My personal opinion is that soy milk tastes like grass... I've tried it in coffee, alone, on cereal, but I just can't avoid feeling like someone dumped a handful of freshly cut grass in...

Almond is pretty good on it's own, but in coffee it tastes like marzipan... It's not bad, but not the taste I want in my coffee.

Oat is what tastes most like cow's milk to me.

Ghost in the Shell is rapidly becoming a documentary.

As a Software Engineer, I ask myself that question several times per day.

Yeah, there's tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there's even more shitty or zero effort content... And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent...

Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children's account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede... This isn't as rampant in the YouTube Kids app... But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing "surprise" toys...

YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.

The 15 years to dead battery figure you mention is wildly out of proportion.

Everything points to current batteries degrading less than 5% over 10 years... So even at 15 or 20 years there would still be plenty of battery health left.

Even better if the IoT devices doesn't even connect to your WiFi or LAN... Zigbee devices for example.

Isn't Jesus from the new testament?

Some apps for Lemmy support blocking whole instances. Both Connect and Sync does.

Blocking hexbear has made my Lemmy experience much more pleasant

I guess that depends heavily on what you consider cheap... And how fast it's supposed to go.

A friend of mine started scrounging up various battery packs from e-bikes and e-scooters. For some reason these battery packs "degrade" to the point where you have to replace it to continue to use your e-transport thingy, but all the cells inside are still perfectly healthy, so he built a battery backup for his house out of scrapped e-bikes batteries.

Apparently many bike shops have stacks of the out back that they basically give away for free as it saves them a trip to the recycling station.

The motor is probably not going to be terribly cheap, and the motors on e-bikes and such are likely not powerful enough...

You obviously also need a lot of knowhow about electronics and loads more materials to actually build a car.

There are however also people who take old gasoline cars and convert them to electric cars.

As others have already said, set up a VPN like wireguard, connect to the VPN and then SSH to the server. No need to open ports for SSH.

I do have port 22 open on my network, but it's forwarded to an SSH tarpit: https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh

I use Promtail+Loki+Grafana on my home server, which is decently performant, light on resources and storage, and searchable. It takes a little effort to learn the LogQL query language, but it's very expressive.

I'm running it on Kubernetes, but it should be pretty straightforward to configure for running on plain Docker.

Summer is my favorite day of the year!