Unfortunately, it’s common for U.S. municipalities to regulate how one lives on one’s own property. Must have city water and electricity, for example. Can only camp on it for so long, etc. My family owns ~35 acres of rural property that I might try to build a tiny house on someday but I assume there will be much hoop-jumping, even outside a tiny town of ~600 people.

I’m running MythTV front/back on a Pi4 with one of those generic handheld keyboards. Power consumption is important to me because I live off solar power in a campervan.

If the Pi4 died tomorrow I’d probably replace it with a ~NUC.

In my case once a tab fails to load it will generally never load no matter how many times I reload the tan. I can close that tab and paste the same URL into a different tab and it works fine.

Ncdu

I learn something new every day. I’ve been running du -a | sort -rn | head like some kind of animal. ncdu runs very fast on my systems and shows me what I want to see. Thanks!

If you ride a motorcycle it’s pretty much a mandatory skill because there’s no spare tire!

I bought a smaller kit for the 250cc scooter just in case. Those lighter tires have got to be easier to work with than the heavy truck tire!

Do you think servers have it easy compared to personal computers? No pesky audio/video cards, bluetooth, etc…

My server upgrade to Trixie had no issues. That’s good because it’s several thousand miles away on another continent… My laptop had a few burps with ranger, jekyll, and autokey that required googling.

my experience so far

I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version

Selection bias? I suspect Debian folks are more likely to notice problems and start looking for bug reports, talking about it, etc. Like my dorky blog entry above.

I set up my ex-MIL with Mint and it worked fine. Also gave my 70-something father a Mint USB and he installed it on his own.

I’ve used other distros for that purpose in the past but since they no longer exist I’m not listing them.

She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that

I’d check to see if any proprietary software is required, if there is a linux or at least WINE-friendly version available. Hopefully it’s all web-based so no proprietary stuff needed.

I remember the Franklin Ace but this is the first i’ve heared of the Mimic Spartan.

When I was three I wandered off and got my feet stuck in a muddy creek. My parents said my dog stayed with me and barked until I was found.

don’t get me started on golf courses and the municipalities that enable them

Jaysus, this is why mods should be able to limit visibility to subscribers only.

if it controlled redistricting

IMO no party should control redistricting.

Agreed. In my case the panels are flat-mounted and I do my best to avoid snow for other reasons. I get caught about 1x every two years.

In my particular case water the soaking water is more valuable than the additional Watt-hours. When I lived in a house with city water I did pre-soak all dry beans for the reasons you give.

Been parked at a sweet BLM spot near Moab for almost 2 weeks now

I haven’t been to Moab, but I’ve been close enough on the Colorado side that you could basically see Moab from up high. :-) I think there are some fires in that general area; do you use Watch Duty or similar to track those? I was trapped on the Oregon coast by wildfires for about a month once and it was less fun than it sounds…

At the moment I’m at ~9400ft in Colorado on forest service land. Nice and cool up here but the view attracts hordes of chaotic/messy weekenders who leave litter and toilet paper on the ground. :-(

I’ve found some amazing sites using the FreeRoam app - it shows you cell coverage too which is clutch when you need to work remotly

I don’t see freeroam on the google appstore. It’s listed on Amazon appstore but people are saying it’s no longer accessible. Hmmm.

is there anything wrong with Jackery?

There is nothing inherently wrong with Jackery in particular or “power stations” in general. They will perform to spec and as designed. Here’s my copypasta on the topic of power setups:

== begin ==

In general the process is:

• assess daily power requirements <- arithmetic, not guessing
• think critically about charging options, based on your particular use case. Full-timing or long expeditions require more robust field charging than does weekending.
• read and understand relevant specs (not marketing) on everything under consideration
• choose whatever components or all-in-one solutions meet power needs…
  • under the worst conditions you are likely to encounter (winter? bad weather?)
  • at a price (money and effort) you are willing to pay.
• only then break out the credit card

== end ==

IME, anyone who does the legwork will get good results with either approach, whether DIY or a “power station”.

The problem is they are marketed as Magic Solutions to folks who don’t/won’t/can’t do the legwork. “If I just spend a lot of money on it I’m sure it will be fine”. And maybe it will. Often it won’t, because the buyer didn’t know what they needed or what they actually bought. I help owners of power stations frequently over on reddit; such help mainly consists of quoting relevant sections of their own device’s manual to explain why it’s doing what it’s doing.

I understand it can be an onslaught of information at first so I try to help with overviews like: choosing solar panels for your power station.

After all the dog hair I’ve ingested over the past 50-odd years I ought to be at least and honarary part-dog.

How often do you get your dogs nails trimmed?

I trim my dog’s nails about every 2-3 weeks. She tolerates it because I give her a mini marshmallow after each paw. I regularly touch her paws in non-trimming activities to get her used to it. She went from fear to something like annoyance.

I used to have a greyhound that was so used to handling from the track that he would fall asleep while I dremeled his nails.

Neat concept. I got killed by the statue. :-/

“When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”