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Solar power works very well in summer and can be used for cooling.

For a period I was a digital nomad and stayed in a few cities for ~1 month each. Airbnb allowed us to immerse ourselves in the local neighborhoods and get a real feel for the place…

So to provide some real numbers I just did this with a dishwasher. The circulation pump broke on a 4 year old dishwasher and would cost around $180 to repair but a new one with a 5…

A couple months ago I setup an old Android phone to be a 3G hotspot for some ESP8266 devices. It also created a SSH reverse tunnel so that I could access the devices from the inter…

Just adding some ram is also not so easy in an embedded system.

Lower birth rates? Short term economic pain of a graying population for a long term gain.

South Africa is down too.

One more reason to have your own IP addresses.

For those heading to Cape Town at any point there are fellow HN readers living here that you can contact if you need any information.