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Nah, even dumber than that: they're going to use debt to pay for these handouts so your grandkids are still paying for it, since they wouldn't dare to actually raise taxes on the wealthy enough to cover their spending.

Forget propane, just put in a heat pump. I ditched the oil furnace right before last winter to put one in. Everyone tried to tell me they don't work in cold climates and bla bla bla. Best decision I ever made. Saved me literally thousands last year and will pay for itself by the end of this winter. And hey, it doubles as central air conditioning.

Forget burning shit for heat, it's the 21st century. We have heat pumps now.

I have a heated front windshield on my 2016 Volvo here in northern Ontario and it's incredible. Never had to scrape the windshield once. I didn't even know about it when I bought the car and now I'd never buy another car without it. But for some reason very few manufacturers offer it outside of six figure luxury cars, I guess people get mad at how expensive they are to replace if they break. Main ones I've found today are Mercedez offers it as an option on most models, Volkswagen has it standard on their electrics, and Kia/Genesis have it on a handful of models (the Sportage PHEV for some reason has one).

No, it is not. X11 has no way to handle multiple monitors besides treating them as a single unusually sized monitor and dividing that between multiple screens. There is zero actual support for more than a single monitor. This hacky approach works fine if you're operating at a fixed refresh rate, but it is straight up impossible to run VRR in dual monitor setups on X11, and nothing about amdgpu will fix this or could alter the way your windowing system works.

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Might wanna double check Steam hardware surveys, man. Linux is sitting at right about 4% market share on Steam right now. I'm sure Ubisoft can totally afford to just not support 1 in 25 gamers because they can't be bothered to make anticheat that isn't a rootkit, though, after all just look at that stock price!

It's a wild Black Walnut, common in southern Ontario and not yet ripe, and don't handle that with your bare hands. Walnut husks will stain your skin in a way that doesn't wash off for weeks. Wait until later in the fall when the husks blacken and they fall from the trees, and you can pick them. They are edible and very tasty, but a very tough nut to crack (I recommend using a bench vice).

A bit late, but: Unico Power out of Calgary sells an EVSE with an integrated EMS they call LISTO that is actually made in Canada. It comes in up to 48A and will automatically derate itself to 7A if your main panel is getting close to 100A. Way cheaper than a DCC load management system.

A bit late to give you this advice, but you can create a separate channel on your Youtube account that you only use for Youtube Music and it will keep the algorithm completely separate from your main "channel", and you still get Premium on it since it's still attached to the same account. Youtube allows up to 100 different channels to be created per account and each of them will have their own algorithm and all of them will have Premium, even if you don't upload anything at all to those different channels it's very useful for silo'ing your algorithm into different topics.

They compared Xwayland without VRR to native Wayland, both with and without low-latency. The difference is 5.95ms vs 4.83ms, and 8.06ms vs 4.93ms. So, it's substantially worse, but what difference VRR makes wasn't tested.

So basically, Wayland with VRR has lower latency than any possible X11 without VRR? Considering it's impossible to run a dual monitor VRR setup in X11 while it's trivial in Wayland, it seems based on that like latency should actually be lower on Wayland than X11 for anyone with more than 1 monitor.

I actually emailed TechnoVe to ask them if it was still possible to get the EcoWatt rebate when using third party apps for their charger over OCPP because somebody did actually make an open source Home Assistant integration for TechnoVe chargers and TechnoVe told me they were totally fine with it. They told me several customers had done just that, and it should work and I should still be able to get the rebate, with a disclaimer that they couldn't garauntee full functionality if I use a third party app.

Same issue for me in Fedora 44, also on linux-firmware 20260810-1. Guess I'll have to roll it back and wait for 20260810-2.

No, but I did talk to their sales rep when I was putting in an EV charger. At the time I was considering putting in an EMS as an alternative to a 200 amp service upgrade. Ultimately I decided a 200 amp service upgrade was needed anyway since the panel was already very overloaded since I replaced my furnace with a heat pump. But Unico Power's system seemed like the best option I could find if you did need an EMS.

Unico Power's LISTO has an EMS that comes with the charger, and they offer a reward program of $0.06/kWh. I mentioned it in another comment but it wasn't added to the list in the post for some reason.

A solution that uses its own batteries and inverters could be fine if the battery is below 1kWh. It's only above 1kWh that requirements for a fire-proof room kick in. And it'd have to be a really, really expensive piece of hardware to actually be more expensive than the batteries. For context an actual battery backup setup would cost me north of $12,000 Canadian all considered, and that's with government grants.

