eldersnake

I've only been trying Plan 9 (via 9front) the past few days, just in a VM, but I agree about the mouse. My mouse hand cramps up very easily, and I've become so accustomed to keyboard driven interfaces (I use dwm as my window manager, for example) it almost feels weird using a mouse so much.

Definitely a very interesting system though.

Could, but it should be mentioned that power outages can and do happen where I am, so on a few occasions having this solar setup actually meant even when my house had absolutely no power (and there's no phone signal at the house), we could still have internet connectivity.

To be fair, after a bit more time on there my opinion on Gab changed a fair bit (not in a good way). And my encouraging people on there was precisely to try prevent it being a massive echo chamber, and I did admire the fact they have withstood pressure by Big Tech and kept their servers alive. Nowadays though I generally am all for self-hosting as much as possible and staying away from these silos.

Dithered images won't be for everyone. I'm sure if I shrunk down a full colour JPEG to a very small size I could have used those rather than my dithered images, but I figure I could have a bit extra size (dimensions) with the dithered images. Also, yeah, I was totally going for the Solar version of Low Tech Magazine's aesthetic too...

You're not wrong, but my intention was not so much about not using _any_ CSS3, but more about keeping a basic design that degrades gracefully. Which it does, if you view it in a terminal browser it works totally fine.

Nice! I'm amazed I haven't seen your blog before, and you've done a much better job than I did overall. (I'm the author of the article btw) I will have to take some notes...

Thank you for this, that's really handy info!

That IS true about Skymuster Plus. It wasn't true when I first set up this mobile/solar internet solution and back then I had to save every gigabyte; admittedly I forgot to mention that in the article. Still, yeah, not much can be done about the ping. I do have hope for Starlink.

Article author here, your question is actually a really good one as I'm a bit of an Nginx newb and your comment had me wondering that too. However for the past few hours since this article has been shared the hits have gone quite crazy according to the Raspberry Pis access.log, and the Pagekite.py process is constantly around 30-70% CPU usage, implying a heavy load as normally it uses nearly nothing. Does Nginx reverse proxy cache by default? I'm assuming not given my current results.