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I live in a campervan with my dog Muffin. 95% solar / 5% alternator.

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What temperature range do you like your thermostat/heater set to in winter?
  • I live offgrid in a campervan and do not have HVAC in the normal sense. I follow mild weather, aiming for daily highs of 65-70deg F. Because I camp in arid regions this usually means overnight lows of 35-45F. I try to avoid overnight freezes for comfort and to protect my water system.

    My roof vent is set to 65F (comes on then and tries to hold that temp). The LiFePO4 battery bank is warmed to 50F. At night I use an electric blanket and dogbuddy to stay warm if needed.

  • How to effectively search the Fediverse?
  • I’ve never heard of setting up a search keyword like that; looks kind of like a Unix alias. How do you do that?

    Depends on the browser. In FF it's part of a bookmark. In Chrom* it;s under search engines. more info

  • How to effectively search the Fediverse?
  • I am used to google searching β€œ[THING] site:reddit.com”

    Might pick a few good representative instances on lemmy, mastodon, etc, then make a compound search:

    site:lemmy.ml OR site:mastodon.social [thing]

    then set up a search keyword like fs for it so you could type fs [thing]

  • How are we going to pay for all this?
  • Not lost, the interface loaded a comment I had written elsewhere into this thread, which I didn't even have open and wasn't reading. When I reloaded the page to try to stop the post it showed the original thread I intended to post to. I had to manually open this thread to see where it posted.

  • How are we going to pay for all this?
  • I composed that comment in another thread, tabbed away, and when I tabbed back the pending comment was pasted into this thread that I wasn't even reading. Hit POST before I noticed it. 2nd time that's happened this morning.

  • How are we going to pay for all this?
  • edit: misposted comment - see bizarre explanation below (and it's not just me)

    • westworld - lovely visuals
    • alias - excellent theme music
    • bojack horseman
  • What's your favorite insult that doesn't sound like an insult?
  • "Your wife, sir, under the pretense of keeping a bawdy house, is a receiver of stolen goods" -Samuel Johnson

  • How do you older Lemmy users feel about the large influx of reddit users?
  • Tangentially-related, perhaps: I'm a member of a subreddit that went from ~20,000 to over 2 million while I've been there. The increased quantity was fine, but the quality of postings cratered.

    It had been a forum for people who did a particular thing, then suddenly 95% of the posters were dreamers/tirekickers who saw influencer YT/Insta content and came in to ask the same spoonfeedy questions over and over. Five minutes reading the sub would answer the FAQs, but no.

    In order to keep my blood pressure under control I focus on specific technical areas and reply only to those that seem to be able/willing to understand.

  • Youtube's war on adblockers continues, sends cease & desist to invidious.io - you know what to do πŸ˜‰
  • I suspect people would pay $20/year for YT with no ads and better functionality (specifically the ability to mute/block particular channels and commenters).

  • Do you make markings in your own books?
  • No doodles, but when I had physical books I would I highlight and make comments in the margins.

    In ebooks I use the highlight/addnote functionality.

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger calls heaven a 'fantasy': 'We will never see each other again like that'
  • This will surely lose him fans in the "Jesus and John Wayne" fandom

  • Snowden Revelations: Ten Years On
  • if the NSA can’t protect their data 10 years ago

    The NSA is keen on collecting data ("nothing is beyond our reach"). Protecting that data might be an afterthought.

  • What's the best piece of advice you've ever received, and how has it influenced your life?
  • Understand what you really want, then move toward it.

  • What is something many people believe but is not true?
    1. "your money" is in an account at the Social Security administration.
    2. police have a duty of service toward any particular citizen
  • Protect your Privacy with 10 Minute Mail
  • I have used spamgourmet for years, and also use the username+identifier format in gmail

  • People who live in hot parts of the world, how do you stay cool during your day-to-day life?
  • If you are or were a student in Australia, Mexico, southern USA, Spain, Portugal, Greece, South Africa, or any other hot parts of the world, how do/did you stay cool during the day?

    I live offgrid in a campervan in the desert US. I maintain temps by snowbirding (changing elevation and latitude to follow mild wx).

    I have shadecloth and an evaporative cooler when things get a little intense. Temp-controlled roof vent.

  • Are you a cat person or a dog person?
  • Dog person. I've met a few cats I liked, but in general if I wanted to live with a creature that consumed resources and ignored me I'd still be married. :-P

  • what web browser do you use and why?
  • what do people have against chromium?

    Dunno about others, but I run older hardware and Chrom* was a resource piglet for me.

  • what web browser do you use and why?
  • Vanilla firefox-esr from the Debian repo + TOR browser when required. I've flirted with others but keep coming back to FF.