For a house of 6 people we installed 5kWh which is basically perfect for them, but they are also very resourceful with their electricity usage, running washing, cleaning and cooking during the day as to not drain the battery at night.

But yeah if you dont get enough sun in your area its just a waste of money. My parents system will be payed off after 11 years if the sun stays at the level it has been at for the past 2 years.

Predicting how import vs export costs might develop is also a big factor

I edited my comment and added a screenshot from my grafana dashboard to show the trend over the year and some other numbers. Batteries are expensive but they are worth imo. ~75% of the electricity usage of this house with 6 people comes from its own solar production. There is however a cut off for how much battery capacity makes sense. To get the last 20% of self sufficiency you would need a disproportionally larger battery to make up for long periods of low sun. so 80% is as good as its gonna get while staying cost effective.

There are web calculators where you put in your latitude, angle of the panels and total kWp of your installation. It then spits out a kWh prediction for the year. Might still be shitty to find a good one tho. I can tell you that the system i installed at my parents house with 10 kWp has produced 8.4MWh of AC output this year. I live in southern Germany which is around 48° latitude and it was pretty gray and rainy this summer so could be much better.

This is daily total generation in kWh split up by how much went into the battery vs directly into live usage in the house vs exported to the grid.

This shows the sources of all the electricity that the house used over the year on any given day. Red being imported electricity.

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I guess thats true, it still kinda depends on whether its an instinctual behaviour or an actual selfless decision. The outcome might be the same, but the motivation does make a difference when it comes to human relationships imo.

Ants definitely arent complex enough to have empathy but still do things “for the group”. Mice are much smarter, but this behaviour doesnt necessarily require empathy just the understanding that individual survival chance goes up when you cooperate. Definitely cute tho. :)

Unless the dog attacked her thats pretty hard to justify yeah.

Good luck lmao

Not supposed to != wont. Police regularily do things that they arent supposed to and as long as people naively consent by giving their phone they can get away with whatever they want i would think.

It hasnt been like that anymore for a while now.

Idk about viewing but for automatically synchronizing pics (or any files really) from android to other devices syncthing is great. Its p2p so doesnt require setting up a server but its not like a “cloud storage” where you download on demand, instead it will actually write changes to disk on the other end which is actually great in case you lose your phone.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

You sadly cant poison models this way, they are static/pretrained and dont change based on user input.

I can not puke

No gag reflex you say? 😇

You know that you can just buy a sheet of the right filter and tape it over the display? There are probably even specifically designed screen protectors with this.

There is definitely constant industrial, corporate and state sponsored misinformation. All major news outlets including the more left leaning ones fall in line when it comes to war.

But yes i agree, at least in more recent times, there is no need to suppress the truth anymore. I dont really know why that is, but the political landscape is so full of lies next to the truth that nobody believes or cares about anything anymore.

Cursed but probably rational.

Yep in the last two or so years it should have become even more clear for people how important federation is.

I mean its pretty similar to the US recruiting their poor citizens to fight in the middle east. They are often just as oblivious to the fact that its usually entirely one sided aggression or resource wars.

Yeah the whole orc thing instantly rings dehumanization bells as we know them from Netanyahu and other fascists like Hitler.