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[99.02 --> 100.90] You can't, you know, you can't charge all. |
[100.96 --> 102.94] You have to have the ability to charge all that stuff up. |
[103.08 --> 107.72] So I feel like I've kind of hit the sweet spot that because it's winter, you know, we're not getting prime sunshine. |
[107.72 --> 110.56] And I'm only running the generator about once a day. |
[110.78 --> 112.76] And otherwise, we're getting along. |
[112.90 --> 114.42] I think I'm kind of in that sweet spot. |
[114.50 --> 120.16] And I think that's something you should think about when you're specking out your solar system for your house is what are you covering for? |
[120.24 --> 122.30] Are you covering for a couple of days of no power? |
[122.46 --> 124.64] Or do you really just need to cover for a couple of hours? |
[125.18 --> 128.02] And if it goes longer, maybe you could run a generator for an hour or two. |
[128.48 --> 133.50] I think I want to cover just the average daily low-level load of the house. |
[133.50 --> 134.94] I want to make the house more sustainable. |
[134.94 --> 141.08] So, you know, like just all the lighting, all the computers that are on in here, whatever that works out to be. |
[141.76 --> 146.28] My electric bill is normally in a sort of $100 to $120-ish range. |
[146.36 --> 147.32] So it's not too crazy. |
[148.36 --> 150.78] And for me, it's about sustainability. |
[151.16 --> 155.46] And I was watching a David Attenborough program, Our Perfect Planet, the other night. |
[155.80 --> 158.90] Beautiful 4K HDR on the LG OLED. |
[159.28 --> 161.52] Oh, it was magical to watch that thing. |
[161.82 --> 162.90] Streaming from the Plex server. |
[163.28 --> 163.60] Correct. |
[163.60 --> 165.30] Yeah, through the Nvidia shield. |
[166.06 --> 176.44] You can't help but watch these perfect planet things and be left with a sense of guilt about what humanity is doing to the planet and how we're consuming too many resources and stuff like that. |
[176.58 --> 189.10] So, you know, I think about how I might be in a position to do something about that as just an individual when in reality we need to, as a species, collectively actually affect change. |
[189.10 --> 191.66] But as an individual, there isn't much I can do. |
[191.66 --> 197.14] But reducing my use of fossil fuels, even by a little bit, feels like a good place to start. |
[197.40 --> 202.64] Yeah, I love the idea of even just offsetting the computers that run all the time. |
[202.64 --> 206.26] So, during the day, I've reached the point where all day long I'm running off the solar power. |
[206.38 --> 215.74] I'm bringing in more solar power than I am using, which is a great spot to be because that means my home server, all my stuff is being sustained by the sun. |
[215.74 --> 220.92] And I'd love to do a similar setup at the studio, a couple of panels on the roof. |
[220.98 --> 227.82] If I could just bring in, you know, 400 watts or so, I could probably cover most of my computer gear that's running 24-7. |
[227.82 --> 236.70] And, you know, I think about long-term, Alex, say even just 10 years, 15 years down the road, maybe the majority of cars or all cars sold will be electric. |
[237.28 --> 244.88] How does the grid in the United States, at least, handle that if we don't have some people offsetting their load with solar? |
[245.02 --> 252.94] It seems like long-term, the direction things are going between crypto mining and electric cars, there's going to be more demand on the grid than ever. |
[252.94 --> 260.12] So, being able to supplement a little bit might not only just be a nice thing to do for the environment, but also ensure that you have enough power to go around. |
[260.78 --> 261.50] Free Bitcoin, baby. |
[262.06 --> 262.24] Yep. |
[262.34 --> 263.36] Get that crypto going. |
[263.94 --> 266.10] And maybe, maybe spend your time learning. |
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[280.28 --> 287.24] You could spend that time mining crypto, or you could spend that time learning job skills and getting hired. |
[287.62 --> 297.32] But, you know, I think maybe you and I are thinking about off-grid and backup power today because a lot of our listener services are down and offline as we record this right now. |
[297.74 --> 298.08] That's right. |
[298.18 --> 298.30] Yeah. |
[298.46 --> 304.60] OVH, one of the largest VPS providers in Europe, have suffered a major fire this week. |
[304.60 --> 316.64] And it's taken, literally taken out one of their data centers and had dramatic effects on some of their other regions, data centers, whatever they called for OVH as well. |
