Thank you for clarifying that!

I saw “Germany” in the title and instantly assumed it was a pilot program at a local government level because I thought I’d read somewhere that in Germany, the regional governments do most of the heavy lifting in terms of legislation, with a very limited federal government, but according to the article, I was wrong:

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement.

The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it.

After some more digging, I believe “Computerized Battery Analyzer” is how they are called, based on this battery testing video by Lumencraft (at about 48 seconds in, he shows his testing setup). Thanks for chiming in!

raspberry pi and an HDD with family (remote)

Is this the way to go for off-site backups w/ family? In terms of low power draw, uptime, etc.

I’ll have to look into these. Thanks for the tip!

This was my thought as well, but I figured I’d put it out there anyway just in case there’s some kinda workaround/magic that I hadn’t heard about yet.

How do fundraising drives like this work? Will OpenAI’s parent company issue a new class of stock or something?

Correct, they’ve been sealed since I filled them three weeks ago. Thanks for explaining a little more around how gas degrades.

Thanks for weighing in. It would be going into a Mazda 3 or a Honda CRV.

Very handy - thank you!

For those who don’t feel like clicking that link, it’s a web page where you enter your home instance’s URL, and then it lists other instances in four categories:

• Dead instances - Instances that have not been seen for 2 days (I believe this is where other instances that have defederated with the home instance show up)
• Failing instances - Instances where the last outgoing event failed to send
• Lagging instances - Instances where send is working but last send was at least 10 minutes ago. This is also the case if no activity has happened on your instance in the last 10 minutes.
• Up to date instances - Instances where sends are succeeding as expected

It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.

I hope you’re right b/c right now feels like the classic “market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid” type situation.

you can use one of a million Jitsi instances (Element has a publicly available one)

Is there a list of public Jitsi instances? I know about https://meet.jit.si/, but otherwise I’m stumped. Searching DDG for jitsi instances returns a bunch of results about self hosting.

It’s also important to make sure the code makes sense and is documented so whoever reads it 2 years from now (be that you, someone else, or I guess another llm) will understand what they are looking at.

Fair points, although it seems to me the original commenter addresses this at the end of their first paragraph:

Then review the entire git diff and have it refactor as required to ensure clean and maintainable code while fixing any broken tests, lint errors, etc.

Trying to think when was the last time I watched the Oscars. More than a decade ago, that’s for sure.

10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man’s NAS with snapraid + mergerfs

How did you end up with this setup? Did you just already have a bunch of SSDs from over the years? That’d be cool af if you posted a photo of it.

For the NAS, what do you use for storage? Do you have an external drive hooked up via USB or something else?

Thanks for clarifying. If I understand correctly, you’re saying that in terms of energy usage, a thin client + external docking station for HDDs might have a smaller footprint than an ITX build, but at the expense of future upgradeability. On the other hand, an ITX build would likely draw more power than the thin client + external HDDs, but enables me to upgrade individual components down the road. Did I get that right?

I would only consider those thinclients if AI is something you are planning to run.

Do you mean b/c AI would require a beefy host for the thin client to connect to?

Thanks for clarifying that. One last question if you don’t mind – some listings (such as this one) say “no OS,” and “You must reload the unit to gain original factory functionality.” Are they just talking about installing my own OS or does “reloading” mean something else in the context of these thin clients that I’m not aware of?

Gotcha, although I’m in the US, so would something like this DELL WYSE 5070 THIN CLIENT Intel Celeron J4105 1.50GHZ 8GB RAM 64GB SSD No OS ($34 w/ free shipping) be comparable?