Mail & Calendar -> Fastmail
Pass -> Bitwarden
and now VPN -> IVPN
so the main thing left is Proton Drive; mostly used it for phone photo backup and occasional sharing of larger files with friends/family, so whatever alternative I find just needs to accommodate those uses at minimum. I rarely make use of Docs or Sheets
@yapka Actually no, the feeds are separate. They might be integrated more in the future, but to start with we wanted a fresh experience in Inkwell that is mostly centered on long-form posts, not everything in Micro.blog.
This is probably not gonna go this bloke’s way, legal-wise. But I admire him, especially since my guess is that he will deploy the “plums” defence, i.e., when he’s told using a duress password to wipe your phone is unlawful, he’ll say: suck my plums
🔗 Double your business with companies you like via @davatron5000 #tech
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always the desired outcome. Number chart go up is good because it makes other number charts go up, specifically stock ticker number.
ok apparently PIA doesn't let you do WireGuard profiles for e.g. native integration in GNOME's network settings, so I'm probably not gonna go with them
IVPN was mentioned to me recently, so I may just end up going with them
figured I'd at least look over NordVPN's offering since they're probably the biggest-name VPN I know of
the monthly price of their basic, *VPN-only* tier is $14.99, pricier than a full Proton Unlimited sub. to be fair tho, the 1-year or 2-year plan significantly lowers that price, but it's much more upfront
I also looked at Private Internet Access, as I used them before Proton. lower prices than Nord overall, and...no controversies, i think?
@macberg Interesting, there aren't student loans in Austria, at least back then when I was at uni. Parents usually pay for rent etc. or you work part time. Basically these two scenarios 🤔
🐔 A farm that cuts its electricity bill by 74% AND gives its chickens shade from summer heat?
Handsome Brook Farms, an organic pasture-raised egg producer in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, just finished 9 ground-mounted solar projects totaling 579.7 kW across its farms. One farmer saw a 74.23% drop in his annual electric bill with 100% uptime since day one.
The ground-mounted panels pull double duty: clean power on top, shade for the hens below. The chickens roam between the arrays and the barn, staying cooler during intense summer heat.
The economics are real too. With federal tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and a USDA REAP grant, the payback is about 3 years. After that, power is basically free for the 25-year warranty period.
It offsets about 668 metric tons of CO2 annually. Not bad for a bunch of chickens and some panels.
Yeah we'll have to see, I have another Pi 400 running as my Jellyfin server and a couple other tiny, low-end services. (That one I opened up and stuffed an SSD inside)
