My power company is a co-op. They have long term contracts with various providers, so my power bill doesn’t fluctuate much on short term news.

At the end of every year, we get a dividend check in the mail for any excess profit.

Pretty sure all utilities should work that way.

Print out all the QR codes on a sheet of paper and keep them secure in a fire safe. That’s really the best way to keep them backed up and secure.

Send like most of the valid criticism is based around the fact that the company also is in the business of user data mining. Which is enough for me to never use them.

Though they also very aggressively advertise, which is also a big red flag.

Sharing co-owners with Tesonet and receiving funding from the same company that owns a data-mining service isn’t ideal. But there is no evidence, and never has been, that anything is being shared between NordVPN and Oxylabs. Besides, NordVPN states that it follows a strict no-logs policy, which means it doesn’t record, store, or share user activity. And this is backed up by the usage of RAM-only servers and multiple independent audits—most recently the service passed a third-party no-logs audit in late 2025 by security firm Deloitte.

Batteries also need to be balanced. If you constantly keep your battery packs in that small range they’ll drift out of balance over time.

You should charge to 100% occasionally to allow the BMS to balance all the packs.

Yes

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn’t mean it. It doesn’t feel bad, and it will do it again.

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

Sure it claims it added more notes to it’s config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

NPM, Nginx Proxy Manager also has a UI and certificate management.

Bullets yes, but primers are very dangerous to make. Gunpowder/smokeless powder is also somewhat dangerous.

FYI, you can still dedrm Amazon books. Even ones you buy today.

Edit: Not going to lie, it’s a lot more complicated now. But it actually works for Amazon borrowed books too (i.e. - Libby library books)

You have to use KindleForPC 2.8.0. You download the books you want, then run an app called KFXKeyExtract28 to pull out all the keys.

You have to have DeDRM installed in calibre and point the plugin to the keyfile that gets generated (you only have to do this once)

Then you can import the books into calibre and everything will work as normal.

https://github.com/Satsuoni/DeDRM_tools/discussions/25

Don’t get discouraged, it works, you just have to figure out the right workflow that you’re comfortable with.

Also, I have no idea why they don’t just update the ReadMe, as it seems like this discussion thread is the only actual place this is documented.

That’s weird, cause I see *******11111111111111

Consumer drones don’t have a very large payload.

Also, carrying anything that’s on fire would probably ruin the drone pretty quickly.

Until you’re halfway through putting in new brake pads and realize you need a specialty bit and now you’re stuck without a working car until you get that Amazon package.

So when I’m working on my car, and find I need to find a specialty bit to undo a single screw, and they don’t sell it anywhere in town and I have to wait 2-3 days for shipping (or 2-3 weeks if I order from overseas) then it’s fine cause I shouldn’t be working on my car myself?

Is this a BMW bot?

What happened to the right to own and maintain my own property?

It’s not their right to decide if I get to work on my own property.

If you leave it all the way open, the car just needs to drive a couple feet with decent acceleration to close it.

If you ALMOST close it, but not all the way, that would require some sort of intervention.

Wait for what? This is literally their best chance.

Presidents almost always lose seats in Congress during midterms, and the Republicans have a pretty narrow gap as it is. If they waited until November, they’d have probably lost anyway, at least the House.

Shoulda clicked “mark spam” on all of them

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

Many companies already have transitioned to mathematically proven quantum resistant encryption.

Sure, some old stuff will be vulnerable, but we’ve known the risk for a while and have already started preparation.

Except you MUST have a phone or other recording device available to record it.

An ID number can be memorized.

FreshRSS has an API that can be called by different apps in the app store.

I use FreshRSS web interface on my computer, and then use the Readrops app on my phone.