Not sure what you mean, but I just meant that because I use about a quarter of the electricity in the winter while still generating about 90% as much electricity, I end up selling a ton of electricity back to the grid, building up credits that I can use for cloudy days in the spring.
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I live relatively close to the equator (Texas), so it's actually better for me in the winter because I don't need to run the AC.
I had a spare computer that I installed Linux on a while back, but wasn't using it for much at the time. If set up like that, all you would pay for is the electricity, which is very low if you're only running Lemmy, probably only a couple of US dollars a month. You could probably run it on a raspberry pi, tbh.
Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it's free for me.
I made my own instance for this reason.
As long as it's possible to turn off the shake and do it with a button. Motion controls are not accessibility friendly.
If a Republican ever get the white house again,
I have really bad news for you...
Fwiw, this didn't get sent into the void!
Yep! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
And that's fine, because no one uses it here. So they wouldn't be messaging anyone.
It does suck that Google gave themselves a monopoly on it on Android. But I personally find it much better than Signal as far as features go. I think Signal tries too hard to be secure at the expense of features. My old phone broke and I lost all my messages. Nothing I can do to get them back. Luckily I only used it when my parents were out of the country, but if I had old messages and photos from a friend that passed, I would have been heartbroken. Signal was basically dead to me after I realized that sometimes I can lose messages.
I still have my texts from when my wife and I started dating almost 15 years ago.
I guess it depends on how you define "worse". With RCS, you have SMS fallback, so anyone with a phone number can get your message when you send it. There's a lot of value in that. Even with dedicated IM services having more features, if everyone I know can't agree on one of those, I dont want to have 5 messaging apps on my phone and have to check them all every day. Very few people that I know even use one of those, and those people are all using different ones.
It's great for Europeans where WhatsApp is ubiquitous, but here in the US, I don't know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I'd someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don't want to use a product owned by Facebook.
The closest thing we have here that most people use is Discord, but the older people I know can't figure it out.
It will be visible from my house! I'm very excited. It will be my first time seeing a total solar eclipse.