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Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007)
Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen

Heme aquí en las últimas etapas antes de la puesta en servicio de mi nuevo home server.
#Homelab #Selfhosting #Fediñoñeando

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007)
Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen

The fun side of self-hosting my GitHub Actions runners for private projects (and thus on private repos) is that I now have nearly 60 pending pods after doing some Renovate fixes and upgrades
#home-lab #Renovate

Remotely access #HomeAssistant via #Tailscale for free
https://tailscale.com/blog/remotely-ac

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007)
Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen

Neuer Blogpost: Mein Smarthome bekommt ein solides Fundament! 🏠⚡
Ich habe #HomeAssistant containerisiert hinter #Traefik v3 auf einem Raspberry Pi 5 mit nativer NVMe-SSD aufgesetzt.
Im ausführlichen Erfahrungsbericht gibt es:
🛠️ Hardware-Stack & NVMe-Boot-Workflow

What happens when you flush? Study reveals how toilet aerosols reach the breathing zone #home …

What happens when you flush? Study reveals how toilet aerosols reach the breathing zone
Researchers from Flinders University have found that flushing toilets can release aerosols and bioaerosols into the surrounding air, with some studies detecting particles at heights corresponding to adults' breathing zones.

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007)
Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007) - Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon UK Home (2007)
Can we really go zero-carbon or negative-carbon in an existing home near London? #lowCarbon #home #microgen

Esta es la casita que albergarš mi nuevo home server en proceso de construcción. Es un Jonsbo N6. Soporta placas micro-ATX y tiene bahías hot-swappable para 9 discos de 3.5 o 2.5''.
🔗 https://www.jonsbo.com/en/products/N6Black.html

For several days now my DSL Internet at home is broken (because I moved the cabinet?), so my #homelab and its web infrastructure is unavailable - even locally because of CSRF and https annoyances. 🙄
Single point of failure, huh...
At least anything :gitannex: #gitAnnex is reliable as ever …

One of the kidnappers
Season 6 Episode 9 "Home Is Where The Heat Is"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

So now Home Assistant requires you to open its web UI via http in order to... change the web UI http settings. What the fuck could go wrong right? This has to be the dumbest change I've ever seen done in a software.
If the default settings don't work for you how are you supposed to do the first configuration of your instance?
#HomeAssistant #SelfHosting #Linux

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeAssistant
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe home assistant bot.
Mention it in your homeassisitant posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the #homeasistant posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
There’s also @… - follow that and it will automatically boost everything you post with #homeassistant without you having to remember to mention the bot.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation, but these bots will.

There is nothing quite so “adulting” as having to randomly order a new kitchen faucet because while you were out doing errands the kid called because all of a sudden there was a large puddle on the kitchen floor because the hose for the sprayer had warn through and sprung a leak.
🚿
#home #diy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SonicReducer
Home Front:
🎵 Quiet World
#HomeFront
https://arewenothomefront.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KBTjtG6HBznYi4GHrPtt4

you can cone if you want Rain! i have beaten you!
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

when a picture is truly worth a thousand words..... or in this case.... screw caps. 😭
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

aaaaaaaaaaaand done!!!
It only took about 10 hours of solid work. 😝
And thats with prior knowledge from assembling one 2 years ago!
@… is happy.
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

back at it this morning after sleeping in a little. got a bit of a sunburn on the neck and back yesterday! But all good today.
weather is perfect. Just a little wind and nice partly cloudy cool day.
the roof is happening! this is the easy part... the most annoying is yet to come, the sliding doors 😂
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

frame down. first wall next! pray for calm air! 😝 🙏 #poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

four corners!
getting that first corner myself was....... time-consuming lol.
going pretty quick now, though!
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

the walls are up! it is (mostly) wind proof now so that's comforting. unfortunately the sun has emerged and it's hot.
taking a break.
Not sure if Ill get the roof on today but we'll give a good college try!
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

they changed the forecast. no wind and we have a wonderful layer of fog keeping the sun at bay! If this can just last for the next four hours I should be able to get the second shed built!!
wish me luck!
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

alright, reached my 2:30 time limit.
might have had the roof on but realised the back too support was inverted so had to flip that. Everything is a million screws 😂
Not sure what super humans can put this together in 3 hours. But I will have to come back to it tomorrow morning hopefully befoee the rain!!
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #home #portalberni

back into the trenches, literally. I'm continuing to get the trenching done for electrical, internet, and plumbing out to the shed.
If anyone sees this who has experience with home fiber networks I would be interested in their advice. Our home is mostly wired with CAT5 but there are increasingly heavy bandwidth loads over the past few years.
We have 10Gb fibre to the house from Telus. I would like to gradually add a few ports of fibre to key points but it is out of my day to day networking experience.
First question would be, can I bury fibre with the electrical?
suggestions welcome.
here are some pics. I have dug this trench before, almost 20 years ago.. when we first put solar and power to the old shed. 110 and 220V circuits.
different route this time arohnd the ponds, and also more connection points for both 220 solar and 110 home. Only want to do this once every 20 years at most, so now is the time to do it all. 😝
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #networking #fibre #cat5 #gardening #home

