You can always look for a 12V car adapter charger for your laptop. For older 19V input ones (or similar) they are quite cheap and not that inefficient.

Modern laptops with USB-C power-delivery complicate things a bit as they use variable voltage and thus you need a special charger.

I also have a foldable one that directly discharges to USB. Never really occurred to me to charge a USB power bank with it during the day though 😅

It’s very useful to charge my video drone during camping trips though.

I moved my small compost into a greenhouse this year, as previously it was waterlogged from rain half of the time. I expected it to work better, but it seems to have ended up way too dry and all the worms are gone.

Cockpit is a simpler choice for that.

That is why I said it depends. There are many places where electricity cuts for a short duration are quite frequent. Often you don’t even notice it, but a 24/7 server would be effected.

In general, I think the risk of laptop batteries catching fire is overstated especially if you limit the charge to 80% or so. So weighting these two issues against each other you can come out either way, but I think for most places it will come down towards a UPS being nice to have.

Depends. Usually it is still good as a UPS for a few minutes, and some laptops have a bios option to limit full charge which lowers the risk even further.

You might want to first identify your main power consumption and at what time this occurs. 300$ seems very high in general, but if that is for example mostly AC usage during the day, you might be able to not have to buy as large of a battery since peak consumption coincidences with peak production.

While your post does mention notifications which really helps with engagement and was lacking from most forums, the main issue was IMHO lack of good mobile support of all the main forum platforms until as you said Discourse came along, but by then it was too late.

Since Snikket is just an XMPP server, it can be used with desktop apps like Dino as well.

All the corporate gamification feature are probably quite annoying.

It really is an enterprise solution and I doubt your family will be happy with it.

Why not just set up a Snikket server and use that? You can easily create group-chats and share pictures and videos there and the interface is similar to WhatsApp.

Badly insulated and huge open spaces that waste a lot of power if heated or cooled. In addition the entire concept of car dependent suburbs and sprawling development into the country side is an environmental disaster all on its own.

Drywall is pretty much the same, so yes, you can, and the typical US McMasion is pretty menacing in its environmental impact (and looks shit as well).

Maybe https://picocms.org/

But Hugo is fine, no need to use all the advanced features.

Some good ideas, and most of it wouldn’t even be expensive. It’s a bit sad how education bureaucracy kills most of such initiatives in my experience.

Works great with Akkoma as well.

It has pretty much stagnated in the English speaking part of the internet, and only saw a huge boost in popularity in Brazil recently (due to Twitter being newly banned there).

maybe try: https://github.com/Fancy-Mumble/FancyMumbleV2

Related: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-may-surprise-you

https://www.twz.com/this-alien-looking-airship-design-used-a-propulsion-method-unlike-any-other

It is possible that people get access to your server while it is running via known or unkown software vulnerabilities, but that isn’t really the point… all I am saying is that if you host your server at home, it is unlikely that at-rest disk-encryption does you any good and it certainly doesn’t help to protect against illicit remote access.

What it does “help” is preventing you from remotely accessing your own server if it rebooted for some reason… and many other such footguns that you will experience sooner or later.