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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • BTW the Brother scare about them adding DRM that was in the news a while back turned out to be false, it was just a random guy on Reddit with a bad third-party cartridge, and Brother replied that they do not block third-party cartridges.

    That said, I’m not a huge fan of their weird PPD installer on Linux that installs some random, undocumented crap
















  • because if the grid went down, these types of panels could keep feeding the house, out to the street, and electrocute a line worker

    The inverter in these is designed to shut down if it doesn’t detect a waveform from the grid to sync with - they are unable to create a 50 Hz AC wave on their own. As long as the hardware is legit (which is a big if with how easy it is to get unsafe junk in from China) there is no safety issue, it’s purely regulatory.