I had a whole thing about my setup here, but it was more than I want to share. Short version, panels are cheaper, easier to deal with, and longer lasting than you think. Most manufacturers guarantee 80% capacity after 30 years, area covered is more important than max output, there’s no need to buy the whole thing at once, 3-5k no more than 1200 at a time over a few years can get a lot of people all they need

The perfect drug would cost exactly as much as a patient can produce while maintaining themselves. This is not an original or hypothetical example. Treatment is more profitable than cure.

Well, my original suggestion was to befriend a rancher… not an expert and can’t speak as to exactly how widespread it is (or even if this was legal I guess), but anecdotally all it took was asking around a little. Nice spot on a hill, few people/critters already buried there, felt right, cost nothing. Two generations in and I’d like to be a third. If that’s not widely accessible I wish it were, from this end I’ve never heard of a $7k human composting service and it sounds way crazier to me than just getting buried in a pasture

Hard pass on the core concept here. I’m really enjoying a community of people just posting because they want to, it’s like the internet I grew up with and loved. Why would would you want to bring in people trying to squeeze a buck out of that? Growth isn’t an inherently good thing

Energy (read: oil) companies don’t invest in “green energy” for the same reason pharma companies don’t research cures

What I have considered, though, is making parts of it open source, and keeping only the “secret sauce” proprietary. The open source parts would be stuff that could be used to build similar software for other niches of the same target industry, whereas the super specific niche stuff and all the regulation compliance stuff (much of which is just for that one niche anyway - other niches have different regulations) would be proprietary.

This seems perfectly reasonable and I wish you the best of luck. Just don’t expect anyone to provide the infrastructure for your proprietary secret sauce for free!

They would unplug our isp provided modem and take it to bed with them, so I tracked down another one from the manufacturer and copied the eeprom from theirs onto it. It was a simpler time :p

Borders racist, nationalism bad

I’m old enough you have to replace “cracking neighbors wifi” with cloning our modem and “youtube” with funny pictures from irc homies, but same. Working around internet access restrictions was a milestone between fun things I could do with computers and how they really worked

That was somewhat facetious and self-aggrandizing, “cracking” something isn’t always possible or necessary. If your service was unique/useful enough, I would contribute to reverse engineering enough of that backend to replicate its functionality. More likely I’d just refuse to use it and support open alternatives

Unsolicited advice though, giving stuff away generates a huge amount of goodwill that can be way more useful and rewarding than revenue. Contributors instead of employees, love instead of money, place and purpose instead of points in your bank account. I’m not wealthy by any means, but I’m comfortable enough and haven’t had to buy a laptop since high school

Congrats, pretty sure “mom took away my internet” is the primary entry point for IT professionals

Fuck your government, cover your roof in panels and enjoy. Simple as

Forge-ayo

Think hispanic

I see this as a feature not bug, and tbh kinda resent those who hoard information and try to extract wealth from it. Extremely rude to the giants whose shoulders your work is built on. I’m the person who’s going to crack and redistribute your shit as soon as you publish it, nice to meet you :)

You seem to have linked to the entire wikipedia article on body disposal, possibly without reading it. Here’s a map, some info from a funeral home, and legal advice state by state. Sorry if this is too US-centric, that’s where I’ve been through the process five times.

“if you don’t want to work, then that becomes your job”

I genuinely enjoy working to directly better my situation. It’s completely different from being exploited to keep enough points in a bank account to survive

Holy bourgeoise, batman! Just befriend a rancher. We are all compost in training, it’s not that hard

e: fr tho, nothing illegal about just getting dropped in a hole as-is on private property most places

We called it a graveyard, still works lol

You know how when you were a kid you’d mix all the flavours from the soda fountain?

Heck yeah, plenty of room for batteries down low under the bed and it’d help out with the mini truck achilles’s heel of poor traction unloaded. I’ve thought about a conversion like that a lot too, rwd only would be easy