Installed CachyOS to replace my Win 10 installation a month ago. Not looking back! But yeah this sucks, I've mostly used Ubuntu with apt in the past. Pacman and makepkg felt a bit weird to use in the beginning.
It's so satisfying to see all these techniques applied to a product. There's nothing really new tech-wise. Optimistic updates were shown in a lot of early React demos more than ten years ago. Bundle splitting, preloading and service workers have been around for a long time. But it does take a huge amount of rigor and determination to apply these methods in each layer.
Huh, that somehow reminds me of Crassus from Rome [1]
> The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.
I guess „it‘s complicated“. For our system, 6kWp with iMSys, the grid operator can cap the ingestion as they see fit. For systems over 7kWp, you are required to install a iMSys that allows them to cap. Systems without a iMSys must have the capability to cap to 60% (either at all times or „intelligently“ depending on your consumption). BUT if you install anything today, you most likely will install a iMSys anyway. Also export fees for 7kWp and below are a bit of a joke anyway.
Pretty cool! (I can't test it, seems unavailable in Germany).
How are you handling the text extraction with Readability.js? Does that run in a WebView in the background? I've built a similar, albeit less feature-complete, read-it later app in the past [1]. Spent most of my rewriting the core of the Postlight parser [2] in native Swift.
Anyway, cool project, and I'd probably buy this once its available.
Real nice! Shutting down networking between refreshes definitely helps with the battery life. I also prevent mine [1] from updating between 10PM and 6AM. Nobody is looking at it anyway. If you search around on Github for Kindle dashboards, there's a lot of scripts out there with a bunch of battery life improvements (shutting down daemons, wifi etc.).
I built GTFS based public transit display on top of a Raspberry Pi Zero and a 2" e-ink display ~10 years ago [2].
I think they mean that even an OLED display will actively emit light. When, in contrast, the e-ink displays shown in the linked posts are unlit. That, for me, is the key advantage making the device blend in.
I love just how non-intrusive an e-ink dashboard is sitting in a room. Definitely can recommend it as a base device that gets you display, wonky Linux, a battery and networking in neat little package.