18yo me would be living in the early 2000s; any of these would set me up for life: “Bitcoin hits $100K” “Buy Tesla shares” - this also would work for any of the big brands Netflix/Nvidia etc.

But this one would probably change my life in a much more meaningful way: “Don’t lose her.”

40-50kWh given the current incentives (which are changing in May) only costs only a few hundred dollars more than ~15kWh, and provides owners with more flexibility in terms of EV charging (especially if the car is used for daily commuting and would not be able to directly take advantage of solar), and discharging back into the network at optimal times to recoup the system cost that much faster.

But otherwise, I do agree with you - our peak usage is less than 16kWh/day (2 WFH adults, 2 grandparents and 1 child); while our solar exports usually triple that amount in summer and we usually net-0 in winter (ie. the amount we export matches what we buy in over those ~3 months).

We don’t have a battery installed yet - but we are very seriously considering it, hence I have the figures available off the top of my head.

Your pricing information is a bit out of date; with current Government incentives a 10kW array and 50KWh batteries can be gotten for less than $10K.

True, general feed-in rates have tanked due to a glut in solar panels, but certainly providers do still offer generous rates for shoulder periods (around dawn and dusk) where you could potentially discharge part of your battery into the network (I think?).

But the real savings from having the batteries will eliminate your need to use power during evening peak times, eliminating the need for buying petrol if/when switching to an EV and having the ability to buffer energy from a rare sunny day in winter into free energy for the next 2-3 overcast days.

Depending on how aggressively you monitor and take advantage of market offers, and electrify your home - the pay-down period can be as low as a few years.

Those lucky enough to own their own homes (or more realistically, have a mortgage) at least have access to solar panels and as of recently, batteries.

Those two combined have the ability to drastically reduce one’s utility bills to near-0.

For everyone else stuck paying rent, short of having a decent landlord willing to invest in their property, is shit out of luck.

We are living in two drastically different Australia’s.

Heaven’s waiting room

Hell’s pre-warming oven

On the upside, homelabs are going to have a glut of high capacity, barely used server hard drives to choose from then this AI/data centre bubble eventually bursts?

So nearly half the population (assuming do duplicates)? Fuck me dead.

Any idea how long until Have I Been Pwned is updated?

Not sure if you’re naming an adapter, or badly trying to coerce a cat to come closer.

Ever since taking up a low-carb/keto diet back in like ‘18, I’ve defaulted to just checking the nutrition panels on anything pre-packaged and make my judgements based on Sugar, Protein and Sodium content (both per serve, and per 100g).

I have never found these ratings accurate, let alone useful.

I mean, I am! 10% is a lot more than I expected vendors to absorb…

For context (?): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-11/angus-taylor-resigns-from-frontbench-sussan-ley-leadership/106332492

Again not the original person you asked, but I found Bazzite a tad too restrictive - I couldn’t for the life of me get PIA’s VPN client installed (for all of those Linux ISOs on my home server).

Ended up switching to CachyOS, which is also very gaming-focused (and Arch-based, if that matters at all!). It’s a bit more open, allowing you to fiddle (or not) with everything a bit more than Bazzite.

As an aside, my only hang-up is that it sometimes hangs while trying to boot up the GUI (not sure why, hasn’t bothered me too much), and it can’t wake from Sleep - but I’m pretty sure that’s just something misconfigured in the BIOS.

It’s all the same woman: Stephanie McMahon

Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

I remember the horrendous response times of the original GameBoy’s LCD panel, and when I mentally compare it to modern COLOUR panels…

…all I can think is, never say never!

What you’re looking for are commercial screens. They’re a bit more expensive for a comparable panel, as they are intended for 24/7 use- but are about as dumb as they get nowadays.

Silly goose, after 8K is 16K!

Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‘99:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

I think it’s as much an indictment on falling maths literacy on the population as a whole when converting unit prices to a per-KG price as “complex”.

But that’s really besides the point of the majority of the article, as this is largely about converting customers online orders. If I’m ordering apples online, I’d want to buy on a per-unit basis (eg. 5 apples for the kids lunchbox), I’d be pretty miffed if I ordered 800g online - expecting 5 and only getting 4 bigger ones.

Still, the way this is currently implemented is pretty piss-poor - there generally shouldn’t be a per-unit price; charge per KG based on the final weight of produce selected, even if you give customers an option to buy per unit. But that involves weighing each line individually, slowing down the entire process and staff labour “shopping” for customers is a massive expense.

They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing: