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- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 7 hours ago:
Are you sure that the investment will be recouped so quickly? I’m not a local here and I’m not familiar with all the rules, but I’ve been told that I can’t put anything on the balcony that will change the appearance of the building until I get permission from the Rathaus.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 7 hours ago:
Obviously, you don’t live in Germany or the EU, and it’s questionable whether you’ve ever paid a single bill. Because the electricity bill is always separate from other bills and is a special contract.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 11 hours ago:
It sounds strange, but that’s how it is, and it’s Ökostrom. Luckily, I can change my provider when they raise the price, so it won’t increase that much for me, but it will still go up, and I’m not the only one in my area because some friends of mine received the same ‘greeting.’ (To those who give dislikes, that won’t change the facts no matter how much you would like it to.)
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 14 hours ago:
I love it, I like it like my new contract they send me with new prices for electricity (44% up)
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 months ago:
Of course, I also use LibreWolf, Mull… but we expose ourselves to security risks this way (as is currently happening with Firefox and Mull), and besides that, you have to trust projects more and more whose code is not reviewed as thoroughly.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 months ago:
It seems that many people here are not aware of how much Mozilla depends on Google, so switching to them is a small consolation. Maybe it’s time to support the development of new engines like Servo and Ladybird more. Servo even recently released an Android version (currently not very usable, but I downloaded it just to show support).
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours 2 months ago:
Is google recaptcha still only good option?
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Exactly. In my opinion, that’s Google’s biggest mistake, and I can’t believe some people are okay with it. Everyone attacks YouTube as if they are the biggest villains, but let’s not forget that without them, most creators would be nothing. Most people here are aware of how difficult it is to maintain such a platform, yet they are unrealistic with their attacks. And yes, I am someone who has LineageOS installed, which says enough about what I think of Google, but sometimes you have to be fair. If they banned creators from having ads within their videos, I might even consider paying for premium.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 4 months ago:
This Lemmy community is actually more pro-mainstream than Reddit and YouTube combined. Thank you for pointing this out. Time to go.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 5 months ago:
These are a SearXNG instance, I think they’re aware of those facts there. You can set it up to not search or search on specific pages, you can also have multiple profiles which is useful when searching for different things. It also combines multiple web search engines… I haven’t dived into the configuration that much because what’s most important to me is that it doesn’t show ads, but I assume it’s easier to install the extension, although you don’t set this up every day.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 5 months ago:
Why not change your search engine and set up a SearX instance? You can find all instances here: searx.space. For example, I have set it up like this: https://search.inetol.net/search?q=%s&category_general=1&language=en&time_range=&safesearch=0&theme=simple, and it works wonders. Results are still mostly from Google, or you can configure it to be whatever you want.
- Comment on Can anyone help me find an online calculator that can calculate total the price of items I buy. (euro) 5 months ago:
If you read its title, he is actually looking for an online calculator. Supposedly, these offline ones are not up to date in mathematics.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 5 months ago:
- Comment on Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data 5 months ago:
Why Fennec? I use Mull and both have warnings that they are not fully open-source. It seems to me that only Librewolf is good, too bad it’s not available for Android.
