There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

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  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•DC UPS for router?byRhaedas@fedia.io
    1 month

    How much loss is there for a converter? I always thought that for the most part they were pretty efficient. Unless you’ve measured and found a difference, you might be trying to solve an issue that isn’t a huge one.

    I’ve been very happy with my Cyberpower setup, and the smaller one is powering my router and monitors. It’s still 650VA, so will roughly match the time the larger one would keep my computer alive. I’m not running a server though, so it might still be low for you, but 12V 5A doesn’t seem like a large pull.

  • Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Found a few marvellous 1970s illustrations of space habitationbyRhaedas@fedia.io
    4 months

    I still think O’Neill was probably right, we could do this if we decided we needed or wanted to bad enough. There’s issues to figure out, but that’s just science. I got hooked on the idea of space colonization when as a kid in the 70s reading an article in a National Geographic issue exploring the idea, using a fictional opener of someone writing back home about living on one. They used some of Davis’ works there.