BigMikeInAustin

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The current funding level remaining is for 69 euros, 78 us dollars. Supposed to include shipping to anywhere in the world from Austria.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Clicking the link in the text works for me. Clicking the media for the post does not work for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it wasn't Facebook, I would have bought one already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Really can't trust their software if they flat out lie like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I do get a billing error about every 2 or 3 years. Usually something like they double bill a month, or the price for just 1 month is suddenly 2x - 3x the normal price.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I've used them for probably 2 decades, getter in because of the $1/month for a year deal.

I think I'm on the top, or 2nd from the top, tier. Has unlimited disk space, but it's not open access from the start. Every so many tens of GB you have to call to get the soft limit raised. They are trying to keep a bot from just filling the space up.

I use their hosted WordPress, so that they handle the upgrading.

I also have run a few wiki sites on there. Those install and run fine.

I wish I could figure out if I could install OwnCloud or such on there. I'm not great with Linux. You don't have rights to the OS, but anything you access through a webpage or FTP you can put there. You should have access to chron jobs, but my skills aren't there yet.

I mainly use them to host my own email domain, that I then access from gMail.

Biggest problem I've had with them is they will charge extra if you use a phased-out version of Python. So you have to make sure you keep anything using Python updated.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

You'll be forced to use only Windows forever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

We could keep the 0 hour as the "middle" of the night and 12 being the "middle" of the day (though I'm not sure if that's really the sun's high spot for the day for any places).

But with fully controlled mirrors, we could make it exactly 12 hours, so we could just then switch to the 0 hour being when the sun comes up.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (15 children)

It's pretty simple, actually. A village somewhere in Europe that is completely in the shade all day for part of the year has already proven it.

Mirrors.

We just need a ring of motorized mirrors around the Earth.

At hour 0, the mirrors will rotate to show sun all across the entire Earth.

At hour 12, the mirrors will rotate to put all of the Earth into night time.

That lets the entire Earth have the exact same synchronized time synchronized with the daylight.

The mirrors will block the sun from parts of the earth facing during the night.

The mirrors will constantly be rotating to keep the proper amount of sun light facing each part of Earth as the Earth rotates.

The mirrors will be solar powered.

This will fix it, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's worked for Windows?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I am not talking about jank yolo prayer work. I'm talking about people learning how to do something properly. Duct tape a car is not the repair I'm talking about.

You are complaining about there not being enough skilled workers today. I'm talking about people learning the skills over time.

Look at how many types of food and products are starting to promote cleaner ingredients and more sustainable materials as people are starting to learn more about their health and the environment. People can learn and thing can get better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not saying that today everyone should push a button and start self hosting. I'm saying it would be great if more people learn to self host and that there are benefits to people learning more.

People don't just absorb knowledge. It will require education programs.

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