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Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts
  • Yeah, this is exactly the point of the "problem" OP complains about. Charge people for overproduction, so they're encouraged to buy a home battery and contribute in the night.

    Eventually home batteries will become a standard part of such installations.

  • Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts
  • Because they have to give that energy away in order to keep the grid stable.

    Hopefully better battery storage will make this better in the future.

    The aim with it is to naturally discourage people from overproducing in such overproduction times - e.g. maybe you disable your solar panels when you predict it will happen, lessening the sudden impact on the grid.

    FWIW you could buy a high capacity home battery already to eliminate it yourself (charge the battery in those times), but they're still expensive.

  • Subscription fatigue: when will enough be enough?
  • Most of them are cheap though. Like Spotify at ~$10 is nothing, you can barely get a beer for that in the city these days. That's far cheaper than you used to pay for CDs!

    Netflix really took the piss though - with the charging for no ads, HD and multiple screens. Then it gets to like $30 a month which just isn't worth it with the diminishing library, so I cancelled that and use Amazon Prime Video for now as it's still cheap in my country (and has no ads for now).

  • Have you been stolen from?
  • Yeah, had a drug dealer burgle our apartment (just an opportunistic thing, spare keys had been left outside by a friend who was moving). Fortunately no-one was in, but it sucked to have to deal with all the damage and security.

    We eventually tracked them down when they sold some stuff though and they were actually arrested and we got a few things back.

    It was awesome the police actually raided them. Unfortunately the new government released them as prisoners with "non-violent" offences.

  • Lemmy comrades/people/lemmings who have learned a new language using online resources, what/how was it like?
  • I learnt Spanish like this. Mainly finishing Duolingo and downloading some textbooks and doing a few MOOC courses and listening to slow podcasts, and then watching basic movies.

    Once I got to the point I could watch movies and TV, I would watch a movie almost every single day.

    It's a lot of work, but to get to the point of speaking and listening it is necessary.

    It took about 2 years in total - and then I started a job working in Spanish.

  • Europeans, what is Sweden like? / Européer, hur är det i Sverige?
  • Like a mix between the UK and Germany.

    The housing situation is also quite bad, it's near impossible to rent if you move here for work (unless your company acts as a guarantor).

    The rent-controlled housing queue system is extremely corrupt and long - at least 8-year queues (unless you're related to the local administration). Taxes are also insanely high on workers - 56+% income tax, 25% VAT.

    The currency has collapsed since COVID so wages are far worse relative to Europe than before (and let's not even mention the USA).

    It's far from everywhere (you're not going on holiday to Russia these days), with few direct flights, and long delivery times for imports.

    But still the transport is quite good, there are a fair number of new apartments if you can buy a leasehold (it has its own issues with high fees and interest rates though), and a lot of online services.

    I'd give it a 6/10.

  • Germany: Far-right AfD candidate attacked in Mannheim
    www.dw.com Germany: Far-right AfD candidate attacked in Mannheim – DW – 06/05/2024

    A local candidate for the far-right AfD party was attacked with a knife in Mannheim. The victim was hospitalized and the perpetrator, who was said to have shown signs of mental illness, was arrested.

    Germany: Far-right AfD candidate attacked in Mannheim – DW – 06/05/2024
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