I think your calculations are way off based on what I've just checked.
Firstly the average UK house (which is on average a fair bit smaller than American houses, for example), which typically doesn't use AC and electric heating/cooking uses 2,700kWh (and around 10,000kWh of gas). I imagine that most other countries that don't typically use gas and have AC, have a significantly higher average.
Secondly I'm seeing several sources saying <$0.20/kWh is what pumped hydro battery storage costs, which is roughly 2/3 of the price of grid electricity in my country.
Finally, we spend billions on power plants—why not power storage too? It's necessary infrastructure spending whichever way you go about it.
To be honest, at grid scale, I don't see why the answer to this today isn't that the government/energy companies just build a shit load of gravity batteries and use the basically free power times to build grid supply for when the sun's gone down.
Japanese courts have a 99% conviction rate or something. Saying you've not lost in a Japanese court is like saying 99% of the time you've been to the airport, you got on a plane.
That's the case for most people
I thought Damien Hurst stole this from another artist, did the other guy steal it from this or did Damien find a way to steal something twice?
I read this like officer crabtree from Allo Allo
Do we think there's much chance this isn't politically motivated?
Random violence is rarely gun based in this country and it's not really an area of London I'd expect strays from gang crime especially at 10am on a weekday.
Can we not be the kind of country that tries to kill the press holding our elected representatives to account
This is getting to the point where it goes to court and rightfully, Nintendo should get slapped and a new bleem-like precedent is set.
I remember thinking twitter was bad before he took over
It's now a complete shadow of what it was even just a couple of years ago. Just a quarter of its value seems generous
Goodbye
"how was your gig last night?"
"It sucked man, the crowd went wild"
Oh no, this is not gonna be good for my productivity
I mean it genuinely is because of the "kinda" and "seems"
"Elon is a shitty guy" is one of the coldest takes out there at this point
I don't think it's a lie, it's objectively true that shit SD cards would have that effect on performance if used as adopted storage. But I do agree with you that it was a convenient excuse, as I wrote at the end of my original comment.
It's not the users saying it, it's the OEMs. Back when this was a new discussion, I at least remember Google saying this as justification for why it stopped including them in their devices after the nexus 4
Not that I think it was a good reason for ditching them whatsoever, but one of the main reasons given has a tiny bit of merit:
Allegedly, a lot of users often cheaped out on SD cards and then used them as adopted system storage where they moved all their apps to. This had the effect of completely tanking phone performance and then they would often get corrupted after a bit of use taking user data with them. This then generated a load of negative reputation about the devices being slow and unreliable, when the problem was the choice of SD card, and generated a load of wasted money in supporting these users when that happened (think unnecessary RMAs, etc).
Personally I think they should just have restricted it to A1+ SD cards, and sucked up the people complaining about their bargain bin Scrandrisk SD not working. But I guess they saw an opportunity to have their cake and eat it by just removing it and charging a premium for larger storage skus.
She took both arm rests and is acting entitled about it
Uefa warns ministers that England could be excluded from Euro 2028 over "concerns" that an independent football regulator could mean "government interference".
> Uefa has warned ministers that England could be excluded from the European Championship it is co-hosting in 2028 over "concerns" that a planned independent football regulator could lead to "government interference" in the sport.
> A bill to establish a body to oversee the top five tiers of the men's game in England was reintroduced in July.
> The UK government has said the football watchdog will "protect clubs" by "ensuring their financial sustainability".
> But in a letter sent to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and seen by BBC Sport, Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis wrote: "We do have concerns remaining... as normally football regulation should be managed by the national federation.
We ask 30 BBC Sport football pundits to predict who will win the Premier League title, and which clubs will finish in the top four this season.
Rocky start, but we’re here! also making this almost an hour late due to the rocky start # What’s Canvas? Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas similar to Reddit’s r/place, except it is open to (almost) the entire Fediverse! The event is going on from July 12th 4am UTC to July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 ho...
So canvas is on again this year! We could try and be a bit more organised this time if people are around
I've not started anything yet
Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to rant too hard about that.
Why on earth hasn't any airline started marketing adult-only flights?
It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.
Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now
I originally posted it on Reddit a couple years back and people rated it a lot. I decided to share it here as well. - Jungle [early 90s-present] - the genre that predates dnb and laid foundations for the genre. It ranges between 160-168 BPM and focuses on rearranged and chopped breakbeats sampled fr...
It has been 12 months since the administration event that saw WASPS relegated from the RFU - and that was the day that we planned our return. You will know our journey through the fit and proper process of the RFU and the difficulties we faced on funding and acceptance to enter the Championship.
As someone who's been a wasps fan for decades, this is finally some positive news after what has felt like a very long silence!
Now I wonder where the ground they mention is going to be
I've just started Return to the Obra Dinn, so far really liking the art style and the main game mechanics. I'm interested to see how the story unfolds as it seems to be taking a "memento" style reverse chronological approach to telling it.
Also still playing Halls of Torment as ever since Vampire Survivors, one of these top down roguelite shoot-em-up games has been in my rotation.
Oh and I nearly forgot, also started pizza tower, but only dipped my toe into that one so far. Really enjoy the art and platforming mechanics so far.
Let's kick off some slightly low effort content here:
Which is your favourite game in the series?
For me it will always be between Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert.
I think the story of TD is what pulled me into the series in the first place, and RA on Westwood online is what cemented me as a fan
Hey, I've been trying to subscribe to !audioproductiondeals@lemmit.online for a couple of days now and know the drill about searching it first and waiting for it to sync, but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
It looks like other lemmit.online communities seem to work fine, but this one seems to stubbornly refuse to show up.
Is there something I'm missing here?
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So I browse on the desktop using the mlmym/old.lemmy client (e.g. http://old.lemmy.world) because old habits die hard.
One of the many things I found myself missing from RES & Reddit was the ability to customise the community bar at the top of the page to contain some links to my favourite communities. I had a spare minute this morning to throw together a userscript for just that:
Here's a pastebin with the script. Create a new userscript in tampermonkey (or whatever userscript plugin you use), drop the code in, change the array of communities at the top to be the ones you want prepending to the list, and you should be good.
Make sure to add the server suffix to any communities from other instances and if you want to use this on another instance other than lemmy.world, just change the match rule in the userscript header comment.
I didn't host on greasyfork as I'm probably not going to make any further changes, and I'd need to come up with something a bit more sophisticated than an array of communities. I'll update this post if I ever change my mind on that
Update
So I guess I wasn't happy with leaving it alone:
Here it is on greasyfork https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/474756-lemmy-mlmym-community-bar-customisation
I added localStorage and a simple config GUI to configure the list of favourites now, no reordering yet (without just removing and re-adding in a different order), but I imagine I'll end up adding that in time
Update 2
And another update:
I've just updated GreasyFork with 0.3
- Added reordering
- Added background fade and background click to close
- Added favourite/unfavourite button to the community sidebar