I disagree, but in not in your situation so I can be wrong.

Unless you are producing way, way more electricity than you can use I think net metering is a great arrangement for the customer. (Not so much for the utility company)

The electricity is usually bought by the utility company at a much lower cost than what the customer is paying. Because the generation cost is only a percentage of the cost, there is taxes, maintenance of the grid …

For example in France we pay 0.1952€/kWh, but the utility is buying the solar electricity produced by household at 0.04€/kWh.

Meanwhile with net metering your electricity is virtually bought at the same price as what you are buying your electricity for.

Net metering is great, much better than being paid for the surplus.

With net metering the grid is basically an free, infinite, 100% effective battery.

How ? Is it just AC ?

We oscillate between 300 and 800kwh per month and it’s with an old water heater, an electric car charged at home, a dryer and electric oven.

This is normal in all the developed countries.

Having and raising children is not a concern only for the mother, the whole community needs to be involved.

There is probably still a bunch of old people with a dialup subscription that they never canceled.

I think tailscale would fit your use case perfectly.

You can install tailscale on your computer and your NAS. This way, there is a tunnel between your computer and your NAS. In practice you will have a separate IP address for your NAS that you can use from your computer.

It also means that you will have secure access to your NAS from wherever in the world as long as you have internet access.

Then, Mullvad and tailscale are integrated together. It means that from tailscale you get the Mullvad add-on that allows you to use Mullvad as exit-point. Meaning that all your traffic that is not in your tailscale network will go through Mullvad (so in your case everything except your NAS)

It’s been two years that I am using that and it’s working great for me.

Chopping spicy peppers without gloves and without taking off my contact first.

As you can imagine taking off contacts with spicy hands is hell!

Unless you have a debit card from a third world country bank and half of the time for online payment the authorization fail.

I’ve been in this situation several times and then though I don’t like it Paypal has often been the only payment option available to me.

Just like the Inuit snow goggles

You can have a high speed train station at the airport as well. A lot of European big hubs have that.

I agree, I can’t stand Tom Cruise as a person but collateral is one of my top movie.

This is what my ISP provided, a microtik router with openwrt flashed on it

I think French Polynesia is in G, not the worst option.

I love ban chili, it’s relatively cheap, vegetarian and incredibly versatile. Meaning that with one big pot of chili you can have 3-4 different meals without having the feeling of eating the same thing over and over.

I usually make a big pot and then the first day we can make burritos with tortilla shells, the next day nachos, you can eat it with rice, a baked potato use it as a base for soup or make vegetarian burger patties with it.

Churchill’s racism has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill

They are building their nukes but they are mounting them in top of US missiles.

So without the US they can’t use their nukes.

I’m waiting for my MX to die to get one! I really like the idea of open hardware and this looks like a good mouse.

This is slightly more involved but it is the best option. This way it does not matter if proton is a good alternative or not, you can easily switch whenever you want.

Only for online shopping I think.

The last video of Not Just Bikes is specifically about Toronto’s streetcar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhQxNHrD6fA