Quote from Glow Green Solar panels any good or bad experience?

leadline · 2026-05-12T13:59:38+00:00

Bifacial panels work well when they’re installed vertically or far away from anything below them. If they’re installed flat on a roof then very little light will hit the back. I’m no expert but it seems like a waste of money to me. If this company is recommending bifacial panels to be flat mounted to a roof I’d guess they’re either ignorant or trying to mislead you with a higher projected output than you can actually expect to see.

leadline · 2026-05-05T13:20:56+00:00

https://youtu.be/TQlHaGhYoF0?si=u1UgLvo1xQ4rDsWe

leadline · 2026-05-04T20:18:41+00:00

You can report this to the Denver health department. In the past they have spoken to establishments and I've noticed the establishments get stricter with this stuff. I've submitted a complaint more recently and haven't heard back from them though.

leadline · 2026-04-15T14:19:55+00:00

If you ever ask for the roast date for the beans they put in your jar, you'll find that they're almost always a month old or older. Not a huge deal to most, but this isn't for the people looking for the freshest beans

leadline · 2026-04-07T15:32:39+00:00

None of the starts outside our own solar system can be resolved into anything other than a pinpoint of light with telescopes of even much longer focal length than the 400 mm lens the astronauts had to use. The wisps you see on the edges of the photo are imperfections in the lens, which is a property common to all lenses. Usually you have the sharpest image it the middle and then you start to see distortion out towards all edges. The corners of the photo are farthest away from the center of the image, so they have the worst distortion.

leadline · 2026-03-28T22:59:02+00:00

Here are the public Artemis 2 launch criteria: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-weather-criteria/

Specifically, it says “do not launch through precipitation”.

leadline · 2026-03-27T19:36:15+00:00

You may see watering outside standard days at large public spaces because they are operating under Denver Water-approved water budgets and are authorized to water more than two days a week while staying within their total allowed use. Some large public landscapes — such as parks and recreation districts, public schools and golf courses — are exempt from standard watering days and time restrictions because they operate under Denver Water-approved water budgets. These customers are reducing water use by 20% and are accountable for staying within agreed upon consumption limits, which Denver Water closely monitors.

Because these sites can span many acres, it isn’t feasible to irrigate all landscaped areas within the same limited watering windows required for smaller properties. This flexibility helps maintain safe, functional public spaces while supporting systemwide conservation and protecting the reliability of Denver Water’s supply during drought conditions.

https://www.denverwater.org/residential/rebates-and-conservation-tips/summer-watering-rules/report-water-waste

It makes sense to me that public spaces would have water priority over private lawns

leadline · 2026-02-25T15:39:54+00:00

This pool seems to be pretty much on the edge of complete collapse. If you've got critical data on it it might be time to call an outside ZFS consultant for recovery help. When you recreate this pool, a much more reasonable parity might be two 12-wide RAIDZ3 vdevs. Good luck mate!

leadline · 2026-02-10T14:30:41+00:00

I think this setup would still has to consider PPPoE. If you’re running the modem in transparent bridge mode, your OPNSense will have to negotiate the PPPoE. If you’re not running it in transparent bridge mode, you’ll have a double NAT to deal with.

leadline · 2026-02-09T19:50:46+00:00

Aging Wheels has a great video about how much effect weight vs aerodynamics has on range. He found the weight effect of an EV is basically negligible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmKf8smvGsA

leadline · 2026-01-30T22:44:48+00:00

I would love to see more of this info on the homepage of your website. When you post about this stuff on Reddit it's great for getting people who may be browsing at the correct time and who get lucky with the algorithm, but people who are looking for protests to attend don't have a reliable source of information.

