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Exactly what I did

Yep. Can just about hear the dollar signs evaporating every second

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The portable air con has been running for 12 hours now. Stats are still pending, I anticipate 15-20kWh of usage yesterday

Current indoor temp is 25° and slightly stuffy. Outdoor temp is 28°

E: 22kWh. 12 hours of usage. Almost 2kW/h

Thanks for the appreciation

Goodnight goonsigon

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Probably. But if you aren't confident with technology and safely handling dangerous links, it's fair not to

Fair enough. Personally I find it more entertaining to lodge a takedown request with their registrar and webhost. Usually good within ~12 hours

If you don't mind, DM me the link. I like getting those domains shut down

I didn't think I was going to have a contribution to bird day, but lo and behold, a lil birdie ran on the bricks right in front of my camera!

What's the ID, bird peeps? It looks big but would've only been small in person

My guess is either some kind of small raven, or a thirsty sparrow. Maybe just a crow?

All good SC, I do appreciate the help anyways

Fwiw I only know all of this stuff because I'm quite the nerd and fuck around with electronics. Nobody's really ever taught me all of these things, I just wanted to go find it all out for myself

How you going?

7am

My last.fm 2024 recap thing just arrived. It's less accurate than Spotify, because every now and then it'll crap out and decide to just not count an entire week's worth of music, or I'll listen to something 5 times and it only counts it twice

But anyway, some interesting stuff fin there:

Thanks, I appreciate the intention/sentiment, but I do know how energy ratings and usage works. The porty doesn't have any stickers (pretty sure it's at least a decade old, and whatever adhesive was holding the sticks on had long since disintegrated by the time I got it)

Watts are also just the product of amps x volts. I've got a smart plug in one of my boxes that I could use to determine how many V/A it's pulling and then work out wattage based on that, but I don't think it really changes much. I'm gonna use it anyway on the days like today where the weather is a bit difficult, even if probably costs about $10-15/day to run (my assumption based on yesterday's cost and running time). The "bury your head in the sand and deal with the fallout later" approach, if you will

Works for me too! It's displayed very prominently on my client (Boost)

Honestly I think it's displayed a little too prominently. Might need to go through my user settings and see if I can make it tone down the highlight a bit

Yep! I think the idea is that everyone will have one by 2030. For me it actually works out well, because I have no clue where my power Maine/metre is. I've got a switchboard/circuit breaker box inside, but I don't have a metre anywhere on my property. I'm guessing they're probably all located on a wall at unit number 1 or something, as from what I can see, my neighbours don't have one either

It's pretty neat, although I can only access my usage data the day after. I'm pretty sure data is reported to them hourly, but my supplier just chooses to only tell me about it the next day. Having a smart metre also means you can get a little sensor installed that monitors your live energy usage and reports it back to your phone in near real time. You generally need to be in close proximity to it though, so it wouldn't work for me being on the other side of the lot

Well worth it though! Don't fight them if they want to install one for you!

Yeah, I suppose that makes sense. I still think that it should have covered hydration, too. Personally, I'd rate dehydration as a bigger problem than the risk of eye damage or whatever

Holy moly! Maybe I shouldn't complain then lol

If you don't mind me asking, how many people in your house, and how many bedrooms in total? Any gas? Splitty?

(Just asking for the sake of comparisons)

Oh wow, that seems quite high! How many people to your house and how many bedrooms if you don't mind my asking?

I've got gas heating, oven/stove, and hot water, so the biggest power draw I have is the portable air con. My energy usage varies a bit, but is generally between 4-6kWh, occasionally dipping down to 3, or poking up to 8. Any more than that is abnormal for me, even if I use the dryer and aren't proactive about keeping lights off

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