Not an electrician, I always imagined the downed power line being close to the house, such that when you backfeed the transformer it doesn't have a load on it until the lineman grabs it and becomes the load.
I imagine when your circuit that's still connected includes several houses or most of your neighborhood, then maybe you'd overload the generator? 🤷♂️ I don't know.
Solar systems I do know, though.
If you have a grid-tied solar system, that feeds power back into the grid, then when the power goes out, your batteries and inverters are all turned off automatically so they won't kill linemen. That's what's ironic about grid connected solar, you can't use it during a power outage. They only work when the power is on.
Now if you have a standalone solar system, with a transfer panel where you can switch several circuits in your house to either run on the grid OR solar, then you can use solar whether the grid is up or down. But you can never feed the grid to make money back directly in that fashion.
Exactly. I use nano because it's always there, and if it's not somehow? It's in a preloaded repo. It's just so simple and easy.
And I've used it to write code before, only several dozen lines at a time. And that's BEFORE I knew about the option to use modern key commands. (Learned that today).
Now nano is unstoppable in my mind.
If I learned vim or whatever, then on top of learning it, I'd have to stop and install it every single time. Bleh. No thanks.
Winter people probably like bundling up inside. Summer people are outside doing things. Most of my summer people friends, also enjoy winter activities, just maybe not as much as summer.
That's probably true. It's one of the things we haven't tried yet, and I figured most people would be scared off by the idea and call it too complex, even if I said use Bisquick.
A friend of ours has a portable/luggable pizza oven, and they make their own dough, and those pizzas are amazing. Just a lot of work to get everything rolling, so better done as a group while camping or something.
Yeah pizza was never cheap, but these days it's very expensive.
Sometimes we make it at home, it's not that hard if you get the bag of premade dough powder, just add water, costs a dollar or two.
But honestly? My cheat code is using tortillas. It's like 80% close enough to real thin crust, works well.
Slap some spaghetti sauce on there (cheaper than pizza sauce per ounce, and similar enough), and some dry mozzarella. Maybe some pepperoni. A little garlic salt and some dried basil or whatever. Toss it in the toaster oven. Bob's your mother's brother.
Personal pizza for less than a buck a piece. Or maybe A buck a piece? I haven't priced things in a minute.
Honestly the most expensive part is the pepperoni. (Hint, buy it once, and freeze it, you don't need that many at once and it won't go bad).
All jokes aside, movement is healthy, even if just walking around the block, down the sidewalk, or down the street (I don't know where you live).
Our bodies are made to move. And while I enjoy vegging out as much as the next person, and I definitely don't go to the gym, I try to go for a short walk at least once a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Also not getting any sunshine at all can give you SAD.
I highly recommend getting out of the house occasionally, for your long term health. You'll feel better too.
So basically if I slap emby on an open port, and point my domain to my IP, it'll work just the same. Connect is just for people without static IP addresses?
I ask because most people say you can't put JF on an open port and call it good. Not safe.
My wife and I cook because we love good food, and unique foods. But also because we're cheap and eating out is expensive.
Don't get me wrong, we'll eat out when we need to, or when we want to, especially with friends. But we can spend that extra money, BECAUSE we cook the majority of our meals.
We don't meal prep per se, but if a meal can be doubled, we double it, and eat leftovers for a few days. We lead busy lives, can't cook every day.
I grew up eating mostly from boxes and cans. My mom did good with what we had. There were fresh meats and veggies at times, we had a small garden, but I was picky about veggies.
So my wife handles all the flavors and meal ideas. I'm more of a tool in the kitchen. Chop those veggies, fry that steak, wash those fruits, etc.
I can follow a moderately complex recipe, I can make a roux, I know a lot of do's and don't's. But honestly when left to my own devices.. I eat garbage, to my detriment.
Again, I love good food. But I'm also lazy. And I easily tolerate garbage food. My wife gets sad when the food is bad, so when she's involved, we make good food. One of the reasons I miss her when she's away.
Most people are not gonna go that route unfortunately. I want to love JF, but the remote access is a big sticking point, especially for non tech relatives.
It bugs me when people just say tailscale like that solves it all. It's very useful and solves a lot of problems, but not all. Unfortunately.
Not an electrician, I always imagined the downed power line being close to the house, such that when you backfeed the transformer it doesn't have a load on it until the lineman grabs it and becomes the load.
I imagine when your circuit that's still connected includes several houses or most of your neighborhood, then maybe you'd overload the generator? 🤷♂️ I don't know.
Solar systems I do know, though. If you have a grid-tied solar system, that feeds power back into the grid, then when the power goes out, your batteries and inverters are all turned off automatically so they won't kill linemen. That's what's ironic about grid connected solar, you can't use it during a power outage. They only work when the power is on.
Now if you have a standalone solar system, with a transfer panel where you can switch several circuits in your house to either run on the grid OR solar, then you can use solar whether the grid is up or down. But you can never feed the grid to make money back directly in that fashion.