MasterBlaster

Interesting, I’ll check it out. I don’t think the AI we have now is inherently evil, but it’s good to not necessarily be forced to use it.

From DuckDuckGo AI:

No—restrictions weren’t only in one party’s states, but Republican-led states did pass several of the hardest measures, including bills in places like Texas and Oklahoma. The report also says both Democrat- and GOP-controlled states passed some more permissive siting policies, so restriction was not limited to just one party.

The referenced resource: latitudemedia.com/…/mapping-the-state-level-battl…

I’m pretty sure this is yet another example of the wealthy vs everybody else situation, so some of the Democrats succumb to bribery, campaign donations from corporate “constituents”. I like to think there are more Democrats with a sense of civic duty than there are Republicans. This is why paying attention to the actual candidate’s pitch and history is important. Don’t vote “party line”.

More permissive siting policies can legitimately be hard choices for the greater benefit of the community. Seek nuance when evaluating such policies.

i am American, and yes we have a long history of interpretation that is expansive. the problem is we have narrow minded people running the institutions now who don’t even wasn’t the narrow interpretations to be in effect so they do everything possible to limit them.

if you pay attention long enough you will see them use one argument to get their way, then later use the opposite to get their way on a different issue. there is no moral consistency because morality is just s tool to them.

That’s easy. Bury it or otherwise make it disappear so we can keep making bank on petrochemicals. duh!

Sorry for the cynicism. I can’t help it. I’ve seen too much.

There is also KeePassDX, for android.

Well, the approach I use is “synology Drive” and I replicate it down to all clients. Also, NAS 6 with regular offline backups on the server.

Lacking an equivalent, there are multiple peer to peer replication tools. I used one to replicate Balder’s Gate III saves between gaming laptops.

If you decide to build something, plz try to make it a pluggable feature to existing clients rather than fork one or more implementations.

Leaning to the right, with boobs showing on the left? No, you are not the only one.

Well, I’m somewhat disturbed to find you are basically right. I gather it’s partly due to the insane complexity of the market - even here on our side of the pond. The article I linked described pricing in real-time rather than for the annual auctions your reference described. A quote from the end of the article:

It’s tempting to think electricity prices are simply the product of supply and demand, but the reality is far more choreographed. From fuel markets to regulators, the system is layered and opaque. Consumers think they are paying for power; in reality, they are funding infrastructure projects, policy goals, and investor returns.

On the bright side, it does mean the wind and solar renewable energy producers are probably making bank. This explains why investment continues to accelerate even without subsidies.

Eventually, capacity (in theory) will get so high for renewables that the “last provider in the chain” will not be a ludicrously expensive resource. That’d be nice. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Are you sure that is what is happening? I doubt the utility is paying the solar supplier more than their stated price. That is not how Capitalism works over here.

Not huge. I have a bluetti AC200L and 1000 watts of mismatched panels. It’s plugged into the wall socket and switche to grid power at 40% of capacity.

Router and modem plus NAS average a continuous 70 watt draw. The fridge is the biggest draw as it turns on regularly and uses about 80 watts, and runs a defrost cycle for 40 minutes at 300 watts.

None of it will matter. That said, short term FUBAR can be mitigated. I have a semi-portable solar setup that currently runs my internet, NAS, Fridge and to some degree, the A/C.

To prep for the serious mess, I have to get Faraday bags for my server, drives, and solar generator and have enough time to bag everything before the EMP hits.

I have survival guides in book form as well as on the NAS, and I work the land enough to bring the soil into balance and build its fertility, plus feed the bees so they’ll be there when I need them.

Yes, I know. Like I said, “can’t” do the math expected of their employees for their work. Theare able to measure the kilowats going into millions of homes, but can’t measure the kilowatts they consume. So they get potentially 90% of the electricity dirt cheep, but charge everybody as if they paid the highest price on the market for all of it.

Funny how these businesses are able to tailor prices to individuals by spying on them, but they can’t figure the math to calculate their costs by source.

Convenient problem, isn’t it?

The DIY option is simpler than that. Just hook some heavy draw appliances to the solar generator permanently and plug the generator into the grid to pass through electricity when the battery drains to a defined level. When solar charges it to a higher level (usually +10%) it triggers the direct use of solar again.