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.

It’s not really a competitor, Steam’s business is selling games, not consoles.

The steam deck is just one way for them to increase sales on steam.

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.

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.

You were not allowed to but I can guarantee that you were still screaming in public.

Beans soup, chickpeas soup, lentil soup, they are all amazing.

My favorite is beans and sauerkraut soup and Ukrainian borstch

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.

I don’t understand how we accepted that as normal.

Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.

Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.

So a horse is cheaper than a car. The average yearly cost of car ownership in the us is around $12k in the US.

This includes car depreciation, insurance, maintenance …

There is probably still a bunch of old people with a dialup subscription that they never canceled.

I think tailscale would fit your use case perfectly.

You can install tailscale on your computer and your NAS. This way, there is a tunnel between your computer and your NAS. In practice you will have a separate IP address for your NAS that you can use from your computer.

It also means that you will have secure access to your NAS from wherever in the world as long as you have internet access.

Then, Mullvad and tailscale are integrated together. It means that from tailscale you get the Mullvad add-on that allows you to use Mullvad as exit-point. Meaning that all your traffic that is not in your tailscale network will go through Mullvad (so in your case everything except your NAS)

It’s been two years that I am using that and it’s working great for me.

How old was your kid at the time ? You are giving us hope, we need to know!

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.

Yes, my mother in law is living with us and helping is to take care of our 4 years old and 2 years old

Chopping spicy peppers without gloves and without taking off my contact first.

As you can imagine taking off contacts with spicy hands is hell!

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.

Same for me.

A friend in high school gave me one of these CD, I think it was 7.04.

It’s really that valuable, the bulk prices I’ve found on Alibaba are around $25-$30 per KILOMETER!

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.

Beer pipeline are a thing. At the Hellfest festival all the bars are connected to a beer pipeline fed by tankers trucks of beer.

“Mauvaises herbes” this is the word I was thinking about.