That's a lot of text to provide a 1 sentence half-answer to the question. Yes, I am absolutely positive that the well pump (which is inside) is on a 15 amp 120V circuit, and the plate on it says 8 amps 120V. Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, I just went to double check. Not sure why you think 120V water pumps don't exist as in all my life I've been on wells and never once seen a residential one on 240V, pressurizing an air bladder is not a job that demands high power (but does demand high inrush current).

Your estimate of $1500 for 90kWh is also very, very far off base, and no, I cannot just buy the battery pack off an EV9. On a subreddit called AskElectricians I would expect you to know that I cannot just buy the battery pack off an EV and stick it in my basement, this is not off-grid. I need something UL-certified for use on the grid to pass inspection. I'll give you the actual numbers from the best quote of the many quotes I obtained: it'd cost me $10,364 in Canadian maple pesos for 20kWh for something UL-rated that the ESA's inspector will actually pass, and that is not including the labour for installing it, the generator panel that I'd need to have battery backup, or the other significant expense I explained in the post of having to build a fire-rated room to store them in to meet the building code. The fire-rated door alone will cost me $1200. Assuming I just build it myself and value my time at $0 I'd be in easy over $2000.

And not that this is even related to the question I asked, but "just get batteries later" isn't a good option, either. There are government grants available for solar batteries right now, but if I go that route I need to install a more expensive inverter which can be configured for zero export as that is how the Ontario government has decided it wants solar installs funded this way to be. Installing a net-metering system like this Fronius would cost me significantly less than that would, even after the grant. That is why I'm considering it. And why I made this post to ask this question.

I am also not sure why exactly you think microinverters would solve any problem even tangentially related to this post. Microinverters are designed for optimizing panel output on a per-panel (or per panel pair) basis, and mostly useful where you have many different surfaces you want to put panels on where the 2-4 MPPTs you get on a conventional inverter wouldn't cut it for optimization since every panel in a conventional string inverter is limited to the voltage of the lowest panel. They do not provide any advantage to backup power over a hybrid string inverter which are also grid-forming and can also operate without grid-tie in the event of an outage. Whether you are connecting batteries to a charge controller connected to microinverters or connecting them to a hybrid string inverter makes no difference, both will form a grid in an outage limited to the power rating of the inverters (in my case, 12kW is the max). Microinverters also have major downsides, despite being able to optimize any given panel well their operating ranges (in the sense of their minimum and maximum voltages) are worse than string inverters, and being subjected to the outdoor heat without active cooling they are more prone to the temperature derating their performance. They are also very expensive, quotes I got for them came out over 50% higher than a conventional hybrid system. They are only worthwhile if you have a complicated roof and truly need the extra MPPTs.

Somehow I missed the ChargeLab entry, oops. But for Listo, If you scroll down a bit past that on their website, it elaborates on its "Carbon Credit Rebate Program". Basically if you have their charger/EMS combo and use their app, you get paid rewards for carbon credit generation just like all these other programs. The sales rep for Listo told me all about it when I priced one out from them, because at the time I only had 100 amp service and was considering some sort of load-shedding system like they offer instead of a service upgrade.

Instead of trying to AI sloppify your smartphone into a dumbphone, why not try a de-googled custom Android ROM like LineageOS or GrapheneOS? You get the actual functionality of modern device, maps and all that, but fully open source and without any of the spyware apps designed to get you addicted.

There's a few others I don't see mentioned here. ChargeLab has a $0.03/kWh reward program which you can use with any OCPP-compliant charger if you use their app, and LISTO has a $0.06/kWh reward program for their system, which includes a load-shedding energy management system for use on 100 amp service.

But did you buy the phone full priced unlocked, or did you buy the phone with a locked carrier plan?

Perfect, thanks. 5G's kind of pointless to have working right now anyway since calling over 5G is just not a thing and won't be for many years.

On Lightphone's compatibility list it explicitly says it doesn't work on Rogers (or Bell, or any of their MVNOs). Only the Telus network and Telus MVNOs like Koodo. You can check it here.

You're going to a lot of effort to not answer the question in this post and quiz me instead of taking 2 seconds to test your IMEI which would solve all of this, but, I literally got a text from Public Mobile that my device will no longer work on their network effective March 2027 due to 3G sunsetting. It's not just hypothetical, they're doing it. The phone is a Sonim XP5S. I have extensively tested VoLTE on the phone and can confirm it does not work at all. The phone does support VoLTE on a hardware level and LTE data works just fine. But Public Mobile does not support VoLTE on that device. I am not the only one to have experienced this, VoLTE compatibility on Public Mobile is far spottier than on Telus.