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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • Yea, I went big so I could charge an EV or two in the future. I wish I had the yard to put them in instead of roof. I get a lot of snow here and I’d love to be able to easily clean them off. They’re basically useless for half of the year. Even worse when the snow melts it slides down, catches on the gutter and breaks the gutters. It pops the mounts out and I have to pop them back in every spring.


  • Nice! I’ve got 19.2kW of panels on my roof with optimizers and two inverters for 17kW A/C. I got them a couple of years ago and love em. They’re south facing and do a pretty good job (far north US). I installed a circuit breaker monitor so I can see how much electricity I’m producing and consuming per circuit. My power utility doesn’t show me nice fairly realtime graphs like yours.

    I’ve been wanting to get batteries or a bidirectional EV that can power the home, but I haven’t been able to swing that yet. I’m still tied to the grid. But I’m working toward being grid fault tolerant. I’m jealous of your progress.



  • Contrary to the other poster I prefer Docker over directly on the main OS. For one simple reason, uninstall. I tend to install/uninstall stuff frequently. Sure Jellyfin is great now, but what about next year when something happens and I want to switch to a fork, or emby, or something else? Uninstalling in Linux is a crapshoot. Not too bad if you’re using a package manager, but oftentimes the things I install aren’t in the package manager. Uninstalling binaries, cleaning up directories, removing users and groups, and removing dependancies is a massive pain. Back before docker instead of doing dist upgrades on my ubuntu server, I’d reinstall from scratch just to clean everything up.

    With docker, cleanup is a breeze.


  • When I built my NAS I intentionally bought the latest gen cpu, but kept it in to the 65W series with a GPU chip onboard. It’s an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core @ 3800 MHz. My coral usb does frigate and the integrated graphics chip does jellyfin just fine. I started with ssds, but half of them burned out pretty quick, so I replaced them with spinning rust. But, as-is it can run for an hour on my desktop grade UPS before it shuts down. My proxmox cluster is old laptops that mount an NFS drive from my NAS. So, yes, I took power efficiency into account.