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Cake day: January 14th, 2025

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  • Never gets hot enough to need more than a fan here really, but similar ideas should still apply. Cool the person instead of the house. So I’ve bottle or a small heat pump (old fridge, aquarium chiller) to cool water and pipe it around you in some way.

    Downside is condensation, but not sure how bad that is if you have low humidity as we are always high humidity.


  • Anker solix battery and some solar panels to charge it, you could do most of your house off that. Not sure which brand is best to go with but that at least let’s you look up some example products. That gives you a plug and play type of setup for the solar/battery system but it will may cost more than building your own.

    How would you reduce energy consumption without using less energy? Not sure if this counts as obviously it is using less energy… Either way, turn the heating down for the house, even more in rooms you don’t use often. Then get a heated blanket or hot water bottle to warm your self up.





  • Kinda. Battery life will be worse though. Tablet has a larger battery as there is more space, dumbphone has longer battery life because it uses so little power. It will be far more powerful than the tablet and with fdroid I can install pretty much everything I need. Family like to message on whatsapp though, which is the only thing keeping me from immediately sticking PostmarketOS on it which I have used before on a Pinephone.

    Do wish that larger powerbanks were more common. ~74Wh (20,000mAh at 3.7v) seem to be one of the cheapest per capacity available and I suspect it is because of mass production. Larger are usually more like camping batteries and cost more, I suspect because they don’t sell as many of them. Cheapest per Wh for larger capacities is probably best achieved by just sticking multiple together.