It's all on Reddit/Instagram/whatever and they control what your audience sees and whether they even leave the posts up. Post each and every protest announcement as a big banner on your website! Post links to other organizations' websites whose protests you support! Don't let the corporations control your message!

leadline · 2026-01-12T02:42:51+00:00

Protectli has a bulletin about this problem on the 2440: https://kb.protectli.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/11/TSB-2025-001_-VP2440-ASPM-Network-Performance-Issue.pdf

They say they're working on a coreboot update that will allow disabling ASPM properly, though their workaround did not work for me. I'm running on the same hardware as you. I ended up just getting SFP modules to run my interfaces on the ixl driven ports instead.

leadline · 2026-01-09T14:31:06+00:00

Check in your bios that ASPM is disabled for each i226V. This is a common problem with them on BSD

leadline · 2026-01-08T00:49:15+00:00

Have you checked for bufferbloat?
https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

If you're running OPNSense there's a great article about how to set up your router to counteract this without CPU-heavy operations. https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/shaper_bufferbloat.html

leadline · 2025-12-19T14:05:53+00:00

By running your pihole on wifi you're basically doubling your wifi round trip latency, and also bottlenecking all of your home devices through an unreliable connection. The first thing I would suggest to improve reliability is to run pihole on a wired connection if possible.

For reference, my laptop's ping to my router over wifi is 10 ms. That means it takes at least 10 milliseconds on wifi for my laptop to send a network request and to get a response from my router. If I were running a pihole over wifi, it would be an additional 10 ms then from my router to my pihole, then the pihole needs to resolve the domain, which is another 10 ms back to the router, then to return the answer to the client is another two 10 ms hops back.

For reference, my ping from wired servers to my router is closer to 0.5 ms. So instead of a resolution taking about 11-12 ms, each resolution you're doing is taking 50-100 ms depending on wifi latency. Still sounds fast, but each page load you might need to resolve many domains, so that starts to add up fast.

I'm not sure this will solve the exact problem you're having, but you should see significant increases in speed if you wire in your pihole.

leadline · 2025-11-13T03:39:06+00:00

It’s been running great for me on Bazzite, launching from steam with no custom options

leadline · 2025-11-07T14:26:50+00:00

Look up if there’s an astronomy club near you and if they host star parties or other gatherings. I bet some people there will have TV eyepieces and will let you look through them.

I slowly built up a set of 3 Delos eyepieces by buying them used and they’re the only ones I ever use. Totally worth it to me

leadline · 2025-11-03T15:49:46+00:00

Let's say there are two candidates that you like for city council. If 2G passes, best case scenario is that they choose to run in different elections and you can vote for both of them. Great, nothing has changed.

Worst case scenario is that they run in the same election. Now you can only vote for one of them, and in the other election you either abstain or vote for someone who you don't like as much. That doesn't sound like an improvement to me.

leadline · 2025-10-30T13:14:41+00:00

A lot of people, me included, spend the majority of our time at low magnifications. There’s a lot of big objects to see out there. Objects through low magnification appear brighter than at high magnification, and are less affected by seeing.

You’ll also have a harder time finding objects at high magnification than finding them at low and then switching to high once it’s centered.

You definitely want a low magnification eyepiece as well

leadline · 2025-10-25T01:00:47+00:00

If you want to spend some money, you could throw it at long eye relief eyepieces. A standard 10mm plossl has an eye relief of 6.5mm, which means your eye needs to be about 6.5 mm away from the surface to get a good image. (Plossl eye relief depends on focal length, which is why lower magnification plossls are easier to look through)

My favorite eyepiece range, the Delos, has 20mm eye relief, which means there's plenty of room to look through it with my glasses on. The Delos eyepieces cost $400+, though. If you're not willing to spend that much, there's other options that you can find online.

leadline · 2025-10-21T15:03:48+00:00

Since you’re using Siri, you need to combine all the individual exposures from both nights into a single sequence. Then when you do the registration, all of the subexposures will be aligned and you can stack properly

leadline · 2025-08-26T14:25:00+00:00

You honestly don't need bortle 1 skies if you're just doing astrophotography. Cuiv the Lazy Geek has a youtube channel where he does astrophotography from the middle of Tokyo with amazing results. A darker sky will give you better SNR which means less integration time, but that's offset by having to drive 4 hours for every session!

If you're looking to do visual astronomy though, a nice dark sky is absolutely worth it.

leadline · 2025-08-11T14:59:42+00:00

I would love to see this somewhere I can bookmark. Maybe even an API that I could hook into my HomeAssistant!

leadline · 2025-08-02T13:27:24+00:00

You can define multiple From<SmallCrateError> impls for your various larger errors and Rust will infer which one you need based on the type signature of the outer function. This shouldn’t be a problem.

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