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  • I’m probably doing solar in spring, and I’m paying 20 cents per kwh. It’s about a 13 year breakeven time, but that works for my circumstances. I plan to be here for awhile, my roof faces the right way, and it’s a reasonable diversification of investment.

    I’ll still have some dependence on the grid, especially in winter. Might pull from the grid in some early morning hours, but net metering credits should pay for that.

    I consider the rising price of electricity and the capital gains from an index funds roughly a wash. It’s not, but I also don’t want 100% of my investments in the stock market, and it’s nice to do something responsible for the world.

    So make sure to do your whole installation in one year. You only get to claim the 30% federal tax credit once. So don’t go small with a plan to go bigger later. I couldn’t do this without the federal credit.



  • Serinus@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlDear iPhone users:
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    10 days ago

    I like the idea of Android stealing enough market share that Apple is forced to be more open.

    The one that really blew my mind was the Find My network. Android tried to cooperate with Apple, and Apple stalled and dragged it out until Android gave up.

    The effect was that Android got “Find My” about a year later than it would have otherwise, and the networks won’t be compatible. But isn’t Find My network compatibility relatively better for Apple? At worst there are places where Android and Apple devices split market share evenly. In most of the world, Android has the larger network/market share. Apple was willing to sacrifice that win to stall Android rolling out a major feature for a year.











  • I’d be stuck moderating those communities

    Hi, I’m with the Community Team of Lemmy.World.

    Moderating a small community really doesn’t take more than five minutes a month. Assuming you’re on a lemmy.world account, you’ll just get notifications when people report things (depending on your client). All you’ve really gotta do is set some rules (optional), and respond to reports within a reasonable timeframe.

    I’m making a real effort to avoid supermods like Reddit had, but a big part of that is getting people who aren’t just hungry to use mod powers to volunteer to mod. Most of the time, when reaching out to people to mod, I’ll either get no response to my message at all. Often I’ll get “I dont have the free time at the moment for a commitment” from someone who posts 9 times a day, every day.

    Meanwhile, I believe the mods we have now are pretty great, and they’ll absolutely volunteer to help more.

    I understand how Reddit got to the position they’re in. If people wanna help avoid that, please step up. Unless you’re modding !news or !worldnews or something on that level, it’s very rare you actually have to do something. And for people that are active, just being subscribed to the community and browsing it as you normally would does the job.

    You absolutely can go farther, but you don’t have to be a mod to grow a community.

    Please, if you’re browsing Lemmy at least a few days a week anyway, take a look at the mods in couple of your favorite communities. If they haven’t posted in 6 months, reach out to me.