Forgot minecraft server

Have it pretend to be Gandalf working in a coffee shop

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core ?

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#resource-planning

That argument can be applied widely, no? In the extreme it becomes: “you’re free to say whatever you want, just as long no-one can hear you”.

So it becomes a question of magnitude of the censorship. If the argument pro this ban is to counter propaganda, I fail to see the distinction between this and facebook or tiktok or …

An easy out of the box solution would be a synology NAS.

The current situation, where those closest to the issueing party of new currency reap the biggest reward, also sounds not very usefull. Therefore I do applaud alternatives, be they not perfect.

It’s a big problem, it drives up grid frequency, then starts to destroy devices, start fires, … In current markets, the price of electricity even goes negative at certain times (so you get paid to consume).

It can be stored only in small amounts. The total world amount of batteries can supply germany’s consumption for about one day.

hence there can’t be more tokens than production. I think…

For example: I produced monday through saturday and have X coins. I want to consume on sunday, but there are no producers.

In any case you’ll end up with a futures market for energy trading, to coordinate the balance between production and consumption.

I just highlighted the problem of 1kWh = 1 “super duper solar coin”.

But yes, that market can be denominated in whatever way you want. Traditional currency is the status quo.

Not all blockchains work via mining

Bitcoin is the only inflation resistant currency I know of.

How does the production side work? I’ve produced monday through saturday, and want to consume on sunday. Do I gain tokens, monday through friday, proportional to the expected production on sunday?

Then I buy the tokens when they’re cheap, hold on to them, and spend them later when they’re expensive?

Consumer level maybe, depends on the contract between you and your utility provider. Wholesale it’s a different price every quarter hour (at least here in EU), with most power traded as future contracts (so the generating parties know in advance how much to produce).

Generators would be rewarded with a blockchain token for the energy generated, while consumers would pay for the energy in those tokens.

Any electricity market should take into account that production and consumption should be balanced at all times.

If I produce today, but there’s not enough consumption of electricity, should I be rewarded with a token?

If I want to consume tonight, spend the token I bought, but there’s not enough production, what’s the token for?

In other words: such a token assumes infinite storage of electricity, a kWh today is the same as a kWh tonight. This doesn’t reflect reality.

For HW I personally use a NUC. If I were to build something today within said budget, I’d go for a second hand thin client.

For example the Thinkcentre M720q Tiny I can buy for 225EUR, coming with 8th gen core i5, 8GiB RAM, 256GiB SSD (1). Idle consumption is around 5W.

I use syncthing to sync folders between phone, tablet, desktop and my home server (a NUC).

Then rsync on a schedule from the server to a second off-site server (also a NUC) as backup, connected through zerotier.

I know of truenas, which is a more NAS like solution, but haven’t personally used that.

I use Feedbro, a firefox addon

Starting today, all new mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, speakers, keyboards and many other electronics sold in the EU will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C charging port,"

Source: the article

How can it be used for other things, if this law makes that illegal?