PD’s default comms voltage is 5v at the moment too.

I’m for moving up the default voltage, but that is naive take for me. It just sounds right I have no idea the actual pros and cons on that low of level if that messes with components and what insulations to expect etc

Have you compared the compile times for equivalent kinds of drivers in the Linux kernel?

Because you could design all of those feature in analog, and make custom boards for every change or have one board you update every few years based on supply, cost, and maybe power performance, but make and adjust features on a minute by minute basis if want to.

The driver, power source, etc can all be more easily separated from the logic too. It could be tiny, or massive. Same software, same controller.

Do what you can. A little more each day if it gets easier. Understand we can’t fight all the worlds evils alone, but we aren’t alone so whatever your fight is helps all of us.

I push for opensource, self hosting, being self sufficient, unionizing (at work, and for tenets), forming coops (worker, community, housing, and even producer coops), do mutual aid, support charities through donations sure but also volunteering. I also try to buy less, if you need it you need it, but if you don’t then why support corps like Walmart or Amazon for them to take those profits to undermine us.

Again it’s not about perfection or even self actualization, it’s just every time we can empower ourselves and others we can shift the power balance.

Personally, a remnant of that. Being able to use standard lead acid batteries is a perk, but primarily I find that that voltage range of < 20-50>vdc in terms of equipment is in those 12v increments too. With the powedelivery (PD) extended power range (epr) going up to 48v right now, and the fixed voltages in that spec being multiples of 12 again matching the industry it is now.

With adjustable voltage supplies (AVS) it might matter less (because it can increment in 100mv instead of a couple fixed voltages) but I haven’t messed with that yet myself

I am a big grid fan too. The hope that HVDC ca,n mean longer time with solar on the grid, and more averaged wind power.

Smarter grid ties is definitely something that I would like to see as well, including battery usage. The infrastructurea though isn’t just a potential reduction in wattage needed to be supported in the last mile, but not needing infrastructure at all dedicated to a power plant. Again pro renewables, solar, wind, hydro. Wind and hydro benefit from scale quite a bit, and I don’t think roof top solar alone will cover industrial power usage, so I expect we will have some grid scale plants, but in addition to microgeneration.

Dang I wish did more with the Mimic3 project. They have SSML support which just seems like an awesome way to address the mono voice issue in tts for books to me.

Actual book burning is the scientific data and articles being purged and saved (for now) by the Internet archive

Can they even argue they following washed version of “do the right thing”

Now these closed meetings happen at MaraLargo

Agreed. I maybe a radical DC home evangelist but yeah AC has its place still and it being THE standard for home appliances is a good example of the powers of scale.

So far for my home usage I’m standardizing on 48vdc because that is the last multiple of 12 before you go above OSHAs low voltage regs.

From there I really want to standardize further on the power delivery spec, because I just love the idea of smart grid for my home. I can then have dispered batteries in my home for either the primary benefits of that device is portable but doesn’t always need to be (laptop, power tool batteries, little robot thing, car, etc) or as a way to reduce some crazy limited time power draw (like servers starting up, oven running for an hour a day, etc).

From there maybe just Microadapter for a few standard circuits so the outlets work the same.

Both.

The reduction of infrastructure and leveraging existing buildings without reducing their existing utility vs converting a new space to be a dedicated power plant plus the infrastructure to move power from less populus (normal case because the cost of populus land is high due to demand) to more populus space.

I also idealogically support it because it makes more controllable by people and less controlled by an outside entity (a corporation/state).

Transformers, power lines, roads, trucks, and maintenance teams to move from large scale plants to houses also doesn’t grow on trees, but if maintenance in remote places doesn’t happen it can burn a lot of them.

Sometimes large scale plants make sense, but as the back up too microgeneration where the costs of infrastructure to move from unpopulated to populus areas make sense.

I am also a fan of less inverted power in microgeneration though. More and more of power usage is DC anyways. The need to convert to AC as much IMHO, but that is my far more radical take

Microgeneration makes way more sense to me. If you generate the power where it is used without pollution, we should. The unfortunate piece is we have to many landlords who’s interest are too divorced from their tenets to put up more microgeneration

For real. People don’t understand how powerful targeted propaganda is. A lot of the most radical and armed in the US were intentionally targeted so now all of their media, friends, friends media are all saying the same thing and telling them everything else is a lie.

This story for example is, on the right, just the Democrats and deep state trying to Elon now that he is exposing REAL corruption.

We are arguing different facts, arguably because so much of media is just “trusted sources” instead of anything verifiable anymore

There is a decent push for unions to try and sync their contract negotiations to 2028 right now. https://socialistcall.com/2024/07/15/are-we-up-for-a-general-strike-in-2028/

We have laws prohibiting general strikes so we have to have work arounds to be fully effective.

For directly working class facing work Im in favor of people working, helping and serving each other but just refusing to do work related to taking payments. Maybe hand them food in the first window and have the next window just say closed on strike.

The largest tech sector union I know of is the Tech Workers Coalition that got a shout out last year at the DefCon keynote. Which I feel with the tech oligarchy and a fascist government working towards a public private partnership is more needed now then ever.