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Fridge 0.2
My offgrid, solar powered, zero-battery-use fridge has sucessfully made it through spring, summer, fall, and more than enough winter.
Joey Hess
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Become Ungoogleable
I've removed my website from indexing by Google . The proximate cause is Google's new effort to DRM the web ( archive ) but there is of course so much more.
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Fridge 0.1
Imagine something really cool, like a fridge connected to a powerwall, powered entirely by solar panels. What could be cooler than that?
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Clean OS reinstalls with propellor
You have a machine someplace, probably in The Cloud, and it has Linux installed, but not to your liking. You want to do a clean reinstall, maybe switching the distribution, or getting rid of the cruft. But this requires running an installer, and it's too difficult to run d-i on remote machines.