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  1. Comment on Request: alternatives to the Raspberry Pi? in ~tech

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    Nice one thank you! Love the colour e-ink. Yeah I totally agree on the usability. I need to build a current shunt to measure an alternator and was prepared for a bunch of work but...I can just buy...

    Nice one thank you! Love the colour e-ink.

    Yeah I totally agree on the usability. I need to build a current shunt to measure an alternator and was prepared for a bunch of work but...I can just buy a breakout board for an off-the-shelf chip and stick it on the i2c bus. Then all I need to do is write a python driver that converts it to dbus messages. Except someone's already done that too. Job done!

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  2. Comment on Request: alternatives to the Raspberry Pi? in ~tech

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    UK? Stick some alerts in an RSS reader with rpilocator and keep an eye on it. I waited a year for a 3B+ (specific use case) but managed to get hold of a 4 within about a week of checking. There's...

    UK? Stick some alerts in an RSS reader with rpilocator and keep an eye on it. I waited a year for a 3B+ (specific use case) but managed to get hold of a 4 within about a week of checking.

    There's plenty of Pi alternative SBCs but software support isn't nearly as good so you could come across all sorts of weird edge cases. I also didn't have the option of anything higher wattage as I'm off-grid and reliant on solar. I love your e-ink idea though! Tempted to put a remote screen in with some simple stats and controls on.

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  3. Comment on Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) recommendations and advice in ~comp

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    You could always run NUT on the NAS to interact with the UPS over USB, and trigger the desktop and router over the network to shut down in a sensible order. Takes a bit of setting up but supports...

    So one of the devices wouldn't ever know the UPS had kicked on and that it should shut down.

    You could always run NUT on the NAS to interact with the UPS over USB, and trigger the desktop and router over the network to shut down in a sensible order. Takes a bit of setting up but supports most common units and has served me well in the past.

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  4. Comment on What are some interesting websites (tech related or not) that I can add to my endless rotation of Reddit, Tildes and Hacker News? in ~talk

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    longform.org is a fantastic aggregator of long-form journalism (and occasional fiction). If nothing else it's worth skimming through to find sites to subscribe to!

    longform.org is a fantastic aggregator of long-form journalism (and occasional fiction). If nothing else it's worth skimming through to find sites to subscribe to!

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  5. Comment on In Greenland, Thai restaurants serve whale skin sushi and reindeer pad krapow in ~food

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    I was in Greenland a couple of months ago for work. For such an isolated place I was surprised to find a Chinese restaurant run by a Vietnamese couple and serving a very good pork rib sandwich! It...

    I was in Greenland a couple of months ago for work. For such an isolated place I was surprised to find a Chinese restaurant run by a Vietnamese couple and serving a very good pork rib sandwich! It turns out there's a fair migrant population from various southeast Asian countries that come over during the fishing season to work on trawlers.

    I also tried matak, which in this case came from narwhal. The fat was fantastic, the skin much less so (very chewy and with little flavour to it), but definitely an experience. A fascinating place to visit overall.

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