Step (5): realise the lion’s share of people have no clue how anything works, and throwing a tantrum is their only (successful) technique to any technical problem.

Did she use any virtualization?

I’d start by installing arch

but then I rarely downvote anything.

Same, I either upvote, ignore or block.

Stainless steel perhaps

You learn that truth is a dangerous luxery you can do without, as power dictates, and can do so for generations.

Teach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda.

I grew up in DDR. That act in itself is punishable. In mandatory state school, there was a lot “you live thanks to, and for others” propaganda. Teachers would get benefits if they succesfully got children to tell on their family, or their friends. The children who did so were lauded.

Would you trust your 8 year old kid to not tell his best friend what you talked about at home?

I think your imagination fails to understand the magnitute of surpressing a state can and will do. It’s not just the state, and bad guys in it. It’s everywhere. 1-in-3 people were informants to the stasi. Je stärker der Sozialismus, desto sicherer der Frieden.

I’d be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified

After you realise you are a hostage, what’s the “good” response, in your opinion? Protest and get surpressed? Start a partisan group, and be afraid for your life 24/7? Join the surpressors for small benefits for your and yours, at the peril of others? Play along with the idea to “change it from the inside”?

Now that’s confidence

Yes, it requires hardware

Meshtastic

As much as we try to argue otherwise, it’s our default state. It’s not conditioning, it’s nature.

I think you’re excluding a large group of people (1). The nature vs nurture debate on that one isn’t clearly solved, but it seems one both needs the genetics and conditioning to arrive at an emotion based, rather than cognitive based, thinking system. Let alone to develop those specific triggers.

see electricity as an expense rather than something that reduces profits

An expense is something that reduces profit. They’re the same :)

Thank you!

Can you share the model of that 12V cup? I’m looking for something similar :)

Here in Belgium, the component related to power generation is only about one fifth of the residential power bill.

Most are (1) connection costs (what you describe), (2) taxes, (3) subsidies for solar and wind to replace gas power generation, and (4) since 2 years, subsidies for gas power generation for when there’s too little solar and wind.

The size of the storage problem is not well understood by most. The world production of batteries is insufficient to power germany with 100% renewables.

A possible solution is changing consumption patterns (in jargon known as demand-response). This runs into 2 issues: (1) people need to change their behaviour, with they wont. (2) You handicap your economy, to the benefits of countries that do not care about emissions. With a good chance that the net result is more emissions.

How do you heat water?

Then tell me why the mechanism to control production via the solar panels themselves hasn’t been implemented?

Why would you want people to tell you things that are untrue?

I’m not sure much about solar curtailment, other than the fact that they receive curtailment requests and comply quite quickly as well.

Here in the EU, the DC-AC transformers are mandated to shut down if the grid frequency is out of bounds.

That’s pretty vastly different, isn’t it?

Not really. It’s like saying toast falls butter side down, vs toast falls non-buttered side up?

Perhaps some are conditioned for an emotional response, rather than a rational one, upon hearing certain words? That’s why you suggest to avoid them, even to describe the same issue?