers so you can just open your Linux file browser and type in SFTP your username at your phone’s IP address and get files off of it that way.
Depends on the currency you’re looking at. In Bitcoin and Monero terms, almost everything has gone down in price.
Okay, I will keep that in mind. Thank you.
Now, if only they were officially in the US market, I would absolutely buy one the next time I need a new device. There’s two big problems. Firstly, I can’t guarantee that it’s going to work with T-Mobile US, which is my carrier. And second, if I needed a spare screen or battery replacement or whatever, I’d have to get it shipped from Europe, which is a pain in the ass.
Haven’t had a reddit account since API Gate.
I don’t use a PC for very much anymore, so I have little need to use my laptop. But when I do, I’ve honestly just gone with Linux Mint just because it works. And I have Lineage OS on my phone, which is my primary computing device.
And i no longer use Ubuntu. I remember that too. I also remember such large push back that it was removed
I think it was a great idea, but poorly executed. I prefer using simpleX, personally.
If my Linux distro searched the internet, when I opened my launcher, I’d be finding a new Linux distro.
Yep, just set your Wi-Fi routers to use 6GHD and trample all over the other people in the band until they figure out that they can’t control it.
I said nothing about the agency whatsoever. I don’t give a shit what they see as compliant or not. If it’s not open source, I won’t fucking use it.
As long as the wearable contains open source software and preferably open source hardware, then sure, I’d be willing to do so. Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.
Imbezzled. Money was used to pay for somebody’s vacation.
Yes, a cell phone tower is basically a Wi-Fi router for a bunch of people because it has a connection to the internet via a fiber cable and then broadcasts that out over local airway spectrum. The exact same thing as your Wi-Fi does except for longer range and higher power and higher locations.
Not bad, not bad at all
I have not read the article yet, but I will be doing so after posting this. But from what I understand, concentrated cells via lenses already exist. The problem with them was keeping them cool.
Going to go read the actual article now.
Edit: Well, the article was very sparse on details. From what I understand of the comments, what’s really been done here is making cells that can stand the kind of heat that would be focused onto them from the glass.
I want to say I saw a video about this a year ago or so, but it was more solar thermal, where you focus a bunch of mirrors onto a single point high up on a tower, and it’s cooled by molten salt. But as I said, that’s solar thermal, not solar power electricity.