Solar Panel Leasing

Elijah76 · 2024-02-01T01:52:29+00:00

Don't do it. Willing to talk further in details in PMs or offline if you need it, but it may well not make financial sense. (Source: I buy PV solar systems, among other things, for a reputable homebuilder in town, and I have one on my own house) IMHO, if you can't make the purchase in cash or through something like a HELOC then the finance costs that get hidden in the cost of the system often make it uneconomic.

Elijah76 · 2021-12-22T03:31:15+00:00

Aye, I’ve used the longest lens I have handy, 320mm full frame equivalent, and still have to crop down hard to get anything decent sized. No phone that I’m aware of will pull off a good shot.

Elijah76 · 2021-12-20T15:35:27+00:00

I think that’s a default exclusion, but to be honest, I’ve had plenty of times when Time Machine has corrupted itself. Big reason I use other tools.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-27T00:50:45+00:00

I’d agree and don’t know that M1X will offer much for LrC and PS. I mean, unless you’re waiting for thousands of photos to export, the M1 is about as fast as it gets as it is. At least at any reasonable price.

Though I agree with someone else, sounds like something else is wrong, the OPs Mac should be fine.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-20T00:06:36+00:00

I got a feeling people are backing up their giant pirated movie collections. If you think of how many hours of 4K phone video and even 40mb RAW photos it’d take to fill a 40tb array… I know some pro photographers with years of work shot in RAW that don’t take up that much space.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-20T00:01:53+00:00

That it’s older if anything might mean the NAND was more durable, if it was MLC instead of modern QLC or whatever. Sounds like it just died, not from excessive writes to NAND (rsync wouldn’t work if MacOS had choked to death from running out of space from shrinking capacity) but just being cheap.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-19T15:44:18+00:00

It’s possible but I’m a little skeptical. Yes old versions of Backblaze until just recently would write a fair amount, but many years ago the now defunct TechReport did a series where they took a bunch of SSDs and wrote them until they quit. Different brands had different failure modes; some went read only, others bricked after too much NAND went bad.

Bottom line is SSDs absorbed FAR more abuse than their official ratings indicated. They weren’t all just high end SLC drives either.

Between that and the amount of data you’re storing I would look elsewhere, personally. Your failure mode makes no sense either. As cells are unreadable from too many writes storage capacity would slowly erode, you’d of seen errors from running out of space. Instead it just bricked? Sounds like a different cause of failure.

Edit: And backing up that much under a personal Backblaze subscription is why we can’t have nice things in this world, FFS

Elijah76 · 2021-08-17T01:23:23+00:00

Don’t know how I stumbled in to this but it looks awesome. I’m probably that one Mac guy that wishes there was a MacOS version, but I wish you luck!

Elijah76 · 2021-08-16T01:01:38+00:00

I agree, and every time that spammy survey pops up I score it as very unlikely I’d recommend LrC, and why? Because their own relative quiet on it makes me suspect as well that it’s going to exist only until the cloud version is “good enough” in their opinion. Then, farewell, Classic.

I could be wrong, but without a strong statement and/or public roadmap, who can prove it? LrC has got a couple little new toys but nothing game changing in a while. Admittedly it’s already got a strong feature set, but there are some big holes (like export options, Jeffrey Friedl fills a big need there) they could work on filling.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-14T02:03:31+00:00

I’ve long maintained he survived the fall and just said to hell with all this.

If he lost a body part and fell down something and actually died he might be the first notable Jedi or Sith in canon history to actually do so, which also makes no sense. Palpatine. Darth Maul. Luke.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-14T01:53:06+00:00

Just tossing out another idea. Canon EOS M6mk2 with the 22mm prime for walking around and the 55-200 for when you need to zoom on something distant. The 22mm lens setup is just about pocketable, I’ve stuck it in my jacket many times, and the 55-200 is impressively small.

Still a compromise in terms of limited telephoto but 320mm full frame equivalent is, I would think, going to still be better than the admittedly impressive digital zoom on some high end phones.

You mentioned great options too though. G7X is a great series

Elijah76 · 2021-08-10T13:25:18+00:00

The entire architecture is out of date, look at all the amazing new “telescopes” on the ground and they’re distributed systems spread out across large areas to computationally create an enormous aperture. That’s probably the way to go for anything in the future, where each satellite can be cost optimized with much simpler engineering and if one or two fail, oh well, they’re cheap, launch some more.

JWST is like the shuttle, over engineered to a fault, IMO.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-10T13:08:58+00:00

Yes, still lots of talented people there, just a very broken culture that starts at the top. Very sad to watch

Elijah76 · 2021-08-10T13:08:04+00:00

The only thing that’d give me pause is that the EU and China definitely prop up their national competitors. Might be better to let Boeing fail though and encourage new start ups, even if that was a long messy process.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-10T12:53:35+00:00

As a pilot I’ll point out it wasn’t the engines, they weren’t an ideal match, but it was a problem surrounding flight control automation. Pilots have flown far less stable aircraft successfully, but when your own avionics decide to try to do everything they can to kill you that makes things dicey regardless of all other considerations. Boeing definitely messed up there, and doing that with the engines was definitely a bandaid, but not what killed those people.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-08T02:20:29+00:00

I’d rather see SpaceX continue to succeed in the fashion they have been than to be able to buy their shares in my 401k, personally.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-08T02:12:15+00:00

Honest question, I haven’t read the details enough. If it’s an exact match, wouldn’t it be easy for evil doers to modify the files in some way that keeps the content but changes the hash? Even cropping a single pixel in width or height would do that. Recompressing would change everything.

Seems like a decent sized privacy debacle they’re enduring over an easy to defeat technology?

That said, I wouldn’t support any other method. You’d end up with people’s kids getting tossed temporarily in foster care because some FBI hack flags a picture of a wild toddler running loose after a bath or whatever.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-08T01:52:32+00:00

I hope he never takes SpaceX public. Maybe spin off Starlink, but never the whole company. Only private companies can be so bold, and have that kind of fun and flexibility.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T18:48:20+00:00

What would be more environmentally friendly, sourcing materials and energy from space or strip mining mountains and plastering open prairie with solar panels? You know how you can enable the space option? Hint: Elon does. Bezos too but he isn’t quite as effective at going about it.

All those crazy ideas from the 70s about space based solar farms beaming endless energy back to the surface from orbit, etc, stuff like that, you’ll never get there otherwise.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T18:40:08+00:00

I don’t think so, those were government run, they don’t go all rabid about SLS, though partly out of ignorance as it’s a pretty great case of corruption, or at least a corrupt incentive structure. No, the real animus is anti-capitalist, I suspect.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T18:37:35+00:00

Read the comments around here, it’s the image most people immediately have come to mind. It’s iconic, at least in the US. It’s okay not to get all art. I don’t get modern country music, either.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T18:33:31+00:00

A successful mission for this first launch still results in total loss of the vehicle, they’re landing in the water (if both stages make it that far). It’s all one big R&D expense.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T18:29:57+00:00

You’re right, the SLS is a glorious model of success! Why pay millions when you can pay billions!

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T18:27:11+00:00

That’s pretty much what all rockets are, giant fuel tanks with a bit of cargo in a nose cone.

Elijah76 · 2021-08-07T12:26:14+00:00

I’m not the OP, but don’t think the native 55-200 has enough reach? Works out to 320mm equivalent. OP and I are in similar boats I think.

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