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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • clif@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world[deleted]
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    23 days ago

    Same place for me I’m betting, but three weeks on a longer “choose your own adventure” route. We chose to hike most of every day and cover as much ground as possible instead of stopping at the more “comfortable” areas that had facilities.

    I forget the exact distance but pretty sure it was over 225 miles.






  • Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

    Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

    … I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.






  • I like my Bluetti stuff but in some aspects Ecoflow has more flexibility (dual fuel), though at a higher price point.

    A few high points :

    Historically (from Internet and friends, that is to say - anecdotally), Ecoflow has had better customer service than Bluetti but I’ve not had any problems with Bluetti. I’ve not had any problems with the products but they quickly refunded me the difference on their “30 day price” guarantee when I asked.

    I decided against Jackery when I started this journey because they were higher priced and not using LiFePO4 yet. Not sure on prices but it seems they’ve updated the battery chemistry.

    My use case is home power outage so 2kWh was my min capacity (AC200P) and I eventually got an AC300 too. I have an EB3A just because I caught it for $70.

    The EB3A is annoying as desktop computer UPS, don’t try it… Unless you’re okay with it running fans when it charges pretty often whenever it drops to 99%. There were also UPS mode switching problems on older versions. Never experienced that but I stopped using it after two days because of the constant charge cycling.

    EDIT: prices between brands are as I remember them when I was doing comparisons and I have not checked prices in 1 to 3 years. So, likely different now.




  • Internal RAID1 as first line of defense. Rsync to external drives where at least one is always offsite as second. Rclone to cloud storage for my most important data as the third.

    Backups 2 and 3 are manual but I have reminders set and do it about once a month. I don’t accrue much new data that I can’t easily replace so that’s fine for me.