Okay, I think I've reached a stopping point for this #projects. (Are they ever really done?) Rigged up the necessary cabling hooking it to my 100 watt portable solar panel that I made a while ago and got it tidied up. Even if I use it only intermittently for powering the #aredn node, if we have a power outage, it will at least be capable of recharging phones and provide some basic LED lighting. I learned a bunch and may do a larger version at some point.

@Viveka I think I understand you just fine. I just think that your notion is ill-conceived and whatever problem you think its solving is not actually a problem at all, much less one that should require lecturing others, especially on instances which aren't your own.

@Viveka Except it isn't a fix to an actual problem. If I was annoyed by your dog pictures, I'd simply mute/block you. I don't need to be warned that there might be a picture of a dog in your post. That's just a waste of everyone's time. The very fact that your instance may have a particular expectation, but your posts will be federated onto different instances with different expectations suggests that this idea doesn't really scale anyway, whereas filtering by the reader does.

Okay, it's not a perfect #projects but it's functional. I have a Harbor Freight ammo box containing a 12v 6A LiFePo4 battery, a solar charge controller, and the necessary 12->24V upconverter with a POE injector. It powers a TPLink CPE210 (or 510) over the POE port, and can run it for hours (haven't timed it) with a charge, and can be hooked to a solar panel with a SAE adapter to recharge. If I do it again, I'll probably make it bigger and with more capabilities, but it's good for a first try

A couple of days ago, I noticed that my 1Gbps nominal Comcast service was down to ~90Mbps. I spent an hour with them on their automated chat, and then did a couple of things, and it bouced back up to closer to 900Mbps. But then, this morning, it has slipped back down to sub 100Mbps again. Sigh. And they reset my cable modem out of bridge mode. Anyone have any experience with this?