I have just installed two panels two weeks ago, and as this is early in March, it's not running even nearly at peak power. But nevertheless, I got up to 490 Watts from the panels, or about 2.5 kWh for the whole day.

This conundrum is the poster child of First World problems.

I originally thought that this website's decision to not allow new users to sign up was incredibly stupid and would result in a death spiral. Lately, though, I've started to think that there may be no other viable choice.

Fair!

If you get rid of the police, you need another means to keep up law and order. You can try neighborhood watch schemes, but they prove to be even more flawed in regularly catching the wrong person. And they don't have the tools and the education to actually investigate crimes, because during the day, they have another job and doing the neighborhood watch on their free time.

And then you find out that the wrong guy was tortured to death, and what do you then? Torture the one to death who made the mistake in identifying the one misidentifying Mrs. Lipps?

The problem with all those "setting an example" punishments is that they themselves can also be flawed, and instead of sending a warning, they send the message that the system can not be trusted. And then, nobody cares about justice at all, because it is arbitrary anyway.

When I delete Copilot from the startup in MSCONFIG, it reappers after installing Windows patches, and I have to delete it again.

But as this happened in the UK, it's their court rules. And he was not a juror, but a witness.

I don't know where you got that idea from. The guy had a cell phone in the courtroom, and that was perfectly legal. What was not legal was to use it to get a connection outside the courtroom while being questioned as a witness, and hiding the fact by using his smart glasses.

No, I don't have severe cognitive decline

In Europe, Renewables supply between 40% and 60% of the electricity. And with the successive installation of large batteries (and all the small batteries in households and EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid capacity), Renewables will continue to grow. Battery capacity connected to the grid is about 25 GWh in Germany alone, and only 3.7 GWh of that are large battery parks.

Interesting tidbit: Right now, about 15% of all electricity in Europe is not even supplied to the grid. Instead, households with Solar just use their own electricity, and there are towns and villages, which can operate year round off-grid with just locally generated renewable electricity.

He fell asleep at his own Cabinet meeting.

Energy experts too, which is probably more credible than a minimally-educated dementia patient.

For those who don't remember: I never played Mario Kart on a PC running Microsoft OS.

But anyway, I am an old guy, and the first time I regularly used a device with a Microsoft OS, I had already used the C=64, an old 68k Mac and several Unices, e.g. SunOS, AIX and HP-UX and a little bit of IRIX. The only reason I used a Microsoft PC was because the print server of my local university lab ran with MS-DOS.

I had features turned on for no reasons. Copilot would be one example. Each time, a larger patch comes out and is installed, Copilot reappears.