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Very fancy.

I’ve been using Home Assistant with data from a house battery, but that does look to be a much cheaper option if you don’t have or want a house battery.

Panasonic does sometimes licence the patent to other companies. I would love an inverter microwave, but they aren’t made with the other features I want.

What app is that?

Panasonic owns the patent for an inverter microwave that can actually do 50% power.

With inverters being common in solar installations and electric cars, it would seem that someone else could just put that part in a microwave, but fortunately the patent prevents that.

It’s nice to know that although I can’t buy the model of microwave that I want with the features I want, at least a single company can prevent everyone else’s progress and even make a tiny bit of extra profit at the same time.

In Australia, Woolworths got reprimanded for selling fuel at a loss. They had a deal where you could buy groceries to earn points which could get you cheaper fuel at their fuel stations. Other companies couldn’t compete, and Woolworths was only able to sustain it because the extra profit they made from selling groceries covered the loss on the fuel.

Many companies have done similar. Uber operated at a loss for years to force taxi companies into bankruptcy, then put their prices up to higher than the taxis had been after the competition was gone.
Comcast had very cheap internet prices in any area where Google was offering Google Fibre, but exceedingly high prices (and worse service) in areas with no competition. Google couldn’t compete on price because Comcast could afford to operate at a loss in a few areas, and Google couldn’t afford to start offering internet across the entire country during it’s startup phase.

It could be done, but big businesses don’t play fairly. They have lots of money to spend on driving you our of business, and lots of future profits as incentive to do so.

Warehouse 14

Plant grow - Plants vs Zombies

The square app will not run on a phone that has developer mode enabled. I turned developer mode on to disable annoying animations, so now I can’t take card payments unless I carry around a second phone.

If Google goes through with this, my payment phone won’t be able to run any third party apps.

If you put enough energy in one place it will cause a black hole. This type of black hole is called a Kugelblitz.

Current graphics cards do not yet use enough energy to worry about a kugelblitz occurring in the 12-pin connector.

Except empathy. You can still decide to keep people as slaves when it benefits you and you don’t have empathy.

I choose to misinterpret your definition of “important” and die of dehydration.

Still better than burning bunker fuel to carry oil. Every bit helps.

I would eat soup with fork if could.

I saw this elsewhere on Lemmy. It’s now my favourite.

Batteries and solar get used 1000s of times in their lifetime, then over 80% (and growing) are recycled. I haven’t heard of any fossil fuels being recycled and burned a second time yet.

Every bit of fossil fuel that taken put of the ground and burned ends up in the air. Solar and batteries don’t.

We’re talking about oil and gas for energy, not construction. 99% of battery materials can be turned into new batteries. The only reason most haven’t been recycled is that they’re still in use.
Show me 1 gallon of recycled* fossil fuels and I might change my mind.

Australia almost did this right with the National Broadband Network.

Unfortunately, it was then sabotaged by the government after an election changed the majority party.

It seems to be back on track after wasting an extraordinary amount of time and money by installing copper lines, just to completely replace them with the fiber lines that were in the original plan.

I miss the comfort of having a single OS (not multiple distros to choose from), and a father who would reinstall the OS when I broke it too much again.
I miss the Macromedia Flash games, bringing games to school on a floppy disk labeled “homework” (then discovering I’d only brought the shortcut).

All of this is just nostalgia, and while I miss it, I’m happier now with my Linux Distro.
I’ve customised the desktop environment, broken the OS and reinstalled it myself (several times), and copied games to another device while forgetting to copy the folder containing my save files.
I guess some things stay the same.