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Frater Mus

@ fratermus @lemmy.sdf.org

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Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.

LIKE dogs, books, thoughtful people of all flavors DISLIKE bullies, sh1tposters, partisans, noise

  • Do you ever come up with genius ("genius") ideas for joke domains to unsettle/embarrass people when you tell them your email?

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  • I worked an ISP in the nineties and a coworker registered atdot.com, ran a home server for it with sendmail, and assigned himself the dotat username. He would tell people over the phone that his email was "dot at at at dot dot com". This was when you had to contact InterNIC directly to register a domain.

    Could be the same guy for all I know.

    Digression: I registered mouse.net in ~1996 back when TLD categories were being enforced. But the NIC bungled the renewal and by the time I proved it to them it had been snagged by a Korean company. NIC threw their hands up because no one there spoke Korean. I think Altavista's Babelfish existed then but I don't remember if it supported Korean.

  • What's your favorite Christmas movie, and why?

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  • scrooged

  • What non-native animal would you really really really like to introduce into your local habitat ?

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  • capybara

  • Is it worth upgrading my e reader?

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  • I’ve got a kindle keyboard 3 and want to know if there’s anything better out now

    Better in what way?

    KK3 + calibre is hard to beat. I own a paperwhite and some kind of nook (thrift store pickup for $10) and prefer the K3 experience the most. I typically end up using the paperwhite more because I am often in low-light conditions.

    When these die my perfect ereader would be

    • eInk
    • android-based so I could run my preferred reader (FB Reader)
    • google play supported so I could choose my own browser

  • Do you prefer digital or physical books?

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  • Do you prefer digital or physical books?

    Digital. I live in 76ft2 and can no longer store thousands of physical books like I did in a "sticks and bricks" house. But there are ~13,000 easily stored between the e-ink kindle and waiting in the wings in calibre.

    Reading is a big part of my retirement plan.

  • Whats the best way to archive data long term while on a budget ?

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  • It’s more likely that a Google data center exists in 100 years than your house.

    Yes, but it's more likely that Google will have killed a particular service like Drive. Cf. Google Reader, Hangouts, Data Saver extension, Buzz, etc.

    google graveyard

  • whats your best drinking story?

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  • I emerged from a blackout drunk sitting in a classroom; it was the last hour of the GRE (graduate record exam). I was reeking of alcohol and I remember feeling sorry for the poor bastards seated next to me. I finished and walked directly across the hallway to the bathroom and vomited a while.

    I'd gone to a bar the night before for one dollar draft beer; I had $2, so 1 beer + tip. I don't know exactly what happened but later heard people thought it would be funny to buy me drinks before the exam and I was too young/dumb not to accept.

    The most bizarre part of the story is I scored a dead-average score on the exam.

  • What is Your Favorite Foreign Tv Series

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    • Slow Horses (UK/US) Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas? Yes, please!
    • Broadchurch (UK)
    • Glitch (AUS, first season only)
    • Chef! (UK, first two seasons only)

    Forgetting many others but just having first cup of coffee

  • What is Your Favorite Foreign Tv Series

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  • The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark, not the America/Mexico remake).

    I bailed on the America/Mexico one, but tne the UK/France version is worth watching for Clemence Poesy's performance.

  • What book series would you like to see made into a movie trilogy or a show with multiple seasons?

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  • Murderbot, but I don't think it could make the transition to film.

  • What’s The Strangest Thing You Do

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  • I have little dance moves that I like to use when walking around the office. Little turn on heel here, stand on tiptoe there, round the corner in a fluid motion, balance on one leg, little jump, etc.

    You might enjoy the 1996 Japanese film Shall We Dance?. The protagonist is taking ballroom dancing lessons in secret but when walking around the office subtle dance-inspired moves creep in. :-)

  • Is it better to let lithium batteries stay plugged in or constant 80/20 cycle

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  • I am off griding running off solar

    This would have been useful to mention in the original post.

    just got a bluetti eb3a to manage panel power since

    We have very little control over what the solar does with "power stations". I'd just leave the panels plugged in.

    I’ve never done any solar before

    gentle introduction to solar

  • Is it better to let lithium batteries stay plugged in or constant 80/20 cycle

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  • manufacturers have zero incentive to make sure their devices treat the batteries well

    as long as they survive the warranty period

  • Is it better to let lithium batteries stay plugged in or constant 80/20 cycle

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  • Title says plugged in and body says plugged in at 100%; these can be separate concepts if one has fine control over the charging voltage.

    Will leaving my things plugged in at 100% hurt it more than constantly unplugging at 80% and replugging at 20%?

    Plenty of academic research out there showing that pegging Li to 100% SoC reduces cycle counts to EOL (by electrolyte degradation and other processes), especially at higher voltages/temps. You didn't mention capacity reduction associated with charging at freezing temps so I assume that is a non-issue in your use case.

    It seems to me that if leaving it plugged in is an option you have shore/mains/grid power. So I'd

    • charge to middling SoC and unplug the powerstation (according to the manual); and
    • run the loads off the wall socket

    Am I missing something here?

    offgrid with LiFePO4

    I live offgrid with Li on a very limited budget, so performance and maximal cycle life is a practical matter for me. Based on my own reading and experimentation I charge my 4S LiFePO4 to 13.8v (3.45Vpc) until Absorption falls to 0.10C then quasi-float at 13.31v (3.3275Vpc). I warm them to 50F and charge at ≤0.4C.

  • Linux is amazing on my old Thinkpad

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  • Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads or RAM?

    First stick I bought was 1MB of SIPP, used, for $50.

    "When I was a boy we had to load HIMEM and EMM386 uphill in the snow"

  • ‘Archer’s’ Final Mission: Sterling and His Frenemies Sign Off After 142 Episodes of Awful Behavior. We Will Miss Them.

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  • What's the greatest pirate themed movie of all time?

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  • What is the worst way to start an apology?

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  • anything with the word but in it

  • What was your dream future/job as a kid?

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  • anything related to dinosaurs or Egypt