I have a weird optimism that grassroots tech might make a comeback after everything enshitifies. I got on here 6 months ago and it was so refreshing.

I did, not sure it made it easier though. It took away two negatives for smoking for me, it didn’t smell bad to others and I could smoke inside.

If anything it made it harder to quit, but they’re supposedly much better for you

What do you think would help overcome that obstacle to unionization?

On a bright note I’m optimistic that ai bloated garbage and advertising will eventually push a critical mass of people to using decentralized and open source tools, or possibly that non-profits and co-ops will start to spring up to manage more ethical services that could potentially replace the mainstream ones.

When you’re not trying to make some dude disgustingly richer, you don’t need a ton of advertising (imo).

I also think tech workers should unionize. On a darker note, I think outsourcing/offshoring post-covid is going to kill any unions viability. You need bargaining power (withhold your labor) and I’m not sure that will exist for this trade because of how easy it will be to find workers.

I’ve ran some college hw through 4o just to see and it’s remarkably good at generating proofs for math and algorithms. Sometimes it’s not quite right but usually on the right track to get started.

In some of the busier classes I’m almost certain students do this because my hw grades would be lower than the mean and my exam grades would be well above the mean.

I’m from US and I re-read “developing countries like us or India” like 3 times and then I realized that you’re absolutely right.

How lazy cryptographers do ai

I’m about to be one of those grads, career changing in my early thirties. Whoops. Got into Berkeley CS so hopefully that carries my foot into a door somewhere

Yeah for sure. You could get an all in one inverter battery bank, but I prefer piecemeal systems because of repairability/replacing parts/upgrading parts.

Basically you’d get a battery, when I was shopping around I found eg4 or gyll batteries to be the cheapest. Small Texas company. That could have changed. Some ppl make their own or use them from a car, but soldering plus making a management system seemed like more than I wanted to deal with.

You need a way to charge the battery (panels etc) and also a way to get the power into the battery safely and efficiently (charge controller).

And then you need a way to get energy out of the battery to your apploances. You can get DC appliances that match your battery voltage or get an inverter.

For all of those parts you need to run some simple calculations for efficiency and compatibility and use case (how big of a system etc), as well as some fuses and possibly lightning arrestors and grounding.

Totally doable and a good bit of fun

Cool so it actually sucks, it’s not my incompetence

I use discord but i can’t stand it as a platform for discussion. Forums, even reddit, seem so superior to me as a format for discussion and storing information. Maybe I haven’t figured out discord yet

If we do have a 28 election, surely they’ll have a primary and not just run whoever the leadership picks and proceed to campaign on our civic duty to prevent fascism (every 4 years)

I’ve set up an off grid solar system out of necessity. Used to be an electrician so I know a good bit (but not everything by any means). What are your questions I can maybe point you in the right direction.

Based on your initial question, it depends on local zoning. You can likely legally grid tie a set up and have a battery backup. I think if you want to be legal I’d go that route.

If you want I think you could set up a completely separate system in a more sneaky fashion that is completely isolated from the grid / your existing house circuitry. But when grid tying (including into your house circuitry) you have to be pretty safe because that power can go upstream and feed the grid or the house when workers think the power is off, which is obviously very dangerous and could get you in a lot of trouble if it went wrong.

Articles are so much better than videos a lot of the time. I’ll watch a video for kinetic things, like how to flush my radiator etc.

Its annoying when information is in a video that could easily be written out and skimmed.

Does anybody have any suggestions for alternatives for chats?

I use it a lot for classes (students use them) and video games.

What’d you switch to I usually just go w cloudflare

Makes sense, I’m in the same boat I don’t have time or energy to start one but I’d join.

For getting started w tactical barbell, do you recommend books etc? Like 531 it seems like there’s a lot to it, any good resources?

I’ll check it out. I feel like I’m still making strength gains w BBB, gonna ride it out another 4-8 months. I’ll check out tactical barbell operator, thanks for the suggestion

Do you know if any active fitness communities on Lemmy? I briefly looked around but didn’t see any that seemed active

Do you still run 531 for beginners? I’ve been on BBB for 4 months and finally broke through a plateau. Was doing more hypertrophy and calisthenics before that.

The workload for BBB has gotten so high for me that I do my main lifts and 1-3 accessories on lower days and 2-4 in upper and I’m cooked. Can’t manage to follow wendlers scheme of shitload of reps any more