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Having been in the “mesh” space for years, there’s a ton of this techno-primitivism fantasy floating around. The reality is that people want to access the inter
by woah 8y ago
Having been in the “mesh” space for years, there’s a ton of this techno-primitivism fantasy floating around. The reality is that people want to access the internet and they want it to work well.
This article is a perfect example. This solar powered server which does not have 100% uptime for artistic reasons is probably sitting in someone’s kitchen next to a refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definitely has 100% uptime.
- mmt 8y ago> refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definitely has 100% uptime. Except that the making-cold mechanism of fridges have nowhere near a 100% duty-cycle. You probably wouldn't notice if it didn't even meet two "nines" of uptime. In fact, that's how frost-free freezers work, by taking advantage that fact to run a heater(!) for some number of minutes several times a day. A defrost timer that does 10 minutes every 8 hours reduces compressor uptime to 98%.
- fenwick67 8y agoA refrigerator is not 99.999% available (power outages). Maybe 99.9% if you live somewhere without trees and snow.
- marci 8y agoThey seem to be working on that as well: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid-in-your-apartment/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid... The solar webserver is another step towards that goal.
- adrianN 8y agoMaybe the webserver sits in a hut like Joey Hess' with a fridge that is also solar powered https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/fridge_0.1/ https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/fridge_0.1/