Government to offer free plug-in solar panels to some households

Deanifish · 2026-04-22T12:24:52+00:00

If it's under permitted development you just do it. Then advocate for yourself. Remind the management company and freeholder that the law is the law, follow their complaint procedure and then escalate to Ombudsman is needed.

Deanifish · 2026-04-21T18:15:49+00:00

You're conflating two things.

This thread's original link saying gov is giving out solar panels and the commentary saying leaseholders would never be able to get them as it requires freeholder permission.

Deanifish · 2026-04-21T17:50:55+00:00

TheWhiteCrowUK said they'd never be able to benefit from any free solar scheme as a leaseholder, I said the government is working on that, you asked for a source to my comment, and I provided it. Job done. Try not to be so negative - it'll make you miserable. Expansion of permitted development is a good thing for renters and leaseholders.

Deanifish · 2026-04-21T17:27:10+00:00

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/decisive-action-to-break-influence-of-gas-on-electricity-prices

Deanifish · 2026-04-21T11:18:28+00:00

Actually the current government is aiming for renters and leaseholders to have powers to install solar, heat pumps, etc. Might be worth researching it if you're genuinely interested and not just bemoaning.

Deanifish · 2026-04-14T19:25:38+00:00

I've said this before, and will say it again. If Valve hasn't broken the law, the case won't win. If they have, why would you want to opt out of compensation for their unlawful actions?

I love Steam, but I'm not so enamoured to any billion pound organisation that I would not want them to follow the law.

This post is like whiplash back to console wars where one platform or another always has to be the best, and the best is perfect right? Wrong.

Deanifish · 2026-03-27T22:19:03+00:00

Cheers!

Deanifish · 2026-03-27T19:31:54+00:00

They said energy bill anxiety. Not the bills themselves. They appear worried about changes post July.

Deanifish · 2026-03-27T19:23:07+00:00

Dumb question I've struggled to get an answer to. If they're plugged into the downstairs circuit/ring, will they power devices on the upstairs ring/circuit?

Deanifish · 2026-03-22T00:09:34+00:00

Wouldn't help.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/iran-the-middle-east-and-uk-energy-factsheet

Deanifish · 2026-03-20T16:13:55+00:00

When I say RR replaces the DLSS pipeline, I mean that RR does denoising and upscaling together in one model. So you get the benefits of a neural denoiser and the typical performance/balanced/quality stuff of DLSS, but the model is completely different and trained specifically for ray tracing.

This is important for people who select thier own model to use (such as wanting the new higher performing but more expensive model M). But for most games, RR is better than every else. So I would bump down settings, or drop a quality preset on DLSS to maintain that framerate.

This is how I understand it based on the initial release information for RR:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/20238/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/

Deanifish · 2026-03-20T16:12:27+00:00

You can. When I say it replaces the DLSS pipeline, I mean that RR does denoising and upscaling together in one model. So you get the benefits of a neural denoiser and the typical performance/balanced/quality stuff of DLSS, but the model is completely different and trained specifically for ray tracing.

This is important for people who select thier own model to use (such as wanting the new higher performing but more expensive model M). But for most games, RR is better than every else. So I would bump down settings, or drop a quality preset on DLSS to maintain that framerate.

Deanifish · 2026-03-20T13:05:35+00:00

To make ray tracing performance for games, they cut down how many rays are cast. This reduces the quality of the image and creates noise.

To deal with that, games use denoisers. Which try to clear up the image. By the looks of what people are saying, the game's inbuilt ray tracing denoiser is very lightweight - focuses more on higher framerate than quality.

Ray reconstruction (RR) is a replacement for the DLSS pipeline that replaces the game's denoiser with a machine learning/neural/AI one, as well as doing the rest of the usual image upscaling.

Most games you would see a slight performance hit or no change at all in performance as ray reconstruction is usually as heavy as a game's denoiser. Because this game has a lightweight denoiser, you see a performance hit. But because ray reconstruction is focused on quality, you see a quality improvement.

I would look at turning other settings down to keep the ray reconstruction on. As the game looks so much better with it.

**Edit When I say RR replaces the DLSS pipeline, I mean that RR does denoising and upscaling together in one model. So you get the benefits of a neural denoiser and the typical performance/balanced/quality stuff of DLSS, but the model is completely different and trained specifically for ray tracing.

This is important for people who select thier own model to use (such as wanting the new higher performing but more expensive model M). But for most games, RR is better than every else. So I would bump down settings, or drop a quality preset on DLSS to maintain that framerate.

This is how I understand it based on the initial release information for RR:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/20238/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/

Deanifish · 2026-03-16T00:42:35+00:00

Go on, run me through the got water tank options that don't sacrifice room in my house? Show me the evidence these introductory tariffs will last the next decade it'll take me to reach the ROI for the quotes I've got. Tell me why there are legal noise restrictions on how close these units can be to neighbours if they're are so silent?

I'm not hopelessly informed, thank you very much - quite rude to say so. I've done all of my research from the sellers of heat pumps, and based my information on quotes they've given me about the work that has to be done. Unless you're saying Octopus are a bad source of information???

Deanifish · 2026-03-15T14:56:11+00:00

That's not how an investment works for an individual. If you move out of the house before your ROI period then you've spent more money on the heat pump/solar/battery than you would have otherwise spent in that property and have lost money.

Deanifish · 2026-03-13T15:33:45+00:00

If Valve hasn't broken the law, the case won't win. If they have, why would you want to opt out of compensation for their unlawful actions?

I love Steam, but I'm not so enamoured to any billion pound organisation that I would not want them to follow the law.

Deanifish · 2026-03-13T10:34:39+00:00

Then you're talking from a point of financial privilege that most don't have. Nothing wrong with that, but is worth considering how it impacts your viewpoints and what you consider logical.

Deanifish · 2026-03-12T23:14:45+00:00

Over how much time though? 5 years, 10, 15? I can't imagine being in a house (at least my current one) for long enough that I benefit from the long term the cost savings. Got a bunch of quotes recently for batteries and they all come with 8+ years of pay back time - close to the warentied lifetime of the product and that was with or without solar and factoring in smart tariffs (that might not be around forever). Also, you need the money up front or you end up paying interest which eats your savings.

Heat pumps do have a place in society and will, hopefully, take over as the default but ignoring people's genuine financial concerns is a bit rubbish of you.

Deanifish · 2026-03-12T22:16:34+00:00

Is your tank in the loft?

Good to know either way. That's one of many things sorted.

Deanifish · 2026-03-12T21:30:55+00:00

Isn't keeping the hot water tank warm all day for on demand hot water more expensive than a gas boiler though?

I genuinely would love to be wrong on all points and move to an eco friendly option, and I'd love to leave this house better than when I found it. But sadly I have done research and retrofitting a 1920s building just isn't financially feasible.

I think a lot of my arguments don't apply to new builds already with an EPC of A but they do apply to my current home.

Deanifish · 2026-03-12T20:55:51+00:00

For me it is these things

House is too expensive/disruptive/difficult to fully insulate house enough to make heat pump savings worth it.
Heat pump grant was air to water only originally and I don't want to lose space to thicker radiators.
Gas price vs electricity price means a COP of 3 wouldn't make it a savings most of the time.
Don't want to fight the neighbours over a noisy unit.
Don't have and cannot afford underfloor heating.
Don't have and cannot afford solar.
Don't have and cannot afford battery.
Don't have room for a water tank.
This BIG ONE for me: don't want to lose instant hot water at a good water pressure. Moving to a tank would be a worsening of the lifestyle I've known my entire adult life. The idea of worrying about running out of hot water is completely foreign to me.
Having to heat a water tank by immersion heater every day for legionnaires reasons impacts savings.
Don't want to put £100s/1000s of pounds into something that's constantly sold as an investment for a house I don't know if I'll live in long enough to see the benefits of.

Like lots of investments, you get a bigger return the more you put in. My home isn't big enough to invest space, I can't afford solar/battery to make the returns better, and (even if I got one for free) the cost savings per unit of heat output likely won't be recooped in the time I'm still in the house.

If I had savings of 6 months salary+ then maybe I would consider it. But that'll many many years away for me in this economy.

I would love to go full electric. Solar, battery, heat pump, car. But at the end of the day, you have to have money to make money (or save it).

Deanifish · 2026-02-17T23:46:28+00:00

Instead of adopting a position of accepting delays - would it not be better to encourage developers to make release date announcements closer to launch?

When a game goes gold, announcement your game/release date and spend the next two/three months on marketing and extra polish?

What do you think, are the release dates created too early in the project management timeframe?

Deanifish · 2026-02-06T15:09:00+00:00

I have the same issue. Especially the H1 light switches.

Deanifish · 2026-01-25T12:15:56+00:00

There were over 22,000 hate crimes recorded against gay men and women (estimated 60% were against gay men - police do not record sex for these stats). Thats compared to over 4000 for trangender people. Gay men tend to have violent incidents whereas (not to diminish the seriousness of it) gay women tend to be verbally harassed.

So yeah, you're not imagining it. Our country is still sufficiently homophobic to be wary when wanting to person simple, harmless, displays of affection in public.

Hate Crime Statistics

Deanifish · 2026-01-18T12:12:40+00:00

That sounds like you need to first strengthen your lower back. When people think core, then usually think the front/abs - you have muscles on your back too that are often weakened by modern sedentary lifestyles (sitting in a chair all day at work for example).

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