In the Netherlands we now also have a "terugleveringstoeslag" where you have to pay a monthly fee based on the maximum peak power delivered to the grid over the year. At least, the bigger electrical companies already have it, the rest will soon follow. My coworker (who has way too many solar panels installed) got a letter from Essent that he had to pay 67 euros monthly starting October. So he switched companies, but he'll have to figure out something else next time.
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They've missed AirBNB and the likes.
I'm gonna knit a brown sweater. If you guess what I'm gonna do, I'll let you have half of it.
She picked me up in a bar. Been married for 23 years now
Windows 10 or 11 on all (three) day to day systems. Linux Mint on an old laptop which is hardly ever used, and windows xp on an ancient laptop that's only used as music player, and not connected to any network.
If you really want to go that route, skip this book and read "poor man's James Bond".
in this country (US)
I think that for a technological civilization to rise, you need some things to line up. First, life has to be evolved enough to have animals, beings with a brain. Then, a species has to evolve intellence to become a tool making species. This species also has to become the dominating species on the planet. Meanwhile, extinction events, ice ages, climate change and population bottlenecks are always influencing the evolution process.
This is for me the great filter, to have all these conditions line up perfectly for an intelligent, tool making species to evolve and thrive.
It's probably a great hobby, with pleasantly little potential to turn into a side hustle.
Odroid has some nice boards, though I find them pricey.
The easiest to learn is the kazoo in my experience.
More serious: reading music isn't nessecary to learn how to play an instrument. For instance, guitar can be played using tabs or even chord progressions.
We hada Philips and a Dyson, which were in our opinion trash. We now have a Nilfisk for the last five/six years, holds really well.