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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSolar powered server rack
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    2 months ago

    I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.

    But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

    It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

    But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.











  • Which “white people” are you talking about?

    Irish? Scottish? Italians? How about Sicilian? Are Roma white to you? Greek?

    See, that’s the problem with pre-judging someone just on immutable characteristics that you believe mean a certain thing.

    Throughout time groups of people have been biased against other groups, for all sorts of reasons, largely just “out group”.

    Assuming that only goes one way, and assuming based on skin color alone (again, exactly which color, is there a Pantone code for “white people”?) that everyone in that assumed group have the same experience is just nonsense. Or bias, prejudice, bigotry. Pick whichever you like.







  • Tailscale is wireguard (it uses the wireguard protocols, even says so on the box), just with a centralized resolver to make things easier to setup and manage.

    I’m not sure what you’re saying with the rest of your comment, as Tailscale is a mesh network, not a VPN as most people think of it.

    It encrypts your traffic, but only into the network of which your device is a member. You can’t even see any devices, or networking, outside the Tailscale network, unless a device is configured as a Subnet router. Then you can see devices in the network which the Subnet Router links together.

    For example, you have 3 machines, a laptop on mobile data, and 2 desktops on your home LAN. One desktop and the laptop have Tailscale, they can communicate over Tailscale to each other, but the laptop cannot connect to the second desktop because it’s on a different network, since there’s no routing between Tailscale and your home LAN.

    You then configure Subnet Routing on the desktop that has Tailscale, now your laptop can connect o any device on the home LAN, so long as the desktop is running and Tailscale is up.

    Think of mesh networks as Virtual LANs in software, configurable on each device (mostly, sort of). Twenty years ago Hamachi was the go-to for this, it was brilliant, and much easier to use than today’s mesh networks, just far less capable/manageable/configurable.