Excited to have ordered my first length of fibre ever! When I started learning networking there was still Coax around and Fibre was a mythical beast!
Now I am going to start replacing the Cat5 in my house for the #homelab
woot!!
Ironically the first run of fibre is the one that has never had physical network cable before, outside. But you gotta start somewhere.
My only question is if Telus has an ONT/gateway box that has both SPF and Ethernet ports? 🤔 questions for another day. This is not a high priority project but nice to get started in earnest.
#homelab #networking #fibre #home #diy

rolkuchen and watermelon night! 🍉
#home #ukrainian #mennonite #food

Thinned the 🍏 apples from the blushing delight today. It is doing really well. The tree is healthy and growing.
The northern spy has had a much rougher spring. It was infested with caterpillars until we safer-soaped it three times and so it just never got a good start. It is also in a more challenging location more exposed to the wind and rain. Only had a few blossoms and now no fruit. But it is still alive. I will try to nurse it through the summer and get it to winter. Hopefully next year it has a better go!
But the Blushing Delight is looking great. We should get over a dozen apples again!
#fruit #apple #home #gardening

back around to the backyard and the #poolpond project. got one pad levelled and cloth down for the greenhouse (8ftx8ft). Now levelling the pad for the patio/sitting area and paellero / bbq spot (10ftx10ft)
#backyardProject #diy #gardening #home

success!
checked on the pandemic pond this morning and even though it was hot yesterday it is still nearly full!
Very little evaporation loss! Looks like that woody debris on the edge of the water was the culprit.
Woot! IT troubleshooting skills for the win. 😝
#poolpond #pandemicpond #pandemicpond #pondlife #gardening #home #diy #IT #TroubleShooting

i think the reason I have enjoyed building and maintaining the ponds so much is because they are kind of like a computer system.
Most of the time they work fine, and when they have issues, which generally manifests as "I'm losing water", it is for a clear reason.
But like computers, getting to and identifying that reason, and fixing it, is the challenge.
Over the past few days, the #pandemicpond has been losing water at an accelerated rate. In the summer, it should be able to go at least 2 or 3 days before needing a top up due to evaporation.
But these past few days it has been very low after just a day.
There has to be a leak/escape of water somewhere.
I also recently (about 2 weeks ago) changed the inlet at the top of the bog barrel to shorten the pipe and make it not stick up as tall and ugly.
Like computers... "have you changed anything recently" is a top contender for the root of the issue.
Shortening and dropping the height of the pipe increased the flow without having to increase the pump power. But that could have also caused a minor overflow on the waterfall, or raised the level of the top pond to where it might be overtopping somewhere non-obvious.
I suspect this increased flow is the main issue.
However, like all IT issues, you should cover the easy stuff first. I checked all the piping from the barrels to the waterfall to make sure there were no joints leaking or drips down the pipes.
All seems fine there. I also did a check around the perimeter of the pond to look for overtopping. Nothing there at low levels, but I have to check again when the system is full.
I wanted to cut the hose down further anyway, so I have done that. Was able to remove over 4 feet of pipe. The height hasn't changed though so the impact on flow should not be large.
Then I checked the pump itself, cleaned out its filter bag, strained the skimmer box and put it all back. Nothing untoward there either. Basically just regular maintenance.
A thought occured to me though, the main overflow for the pond is behind the skimmer. If it rains a lot or I overfill the system, it overflows there into some rocks and drains out under the garden to the sidewalk.
I wonder if when the new posts and gate were installed, the level of the overflow dropped slightly. This would give less leeway (freeboard) for the pond before it gets too low. 🤔
Re-raising the overflow would be tricky. And best done after the rains return in fall. But it is something Ill have to consider if today's investigations don't fix the issue.
I just finished refilling the pond (overfull oops... typing too much)
Time to check for overflows and seeps around the edges.
#pandemicpond #pondlife #gardening #home #diy #IT #TroubleShooting

ooo. I have a new top candidate for cause of accelerated water loss. Cedar chips.
I checked the whole perimeter of the top pond after the system filled and all was good there. But then I did a check of the bottom pond, which is steeper on the edges and harder to do, so I do it less lol.
Right away I found a problem. The flat stones had slipped slightly into the water (likely due to animal visitors over the winter). Edit: just saw a black (invasive) squirrel on the sidewalk near our house! First time. I wonder if he is the messer of flat stones and stealer of fish from the bottom pond!!
Once I reposistioned them, I realized there were a lot of cedar wood chips that had also slipped down, particularly near the skimmer box and were --- HALF IN AND HALF OUT --- of the water.
They were waterlogged.
This is bad.
Dry wood chips outside the water is obviously fine.
Wood chips floating on or sunk under the water is fine.
Any mass of woody material chips, sticks, logs, or even small gravel on the edge of the water, will act as a siphon. They suck up the water and then give lots of surface area for it to quickly evaporate. It has been a rainy July so the woody debris may have already been wet and not evaporating much, but it has been dry for a few days now, and hot the past two. Any siphoning/evaporatoon action would be supercharged.
In the case of gravel, the surface tension between the rocks can cause the edge of the water to creep uphill and also reach the top of the gravel, enhancing evaporation.
Today I found a whole mass of cedar and dirt along the edge of the pond under the flat stones on top of the liner. It was near the skimmer, likely from the gate work.
Bad news.
So I scooped it all out and up onto dry land, and to make sure woody debris can't get to the waters edge under the flat stones, I added some drainage rock along the edge. This should keep the dry and wet zones better separated!
That was just the near side edge of the bottom pond. I haven't checked the far side by the fence.
I might do that tomorrow, but there has been a lot less disturbance there over the past year, so I doubt it will need much help.
I am pretty confident I found the biggest culprit. If my hunch is right, Ill know later today and tomorrow if the water remains relatively stable. It will be hot today so there will be evaporation, but it should not need an emergency fill tomorrow.
Fingers crossed!
Bonus #poolpond content lol. The milfoil is looking very hapoy. It has settled in and the leafy fingers are vertical poking out of the water which is a good sign that they are continuing on happily in their new location. yay!
#pandemicpond #pandemicpond #pondlife #gardening #home #diy #IT #TroubleShooting