Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?

What are we back in the 60s?

One thing I can add, don’t let batteries completely die. If you leave them dead for a long time, the BMS which controls the battery loses power, and if that happens, many kinds of batteries and power stations become bricks that you cannot charge. You gotta take it apart and slowly charge and balance the cells to recover it.

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If I discharge it now and again while using it as a UPS, I don’t think it would make that much of a difference. It would on average be full which is still stressful on the LifePO4 cells.

Keeping my computer powered with my power station is doable, and would protect my data from corruption, but the battery drains fast powering my PC, and if the power goes out while I am away or sleeping it’ll be depleted within a few hours. It also adds friction when I wanna use it for something else because I gotta power off my computer first.

For the size of the power station I’ve got, I think it is best used for DC powered devices, or small AC devices. I mainly use it for bedside power. I plug my personal devices into it, and they all charge at maximum speed. I cycle it and charge it when it needs it. This way it can be moved and used for anything without friction, and isn’t full 24/7.

The solar panel I have eases the idea of me forgetting to charge it and the lights going out after. The sun is an option in case that ever happens.

All devices are gonna end up in a landfill eventually. LifePO4 should last much longer though.

I do have a foldable 100W solar panel for it. Unfortunately the battery degradation is real. On one hand, having your computer on backup is nice, but that battery will remain plugged in and full 24/7 which will degrade it with time.

I’m on the fence about using it as a UPS long term for this reason.

Governments don’t represent the common people anymore.

Yeah I wonder why that is.

We are we are Walmart!

I use Immich which uploads and stores my photos and videos on my PC. The app needs a server that you gotta host yourself though.

Forgive me for I have sinned.

That explains why the gif is broken for me.

He would verify his age to keep the children protected! /s

Regulators are gonna have a feast with this.

The bait be baiting!

That’s nothing to them, it’s about the money in the long run.

I genuinely didn’t back then. I saw it as a waste of time. I only saw it as bitching on twitter, you could argue with rational arguments all you want, but you’d never change anyones mind. Odds are you are reasoning with a bot or a troll. I made the incorrect assumption that if a president ever strayed too far, he’d be stopped.

Politics is an endless fire that fuels itself and burns forever, if I can stay away from it I will, but in the times of today, that’s not really an option anymore.