Yeah that’s a pretty good argument for it.

Why group it into language instead of say a ‘web’ directory or ‘android’/‘mobile’?

I’m just curious, I am more of a ‘throw everything in one directory and home I remember what I’m looking for’ sort of organiser.

Multiple people in this topic say they organise in directories for different programming languages, something I have never considered and I find it to be an odd way of organising for some reason I can’t explain.

Where do you put a project with a Javascript frontend and a Python backend?

Install an extension to hide it, I just tried this and it works for me: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/

You can install extensions by searching for it in the GNOME extensions manager. Once installed, you can edit the settings in the same place (I found I had to move off the window to another application before hiding was applied).

Don’t forget unique email addresses. I’ve had two spam emails in the last 6 months, I could trace them to exactly which company I gave that email address to (one data breach, one I’m pretty sure was the company selling my data). I can block those addresses and move on with my life.

My old email address from before I started doing this still receives 10+ spam emails a day.

Also tab to autocomplete.

The command line looks like a lot of typing, but with ctrl+r and tab I barely type anything.

That’s not an unusual emergency plan, just unfortunate the only available emergency landing area was full of rush hour traffic.

In my experience, runways often end at the sea. Better that than having planes crash into houses or offices.

I really wanted to like Bazzite but after a couple of months I couldn’t handle it. I really need the tinkering 😆.

I’m considering it for the kids though once we get a family PC, but I also really want things like being able to switch between Gnome and KDE and other stuff like that which makes the experience nicer.

I’m feeling very lucky now!

We have a national grid that is shared by all power companies, and is open to all. Power companies just buy and sell power on the grid based on a spot pricing system. Because of this, we have very easy movement between power companies, and have dozens to choose from, leading to a lot of competition. Mine is a tiny company that specialises in solar, having sell to grid rates well above most companies.

The company that did our solar install had their top recommended companies, they worked out the best for us, and organised getting set up with them. Was I pretty nice experience to have everything taken care of like that!

Interesting! Your power seems super expensive.

We pay a daily lines maintenance charge of 60c, then 29c/kWh during the day and a little under 27c for off peak night time. Then add 15% tax to these. These are in NZD, so almost halve them to get USD (e.g. 60cNZD is 35cUSD)

We also get about 17.5c for each kWh sold to the grid. So to sell it in the day and buy back at night is a 10c additional cost. A 10kWh battery can save a max of $1 per night, meaning it’s really hard to make your money back on a battery that’s $10-15k NZD on it’s own.

What an odd pricing structure! I would normally expect higher usage to mean lower prices per unit.

I guess that gives you a large incentive to have at least a little solar, as there would be a big financial benefit.

Wait, it gets more expensive when you use more?

Net metering is potentially better, as you are effectively getting free night usage based ob day generation. My setup pays me, but I get paid 20c per Kw (NZ dollar) and pay about 30c to buy, so there’s a 10c difference. Just as long as whatever you lose on 31st Dec is not too high, you’d be better off than me.

I recently got a solar system and came to the conclusion that if you can sell power back to the grid (not everyone can) for some reasonable percentage of what it costs to buy it, then it will always be worth it to be connected (assuming you already are).

Quite simply, if you have enough solar capacity to get you through the winter (no house is going to have months of battery storage), then you will always be creating far more than you need in the summer. Selling this excess will easily cover any costs associated to being on the grid.

Also at current prices batteries are good for backup power only, it’s always cheaper to sell excess power to the grid in the day and buy it back at night than it is to have battery capacity to get through the night. I worked out it would take 40 years for our battery to pay for itself (assuming the battery kept a constant battery capacity for 40 years…) but less than 10 years for the rest of the system to pay for itself.

Imagine fucking up so badly you have an xkcd made about you.

I love that he’s like “I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria”.

Dude’s living the dream.

Holy crap, I hadn’t considered that we have the technology to create articles on the fly based on search terms.

That could be a serious weapon of war - you get your site to the top through SEO, then show each user personalised propoganda. You show googlebot the genuine page but adjust the page based on what you know about the user.

To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.

Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.

It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.

AI is driving more searches

This is hilarious. People are searching more because they aren’t getting results they need from AI, which drives ad revenue so Google’s doing great!