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  • You should also know they were bought a couple years back by IGN, and have drastically increased the minimum “tip” amount in bundles that you give them while also hiding the sliders more. Instead of being the $1 of old humble, its now $7.50.

    They also changed the choice discount you get on their direct store to slowly ramp up to 20% only when you stay subscribed for 12 months straight. It resets to 0% if you pause a month. The 20% off also has random exclusions, so it just doesn’t apply, or applies at some lesser rate at their whim.

    Its not a bad site, but it’s slowly enshittifying a hallowed name in gaming.


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    Of course. Look at the “network state” concept that the alt right tech bros love.

    Tiny nation states ruled by the elites, where laws and rights are set not by a wide ranging view of human rights, but by those in power. One of your only rights is the ability to leave. To where? Who knows, and surely nit with all your valuables going with you. No voting, not basic dignity, nothing else if the techo kings dont want to provide it. Corpo kings, contract as the only law.

    The end state of the above and fascism is the same. A ruling class that sets the rules, and a citizenry that has to abide by them, or else.

    Is it literal fascism? Who knows. Are you under the boot of a privileged class, at the full mercy of their whims just like monarchy or fascism? Yes indeed.




  • Glad to help. I’ve been investigating my own solar install, so have been digging into the specifics a lot.

    Note that the above are the “best case” numbers. Panels can put out less power for lots of reasons. They tend to lose a little bit of efficiency when they get older. Think 1%/year, but that’s just a rule of thumb. Being dirty can affect them, cloud cover, angle and position, and hilariously counterintuitively, if they get too much sun. Solar panels get less efficient the hotter they are, so an especially sunny day will lower the power output.

    Leads to some complex effort to optimize, but honestly its power that just hits your house for free. That’s a fine thing in any circumstance.



  • Looks like the model name is the wattage. Your panels are each making a max of 275w. With 14 of them, the max power they will generate is 3850w, or 3.8Kw. That’s a pretty small solar deployment, about 1/4th the size of a array intended to provide full power to a US home. Still nice to have, but sized more to offset power costs than to eliminate them.

    That means if you have one hour of full sunlight hit your panels, it will generate 3.8kw of power. If you go to this site it will estimate how many sunlight hours your roof will get per year. Multiple the sunlight hours by 3.8Kw to find your total possible power generation per year.

    To find out how much you’ll save, you need to know how much a Kwh costs from your local power company, likely between $0.10-$0.30/kwh.

    So just with made up totals, if you get 1000hrs of sunlight/yr, you will generate up to 3,895kwh. At $0.10/kwh, you’ll save $389.50/yr.


  • Assets can fall further. Much further. Telling people to “hold on” is only correct if this is the bottom, which is basically impossible to accurately predict. Being able to do so would make you incredibly wealthy.

    If it’s not the bottom, selling and holding cash and buying in when the market is lower is a better play. Basically, it’s better to lock in 10% losses and buy back in at the 30% loss point then to take the 30% losses.










  • People are “hacked” all the time in massive breaches. Its accelerating, not getting less likely. Password managers are a huge target, and have been breached in the past.

    If youre worried about it, use something like Aegis. Its an mfa app that lets you easily save password protected backups. You can set it up to automatically save a copy to a folder on your phone. Then just copy that file off and store it somewhere safe.

    If thats too much work and you dont run syncthing/nextcloud/etc, they also have an option to let it it sync with the google backup service.

    The above gives you the best of both worlds : strong security and strong redundancy.