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Comment Re:Same thing happened to my Enphase solar gateway (Score 1) 48

I used a local Envoy as well from 2010 to 2022 . It worked fine in Home assistant locally, as you say. I never blocked it from the Internet, however. My understanding is that the internal memory may fill up eventually, if it is unable to upload all its data to the Enphase cloud servers. I don't know how likely that is. I had 28 micro inverters in 2010. I did major expansions after that, adding two IQ gateways and 42 IQ8+ in 2022. The original Envoy did not work well in combination with the two IQ gateways on one site. Enphase replaced it at no cost with an Envoy-S. I now have all 3 connected, and working great in Home assistant. Except that all 3 require cloud.

My understanding is that the Envoy-S, when originally released, still allowed local access. Not certain about the IQ gateways. Enphase changed it at some point in a forced firmware upgrade. At the point I got my Envoy-S and both IQ8+, I believe they might already have been cloud only. Nevertheless, the result of all this is that I no longer have local access to monitoring for the 28 panels I put up in 2010.

Comment Same thing happened to my Enphase solar gateways (Score 1) 48

And I'm really pissed about it. If the company folds, which many clean energy companies are doing due to changing polices such as NEM3 and the OBBBA, I'll lose per panel monitoring, and cumulative stats.
It should not be legal to forcibly remove local features, without a way to roll back.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 148

Yes, it should absolutely do that. And when using a chat bot with the copy/paste method, it already does. You always have the entire conversation history, and it's possible to go back and copy & paste a previously working version. However, it's difficult to find out what that version might have been, since you cannot easily tag it in the conversation history, much less search for it later. Also, the chat bot should have the option to always show a visual side by side diff of any changes it made. Instead, it works more conversationally, discussing multiple independent snippets, and it's not immediately obvious if one of those snippets is in off-limits code.
Github copilot, inside Visual Studio (2022 - not Code), is better this way for the visual diff feature. But it loses the conversation history feature. And there is still no locally integrated source control. And no containerization if you want to run your code from the IDE in a sandbox, before letting it go wild on your local development system (akin to "prod").

TLDR, all these assistants are still in their infancy. There are a lot of improvements to be made to the user experience for iterating.

Comment Re: I have a quesion (Score 1) 230

Indeed, it is no problem at all.

Healthcare only exists in the vaccuum, at the individual level. Infectious diseases only spread to uninsured populations.

There is always enough funding for healthcare when significant portions of the populations are allowed to opt out.

And when people vote to take away their own healthcare, this never affects access for anyone else who wants or needs it.

Comment Re: Cures COVID-19 too! (Score 1) 106

You could have just stated bleach + cremation. No need for ivermectin if you're already dead.

I have suffered sevetal major injuries from modern medicine. Enough to be disabled. Nevertheless, I would still much rather be alive than dead. When it's time to go, I would prefer it to be on my terms, and less painful than taking bleach.

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