BastingChemina
@BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
- Comment on 5 hours ago:
I disagree, but in not in your situation so I can be wrong.
Unless you are producing way, way more electricity than you can use I think net metering is a great arrangement for the customer. (Not so much for the utility company)
The electricity is usually bought by the utility company at a much lower cost than what the customer is paying. Because the generation cost is only a percentage of the cost, there is taxes, maintenance of the grid …
For example in France we pay 0.1952€/kWh, but the utility is buying the solar electricity produced by household at 0.04€/kWh.
Meanwhile with net metering your electricity is virtually bought at the same price as what you are buying your electricity for.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
Net metering is great, much better than being paid for the surplus.
With net metering the grid is basically an free, infinite, 100% effective battery.
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
How ? Is it just AC ?
We oscillate between 300 and 800kwh per month and it’s with an old water heater, an electric car charged at home, a dryer and electric oven.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 1 week ago:
Replace the gun with a car.
How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 2 weeks ago:
There is probably still a bunch of old people with a dialup subscription that they never canceled.
- Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 2 weeks ago:
This is what Prusa is planning to use on the Prusa Core One.
The picture released by Prusa shows 7 Indx head on a Prusa core one and has been relayed by Bontech. https://preview.redd.it/what-mmu4-is-probably-going-to-look-like-v0-a9k1435yyelf1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=acdc5101cd9ea18d7474e89ebbf6f69e188e870c
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
How old was your kid at the time ? You are giving us hope, we need to know!
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
The “grandmother theory” is supporting this idea.
The idea is that past a certain age there is an evolutionary benefit to not be able to have kids anymore. Past a certain age, to pass our genes it’s more beneficial to be able to help descendants with their kids rather than having kids on our own.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
Yes, my mother in law is living with us and helping is to take care of our 4 years old and 2 years old
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Unless you have a debit card from a third world country bank and half of the time for online payment the authorization fail.
I’ve been in this situation several times and then though I don’t like it Paypal has often been the only payment option available to me.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
It’s really that valuable, the bulk prices I’ve found on Alibaba are around $25-$30 per KILOMETER!
- Comment on Marie Curie 4 weeks ago:
Not only does she have 2 nobel prices, but she is the first woman to receive a nobel price in 1903. She is also the only person that ever got two novel prices in two different areas of expertise.
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 5 weeks ago:
This is what my ISP provided, a microtik router with openwrt flashed on it
- Comment on New idea 5 weeks ago:
Beer pipeline are a thing. At the Hellfest festival all the bars are connected to a beer pipeline fed by tankers trucks of beer.
- Comment on Slicer software for a Linux system? 5 weeks ago:
I’m using Prusa Slicer as well.
- Comment on Gotta go fox taming 1 month ago:
The sheep is in the box
https://www.cannedgifts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Sheep.jpg
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 month ago:
Journey
The game is a piece of art and the soundtrack plays a big part of it.
- Comment on Great Birthday Gift 1 month ago:
Same ✂️
- Comment on Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 1 month ago:
In my village in France they close the main street in the evening and weekend for restaurants and bars to put their table there.
- Comment on kingdom come 1 month ago:
Fun facts, in French vegetables are called “legumes”, even though most of them aren’t related to the Fabaceae family
- Comment on Sovol SV08 or Prusa MK4S 1 month ago:
Prusalink has an integration with home assistant as well.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
“Mauvaises herbes” this is the word I was thinking about.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 months ago:
GM received more than $7 billions of subsidies and around $50 billions of “Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance”.
US auto manufacturers are getting their fair share of subsidies.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
The French name for weed could be translated to “bad/wrong grass”
- Comment on AI Job Fears Hit Peak Hype While Reality Lags Behind 2 months ago:
I’m having a thought now.
Each time we see “company laid off X employees to replace them with AI”. Is it really to replace them with AI or is it just layoff because we are in recession that are disguised with AI to make it sound better ?
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 2 months ago:
This is probably why cold water taste so good. It’s natural selection.
There is so many diseases carried in water so there is no doubt that people doing extra effort to get that nice crispy water from the spring will survive longer that people getting warm water from the nearest water body.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 2 months ago:
I did an internship in an office where the company was keeping the fridge and cupboard in the rest area filled with snacks, drinks, ice cream, frozen pizza and premade meals for people who wanted to take lunch there.
- Comment on I wonder 2 months ago:
A big friend of Putin as well
