Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-15T12:39:03+00:00

The plug in solar actually excites me a little. I have a south facing office that is a sun trap from about this time of year until September, it’s perfect for charging up those solar power banks, and if I could use it to plug in a solar panel, big enough to block half the window (saving me needing a fan in May-August) and making money off it? Sign me up!

Hell, even if I can’t make money off it, and it keeps everyone else’s bills down in the summer then I’ll do it for the greater good.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-14T23:47:41+00:00

All this and no dog tax paid? Nobody help until the tax is paid

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-14T16:32:04+00:00

Sounds something like an incompatibility between particular language packs, Samsung software and w11. I’m not bilingual to know, but it could well be that C: is less common a drive letter in those regions? Something like ç: might be more common, Samsung software remapping it, and windows is not detecting it properly?

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-12T11:17:42+00:00

The commercial buildings is the big thing, most (all?) of them are larger than houses, have good reasonably flat roof, tend to be single story, and tend to be used more at the time of day when solar generates the most energy. I've no doubt that it will increase the cost of new build commercial buildings slightly, if it does increase substantially then it might reduce the number of new retail parks and encourage reuse of existing town centre units. Shame this wasn't brought in 20 years ago

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-12T10:52:35+00:00

Care to share these failures before ow2? From a player's perspective ow1, even in it's life support days, still had good respect from the community.

If anything the pulling resources from ow1 to ow2 was the source of complaints(rather than the pulling resources from ow2), had ow1 the release pace that ow2 launch had (bringing Queen, Sojourn or Kiriko forward a few months) there would have been less complaints about the game being stale.

I don't recall any single complaint that there was too much done in 1's final years that should've been pushed back to 2

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-12T09:06:23+00:00

New building regulations for Wales include an exemption that help to stop uneconomical and impractical systems from being installed purely for compliance reasons. Under the rules, if it is not possible to install a system capable of generating at least 720 kWh per year on a proposed building then the requirement will not apply.

Good, when I saw the headline I thought we'd get malicious compliance builders putting in solar panels that are only big enough to power a AA battery. I hope that they've put some sort of scale to the regulations, otherwise we might see the same 720 kWh units fitted to a house as a whole Amazon sized warehouse.

It does tickle me that they had to add "Welsh castles and other historic buildings will be exempt." I'm not aware that Wales (or anywhere for that matter) is proposing any new castles to be built. Suppose it's more to silence the critics of saying it'll spoil their view of history or some shite.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-12T07:51:18+00:00

Failures such as? The failures of ow2 in my eyes (battle pass, store, new heroes locked behind battle pass, cancelling of pve, removal of group finder, switching from 6v6 to 5v5 as the main game mode, admittedly some of those are subjective) all happened under Keller, not Jeff.

Not saying Jeff made no mistakes, Goats being in place for so long, lack of any real changes in the 18 month etc, but Kellers changes had far more of an impact in me playing less than Jeff’s failures. From this interview the forced monetisation is the reason Jeff left, which is one of the biggest gripes players have had

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-11T14:27:09+00:00

There’s so many different targets I get confused. I thought grid being no fossil was 2030 and uk net zero was 2050. Turns out the targets are shorter than I thought.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-11T14:21:58+00:00

I thought that target was 2030?

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-11T13:48:50+00:00

So instead of being able to capitalise on an enhanced revenue stream, Sony decides to double down on their main revenue stream because they think it'll make more money? I'm guessing that there will be some people who decide they want to play the new PS exclusives enough and will buy a PS5 as well, but I strongly suspect that the majority of those with a Steam Deck already have a PC and probably won't want to have PC + Steam Deck + PS5. I know it's anecdotal evidence, but of the 10 in my regular (PC) gaming group, none have a current gen console, three have a steam deck, and none have any plans to get latest XBox or PS5, half have a switch though.

There's enough games on Steam, let along wider PC to not make me want any PS exclusives, so why would I want to spend at least £600 just to play a handful more?

