Not OP.

That sucks. Especially having to make poor people financial decisions, you often can’t afford to make changes that will save you money in the long run. Been there done that.

Still, there may be some things you can do to save electricity.

Cheapo line meter. I use one on my well pump. It shows usage over time. You can figure out what’s using the most juice. It does 200v as well as 110 and clamps on. Does have to be wired in to for it’s power supply and ground.

Also, Kill-a-Watt clones. $9.99. Shows you how much plug in things use.

Offhand things that might help:

• Hot water heater on a timer and turn down the thermostat. There wil be bitching.
• If you have an electric stove, inductance stoves are supposed to be the most efficent, but you probably can’t afford one. Electric kettles for boiling water probably beat using a stove to heat water.
• Use a kill-a-watt to figure out what is using juice when appliances/TV/PC/etc. is on standbym
• Check freezer temp, it may be colder than you have to have it, turn up the thermostat.
• Check anything with a motor that plugs in with the kill-a-watt, like box fans to see if they’re pulling too much juice, when the motor bearings get shitty, you’ll pull more over coming friction.
• Use that clamp meter to check things like whole house blower fans, bathroom fans.

Good luck.

Yeah, I haven’t read the article yet, but the headline is certainly inflammatory. Change it to Biden and add some adrenochrome or satanic panic and it’s q-nut BS. I just fucking looove that Blueanon is a thing now. Didn’t we learn anything from that?

I guess we learned that people are stupid and gullible.

It makes me feel pretty down because it’s so fucking hard to steer through the misinfo anymore. Hell, it could even be true. I’m too tired to dig on this one.

Practice information hygiene and stay skeptical!

This is interesting. Can you give me a ballpark on your hardware cost for an 8 camera system? What does integration for NAS look like?

Thank you for the thorough response!

It’s unfortunate that the design compromises result in a tool with limited usability. I’m slightly interested in the desktop mills and lasers but haven’t done much research on them. Your comment about printing being slow actually perked my ears up as that suggests increased rigidity needed for milling. It sounds like if I ever do decide to get a tiny mill or laser, I’m better off with a purpose built machine.

As for software, G-code for a specific machine is all about the post at the professional level. Unfortunately, pro-grade CAM is around $20k a seat. A good post is often $4k or a lot of time painfully producing and testing it yourself. CAM/CAD is the only thing keeping me from Linux at work and on my primary home PC. I wasn’t impressed with the 1.0 release of FreeCAD. The UI still seems to be designed by aliens.

(Lemmy weirdness: I only received notification of your response last night.)

Could you please give your thoughts on its milling and laser capabilities? Do you own the 4th axis rotary?

Slashdot represent!

Those are good security guides.

I think I’m at the point where it’s more about keeping my head down. Protect my family and people. Hope we don’t end up in a camp.

Until one of these occurs, nothing changes: some real national leadership opposing this, more than 5% start going hungry, or large numbers of people are being murdered/placed in camps.

It seems you’ve thought deeply about this. I’ve done so as well.

It really fucking freaks me out that such a large chunk of our society is detached from objective, verifiable realty. A fair amount of what they believe is pants-on-head crazy vengeance fantasy. Another big chunk has spooky parallels to literal Nazi propaganda such as the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, it’s so similar that it’s obviously just borrowed. It’s shocking that more people don’t see it for what it transparently is.

I have no clue what can be done about it. I don’t know how society heals this or reinforces the value of facts, sanity, and critical thinking.

You got anything? Any thoughts about where we go from here? How to unfuck their heads? Where does this end if they aren’t deprogrammed? How long will we be trapped in this?

Genuine questions because I ain’t got a fucking clue at this point.

It’s f’in neato. I’ll be looking into it.

I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn’t aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?

Wait, is there a new worms game for real? The best couch multiplayer, dog cuss your friends and family game ever.

Yes, not at all uncommon in the BDSM community. Neither are 24/7 kink relationships. However, reality is different from fantasy and there is a fair amount of nuance in how this works in the context of a LTR and not a fun weekend.

That’s what I was referring to about very few handguns. It was all wood stock rifles and shotguns. And, this was among conservative rural types. We’re in a very different place now.

Deep south born and raised, it’s changed in the last twenty years, but guns used to be a fun tool. Most people owned long guns with much fewer handguns. Guns were for hunting, varmint management, and plinking. City folk don’t really get it. Shotgun in the corner of the living room is normal.

I have an acquaintance from West Virginia that is similar. They’re also a non-binary, super queer, sexually sadistic top. We met in the BDSM community.

$4.99 for 100ea on Etsy, showing as a ‘hot’ item and bestseller. I doubt we’ll see them in the quantities we saw the Biden stickers but it’s pretty funny.

Are they acually called pufflings? (pretty great if they are)

You dirty rat. You put that under the spoiler tag to sucker me into looking at that unholy thing.

I should not have clicked. It could have been something nice like tubgirl or goatse.

It’s an old saying, longer version I know is:

“Saddest thing in the world is a cat scratching at the window because it used to be an inside cat.”

After a foray into consulting and plant management, I’m back in the shop working with my hands and programming. My favorite part of the trade is teaching kids. (Enough grey in my beard that anyone under 30 is a kid). I could make more money doing other things but I don’t need the stress.

I hope I’m able to work until I die, even if I ‘retire’. I’ve begun learning Blender and mixing it with CAD so that I can do sculpture.

I love the smell of black cutting oil.