This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better.
-- During The Show --
00:55 Graphics Cards
When do you update graphics cards
Watching prices, trying to buy
Bought 5060ti
Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min
What is driving the cost?
Over Time
"Unplugging"
Mature Leaders
High Intensity/Surge Seasons
Talking through movies
16:05 Solar Camera System
Camera's on a playground
Trenching and conduit
Hanging wire from utility poles
Shed with no power or network
Solar powered camera setup
Greentech Renewables (https://www.greentechrenewables.com)
Noah's Battery Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNJ5ZBP?)
LiTime (https://www.litime.com/products/litime-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery)
Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sunmax-SolarPoint/dp/B0965KBVFM/)
Trouble shooting, lay it out first
Nano Beams 5AC
Axis Camera
Industrial 24v Switch Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWN147HZ?)
Enphase System
Metrics, data nerds
Victoria Metrics (https://victoriametrics.com/)
Victoria Metrics Docs (https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/)
Grafana (https://grafana.com/)
Solar Cable Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BYGJGTB?)
MC4 Crimper Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTFRSZ4?)
HQST Solar (https://hqsolarpower.com/)
SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/)
Victron Charge Controllers (https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers)
48:30 Sustainability
ANS 424 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424)
Reproduce-ability
Minimalism
Access Control System
News Wire
Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io (https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/deluge-2.2.0/)
OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.2-Released)
Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org (https://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-500)
Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0/releasenotes/)
Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/)
QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news)
Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/redis-is-open-source-again/)
Tails 6.15 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/)
4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com (https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2025/04/4mlinux-480-stable-released.html)
Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/)
AnduinOS - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-11-like-linux-distribution-is-aimed-squarely-at-developers/)
Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html)
AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/rsac-2025-cisco-and-meta-put-open-source-ai-at-the-heart-of-enterprise-threat-defense/)
Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/space-llama-metas-open-source-ai-model-heading-into-orbit/)
Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/)
LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/06/lightricks-shakes-ai-video-creation-powerful-open-source-model/)
Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun)
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