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It is not only about Google. Its also about the App developers. Nothing prevents them to use the non-google attestation, however they decide not to use it (for many reasons). First time you actually notice this is when you installed GrapheneOS (attestation OK and bootloader locker) and some apps complain about a modified/rooted/... device. Another thing is, that you are warned by your Google device while booting that something is "not OK".

3.4M Solar Panels 3 months ago

Wrong, payoff time will be shorter. Why: During the next few years energy suppliers will "force" people, who feed energy to the grid into flexible pricing, so the reward for producing will be less and less ( current flexible prices https://markt.apg.at/en/transparency/cross-border-exchange/d... ) and the incentive for having a battery is getting stronger. For my situation that means almost zero energy costs from March to October. Even in December and January it covers 30-50% of the total energy demand (heat pump).

3.4M Solar Panels 3 months ago

The battery increases the upfront cost but also increases the roi very much (at least where I am living). You get way less money for feeding energy to the grid than you have to pay for withdrawing energy(as you said some utilities even limit/forbid feeding during peak hours). In my case that means (Austria): Sell 1 kWh - 0,04€ Buy 1 kWh - 0,25€

ThinkNext Design 6 months ago

I like the Thinkpads design. it's just timeless. However the bright red Lenovo logo flashing up while booting is very unaesthetic.

You don't need Flatpak at all to have these kind of usability issues, it is deeper than that: For example, if you mount a samba share in the Linux Mint Cinnamon file explorer it is just good to use it from there. Accessing files from the mounted share from "external" apps is a pita (shares are mounted to some obscure path(permission issues), the apps filepickers never have the information that a share was mounted, etc.). If you want usesful access to a samba share you have to mount it via terminal; This way at least the path to the share is short.

Anyone sane can't actually favor such a system at home using cameras to a system with existing technology(check other comments). These systems maybe make sense in environments where cameras are already installed but not at home...

Meta 3D Gen 2 years ago

Knobs in cars are not a thing anymore... No need for 3D for that ;-)

A big factor for the total energy consumption besides the heatpump is the rest of the heating system. For our house the yearly energy consumption of the heatpump is around 1.4MWh/y (for floor heating, warm water and cooling of the bedrooms in summer;this number is reported by the heatpump control system) but the hole heating system including all the pumps and so on is 2,55MWh/y.

Global CO2 Levels 3 years ago

Opened the site, realized the vertical axis configuration, closed the site again.

Offsetting zero is an annoying practice.