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Don’t let people sell you flashlights unless they’re super cheap and super reliable. :) Especially avoid buying rescue or air defense searchlights - if a product contains the word “rescue” or “defense”, its price will cause a jumpscare. Optics isn’t a secret art, Wikipedia has all the relevant information - and if...

So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?

Any recommendations? Are any of them usb-c rechargeable? Seems like most of the ones I’m seeing take AAA batteries.

Previously:...

Oh boy Fedi, do I have a weird one....

This is clever. But in a way, it’s also shifting the environmental impact from these bottle caps. I can’t imagine under which conditions the birds’ may be a problem (e.g. getting too much food). Maybe someone with better knowledge on these species can tell if there could be a downside (no matter how improbable, just the...

A couple of years ago I built two ram pumps and installed them in the stream near my house. They pumped water for the garden for a few months during spring and summer. I’m okay with the fact that the pumps are just useful during part of the year, but didn’t really like damming up the entire stream for my installation, seemed...

It was even the same brand. I love when hoarding materials pays back.

Something neat I’ve discovered - you can repost the content of your movim blog straight into a lemmy post and it’s all compatible, uses the same markup. I’ll repost all this to imgur as a backup at some point but for now this is awesome....

This is my second step-by-step post using our local movim microblog platform rather than imgur. I’ve also done an imgur post as a backup but I’m seriously impressed with movim, very glad to have a noncorporate place to centralize my projects. Let me know if there’s any issue with the link....

Interesting collection of videos about installing a solar PV system.

Hello,...

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/6072301...

One of my hobbies is fixing up ewaste laptops and giving them away. I actually do lots of ewaste electronics, from TVs to space heaters, but the laptops are where I put in the most work. Some are new, intact, and ready to go with nothing more than a OS reset. Others have had parts removed or damaged, and need more work. Most of...

Hello, comrades! What kind of stuff are you up to these days? Anything cool, anything you want to share about?

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8959162...

So I was finally able to get back to work on the sound recorder. The general gist is that this is meant to be an audio recorder with transcription and email capabilities, which is also ruthlessly simple to use. There’s one button. You push it, a recording says “recording” and it starts recording. You push the button again...

There are several DiY communities in the fedi but if we ignore the big centralized instances, there is:...