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   by louwrentius 7mo ago

   A CPU from the last 20 years can route traffic at gigabit speed. It's only something to worry about for a Raspberry Pi3 or something similarly 'crippled'.
2. 62.▲
   by louwrentius 7mo ago

   Not that I know of, why would that happen?
3. 63.▲
   by louwrentius 7mo ago

   A router only really needs one network interface. Any computer with a single network interface, maybe even an (old) laptop, can be used. Anything x86 from at least the last 10 years is energy efficient and fast enough to route at gigabit sp
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   Improve Privacy by Running a DNS Server Without Forwarder(louwrentius.com)

   1 points by louwrentius 7mo ago|0 comments
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   Improve Privacy by Running a DNS Server Without Forwarder(louwrentius.com)

   1 points by louwrentius 7mo ago|1 comments
6. 66.▲
   by louwrentius 7mo ago

   I see a ton of Tesla taxis in NL. I’m not buying the hybrid story.
7. 67.▲
   by louwrentius 7mo ago

   I still feel that PHEVs combine the worst parts of both worlds. The battery of a PHEV is relatively small and will be strained much more (as compared to an EV), especially if you drive a lot in EV modus. PHEV batteries tend to wear out fast
8. 68.▲
   by louwrentius 7mo ago

   In this picture it seems that all machines have a 3.5" floppy disk inserted. Maybe they had no hard drive and only booted from floppy and then ran software over the network?
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   Boosting the Tesla tower strike energy(youtube.com)

   3 points by louwrentius 8mo ago|0 comments
10. 70.▲
    by louwrentius 8mo ago

    I agree, but I don’t care about performance, just that we do and build things we need and nothing more. We don’t need to stripmine the entire world for profit.
11. 71.▲
    by louwrentius 8mo ago

    I think current democracies could also shed the notion that there must be an elected “dictator”, making decisions in crises should also be made with cooperation, especially then.
12. 72.▲
    by louwrentius 8mo ago

    I agree, fire the CEO. But I have a slightly different take that doesn't involve AI. What if we indeed get rid of the entire C-suite? Even better still: why are companies and orgs hierarchical? Why is there always a - for lack of a bet
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    by louwrentius 8mo ago

    I've seen this pattern play out, and been frustrated by it many times over. > Authority matching responsibility. That's the only fix I've seen work. Either you get decision-making power that matches the decisions you'
14. 74.▲
    by louwrentius 9mo ago

    Thanks for noticing!
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    What Will You Do When AI runs Out of Money and Disappear?(louwrentius.com)

    48 points by louwrentius 9mo ago|47 comments
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    by louwrentius 9mo ago

    Let's call this what it really is: it's an art project. It's not 'just' a cool technical work. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729428
17. 77.▲
    by louwrentius 9mo ago

    From the article: "My wife and I both drive electric cars" That probably explains it.
18. 78.▲
    by louwrentius 11mo ago

    A runaway NMC battery is notoriously difficult to extinguish, so the best thing to do is to not do it and investigate LFP prismatic cells instead. Many people building home storage batteries use a shed a few meters away from their home.
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    by louwrentius 11mo ago

    Never ever consider doing something like this. There is a good reason why most home battery storage solutions are based on LFP batteries and not NMC as used in vapes. LFP is a much safer chemistry that can withstand higher temperatures and
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    Lowtechmagazine is building a solar powered electric oven [0]. This is why they want to build an electric heating element that works on a relatively low voltage. [0]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-t
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    How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

    4 points by louwrentius 1y ago|1 comments
22. 82.▲
    by louwrentius 1y ago

    Funny response, I don’t buy that number from you. greetings from the guy that noticed the TLS cert issue on your blog a while back
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    This isn’t about individual experience, n = too low. It’s about what’s happening at the scale of society. And I bet there’s often more to the story than “the drugs” if you look deeper. But I‘ll stop lecturing you now.
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    I think Wireguard is awesome and I use it exclusively. That said, when traveling - on hotel wifi - for internet to work, TCP port 443 is always open, thus OpenVPN will always work if you run it on that port. For Wireguard, there isn’t a rel
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    Drug use in and of itself is heavily stigmatized, causing people to be “discarded” and ostracized as deeply ingrained in - for example- USA culture. Their drug use wasn’t a problem in and of itself until other people decided to treat them d
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    Is this really about the impact of drugs on people or about the impact of how drugs users are vilified and ostracized, the impact of living on the streets?
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    Yes, I moved to 1L PCs for lab work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40697831
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    I wrote a HN hit about something similar https://louwrentius.com/the-raspberry-pi-5-is-no-match-for-a...
29. 89.▲
    by louwrentius 1y ago

    No links but it’s just a Pi5 as a Linux router and three Pi4s for grafana (iot stuff), jellyfin and hosting my blog on solar power.
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    by louwrentius 1y ago

    It’s always fun to see how people build their home labs but I went exactly the opposite route. I focused on energy consumption, because of cost and - gasp - wanting to be mindful about it given the current predicament. Anything that needs t