[–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

flexible energy sources may be used

What do you think a flexible energy source is?

It also says:

Events that last more than two days over most of Europe happen about once every five years.

To be clear, I am in favor of importing electricity across borders but if most of Europe is affected by Dunkelflaute then I don't think it would be sufficient. Lets hope for the best and plan for the worst.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute

    The wikipedia article itself has many sources, I won't pretend I have read them. Pretty sure I first heard of this in a modo energy video, but I couldn't find it. Regardless it is a well researched phenomenon and is a real challenge we need to overcome.

    Technically you could do it with enough battery storage but those batteries would be doing nothing most of the time when the weather is normal.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    nuclear is a massive waste of money now renewables and storage are so cheap.

    And how cheap are renewables when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine?

    Renewables and batteries are awesome and we need more. But they aren't suited to all weather in all countries at all times. The UK has periods where there is not enough wind or sun or battery storage to sustain demand. Nuclear is not my first choice but it is a practical choice that can be helpful.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Doesn’t the shebang at the top of a bash script negate that compatibility issue anyway?

    Yes. Fish is equal to ZSH when running scripts. But has more trouble if you are writing scripts you want other people to run (this is quite rare these days though, maybe just use a proper programming language if you want to write/share software).

    Fish is worth trying out! I have used both fish and ZSH both for around a year. Fish is a better experience overall. You don't have to maintain a bunch of config files for the same level of features and it is generally faster.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Even just the chasis is super expensive. Hopefully it will get cheaper over time.

    I don't blame framework for the high price as I am sure they are getting hurt on sales and margin by the ram prices.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*
    • Because of the energy pricing system the price of energy at a given time depends on the price of the most expensive component which is gas. So if any gas gets used at a given time then all of the energy produced at that time is priced at the same rate. The government have said that this system will be changed.
    • Much of our energy is produced in Scotland but consumed in the south east. Expensive infrastructure is needed to move the electricity to where it is needed. What is worse this system won't get better over time because there is no incentive for industry to set up close to the electricity source.
    • The UK has a few problems in general with building infrastructure making it expensive. These jobs are often contracted out instead of done in house by the government which can inflate costs. Additionally the planning system can be difficult to work with in the UK as residents have more power to stop infrastructure projects than in other countries.

    More info here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X9IKUFUtM2Q&pp=ygUIVG9tIGJyYXk%3D

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-WUhBtB_CM&pp=ygUaR3JlZyBqYWNrc2luIHpvbmFsIHByaWNpbmc%3D

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Why not use a zero trust VPN like netbird? It is fully open source.

    You can create a reverse proxy that requires a password to get through to jellyfin. I think there is a limit of like 5 for this though (unless you pay or self host).

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you for the recommendation. I have been wanting to try out the FUTO apps (which grayjay) for a while but couldn't find it on f-droid. It looks like they have their own repo which you need to add.

    Just got grayjay downloaded and it is so good!

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