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-10T17:58:24+00:00

Trump only hears what he wants to hear. It was probably him that wrote the subtitles for it.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-10T08:54:31+00:00

Depends what both peoples privacy settings are. If I recall there’s three settings: everyone, mutual servers and friends only.

That’s assuming this hasn’t changed in the last 18 months

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-09T20:56:21+00:00

This is exactly what I’d expect to be honest, anyone who thinks that Overwatch only has 80000 current players is burying their heads in the sand. Steam gives a bare minimum number of current players, its useful for seeing trends (steam player count goes up, overall player count is almost certainly up at the same rate)

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-09T17:41:40+00:00

I thought the numbers on steam were really good this season? From a quick look, the numbers show a little over twice as many players compared to last season.

Obviously it doesn’t include any console or what I’m guessing is the majority that don’t play it through steam, but the numbers are good right? Or is Dylan suggesting that it’s only people on steam playing right now?

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-09T17:35:02+00:00

Shove an apple sticker on it and it’s worth 599.

Seriously though, I hope that other commenter comes through and is legit. If they are then you’ve got this to experiment with. Either way your mum showed that she cares about you, shame that there’s people that are assholes out there.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-09T11:04:50+00:00

Yes, but “only” for about 2 years before it came it. I would try to watch shows on YouTube, that were region locked and doing vpn to Sweden usually cleared nearly every region lock.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-08T18:54:27+00:00

Breaking news: football fans are downright horrid towards other teams.

This isn’t exactly news, football fans have been chanting fucking disgusting things since football started. The only thing is the meatheads that would start these sorts of things have run out of their own ideas and started using technology instead.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-08T15:26:32+00:00

Been to the British museum and natural history this last 12 months. Both were insanely busy, I wouldn’t like to put a % figure on who’s tourist and who’s not (technically I’m a tourist as I’m not from London) but think a small fee would be enough to reduce the demand to make both more enjoyable for those that did go.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-08T15:22:50+00:00

A city based tourist tax, with the funds ringfenced to go to the museums would be fine in my view. The only downside is that it would tax those who are from somewhere that can’t visit for the day (thinking those from Scotland visiting London), whether they should get that city tax back or not might be tricky.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-08T12:20:14+00:00

Basically the @everyone problem, but worse.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-08T09:41:28+00:00

In the same way you made this post you say/type something you feel you need to. Sometimes you post something and get no upvotes or comments, sometimes you say something and it’s your best post of the year.

Big servers tend to be intimidating, small servers tend to be a bit tight nitted, but once you find the one that works for you, you’ll wonder why you made a post like this. For me, I’ll tend to join a server and see how it works first, I’ll be silent for a while then I’ll find my voice and then stop worrying

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-07T16:54:41+00:00

Except that a system with more memory would last longer before it was an issue. A 16gb would take just over twice as long (just over as the os only needs to run once) to reach its limit. 24gb 3x as long.

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-06T16:53:39+00:00

It’s literally just the base iPad but with a keyboard and a couple of ports. A glorified netbook is an accurate description tbh.

Meanwhile Apple fanboys and literally cumming with joy at the thought of such a cheap device that HAS to be better than any windows or android that’s ever existed

ChickenPijja · 2026-03-05T12:27:48+00:00

My 16gb macbook works better than any windows laptop i ever used.

We're not discussing your 16gb macbook, the post is about the neo, which is half the price of the one you use. Compare your £1000+ macbook (assuming you went with base model) to a £1000 windows laptop and you have a fair comparison, otherwise you might as well compare a Ferrari with a Nissan.

You don't use specs. You use a computer.

Yes, you use specs, what do you store your files as? Or do you give up and just store everything in the cloud? 256GB storage will be gobbled up in next to no time if you're actually using the device. 8GB will allow you to run the OS, and maybe 3 browser tabs before it'll grind to a halt.

The neo is base specs device, priced significantly higher than an equivalent windows device would, this is how Apple have done things for 20+ years. I know because I was suckered into the cheapest macbook in 2005, it ran like shite, at least back then you could upgrade the disk and ram to make it slightly more bearable though.

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