nivenkos

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[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least they have it. It's incredible to see videos of the FSD on highways, and Waymo robot taxis in the USA.

I wish we had technology in Europe.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is exactly the point of the "problem" OP complains about. Charge people for overproduction, so they're encouraged to buy a home battery and contribute in the night.

Eventually home batteries will become a standard part of such installations.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because they have to give that energy away in order to keep the grid stable.

Hopefully better battery storage will make this better in the future.

The aim with it is to naturally discourage people from overproducing in such overproduction times - e.g. maybe you disable your solar panels when you predict it will happen, lessening the sudden impact on the grid.

FWIW you could buy a high capacity home battery already to eliminate it yourself (charge the battery in those times), but they're still expensive.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AV1 is already almost like that though.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

HEVC is so good at compression though!

It sucks about all the patent bullshit though, same thing blocking HDMI 2.1 adoption too.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Most of them are cheap though. Like Spotify at ~$10 is nothing, you can barely get a beer for that in the city these days. That's far cheaper than you used to pay for CDs!

Netflix really took the piss though - with the charging for no ads, HD and multiple screens. Then it gets to like $30 a month which just isn't worth it with the diminishing library, so I cancelled that and use Amazon Prime Video for now as it's still cheap in my country (and has no ads for now).

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

BeeHaw went full Reddit powermod level of power-tripping.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (15 children)

The answer is nuclear power.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Then your bigger problem is using Windows...

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Spotify Connect usually works really well, I can use it on Linux, it's relatively cheap.

I don't see any reason to switch tbh.

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