Because they’re still making billions. They’re just not making as many billions as they’d like, and as many as the investors are demanding.
That’s what’s driving the stock price drops more than anything else, but they’re not a broke business with no resources, no sales, and no hope heading into bankruptcy.
They’re just not feeding the vultures, and the vultures are going to force a sale to someone worse.
Dry itchy skin? Red rash? It could be SimpleX. Ask your doctor today.
Also, you should consider new windows and insulation/re-insulation of your house first.
I spent ~$6k on new windows and full encapsulation with spray foam (small house, so ymmv) and had my power bill/gas bill drop by nearly 60%.
MUCH better ROI than the solar is ever going to be and it’s also included in the energy efficiency tax credits as long as you ensure the R values are sufficient, and you do it professionally.
Are you talking about disconnecting power entirely, or just generating as much as possible yourself?
Because the first, depending on local laws, is going to be something you can’t necessarily do and keep your occupancy permit and be allowed to stay living in the house.
The other is going to be a matter of figuring out your maximum power requirements and sizing a solar and battery system big enough to fill your needs.
Just as a thing to consider: you’re talking tens and tens of thousands of hardware if your power bill is $300 a month, and the ROI on this is going to be 10 or 20 years, so if you’re not living there that long, it’s maybe not worth doing.
Do the math on how much power you use at peak draw, how much power you use in a month, and how big of a system you’d need to generate enough power, and how many batteries you’d need to store your non-solar needs (days with lower production, no production, overnight, etc.).
(Edit) Meant to give example numbers for what I did in 2022. I ended up spending about $11,000 on the solar panels themselves, and the batteries would have been ~$23,000, for a monthly peak usage of about 1500kwh.
I did not spend $23,000 on batteries, because that would have been (and the math has tracked afterwards) more than a decade payback time, which was longer than the manufacturer specs indicated that I could expect the batteries to last.
I’m sure prices have decreased some in the last 2 years, but solar panels aren’t too badly priced, but the rest of the storage stuff around it was just a bit too expensive to make any real sense unless I was somewhere doing the no-grid life, which isn’t the case here.
Have some stuff on a VPS, some stuff hosted as static pages at Cloudflare, some stuff hosted at home too.
Depends on if 100% uptime is required, if they’re just serving static content, or if they’re in some way related to another service I’m running (I have a couple of BBSes, and the web pages that host the clients and VMs that host the clients run locally).
Though, at this point, anything I’m NOT hosting at home is kinda a “legacy” deployment, and probably will be brought in-house at some point in the future or converted to static-only and put on Cloudflare if there’s some reason I can’t/don’t want to host it at home.
Maybe you’d be happier playing Diablo’s parents, a proper rogue-like?
Perma-death provides quite the incentive and intensity you seem to want.
It also doesn’t lend itself quite so much to “builds” since you’re relying mostly on whatever you find, which is randomized, so you can’t “solve the game”.
Yeah, that would be an improvement, especially since the price per kwh can spike like crazy during situations where they really need you to sell back to the grid.
The only issue that I can see happening is that everyone would then move the ‘sell price’ slider to the maximum setting and leave it there and I’m not entirely sure the power companies would shrug and play along.
My $5 is that they’d keep the low offering price and just wait for SOMEONE to eventually decide that whatever, some ROI is better than no ROI and we’ll end up back where we started.
This is one of those problems that probably has to be actually regulated by someone “impartial” that’s setting the prices that are not unreasonable for either party, but I’m still in Texas and we can’t agree on regulating anything anywhere at any time, so I’m less than hopeful.
But again, most people aren’t running Linux
Exactly. This is bad, for the 0.3% of the computing population that use Linux AND have CUPS installed AND actually print things.
Not exactly a prime target, compared to literally almost anything else. If I were going all-in on something after having gained access to someone’s local network, I’m 100% in on any exploit that lets me use an infostealer trojan to steal your session cookies, not fiddling around and hoping you print something.
(Patch your shit anyways, but there’s no need to freak out.)
That’s a very rosy picture, but they skipped a very important detail, alas. Or well, a few.
First, selling your power to the power companies in Texas is great! Except the amount they pay you is always going to be substantially less than the price you’re going to pay later to import a kwh.
We have the Freedom™ to pay two seperate charges for power: the delivery cost, and the power cost. This is a great Freedom™ because it lets the power company pay you the power cost for your exported power, but you get to pay both halves when you no longer have that kwh in your batteries later.
Also this is just an attempt to get someone else to pay their CapEx to catch extreme usage events, and the incentives being paid out to people who have spent tens of thousands of dollars is still tilted in the power company’s favor. The article itself even says it’s helping them make a bigger profit: if it was a fair set of incentives, well, then that wouldn’t be what’s actually happening, would it?
And, worse, any non-Texans might not catch how unlivable shit gets if your A/C starts screwing with the set temperature when it’s 110F outside. The article says it turns it ‘off’, but the impact I’ve seen from some friends who have one of these plans setup is that it simply sets the temperature to something like 86; high enough to stop the usage, but not quite enough to kill you or your pets if you’re not aware it’s done it. Still, not the most pleasant.
Still, it’s a good idea and a step in the right direction, but we need (lol, lmao) actual real regulation around this and the incentives to be a little less… lame. They’re very much structured around the ‘well, what else are you going to do with your excess?’, rather than with a real intent of fair dealing.
I used to print on glass, until I nearly cut a finger off.
Make sure you’re using glass that can either handle the thermal cycling (that is not anything you can find at a Home Depot), or is tempered so it won’t have giant sharp shards when it does finally break due to the heating -> cooling -> heating -> cooling cycles of 3d printing.
Mine did that in my hands, and the shards it broke into were sharp enough to cut down to the bone on two of my fingers, requiring a hospital trip.
…I use textured PEI now, which probably won’t try to remove any digits.
He announced on GitHub somewhere that he’s wanting to push out the next major version of UptimeKuma first, then come back and work on dockge.
So it’s not abandoned, but it’s just a second priority.
Well, given how torrents work, yes, because you have to.
When you’re downloading, you know the IP of everyone you’re downloading from, and they know yours because that’s how the internet works.
If an anti-piracy corpo hops on the swarm, they’ll be able to see the IPs from all the peers as well.
So, TLDR: yeah, public anything is stupid when simply knowing the swarm exists and being able to connect to it is sufficient to provide enough documentation for everyone involved to get screwed.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t you also end up exposing the IP of every peer on that torrent to anyone who joins the swarm, even if you masked the tracker and stats or whatever?
Like, IIRC that’s kind a requirement for how torrents work in general, and so this idea would be making all activity on private trackers public, and I’d have to say that seems like a really, really stupid thing to want to do given the current situation where corpos are going after infringers again.
Yeah I was more referring to huge outliers, like the 4? 6? Tb seagates they had a few years ago that were like 25% Afr.
You talking modern stuff, or are we talking 90s Tiger Electronics games here?
Docker is probably the simplest way to get a working deployment, since there’s a lot of moving pieces in a Nextcloud install.
Though, it’s not going to automatically update itself unless you’ve made a poor choice for a production environment configuration, which sounds like what happened here.
(Even using a latest tag isn’t really a problem until/unless you re-pull the image to do the upgrade. And/or have configured something to automatically update your shit, but again, don’t do that in production.)
Nextcloud is also annoying in that updating the base won’t pull all the apps to a current version, so you have to know what’s going to break before you update the base so you can then update the apps as needed. Which, again, can’t just be left up to automatic updates.
I’d like to second the ‘manufacturer doesn’t matter, all drives are going to fail’ line, but specific models from manufacturers will have a much higher failure rate than others.
Backblaze, for example, publishes quarterly(ish?) stats showing the drives with the highest failure rates in terms of percentages, so you can kind of get a good view on if there’s a specific drive model you should maybe avoid.
Or just buy an actual enterprise drive, avoid SMR, and have backups is also a sane approach.
Uh, you might be in the wrong community, unless you’re 3d printing these somehow?
The other dumb thing here is X pushing back via the first amendment when multiple district courts have ALREADY ruled and thus set case law and precedent that copyright infringement does not qualify for first protections.
Like I’m not sure why they’d take a tact they probably knew wasn’t going to work other than to preen about protecting user rights, but doing it in a way that wouldn’t work?
They’re mostly in France, yeah?
It turns out that most European countries (and especially France) have actual worker protections, and you just can’t point and yell ‘you’re fired!’ at someone and do mass layoffs without, you know, doing them legally.