+1. I'm happy to do the tiling, especially with those little plastic clips and spacers. Drywall is *hard* to get smooth, and I don't mind paying a pro to do it for me. The pros also have proper dust extraction, which is a nightmare when plastering.
The problem. My roof is from 2008 and will probably need to be replaced in 5-7 years. Because of the high pitch of the roof I have about 4700sq feet of roof. That's about $40,000 right there in my area.
What is your roof made of??? The concrete tiles on my roof from 1974 are just fine. I fixed the pointing about a decade ago, total cost $50 for a bucket of pointing compound. A couple of tiles got cracked when the solar was installed in 2020. I had to buy a couple of used tiles of similar profile, which set me back about another $25.
Both Czech and Slovakia have 2 GW dummy loads to burn off the excess solar production around midday. In effect, it helps to cool the cities by moving midday heat to the countryside.
Got a link? Sounds interesting.
Utilities will love this. Production just popping up all over the place.
I expect it will turn out like Germany where they have to pay people to take their solar power during the day.
Wish you all the best but I'm honestly a bit cynical.
As the parent said, the solar electricity is not for them to export back to the grid, but to use on-site. Pretty much the ideal use case.
Except that now, not providing the age bracket signal will itself be a signal. This could be the beginning of a new way of information on the web being specifically refused to people on open source operating systems.
Imagine, a web free of Facebook, Twitter, Discord and their ilk. Sign me up!
They kicked me off without explanation.
Do you have any more info about how they "kicked you off"? I only ever used the website (never the app) and one day after trying to back up some photos, the site logged me out and refused access, saying my device was "unrecognised." I had the correct password, the site just refused to accept it unless I gave them more PII. (from memory, it was a phone number they wanted to unlock the account) An old Windows laptop, presumably with some magic cookie, still worked. If I was to read into the situation, I would assume the "unrecognised" device was flagged because it was showing the hallmarks of someone backing up their account before deleting it.
This was in about 2020 and since then I have noticed similar patterns in other "social media" type sites. I was able to make a twitter account (back when it was still called twitter) which worked exactly once before demanding a phone number. My partner tried to sign up for some classes which were run thru instagram and had the same issue - no trouble creating an account, but after the first login, instagram said there was "unusual activity" and demanded a phone number.
Obviously, none of us are on facebook, twitter or instagram now, but presumably all three have kept our profiles and count us in their stats as active users. And now we can't even log in to close the accounts and delete the minimal info we shared.
All I'm saying is that being "kicked off" is pretty rare in my experience. They prefer the old bait-and-switch, or giving you a little taste then demanding more PII to continue.
"Money" in more ways than one. Certainly having money helps a lot. But there's also a massive element of self-selection. People with a solid connection to and understanding of reality will understand that being a billionaire isn't very fair. They might not understand things like the huge amounts of structural violence necessary for it, but they will at least understand that there's something seriously wrong with some people having more money than you need to be spending in a thousand lifetimes, whilst billions of people struggle in poverty. These people will stop prioritising self-enrichment long before they become billionaires. It's only the bastard type who become billionaires in the first place.
This guy gets it. "billionaire" is a mental illness. Such people shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a corporate boardroom or anyones PII. They should be in a secure facility, for their own safety and the safety of the community.
Probably the best people will just leave cause they know they can get a new job where they won't have to compete against a machine.
The company has already proven they are hostile to their own workers. Any worker who is not actively seeking a better job is, by definition stupid and/or desperate. Because only stupid/desperate people would work for an employer that actively hates its own workers.
I hope they find better jobs soon, and learn an important lesson about what happens when you accept a cheque from the bad guys.
Makes sense for them. Does not make any sense for users.
^^^^This. It sounds just like those gym memberships and streaming services that are really hard to unsubscribe from, so they keep taking money every month.
Also it will help pad their stats. "See! look at all these people using our agent!"
Did you also use Facebook, X, Discord, and whatever services should now be restricted?
No, I don't use that trash because those arseholes had been nagging users for years to supply a phone number and photos. It wasn't the government that made them do it.
No matter if they say social media or AI, they want you to show your ID. It's not about the kids, they don't have an adult ID anyway. It's about the adults being required to identify. Stop such initiatives while you can, soon the web as we know it will be locked behind "age" gates, that only open when you tell them who you are.
I live in Australia, where similar bans were enacted a year ago. I have continued to bank, do business, browse the web and visit the Pirate Bay just like I have for decades. At no time in the last year have I been asked to submit any form of ID or biometrics.
I agree that anonymity should be protected, but I simply haven't seen it threatened by putting an age limit on social media. It makes me wonder if it's a strawman pushed by the social media companies themselves, to trick internet privacy advocates into fighting on their side.
New Zealand was Region 4: Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean.
And it sucked. It was blatant cash-grab by the studios, and also meant that we missed out on a bunch of releases that simply never got released in region 4. They won't make the same mistake again, which is why these days many releases are only streamed and it's hard to get hold of any physical copy of the media in any region. At least for the popular stuff it can usually still be found on the high seas.
Why is this "addiction" worse than what World of Warcraft or 24 hour news channels did?
Because it's forced on them 24/7 with aggressive push notifications, to a device they carry with them 24/7. Hell, often the parents insist that the kid carries it with them 24/7 for "safety."
a stroll through your local grocery store will reveal a whole bunch of companies doing exactly the same thing with unhealthy foods. Parents are supposed to be the ones reading the labels and realizing that the mega pack of "fruit" snacks with the picture of two happy children on the front [motts.com] is really just clever marketing for junk food that consists primarily of empty calories from sugar.
Just because other industries do it, doesn't make it any less evil. Tobacco companies used to market their products at children too, until eventually the community pushed back.
My pet peeve with food marketed to kids is the fake "healthy" labels where a snack has a big picture of fruit or vegetables on it, then you read the ingredients and it's mostly corn starch with like 0.2% of the ingredient that is in the big glossy picture. The "yoghurt buttons" mentioned in this article contain more sugar per gram than M&Ms, yet they are marketed to parents as "healthy." https://www.abc.net.au/news/20...
The "health star" system in Australia is so broken, a bottle of Coke Zero gets more stars than fresh orange juice.
I want "fuck the ad industry" mode, where the browser generates random but plausible values for every non-essential information a website requests. Different ones every 5 minutes.
Why? You'd be such an irrelevant bit of noise in the dataset.
I think that's the point. Also it puts a little bit more noise in the dataset, making it a lit bit less useful. If we all did this, there would be less profit to be made by collecting the datasets in the first place.
For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two.
