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It's all relative. On the opposite coast, Maine it is ~ $0.28 cents kwh including getting it there. (~ 50% energy, 50% delivery). It's too darn expensive here.

Where do these new top notch programmers come from and what proof of top notchness will be required for job proof? (Honest questions)

Interesting you bring up (artistic) painting and bridge building. I'm a house painter, and while the work is... It's just relentless work and staring all day. It's the end results …

Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich? I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... The…

My Roku TV (that hasn't been turned on in years, but was left plugged in for years...) literally tries to reach out every minute to home servers. Before u plugging it, I had blocke…

I've been playing with asterisk and SIP and I'd like a simple device that would allow a to b contact on their end if only in select locations. So, thanks for this edit, because I n…

I've had the same bad luck with tool-calling on Gemma4. Looking around the web, we are not alone. For other tasks, it's seemingly quite quick and decent. But it gets stuck in tool …

I set the framework key in function row to pop a new terminal. It's amazing.

Sounds familiar.

Galaxy watch 7 (I think) weather here. Also about 30 hours. It's a charge every day thing, but allowing for some forgetfulness. It's not ideal, but it's manageable and certainly fu…

I literally just put the meshtastic antenna on the roof today, in an old services box. Been in the window for months, had a few weird perfect weather moments show a few nodes and a…

Bingo. This same scenario with IOT hardware/software requirements and the ever changing software updates where features get added/removed (and firmware), etc would have so many her…

I've long wanted to 'get into bonsai' and had mentioned this 'bonsai retirement plan' to my middle-school aged kids (who are also very intrigued by bonsai...) -- Nice to see that m…

I have a radio controlled chicken door that I control through home assistant via a hack rf. It has a reed switch placed behind the door, and a magnet attached to the door to let yo…

Once again, communication remains key.

My framework 13 fingerprint scanner worked immediately out of the box.

Frigate NVR tied to a home assistant instance has my phone getting proactive notifications about people, birds, and buses (in their select areas...). It's not the easiest thing to …

I know 30+ years ago as I kid I learned this in my parents basement as I was rigging something up. It is more the surprise, as if one is ignorant to this fact it is not expected at…

Or maybe they were going right away, taking the initiative and removing the ambiguity from the situation. =)

If it makes you feel any better, I've got a perhaps Galaxy Watch 7 from almost a year ago or so running wearOS, and it's battery life is at best at the 36 hour mark regardless. Cam…

Recently bought a GE oven. It had a minor problem and had a few service appointments. Not a huge deal, life moves on. Meanwhile, near immediately, they would love a review! They wa…

"just because you are offended doesn't mean you are right". It's the modern day way. Perhaps the online filter bubbles over the past... Long while... Have finally shown their long …

I've rocked pixels for a good while now, but the Xperia lineup has always been something I've really debated. My largest concern is camera quality: obviously it is Sony, but if you…

3.5" floppies that you would put scotch tape over to save your homework assignments on, to show your prowess in hypercard on the Mac classic.

https://github.com/LeoDJ/FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus?tab=readme-ov... I've yet to build one, but this project looks very interesting in that regard.