I bet you feel the hair raise on your skin being within 10 feet of that. It's so cool

Also our tomato plants are popping off, new to gardening (first year getting anything usable out of it) and I’m DELIGHTED. Had some on a grilled egg and cheese sandwich with mayo for lunch today, it was edible art.

My solarpunk action this month is to imagine and write about my own personal solarpunk utopia. How the solarpunk future will look in my own life. I feel a big need for radical and creative hope at the moment.

And appreciate the solarpunk things I already get to experience, like powering my electric bike and making tea from the solar panels in my garden with my daughter.

I'm trying to do my research on starting an indoor planting/farm project, but it's hard to account for the colder climate situation of the place I'm living in right now))))) I guess this reply is also a call for help if anyone knows some comprehensive wiki or guide I could use to find some suitable plants. It's hard being in the city hahah, I miss my homestead...

Welcome here, and please share some of your projects on the respective communities you mentioned.

Out of curiosity, what company made his system? I assume he had to get new inverters too? Did he do the work himself?

I'm thinking about expanding mine in a couple of years, but will have to jump through hoops both with Enphase (who made my system) but also with my utility (they have to permit any changes). But thinking about doing it DIY.

We have !fiction@slrpnk.net and !writing@slrpnk.net, either of which would likely welcome your short stories :)

To find other local communities we have, be sure to take a look at our communities page ^^

New here and also enjoying it! Hope it continues to grow and be more active with time.

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Yes. Well the history is that I (the current main technical admin here) was working on non-fediverse community hosting efforts mainly related to FOSS game development communities (since the early 00s). Sometimes in the late 10s we also started experimenting with fediverse software like Hubzilla, but it never got very far.

But at some point the original founder of SLRPNK (who got free hosting from the Lemmy devs in the early days), wanted to shut down or hand over the site and as I was already helping out as a moderator since some months, we agreed that I would take over the site.

Given that I was now administrating multiple sites with a much broader scope (also an unrelated Akkoma instance) and was interested in also hosting a federated git forge, the idea came up to start a more technical umbrella org that f-hub.org aims to be. Practically it isn't anything official though and just composed of me and some occasional volunteer contributors. Maybe I will try to turn it into some sort of worker's cooperative in the future, but that is unlikely to happen any time soon.

I only know the situation in europe, but have you checked TSOs and DSOs? Transmission and distribution system operators have a lot to do in europe to adapt to the renewables and alike. If you like software, you could also take a look at SCADA software companies, they need some application knowledge too, but not sure if a grad is what they might be looking for. At least security critical software is somewhat safe from AI. My last idea would be companies providing control power (called FCR and FRR in europe), they have somewhat a boom due to cheep batteries. However, I know that things are different in the US, so guess I cannot help very much. In my experience however, applying to jobs that seem a bit different from what you are looking for / are skilled for is often fine, because sometimes the company does not know exactly what they want. And if you want to try for europe, do it. Good luck!

As an electrical engineer (electronics and medical focus), moving to Europe is NOT easy. They will not hire anyone not already living in the EU or coming out of the EU university system if you aren't. Work visas are too much work for companies in many countries here. It is quite competivie here now in the shit job market too, so your only change is either do your masters here or risk everything moving for 90 days to a country with no work visa needed for your country (Netherlands is one I think) and pray that you can get a job for a work visa before it expires.

If you are looking at power electronics, look into motor driver manufacturers. Make an FOC BLDC driver for a portfolio project, a solar inverter, some specific-use power distribution (buck, buckboost, 3-phase VRM) modules, etc... Companies want concrete proof that you know how to do your job.

A LOT of jobs (likely like your internship) around energy are very very slow moving jobs that are more paperwork and meetings than engineering.

Look at engineering consulting companies. They are good for building up a breadth of experience for future jobs. Ones that are in-house engineering (not rented out engineers) are best for this.

Look at the companies that actually make the modules inside electrical boxes, industrial electronics, solar inverters, and see if they have any engineering divisions where you are looking and you can always do open applications to them.

The job market is the worst now in decades. I wish you the best of luck! Let me know if you need advice for anything else.

Maybe something wind-power related? Did you check job listings in Canada?

The main Lemmy frontend has that "moderator view" option to show all posts regardless of personal blocks. But I don't think the alternative frontends have implemented that.

In past outages we've tended to congregate at !fediverse@lemmy.world, I think mostly due to slrpnk users posting there from their old alts asking what happened, so I suppose we'd likely continue to use that from our alts to give status updates (my Lemmy.cafe alt is listed on my profile page).

It really depends on what exactly is down. In the past my ideas what would still be up to inform users always turned out to be wrong so I am kinda hesitant to tell you a specific place. I guess I would post with my feddit.org alt somewhere on Lemmy or so if I still have internet access.

Yeah, the pict-rs image proxy sometimes fails, but the above looks more like a client bug.