[317.36 --> 319.42] It's just got me thinking, great. |
[319.62 --> 322.16] There's another disaster that I hadn't really thought about. |
[322.24 --> 325.50] What if AWS or DigitalOcean or Linode, what if they catch fire? |
[325.50 --> 327.68] Oh, that's another one to plan for. |
[329.12 --> 335.40] Yeah, the thing that's tricky about OVH is data centers one through four were all kind of like in the same area. |
[335.84 --> 341.86] So after midnight on the Wednesday of the week we're recording this, OVH cloud had an alarm go off. |
[342.24 --> 344.82] The cause as of this recording right now is still unknown. |
[344.82 --> 350.16] However, the founder and CEO speculated it may have been a UPS fire. |
[350.34 --> 358.90] And he noted in a video update that he released a couple of days ago that UPS number seven had been serviced earlier that day. |
[358.98 --> 361.70] But obviously more investigation is required. |
[362.02 --> 366.38] In total, OVH had four data centers in this area and one data center. |
[366.78 --> 370.76] SBG two was just totally destroyed by fire. |
[370.76 --> 375.40] And then part of SBG one was also damaged. |
[375.54 --> 378.22] And then SBG three and four, they're fine. |
[378.40 --> 383.44] But as we record, there's still some outages because there's some areas the staff can't get to. |
[383.52 --> 384.68] There's network issue. |
[384.94 --> 386.64] There's still some power issues. |
[386.64 --> 392.56] And there's even the fact that they still have to validate that the cooling system is still fully functional. |
[392.90 --> 394.56] It's like bad, Alex. |
[394.56 --> 406.88] This is a weird one to me because every data center that I've worked near or in in some occasions, they've all had argon fire suppressant systems. |
[406.88 --> 414.92] And just fire was something that you kind of assumed would never get out of control in a data center because it's a controlled environment. |
[415.42 --> 419.56] There isn't a huge amount of flammable stuff like on a data center floor. |
[419.86 --> 423.44] It's just metal boxes with some cables and stuff like that, essentially. |
[423.44 --> 424.04] Yeah. |
[424.28 --> 426.98] So it's kind of surprising to me that it was able to get to this level. |
[427.10 --> 432.44] I mean, if you look at some of the pictures and we've got a Reuters article linked in the show notes, that building was toast. |
[433.20 --> 433.54] Yeah. |
[433.58 --> 442.84] The CEO says something about it using older style construction techniques and that the newer buildings that weren't damaged were using the newer style. |
[443.04 --> 447.78] I wonder if that style is fire suppression, you know. |
[447.96 --> 448.60] Yeah, maybe. |
[448.92 --> 450.30] Or materials or something. |
[450.30 --> 454.94] But it kind of got us thinking like, you know, we got kind of a sad note in from listener. |
[455.04 --> 458.62] Kerry said, my server was in data center one and I have lost it. |
[458.68 --> 467.80] I'm afraid I didn't have any complete backups because I didn't really have anywhere to back up to that server already blew my personal self-hosting budget. |
[468.46 --> 470.88] I feel like I've lost a loved one. |
[471.52 --> 474.44] I guess I'll get a box at home and I'll have to back up to that from now on. |
[474.44 --> 476.64] But that's going to get very expensive. |
[477.42 --> 478.12] That is tricky. |
[478.12 --> 479.08] Well, it is. |
[479.40 --> 480.82] It is going to get expensive. |
[481.40 --> 486.62] But I would argue that the emotions you're feeling right now are also expensive. |
[487.18 --> 491.48] Just in a, you know, not dollars and cents necessarily, but they're expensive in a different way emotionally. |
[492.50 --> 496.44] And only you can quantify how much your data is worth. |
[496.44 --> 504.78] I mean, I don't know what was on this particular server for you, Kerry, but I certainly know in the past when I've lost data, it hurts. |
[505.20 --> 516.68] Genuinely, you spend the next few weeks, months, sometimes longer wishing you'd done things differently, thinking, oh, if only I'd spent a couple of hundred on a Pi and an external hard drive. |
[516.68 --> 519.30] And I wouldn't even be in this situation. |
[520.56 --> 530.24] I mean, if you think about what most typical VPSs are, they are probably less than a hundred gig disk, probably only a few gigabytes of RAM or something like that. |
[530.32 --> 533.84] So we aren't talking about a huge amount of data to back up here. |
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