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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • As soon as I bought my house I installed maximum solar panels and battery on it. Through all of summer I kept both my air conditioners on day and night at 23 degrees and never once imported from the grid, only used solar and battery power.

    The credits I get from the power company for my excess exported power is pretty paltry, so I do what I can to use up my own solar. I bought a large food dehydrator and have started dehydrating my own hiking foods like soup, protein bars, biltong, ect and making little MRE-style hiking food packs. I have a spidergro grow light which I might use to set up a little greenhouse and grow some more delicate culinary plants some time soon too. Plus I can run a big stack of home lab servers and stuff at home without needing to consider the power cost. It’s pretty great.





  • I recently bought the 5-door Suzuki Jimny with a roof rack and ladder, and can confirm it’s the best and most satisfying car I’ve ever bought. Carries lumber on the roof, can drive up inclined that other 4wd cars cannot, floats over sandand mud, sipspetrol, it’s fantastic. It doesn’t come with a ton of stupid touchscreen controls or driver assist nonsense either, it’s just - a car - like they used to sell 20 years ago. It has a keyhole in the door and the steering column. It weighs about 1/2 what a jeep weighs, and 1/3rd of a big LandCruiser.