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The Future of EV Charging is Bidirectional, If You Can Afford It
  • I can't wait for this. I've gone down a few rabbit holes looking into solar and battery storage, and even just battery storage by itself to replace the generator we have for when power is out and/or to offset peak use time rates. But batteries are really expensive and I've already got a hundred kilowatt hours sitting in my garage.

  • I am seriously considering pulling the trigger on a switch to Linux. Looking for advice and discussion
  • I'm not sure what you mean by cost-effective resources, are you wondering what things are worth investing into inside of a total budget versus which things you could be more frugal on? Overall I would say there's not a big difference in terms of what to consider differently from running Windows: Linux will benefit just as much from good hardware (maybe more?) as window as will.

    If you want to do plex and utilize hardware video transcoding you'll probably want an Nvidia GPU but I've had better experiences with AMD graphics cards in Linux. The best home management tool I can recommend is home assistant, and it doesn't have particularly high system requirements, you can run it on a raspberry pi.

  • Can anyone share settings for Kia EV9 integration?

    I just installed the Kia Uvo integration via HACS but am concerned with settings causing 12v battery drain on the car. Anyone else have this set up and willing to share their experience with it?

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    Do you use a coffee subscription? Which one?
  • I have been buying from HappyMug for years, I do a subscription thing with them that gets me one bag of one of their blends that I picked and then one bag of single origin coffee every month. I'm very happy with it.

    https://happymugcoffee.com/

  • The Beach House (2020) on Shudder -- made me squirm!
  • hm, I'm not sure I know :) not really into jump scares, but do often love kitchy B horror. I also love scifi so blends of the two are good. Overall, I'll take any suggestions for what you've liked on the platform!

  • Resources on learning how to build a retirement portfolio?
  • Thanks for the input! I've been thinking that'd I'd probably just stick to index funds and avoid (for now) individual companies. My financial advisor does do individual companies (to fit the allocation targets), and does do tax loss harvesting, but I think that might be a bit complicated for my initial attempts.

    I had thought about doing something like S&P 500 fund + some set of small and medium cap index funds, rather than trying to identify individual companies that fit into "large/mid/small cap & industry spread", but even in those broad realms there's lots of "index 500" funds and lots of "medium/small cap" index funds, how do I figure out which ones to buy and how to compare them?

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    projectionlab.com ProjectionLab - Build Financial Plans You Love

    Simulate your financial future. Build modern and privacy-friendly plans for early retirement, financial independence, monte carlo simulation, and more.

    ProjectionLab - Build Financial Plans You Love

    Came across this tool on HackerNews last week and gave it a try and thought it was a really comprehensive (in my experience) tool for doing long term financial planning yourself.

    It costs money, but you can even self host it for a certain price tier.

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    Personal Finance @lemmy.ml epchris @programming.dev
    Resources on learning how to build a retirement portfolio?

    About a year ago I hired a financial planner to manage assets in my retirement accounts but am starting to think about doing it myself.

    I don't disagree with the general approach they're taking, but it seems like it should be simple enough for me to do myself every 6 months or whatever.

    The gist of the strategy is a balance across large/mid/small cap and sectors at certain percents along with some % of bond funds and some real estate funds.

    I think my main questions are how do I identify and compare various funds that fall into these broad categories to try and pick the ones I want to actually invest in.

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    Using Kubernetes for development?

    I'd love to hear some stories about how you or your organization is using Kubernetes for development! My team is experimenting with using it because our "platform" is getting into the territory of too large to run or manage on a single developer machine. We've previously used Docker Compose to enable starting things up locally, but that started getting complicated.

    The approach we're trying now is to have a Helm chart to deploy the entire platform to a k8s namespace unique to each developer and then using Telepresence to connect a developer's laptop to the cluster and allow them to run specific services they're working on locally.

    This seems to be working well, but now I'm finding myself concerned with resource utilization in the cluster as devs don't remember to uninstall or scale down their workloads when they're not active any more, leading to inflation of the cluster size.

    Would love to hear some stories from others!

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