Installing arch with the arch install script is the hardest step, but it’s quite managable if you’ve got decent computer literacy, but no linux knowledge (and it becomes a trivial step if you use an arch based distro that uses calamares).

And once you’re up and running, it’s easy.

As I said, that’s how I started with linux a few years back, and I came in to it with no linux knowledge. I moved from Arch to CachyOS at some point, but Arch was easy enough. I can speak to this scenario from first hand experience!

I started with arch and moved to cachy a few years back. You don’t need Linux experience, just computer literacy.

My favourite place in the world

I’m not sure about that. I have aphantasia, so no visual memories. My problem is with past events, they often feel like they’re disconnected from me. I don’t have a first person sense of my childhood for example. I can remember what happened, but I don’t so much remember it happening.

Photography for me is a way of anchoring myself to the event. When I look at a photo of something, it takes me back there in a way my memory can’t.

When I first heard about them, I thought they sounded useful. I’m a photographer, and one of the challenges is not always having a camera handy when you need it, so the idea of a readily available camera for taking photos of birds, sunsets, landscapes etc, and the ability to use them as ear phones etc sounded kinda neat. I spoke to some vision impaired folk at my local parkrun who use them to help identify what they’re looking at, or read things they can’t read etc. This was in the early days, when I was still a bit naive about where they would go. To me, they sounded like nifty technology.

And then Meta cranked up the creepy spy factor, and people started doing really creepy things with them.

It shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did…

It’s home assistant showing air con integration, with a custom graph. The coloured solid lines are sensors around the house, the green band is the temperature range we try and keep the house. The two coloured dotted lines are outdoor sensors, so we can see how the external temperature is impacting the internal temps, and the grey dotted line is the the temp provided by a weather service for our suburb.

Yeah, there’s not much point in spending money on z-wave today, but we had some old devices laying around, so we put them to use! :)

This is an old z-wave 6 in 1 sensor that was brought out of retirement when we spun up home assistant again.

It spikes even when not in direct sunlight, so I think it may just be past its prime. We’ve got plenty of others integrated, and a weather station in the back yard, so this one was more just a case of using a sensor we had laying around then needing to use it.

There was no real cat. That particular sensor seems to read high during the peak temperatures of the day, and likely needs to be replaced.

I wing it. There might be some big ticket things I know I’m going to do, but even those, I know I’m going to do them, but I organise it on the fly when I’m there.

There is some sort of bug in pixelfed. Normally, you don’t see posts unless they have an image, but for some reason, you can see posts that someone else boosts even if it doesn’t have an image. That’s how most non photo political stuff snuck through to my timeline. You can get around it by hiding boosts from people you follow who boost the content you don’t want to see.

I set them to close automatically after 24 hours, because I have having more tabs open than I can track. I explicitly don’t use them as “read later” bookmarks.

You were banned because you posted lolicon art.

You’re subject line is needlessly conflating a community and an instance… This was a community mod action, not a blahaj instance action.

Oof. I went through that in 2022. Hope recovery is smooth

You’re not giving it away. You still get a feed in rate. And if you installed a battery at the same time, you can avoid the peak charges that kick in after the solar peak has passed.

This is a screenshot from the AER PDF on the solar sharer program, which you can find here https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/2026-05/AER - Solar Sharer Offer fact sheet - DMO 8 final determination.pdf

I’m in Queensland, so the Energex rates apply. The base tariff rate is 26c until 11am, then free for 3 hours. Then 8c for 2 hours and then 49c between 4 and 9pm. My memory was off, and it’s only double the rate, but my point still stands. The peak time is a lot more expensive on the solar sharer plan, so you need to do the maths and make sure your usage will be shifted towards the free period and away from the peak, because if your highest usage is in the peak period and you don’t mitigate that, you could end up paying more on the solar sharer plan. You can absolutely save money on the SSO, and we use it for that reason, but you can also end up out of pocket.

This is what I was going to say!

Every planetoid from about a third of the mass of the moon upwards is going to be ovoid rather than flat, because of the impact of its own gravity on its shape.

This pretty much was my job up until recently, though we get better leave than that in Australia.