HeartyBeast

The universal service obligation obliges them to carry stamps. Getting rid of that would require an act of parliament. Good luck getting that through either house

If you're Apple users Music isn't too shabby

You're right - Apple Music is cool

If you search for @potus he comes up and you can select Follow. Content should then show in the ‘Microblog’ stream. Might take a while to start flowing, though

Yeas, when prices go negative in my country Home Assistant absolutely does switch on my electric water heater. It save me substantial amounts.

Put your fingers in your ears if you want.

I think you need to update your thinkinghttps://octopus.energy/press/believe-it-or-watt-octopus-energy-customers-provide-108mw-of-grid-flexibility-in-first-saving-session-equivalent-of-a-gas-power-station/ - this is from a year ago, things have got bigger since then with more customers making cash through using their solar batteries in forced charge/discharge mode.

The Market does a piss-poor job of handling things like climate change and other 'tragedy-of-the-commons' type problems.

Oddly enough, here in the UK prices tend to go negative at night on windy days. I make more money storing that and selling it back to the grid later by force charging/discharging my solar batteries than I ever would through crypto mining

That's why you invest in those storage options - not some GPUs to convert the energy to produce waste heat

Irrespective this thread is not about who is or is not burnt out, it's about how posts like your are what enabled the xz backdoor to happen.

I thin you need to chill a bit. Open source has a long illustrious history of people cooperating to build software and submit patches and enhancements which are then scrutinized by project leads. Yes, occasionally bad actors use this model to try and slip through exploits, but you don't throw out one of the strengths of open source because of that. You make sure mechanisms are in palce to allow robust scrutiny.

And no, I'm absolutely not going go through someone's post history and quote bits that show someone is frazzled. I expect you to have enough empathy

I’m not going to pick through his last year’s posts and make a diagnosis, but if you’ve seen no evidence of that, I think you’re wilfully ignoring the signs.