This was an extremely interesting read, especially finding out that perhaps the router chip is the real power onboard. Got me scouring ebay for old Sun hardware
'Open repair policy' ~= No dealership support in your country. There's a number of lesser known brands of tractor which just bolt together parts from ZF, Perkins and the like, but they don't have dealer coverage, and there's low expected longevity of what dealers they do have. A Hattat or Basak tractor is a fairly straightforward machine which you could work on yourself just fine, but there's just no dealer coverage, which means there's no quick way to get parts
A car, treated right, will last upwards of 100 years, whereas pets have a more finite lifetime. And all they really need is to be stored and used right, with a little maintenance work. Either case is an irrational idolatry though
The best thing is to fence its presence, such that there are periods in each day where screens are not involved. Unfortunately I have not done well at this lately, but a proper alarm clock and turning my phone off at night was helpful to me.
I wonder how much methane you could capture from a domestic-sized greenhouse, fertalised with manure? I'm really not sure what paths there are for manure which don't release methane and other emissions, at least here the effect is useful
Cheese and chorizo, with mayo, or a nutella sandwich. I don't get the point about not requiring refrigeration, aren't most sandwiches OK for a couple days out of the fridge?
On my travels, a bag of chocolate brioches has always been good
With a beautiful full frame sensor, lens mount and the carbon fibre bodied lenses all there, it would be a shame if they didn't start making a really light camera body with them, something on the Leica-Fujifilm spectrum (Although I guess they have that thanks to their Hasselblad acquisition). It would likely have great potential as a travel camera if they pushed the lightweight aspect
I was under the impression that tractor manufacturing was down to bolting together bought in components at this point, such as the various Turkish Perkins engine + ZF gearbox + Carrero front axle + random cab companies cab, with a bit of fabrication to make parts to hold it together. A coop building a highly repairable tractor could make this their value proposition by publishing the diagrams for the fabricated parts, and the full list of parts they bought. There's little reason that a fairly normal fabrication shop couldn't be making tractors, and making them competitively with mainline manufacturers
This looks good, I'd been thinking about putting my little Python program that prints a random line from a textfile onto my Apache server for the internet to enjoy, this ought to enable it nicely. Where would be best to look for examples?
The idea of exposing Python via a normal cgi script is terrifying to me
Is it really not good for society to allow high prices? A high price on electricity would lead to consideration of alternate solutions, such as just not doing the thing which requires it or local power generation. The problem we have is that negative externalities aren't priced into fossil fuel alternatives
An advantage of increased awkwardness in dealing with local landowners would be that local organisations are incentivised to arrange a solution voluntarily, strengthening the local community, such as community owned and administered infrastructure that was constructed without government having to use eminent domain
The handbook which is linked is both irritating to navigate, and seemingly anemic. There are, however, hints as to their specific future funding activities, which include Offline Freecodecamp and Last Mile, with hints in the Activities section that lead me to deduce that the activities will be in the communities where Last Mile and the like work. Which is admirable. The results-focused aspect is different to any I've come across before, and I'll be interested to see if there's any future update on how they actually do.
Local scale makes sense in light of the concerns about disease and propagation of invasive algae though. It also could be seen as positive from a cultural standpoint, as the culture of seaside towns could be retained by keeping some of the population in aquaculture, instead of being moved into the same jobs that are found pretty much everywhere. Having 'seaweed harvester' as a role maintains a cultural element that might otherwise be lost, as fishing fleets modernise and globalise.
Another component is that it could strengthen ties between local communities, particularly between local agriculture and aquaculture. Those doing the kelp farming would probably have a few contacts with farmers interested in using kelp for animal feed, such as for the methane reduction proposal, and building a tie. They might also have other aquaculture employment, like clearing algal blooms, which could then be sold as fertaliser. I personally prefer that scene to something that's been financially instrumentised to death, has no local component, and is going to be lobbying to have the rules made its way instead of fitting in with pre-existing kelp exploitation by those with folio rights.
Or you know, deregulate things? Things like allowing free import of cabbage seeds, removing restrictions on manufacturing in residential areas, letting folk build homes which are different to what the local urban planners envisioned?
This reminds me of the EOMA68 project[1], which was seeking to use the same connectors to build systems where you simply swapped out compute cards when they got old and slow, saving on e-waste. I mostly like the idea of having the option to swap between a 'light' ARM processor board for general browsing, and a beefy x86 + GPU board for CAD work. With the dawn of PCIe being used for SD card data transfer, I think that even an unmodified reissue would work out quite well.
Yes, I've got a Dell T3610 under the desk here now. My only beef is that it has weird Dell proprietary hardware, so I can't easily fit quieter fans to the PSU, or reuse the case with an ATX mobo
Little so far, but I expect it to at least serve as slight certificate of 'I can set up a VPS to host a web page'. I'm unsure if there's any writing I want to put out there, but that may change.
I've been interested in the cattle feed angle for a while now, as it does 2 things: produces sustainable cattle feed which reduces reliance on continued productivity of land (can keep same cows/acre without artificial nitrogen inputs), and the reduced Methane output reduces the emissions of each animal such that continued production doesn't fall afoul of regulators.
Also, here in Ireland there is such a thing as Folio rights [1], inherited rights to collect seaweed from the foreshore, much like turbary rights, the right to cut turf from a certain plot of common land. Unless you are already in possession of these, getting licensed for seaweed harvesting is likely to be a headache.
In the engineering space, it's common to get chartered with one of the Institutes, such as the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE who make so many standards), Institution of Engineers of Ireland, and a great many others. These are massive organisations, which write standards, certify engineering courses in universities, and lobby governments. They are absolutely the successors to the guilds
Is there any information within .it, for the Italian provincial second level domains? I find the idea of these domains fascinating, although implementation of them could be problematic, given that countries can lose or gain territory over time (suppose the Kingdom of Naples secedes from Italy?)
In Germany they have the Pfand deposit scheme, where almost all beverage bottles and tins have a deposit charged on them, and shops have automated bottle and crate collecting machines, which you feed your bottles into and get out a receipt which entitles you to the deposit money off your next shop. You see very few stray bottles on the street, and those you do see are set neatly beside the bins for bottle collectors to pick up
There's plenty of natural fibre based alternatives for a significant portion of plastic usage, otherwise reusable glass, ceramic, metal and wooden containers can fill a need, and be locally produced.
Trees can be farmed, and I would like to see pollarding and coppicing used for paper manufacture