[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The solar panel needs to be used with a charge controller. Connecting it directly to a battery will overcharge and damage the battery. Charge controllers typically don't like the battery being disconnected while the solar panel is still connected, so don't connect it to a switched outlet.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

It needs more information about what went wrong. That's about as useful as a windows BSOD.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can zero out the free space on each partition then pipe the output from dd into gzip if you want to save space.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

If the machine has 4GB of RAM, then MATE, XFCE, LXDE, and LXQT will work well. I've used all of them on older computers. The distro doesn't really matter. If it has 8GB of RAM or more, it will run any DE you want to use.

If the machine has less than 4GB of RAM and can't be upgraded, it's not going to be very useful. Sure, you can put a lightweight window manager on them, but they are not going to run a web browser well. They could still be used for teaching students how to install Linux though.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

There are very lightweight media players available that will run on anything with enough CPU power to decode whatever codec you are playing. It's modern web browsers that will be an issue with less than 4GB of RAM. There are lighter web browsers, but they usually don't support javascript or have very limited support for it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

A 20A 120V circuit would not be enough. That's only 2400 watts and you can only use 80% of that continuously. It would need a dedicated 15A 240V circuit.

At best, the power supply will probably only be 90% efficient at full load, so it could draw over 2600 watts from the wall.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I just use my password manager to generate the TOTP. There's no way I'm going to install an app just to use a website.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago

You opt out by simply never giving them any of your data.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

I haven't seen a 2.5mm jack on a phone in a long time. I still have a 2.5 to 3.5mm adapter that I used to listen to music on my flip phone in 2006 though.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 4 weeks ago

A lot of people see articles showing how to do something and it uses the terminal and they think that's the only way to do it. In reality, it's just easier to say "copy and paste these commands" than it is to walk someone through how to do it in a GUI.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A power supply is something that a lot of hobbyists will build themselves. It's very easy to build one with an LM317.

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

People could always switch to a privacy friendly web browser.

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