Nearly every day for the past 30 months, Mr. Spodek has lugged solar panels and a 17-pound battery up and down 11 flights of stairs to his roof to charge them.
Ok, that's commitment. I guess I should stop complaining about my crappy house and feeling that I am stuck on the grid. I at least have backyard and front yards.
This dude is just crazy enough to be my hero. I am legit going to change up some things because of this find. Thank you OP!
Is there somewhere where we can follow the solar panel stats for this instance or that details the set up? This sounds fascinating to me.
I want to do this so bad. I really just need to take the jump and start doing it rather than researching it. I wish there were a step-by-step, teach me like I'm in fifth grade, sorta tutorial on it.
This looks awesome, but for some reason, these things never take off and take hold.
I'm def trying this in my front yard this next spring. My area is perfect for this, but every time I've tried to garden, the weeds take over. But I'll try again.
Two summers ago, I successfully grew corn and it was amazing!
Oh, man, I WISH this was a thing. I do buy cheap phones and run them until they absolutely can't be used. My current phone cost $100 and it's perfectly fine for what I do.
I do get jealous of the latest cameras on new phones tho. My phone cam sucks! lol
You are a troll and we’ve endured weeks of your bad faith reply barrages and even seen you bragging about downvotes.
I have only been on this slpnk instance for two days. And you can easily not "endure" me by blocking my name. So I'm not sure why you are so upset. Lemmy has plenty of tools to block voices you don't want to hear from.
Actually the "bragging" about my downvotes, was because it was trying to be weaponized against me. So I owned it and stood by my comments. And by the way, I still stand by my comments on that other instance.
I was downvoted on .world because of my opinions that Trump was gaining on Harris in the polls and posting articles saying that, plus my love for third parties. And as the election showed, what I posted was shown to be accurate.
Also, I did not vote for Trump--I voted for a Socialist third party, even tho that shouldn't matter when it comes to people downvoting me. But it does.
The most important part of all this is that all of that drama was on a different instance.
This instance isn't about that. The downvotes that this person's community bot banned me for WERE NOT based on me here on this instance.
I'm apolitical on this instance and I mostly post/comment about fitness, solar power, and cool anarchy stuff. And I have never hidden my username here or tried to hide who I was. I have never posted to any other instance with my slrpnk name.
The election is over. I don't think politics needs to come into every single discussion on this instance. And I have no desire to post again in that person's community.
The beauty of the fediverse is that it's decentralized. And no one voice or one point of view can be overpowering.
Plus this situation has been resolved here, so we can move on.
Wow, this is a great resource. Thank you for this!
Thank you. I was just concerned that posting here would make the problem worse.
And thank you for the explanation. I am fine not posting to this community, I was just concerned since he was trying to get me banned from this instance and contacted admins for other instances as well.
The whole reason I made this my home instance is because of the higher standards. And why I am fighting to stay on here.
I'm happy to move on and I consider the situation resolved.
Ok, guys, now I get what happened. Even tho you all think I'm trolling, it's really because I'm an idiot.
So I THINK I have worked it out. Someone DM'd me the theory.
So auk's robot banned me from his community before I ever posted there under my slrpnk account, based on a downvote count that I had on another instance.
So since I never knew I was banned in his community (because the bot doesn't notify), I mistakenly posted there, and auk recognized the user name, thought I was ban evading.
So now I get it. But, auk, your bot doesn't notify people they were banned.
If people don't know they're banned (especially if they've never posted there), and then post there, I don't think it's fair to represent that as ban evasion.
But at least now I understand. I'm happy not to post there. It's all good.
Guys, I'm not a troll just because I'm still learning all the Lemmy stuff.
Right. As you admit, I didn't know I was banned. Yet you called for me to be banned from this and other instances for ban evasion. Seems unjust to me.
Ok, sorry, I didn't catch that you were the one that said that in the flurry of responses.
And for the record, I do realize that you and most people thought I was trolling in .world. But I wasn't trolling. And I don't think I should even be considered a troll. A troll is based on intent, not dislike. I had no intention to get negative reactions. But people hated me anyway. And that's totally their right.
I stand by everything I said and done there. And I accept my ban there, because I don't run the instance. Their instance, their rules.
But in my definition of Trolling, it's posting stuff JUST to get a negative response. I posted stuff IN SPITE of getting a negative response, not with the purpose to get one. I am fine with my role of being a dissenting voice.
The majority of my responses that were called "trolling" were just me responding to people. I never name-called, or was unpolite. THAT actually caused people to name-call me and call me a troll. I stand by everything I said there.
People were mad because I wasn't voting for Harris and that I was voting for third party. And they thought that I was trying to sway the election.
But as we can now see, Harris lost by such a large margin, that even all if everyone who voted for third party would have thrown their support to Harris, she still would have lost.
So my posting my support for third parties didn't change the election at all.
Here is the link to my comments and posts from .world and that community that led to my banning and bad rep: https://lemmy.world/modlog/1252?page=1&userId=9454261
People were mad because I didn't vote for Harris. But I didn't vote for Trump either. And I think it's silly to think that people were so mad about that, especially after we have now seen how the election played out.
Again, that's your assumption of my intent, but that doesn't make it a reality of my intent. I have no desire to find ways around anything.
I honestly didn't understand your anger or the ban. And I didn't realize it was just based on a bot seeing that I had downvotes. I thought bans were based on something posted.
And as we have discussed, I didn't even realize I was banned. Now you've explained it. Now I understand. And I have no desire to post in your community now.
You didn't have to come at me so hard, man. So I was just confused and it set off a flurry of responses.
Please feel free to DM anytime in the future if you have an issue with me or would like to discuss things further.
As of now, I consider the matter resolved and I appreciate your explanations.
But it really seems that you are mostly upset about what happened in the past on a totally different instance. And I was already banned from that instance, so that matter has been resolved as well.