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I don't want to repeat what others have already said as that's all pretty accurate. As a rule of thumb, just look at the site sidebar for various instances and just avoid any that base themselves around any form of identity politics. Sadly, that's a lot of them, but life is better without those kinds of attitudes in your face all the time.

I still can't believe one of my favorite Simpsons gags is from a clip show.

AFAIK, yes, memory. There are a lot more packets than just text messages. Telemetry, node info, positions/waypoints, etc.

This is from memory and anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

On firmwares below 2.7, I think it only stored the last-received message on the node itself. 2.7+ may store the latest message from up to a few different contacts, but not more than that (if even that). Either way, it's not really meant to operate as a "mailbox" where you can retrieve the messages later; they basically need to go somewhere as they're received.

There's a store-and-forward mode that can be enabled, but it stores all messages for everyone and is more of an infrastructure node role. It also requires hardware that has PSRAM which the Heltec V3's don't have.

There's sound?!

I saved mine for 20 minutes, finally saw my chance, and was immediately slapped down by Purple lol.

I don't have an EV yet, but I already refuse (prefuse? pre-refuse?) to use an app to charge my car which pretty much locks me out of most fast chargers.

I've been WFH since COVID and only drive a few times a week. When I do get an EV hopefully in the next 1-3 years, it's probably going to basically trickle-charge from a modest PV setup. If it takes 3 days to fully charge, so be it; it'd just be sitting there anyway. Though I'll probably wire in a 220v level 2 charger (or whatever they're classified as) on the rare occasion I need a faster charge.

Damn. I just bought a 1 TB Sony micro SD card a month or so ago. Glad I bought that when I did.

Just got around to this one and finished it last night. Thanks for the recommendation. Was definitely different and fun. Kind of a "breather episode" compared to the high stakes of the rest of the ones I've been reading.

True, but I've had two grid-tie inverters, and both have had anti islanding protection and would not function when there is no utility power. Pretty much all grie-tie inverters have that protection.

I'm specifically referring to the interconnect agreement, though, which is where you have to jump through a bunch of hoops, fill out a bunch of forms, pay a fee, wait for the power company to come and inspect it, and get the utility provider's blessing before you can hook in a grie-tie inverter and export even a fraction of a watt.

And you have to go through that process every time there's a change to your system. e.g. If I start out with a 400 watt balcony solar kit, get that approved, and want to add another 400w kit, I would have to file new paperwork, pay another fee, wait for inspection, etc.

I'm all for reasonable safety measures, but the power company in my area is clearly doing all it can to pay lip service to "yes, we support balcony solar" while also making it as painful as possible for homeowners to actually implement it.

I've had to plan on a PV+battery+load sharing solution because my utility provider will fine the absolute crap out of you if you export any power without an interconnect agreement in place. I used to be able to stealth grid-tie with the old analog meters (I never produced more in a month than I used), but these new digital tattle-tale meters will rat you out instantly.