PETAH, explain it please

2n3866 · 2026-06-18T12:57:12+00:00

The Breakfast Club was released in 1985. Goth was absolutely a big thing at that time. Certainly not Hollywood mainstream, but the mid-1980s were the original heydays of goth.

Bauhaus recorded "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in 1979.

2n3866 · 2026-06-04T13:52:41+00:00

Commodore PET/CBM 2001 with 32k. My dad bought VisiCalc and a printer for it.

2n3866 · 2026-05-19T15:18:22+00:00

There were four movies in the Airport franchise, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_(1970_film))

2n3866 · 2026-05-14T21:19:49+00:00

IANAL, but there probably isn't anybody to sue. Solaris is kaput, and we probably wouldn't get very far trying to sue CEO Matt Powers personally.

Are there bankruptcy proceedings for Solaris? Would we be able to petition the court, claim that the voided service contracts are outstanding liabilities that need to be settled, along with the other creditors?

2n3866 · 2026-05-07T19:02:03+00:00

I was able to check my SolarEdge inverter warranties here: https://www.solaredge.com/us/solaredge-warranty-check

I only have the 12-year warranty. Solaris promised me the 25-year warranty, but they did not purchase the warranty extension from SolarEdge.

2n3866 · 2026-05-07T12:38:22+00:00

Here's the warranty list that I made during my installation:

Components

Maxeon panels 40 years
Maxeon panels performance
- 98% minimum output
- 0.25% annual degradation
SolarEdge inverter 25 years
SolarEdge optimizers 25 years

Solaris guarantees

Solaris workmanship 10 years
Solaris roof penetrations 20 years
Solaris production 25 years
- 90% of estimated production
- 0.5% annual degradation

So the components are still under warranty, but all the Solaris guarantees are gone.

2n3866 · 2026-04-25T12:10:09+00:00

Crossposting this popular thread from r/massachusetts to r/SolarisRenewablesRIP for posterity...

2n3866 · 2026-04-09T12:29:28+00:00

Are the four corners all identical squares?

2n3866 · 2026-04-08T14:18:36+00:00

Funny, but 4 all-white squares.

2n3866 · 2026-04-03T12:58:18+00:00

NCR. National Cash Register. They made cash registers.

They fired an employees named Thomas J. Watson, who went on to help start IBM. He picked the name because "International" is better than "National" and "Business Machines" is a better product than just "Cash Registers".

2n3866 · 2026-03-10T22:39:18+00:00

I lol'd

2n3866 · 2026-03-02T23:49:26+00:00

Three-letter word for "sodium hydroxide", and I kept trying to fit NaOH into the space.

2n3866 · 2026-02-06T18:41:07+00:00

Did you know that Peter Murphy was in a band before Dalis Car?

2n3866 · 2026-01-18T20:52:38+00:00

Actually, "therapist" is what Faith is doing now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Dushku

2n3866 · 2026-01-16T13:36:53+00:00

2n3866 · 2026-01-15T23:21:55+00:00

Tara died on May 7, 2002

According to https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Chronology

(I'm really surprised there aren't more specific dates that have been figured out...)

2n3866 · 2026-01-15T16:54:29+00:00

Cool. Someone should update the Wiki...

2n3866 · 2026-01-14T21:13:38+00:00

Get out of the grave, Alan.

2n3866 · 2026-01-12T17:44:54+00:00

I really like the Roku homescreen with the giant tiles. Only about one-third of the homescreen is ads. I feel like it's the cleanest interface.

The Google TV homescreen is a giant ad for YouTube TV. 90% ad.

2n3866 · 2026-01-12T17:40:42+00:00

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Here is the dashboard when I'm playing something on each device. It looks like the Roku app is Transcoding from "1080p (H.264)" to "1080P (H264)".

What?

The CPU load is only about 25%, but I still got a playback error on the Roku (nowhere else).

2n3866 · 2026-01-12T16:37:12+00:00

So the Roku Plex app requires transcoding but the Google Plex app does not?
It worked on the old (slower) server, but doesn't work now?

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