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  • California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran

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  • I want to say our estimated break even was about a decade at our current consumption.

    That calculation also likely assumes electricity prices stay the same for a decade. If electricity prices increase, your payback date arrives sooner.

  • California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran

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  • Our household has solar panels, two EVs, and a heat pump located in the Midwest. We still have 1:1 net metering so its nearly the ideal conditions as far as energy harvest and economic landscape. I know this won't last, but I'm enjoying for the years that I can.

    We also have a separate deductive meter where we can get about 25% discount on electricity that charges the cars. We only use it during the cold months because car electricity is free during the rest of the year from solar.

    We have a small electricity bill in November, then big beefy electricity bills and for when the our location on Earth its tilted away the sun for the very cold months of Dec Jan, and Feb. March we get a bill but its about 1/10 of the cold months, and then usually electric bill until November again.

    With the installation of our heat pump we cut off our natural gas connection. So the only energy bill we have is electricity during the cold months. No natural gas bill, no gasoline bill.

  • U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy

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  • I don't understand those that have a home they're going to be a long time, is viable for solar panels, can afford to install solar, and don't.

    My neighbor, who meets all of the above criteria, just replaced their electric water heater with a gas one. That's the wrong direction.

  • The Allure of ‘Slop Bowls’ Fades as Consumers Tighten Spending

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  • This may come as a shock to you, but most of the people in the western world have an energy surplus which creates other health risks. The most logical way to address this is to consume less energy, but here we are with other people being upset by my choice to not eat something.

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • Even better, you can have the card expire off-cycle from the book. Since both last 10 years, if you renew one at the 5 year mark, it means you'll always have an active document that can get you to Canada or Mexico even while the other is in the renewal cycle.

    I recently learned this after renewing both at the same time missing my opportunity. I'll renew the card early in 5 years or so to get this off-cycle expiry benefit.

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • and if someone is making minimum wage or close to it they almost certainly aren’t getting paid time off, so now they have to come up with $130 for the fee and lose time off work.

    A passport card is only $30 (plus the $10 or so dollars for the required photo), but everything else in your post is spot on.

  • The Allure of ‘Slop Bowls’ Fades as Consumers Tighten Spending

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  • Good. Rice/grain bowls are fucking burrito nihilism and the worst thing millennials have done.

    That large tortilla adds another 300 calories by itself, which is about 25% of the calories of a large burrito. I like to skip those extra tortilla calories. A bowl does that.

  • Hungary seizes millions of euros in cash and gold from Ukrainian convoy

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  • With as toxic as Orban (Hungarian Leadership) is to Ukraine, it surprises me that Urkaine would take the risk of transporting this valuable cargo through Hungary or Slovakia when bound for Astria. It might be a longer drive, but the path through Poland and Czechia may be preferred going forward.

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • How would an instance block an IP without storing IPs?

    They could be blocking entire IP ranges. So they wouldn't have to store specific IPs. I'm not in the hosting industry but I would imagine there are groups tracking the CIDR blocks (IP ranges) that VPN providers use for their exit nodes. If such a list exists, a host could simply subscribe to accept whatever updates occur to those lists and implement the block for them.

  • ‘I just couldn’t do that drive any more’: Woman left job due to three-hour commute on N7

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  • I've got a coworker that works in the Bay Area but lives in the Midwest. Another I know works in New Jersey but lives in the Midwest. Corporate RTO initiatives in High COL areas with a salary differential coupled with lower Midwest COL and housing costs make strange things viable.

  • Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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  • The results of this study will undoubtedly produce a sea change in corporate culture while simultaneously creating opportunities for cross functional collaboration resulting from this paradigm shift. /s

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Oops, my mistake

    Apology accepted. Have a great day!

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Read my prior post, I specifically SAID it was a model number.

    You're embarrassing yourself with your pedantry. You said 80486 didn't exist. It did. Seriously, quit while you're behind here.

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Such a confident answer! And so incorrect too!

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • Honestly, we know where the root of this problem came from. Back in the 1990s Intel broke with convention of using ever increasing numeric model numbers

    • 8086
    • 8088
    • 80186
    • 80286
    • 80386
    • 80486
    • Pentium ...wait, what?! Not 80586? Nope.

    Intel didn't like that other CPU manufacturers of x86 CPUs (AMD, Cyrix, IBM) could use the same numbering scheme. So Intel created "Pentium" because it could be copyrighted/trademarked so other companies couldn't use it.

  • CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U

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  • That’s my bad for not remembering AMD’s fucking atrocious nonstandard mobile chip naming schemes.

    Atrocious compared to Intel? The first CPU with the name Core i7 was released in 2008, but Intel is still releasing a CPU named Core i7 as recently as 2023. They both suck, but in different ways.

  • Coal plant US Department of Energy ordered to stay online unlikely to run given ‘flush’ power supplies: CEO

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  • This is likely one case where capitalist polluters and leftist environmentalists are on the same side. Neither wants to see this plant in operation.

    Coal is an expensive way to generate electricity in the USA. Its a PITA to get the coal and deal with the tailings. Further with the death of coal power being obvious for decades, plant operators have put off maintenance again and again knowing that the plants closing is forthcoming. The forced demand from the government would require at least some of that expensive maintenance done to keep operating. Plant operators don't want to spend that money for something that is going to be closed as soon in the years ahead as trump isn't in the picture anymore.

  • DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says

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  • Doesn't this mean one fewer Republican Senators then? He was elected in 2023 so he still had safe years on his term in office.

    Also from Wikipedia:

    "He is the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree."

    Well, trump has said "I love the poorly educated", so this is an on-brand choice for trump.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • I'm not sure we can use the "Windows x86 vs Windows ARM" analog for this new unit from Apple. MacOS Tahoe is a native ARM OS on both the high end and now this low end unit. With Windows its a completely different CPU architecture.

    Apple has to know this is going to cannibalize its low end (8GB/256GB SSD) Macbook Air line. So will Apple discontinue the low config Air or is there some other differentiator that still makes the low config Air compelling?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Even more Star Trek wash party

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Video: When A Barn Owl And Great Horned Owl Meet

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

    hackaday.com /2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/
  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs