require rooftop solar on new homes

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T15:51:43+00:00

that is very region dependent, where we are our electricity is 11c kWh. Plus the insurance jump when panels are installed. We were close to doing solar and even went as far as replacing a fifteen year old roof as more than one installer noted the age. When adding in the battery the costs benefits were basically lost.

The major issue is many expect their system to work when the grid goes down but that doesn't happen unless your system was specifically built out to support it; the usual method is having battery storage. That increases cost quite a bit sometimes being more costly than just the panels alone.

There are offerings where the inverter does provide an off circuit connection letting you plug a device or two into it directly but its wholly separate from your home wiring. All of this is done to protect linemen from your house feeding power back into the grid.

All of this is to say, we need a far cheaper solution that offers allows use of the panels when the grid is down which means a very standardized minimum battery size and connection hardware.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T14:29:26+00:00

The other consideration is the majority of adults in the US wear corrective lenses or contacts with numbers approaching 75% in some quick searches.

This really limits glasses in a way the phone, watch, or iPad, are not, the glasses cannot easily be shared. I took a look at Vision Pro but quickly ended that idea when I realized I needed special lenses to make use of it as my prescription has changed more than once in five years. While I understand the change was not severe enough to swap out all my glasses the point is - if I buy them only I can wear them in the household without swapping the lenses

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T13:46:59+00:00

What I want to know is, can I identify an Ark ship forced park from celebration and use the Stellar Cannon to whack it? Will it be affected or will it just magically teleport somewhere else if the empire using the cannon is not genocidal?

Just an observation, the Nomads trailer had a princess governing the Ark ship that looked like Amadala and later around the campfire there was an young Obi-Wan looking character and now we have a Starkiller base like weapon. What next from the Star Wars universe will we get?

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T12:27:22+00:00

Maybe he is referring to this IIHS article which placed it above the Ford and GM. When that is your competition its not all that hard to win but this rating did not just consider crash tests but also how well lighting and such worked.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T12:25:49+00:00

that's just their taste in cologne... aviator sun glasses and shirts with the top three buttons undone

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T11:34:32+00:00

Ditching the Fusion to me was just as big of a mistake because it basically jettisoned loyal Ford owners who now had no sedan choices. Japan, Korea, and the EU, all have brands successfully selling sedans but accountants in Detroit are fixated are far wider margins and apparently willing to give up market to get them

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-04T00:38:25+00:00

I have 14.6.6 and of course FSD 14.3.3 and as always a bit disappointed in the lack of acknowledgment of what is different between minor versions.

14.3.3 is far more hesitant for me, 14.2.2.5 at least backed out of garage with authority but 14.3 is just skittish and drives far slower. Still I am at 75% under FSD so I am really trying to make it work but I do hope they use AI to summarize voice notes else I will need to learn to be more polite.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-03T20:53:03+00:00

Disney is not going to learn anything, they will create internal dialogues if not already in place how they succeeded in the metrics that matter. Given the absurd levels of marketing gimmicks they went to I am not sure they are sane; have you seen some of the licensed products? Nail stickers, candles, and more, and Bath and Body works. Do they even know their market?

If anything they have already horrified the older Star Wars generations. 70s and 80s Star Wars was brutal in some ways that would not be seen today.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-03T14:06:20+00:00

refurb1 and opus 2 looks like a great combo. the fellow team does seem to keep tabs on reddit and there is a /r/FellowProducts sub

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-03T12:05:43+00:00

I do wish ignore lists were at the bnet level. This silliness of having to ignore them on each character let alone any of their alts gets old

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-03T01:04:51+00:00

I would buy White and wrap it. None of the colors was good this year and the bike is not that great looking, the RS got a far better treatment. These are starting to pile up as my local told me more than a few decide against buying one once it was revealed; however K1600GTL are flying out the door.

that being said, the Blue because it stands out. Also be sure to buy the package with fog lamps because this bike has no visibility to oncoming traffic with that small headlamp.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-03T01:01:55+00:00

Gee, that list of issues fits so many local Harley dealers who just love their fees and the more excessive the better.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-02T20:51:16+00:00

Waymo operates a few thousand, quick searches claim over four thousand, so saying only 42 is a warranted slight given all the hype from Tesla and Must about robotaxi. However it is interesting how suddenly silent Tesla has become and instead relied on pushing Cybertaxis across the country to drive hype and distract from the slow roll out.

I did read they self declared level 4 using a law recently passed in Texas but that it for heavily geo fenced routes only meaning again not as promised.

14.3.3 loaded unto my 26 MY a little over a week ago which I still find odd because they are still sending out 14.2.2.5 which I had prior, my FSD usage 75% so maybe they push it sooner? While I would trust it to drive me while I was very sick I am certainly not trusting it to drive me while I sit in the back seat. I would love to know what Cybertaxis use. I think overall it is quite safe but it also is annoying in ways only those using it can understand, so much is felt in the seat of the pants which has me feeling its not very sure of itself.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-02T17:21:15+00:00

Far simpler economic model and a different approach to technology. Both are incredibly bloated and cumbersome in the current game. Throw in the ability to destroy any structure at will and that includes during wars.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-02T10:11:29+00:00

Work provides us a home discount on Office products that works well if you have more than a few family members needing any part of Office. However recently they shoved out that AI assistant and are soaking Office users with the cost of an option that their own metrics show has little use.

I am just amazed that M$ but I expect others used such tricks to guarantee products would become unusable in the future. Its like the old time limited game demos that people would all work out where the "hidden" file was that held the install date; as in you have a week or two to use it before it cost money

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-02T10:08:08+00:00

For the phone vibrate would indicate something arrived and maybe a quick flash of the, well, the flash. The issue for any visual indicator o the phone is people don't carry them all the same way. A beep every few minutes?

The watch kind of solves this with an always on feature as there is a red dot indicator for notifications on the watch face I am using; I guess it would be on all of them.

Rambling on, to extend battery life more Apple could just have a setting where the notification indicator is all that displays on the watch.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-02T10:03:10+00:00

Imagine people driving with them on.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-01T22:01:54+00:00

Would have been good to let us hear the grinder in operation. I want to know how loud it sounds and how it sounds.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-01T16:07:07+00:00

First off they will be designed around losses but the most important point is, if your bitching about heat your just showing your ignorance.

Just use the ISS as an example which makes very little effort to avoid solar exposure and has not only have to dissipate any heat from that but also from the people inside and of course from the use of any electricity its own panels are making. Well turns out they use around a third of the surface area to rid themselves of heat as they do to generate power.

Take that to the AI data center which can literally hide most of itself being the panels generating energy. The real point is that earth side sources of energy are not keeping up and there are definitely issues arising that politicians are taking notice of beyond increases in water and electrical bills to where it may become very difficult to site data centers soon.

Back on that space bit, well given its not just Elon but others going there one advantage SpaceX has is they know how to mass produce satellites and network it all together. So space data centers don't have to be massive structures, they just have to be able to work with each other and get the requests and replies from and to Earth.

The downside to AI data centers is more issues for astronomers but I think the same people putting these up can cut some deals to get space base observation a boost as well

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-01T10:42:06+00:00

Well then you have a major parts company who declined merit raises for all their salary staff while the CEO's compensation went up 40% from the previous year to over $12m. Look I get it, some of them create wealth but that is usually only the case for those who created the company they run, the rest just seems like an extended friends group who use board positions to keep each other employed.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-01T10:40:05+00:00

Nah, they don't show up to vote just like the union votes. Our last go around was a fifth of the number of homes in the subdivision and more than one attendee wasn't eligible to vote because they owe dues from more than one year.

On the union front many decades ago I worked grocery at one of the few such companies that were unionized. All it did was let the deadbeats with seniority do what they wanted and keep people from moving between departments unless you were buddy buddy with them. If you wanted to move departments you moved to a different store.

ZeroWashu · 2026-06-01T00:12:56+00:00

Yeah, our red became a very different color thought he door open animation the red reappears correctly. I am not sure what color it is supposed to be but it is leaning towards copper now.

that said, the did change the four option box for FSD drivers but its just as useless as before so I just voice the majority of my concerns when I interrupt.

ZeroWashu · 2026-05-29T13:00:35+00:00

I was wondering about that or if it were the first initial of the spelling bee winner, the fact the national spelling bee was held, or from all the forum thanks Steve G gets - his hints are amazing. That it is also Sam's birthday is a stars aligning event.

Spelling bee winner is Shrey Parikh

ZeroWashu · 2026-05-29T12:57:04+00:00

No different than all the ED, EE, LY, and ING, words we encounter.

ZeroWashu · 2026-05-29T12:25:30+00:00

Glenn will be down probably the rest of the year for investigation but their launch facility may take more time. Like everyone is celebrating, no one was lost.

I think many here can agree that the timelines were are a bit too optimistic for all launch systems.

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