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  • A) If it's on a high balcony that people might be passing below, I'd really prefer it to be attached with something a bit more substantial than zip ties... If sun exposure degrades the zip ties and then a sudden breeze causes a panel to detach, it could cause pretty serious injury to someone below.

    B) There's also a potential electrical public safety issue here. If the apartment building maintenance crew shuts off power in order to work on the electrical system, is there anything to prevent these panels from backfeeding into the apartment's electrical system, making some of the wires still live? Likewise, if the power company has to shut off power to do power line maintenance, is there anything that prevents these panels from backfeeding into the power lines when they're supposed to be disconnected and safe to work on? (Grid power transformers will work in reverse, increasing the (probably) 120V from the solar panels into much more dangerous transmission voltages in the kilovolts. At extremely low amperage, but could still be quite dangerous to unsuspecting linemen.)

    C) There's also a third potential safety issue. Household electrical outlets (and the wiring for them) are only intended to carry 15 or 20 amps, depending on the type. Normally if you exceed that, then a breaker will trip or a fuse will blow, protecting you from overloading the building's wiring and potentially causing a fire. But if this plug-in solar system is connected on the same circuit as any other outlets, the other outlets in the circuit could potentially draw more than the rated current because they're drawing some of that current from the solar system, which doesn't go through the breaker. An electrical load that was just the right amount of 'too high', if connected to the same circuit as the solar panels, could potentially draw too much amperage through the wires, causing them to heat up and start a fire without the breakers or fuses being able to protect you. In an apartment building, that's especially dangerous, as the person who installed the solar isn't only endangering themselves, but potentially also endangering everyone who lives in the building. (The higher the power output of the solar system, the more dangerous this becomes. A mere 220W system probably isn't adding enough amperage to seriously exceed the safety margin ... probably ... but it's still best not to risk it.)

    I'm all for installing your own solar panels, even in an apartment, but please -- do it safely!

    Attach it with something stronger and more reliable than zip ties. Ensure there's a system in place to prevent backfeeding in event of a power outage. Ensure that a plug-in solar system is plugged into its own dedicated circuit, not sharing the circuit with anything else.*

    *It would be okay to plug multiple plug-in solar systems to the same circuit, as long as the total power output of all the systems combined is less than ~1800W. And even if you exceed that, the worst thing that will happen is that the breaker trips or the fuse blows. Just make sure they're not sharing the same circuit with any electrical loads.

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  • They choose to believe in things they know aren't true, and they call it faith.

    And that's how they think everyone else comes to their own conclusions about reality as well. They think we're taking the existence of homosexuality on faith, which is why they think they're making some kind of point when they say they don't believe in that.

  • Trying it out a little so far.

    My only real thing so far is that it would be nice to have a web interface that doesn't require installing anything on any device. Something that runs in the browser without needing to download maps first. But that would probably have to run quite differently than the app, so it might be well outside the scope of this project, at least for now.

    (Windows and Mac OS versions would also be nice to have, and seems like porting them shouldn't be too hard if you just half-ass it by using the Linux version with a compatibility layer. But, again, yeah... If development resources are scarce, I can definitely understand skipping those.)

  • In a perfect world, you'd have both.

    First, instant streaming as you browse the map while internet connected, so you don't deal with delays, don't have to wait for the map to download before you can do anything with it. And while doing that, also download offline maps in the background, without interrupting the user.

    But, yeah, I can definitely see why a open source project with limited resources wouldn't be able to make streaming available.

  • All the computers at my local library run 11 now.

    Plus, pretty much every new PC sold these days has 11 on it, and very few of those buyers are going to go to the trouble of replacing it with anything else.

  • I'm not pulling it, I'm just licking it! Stop your nagging, I could use some help over here.

  • In all fairness, though ... if I only cared about what happened to me, personally, a slight change in gas prices is probably the only change that will actually happen in my life due to this war.

    Which is kind of sad, really. But true.

    (Don't worry. Plenty of the other shit the US government is doing will affect me much more directly, so I'll still get mine.)

  • How are the farmers who receive that infrastructure supposed to sustain themselves during those 10 years?

    Getting a free tractor is great ... but it doesn't do you much good if you can't afford fuel for it because the corn you grow is worth next to nothing.

  • I mean ... I have done quite a few preemptive strikes on wasp nests in my day. Not sure this is the best analogy.

  • True, but also I've had people telling me I have to 'critically support' the government of Iran, or else I'm just as guilty as if I dropped the bombs myself.

    Nah, fam. I can be against two things.

  • Formatting?

  • I can fix him...

  • Seriously, though... Direct donations of bulk foods can drive down the local cost of food, which makes local farming unprofitable, which means local farmers have a hard time staying in business and supporting themselves, which means you're going to end up with fewer farmers and more long-term food insecurity.

    Like ... how is a local farmer growing corn supposed to compete with free bags of corn shipped from the US? He'll have a really hard time making any money off of growing corn. So he'll probably quit growing corn and do something that's better able to support him and his family ... which might not be growing food at all.

    And then this cycle results in dependence upon US food imports. With few local farmers in operation, these food aid packages are the only source of food. And this can make them very vulnerable to the whims of US foreign policy if the US decides to use giving or withholding this food aid as a bargaining chip in negotiations ... or if they just happen to elect some asshole who arbitrarily and illegally cuts the food aid for no reason at all.

  • CoMaps @sopuli.xyz

    What, exactly does "power saving mode" do in CoMaps (iphone)?

  • You know what, I'm going to give it a shot, and at least use it as my backup offline maps.

  • None of them are elderly or very young.

  • He could have just made incense too, of course. But He did this instead. Because He’s a dick

    Just like buying real diamonds, the smell of burning flesh just isn't the same without the knowledge that it's the result of unimaginable suffering.

  • While we're at it, laptops are also terrible for posture. Either the display is too low or the keyboard is too high, and as long as they're connected, there's no getting around that.

  • You're going to need a strong, healthy back in the Mad Max hellscape that's coming soon.

  • You can be critical of something and still support it

    If you support any state, you're not an anarchist.

    If you support a theo-fascist state, you're not even close to an anarchist.

    I don't have to support the state of Iran to oppose the US and Israel.

  • Making the product good is difficult and expensive, so that's a no.

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world

    Facts