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by fundatus 7d ago
Seems like you're getting scammed. Sumup for example charges 1,75 % per transaction, no other costs, not even a monthly fee. With a monthly fee the transaction cost drops to just 0.89%.
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by fundatus 7d ago
It's metric insofar that A0 has an area of exactly 1m².
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by fundatus 1mo ago
Seems like you read some misinformation there. Share of coal in the German electricity mix: 2021 30.2% 2022 33.3% (the year that nuclear was shut off) 2023 26.0% 2024 21.2% 2025 22.4% Complete phase out is scheduled for the 2030s.
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by fundatus 3mo ago
Wow a publicly routable IPv4 address on a mobile phone? Wouldn't that drain the battery a lot? Or is there some kind of carrier-level firewall still?
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by fundatus 3mo ago
It formally isn't but for (almost) all intents and purposes it is.
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by fundatus 3mo ago
I love Nextcloud but I feel like they should really completely redo their UI. It just doesn't look like something from this decade.
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by fundatus 3mo ago
> This will be a logistical challenge for the grid but absolutely fantastic for BYD owners in particular. Interestingly BYD actually puts batteries next to these chargers that they charge "off peak" to minimise the strain on th
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by fundatus 3mo ago
DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a US law. DMA is the Digital Markets Act, a EU law. It is in fact an antitrust law. It basically argues (correctly in my opinion) that Apple and other companies have created new markets inside o
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by fundatus 3mo ago
Well, let that be my concern. Why should I trust Apple more than let's say Proton?
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by fundatus 3mo ago
Think about Matter what you want, but the fact that it is simply IP-based so you can hack something like this together is pretty amazing.
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by fundatus 4mo ago
> it's built-in to Spotify as a setting somewhere, from memory That setting has been removed a few years ago. It now works the other way round: You authorise last.fm to access your Spotify data.
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by fundatus 4mo ago
Which god?
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by fundatus 4mo ago
> made the EU leadership turn and now they want nuclear They don't _actually_ want nuclear, luckily it's just lip service. Because it doesn't solve the problem surfaced by the US-Israel-Iran war: You'd still be depend
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by fundatus 5mo ago
And Ryanair is the largest airline in Europe! And one of the largest in the world.
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by fundatus 5mo ago
> Alas, it is exactly the intermittent renewables that create a dependency on fossil fuels. First of all, this is an insane statement. > Unless you have nuclear Second of all, with nuclear most countries will still be dependent on oth
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by fundatus 5mo ago
> If you want to build a limited distribution app Apple has mechanisms for private distribution which is used by companies for internal apps etc Yeah, but that wouldn't be an option for this app obviously. > They don’t want the A
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by fundatus 5mo ago
Well, the electrons arriving in your home will the same as your neighbours, regardless of which supplier you choose. But by choosing a different supplier you can steer which energy sources will be used to feed that grid, so it still makes a
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by fundatus 5mo ago
Levelized Cost of Energy for Germany's existing nuclear fleet was roughly 13ct/kwh.[1] The averaged costs (YTD) from the linked article currently stands at 9.71 ct/kwh. So nuclear in the mix would have increased the costs. [1
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by fundatus 5mo ago
An installed solar panel will continue producing electricity, no matter how the relationship with the country that produced it develops. Unlike natural gas, oil or uranium where the fuel itself is the actual imported good.
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by fundatus 6mo ago
Modern grids favour flexibility over fixed baseload generation (like nuclear) though. When you turn off a nuclear power plant its operating costs basically stay the same, which is horrible when you could cover your whole consumption with ba
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by fundatus 6mo ago
Well, the US is still dependent on foreign heavy oil for their refineries as it mostly produces shale oil (for export). So it very much isn't independent even though it looks like it when you see the numbers.
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by fundatus 6mo ago
> Why this wasn’t done already is beyond me. Pipelines would have to run through multiple countries, meaning you now not only have to share your income with someone else (transit fees etc) but it also means that you have to stay on good
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by fundatus 7mo ago
Much fewer / slower cars. Nowadays people have been pushed aside to make room for cars.
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by fundatus 8mo ago
Somehow I think the stars might be aligning this time though. People are genuinely fed up with Windows and governments around the world are loudly thinking about how to reduce dependence on US tech. And then there is Proton which makes it m
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by fundatus 8mo ago
Do people move solely because of property taxes? They rarely do unless they are in financial distress. So I'd say: Give it a try.
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by fundatus 8mo ago
> LEDs aren't mandated per se, but they are the most attractive alternative. Yeah, basically what the EU did was to say: For X Watts of electricity at least X Lumen of light has to be produced. And this number was gradually increase
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by fundatus 8mo ago
It was Putin that cut off gas supply to Europe almost completely in autumn 2021 in preparation of the invasion and then completely shut it off during 2022. That was before the pipelines were blown up.
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by fundatus 8mo ago
Over in the Proton subreddit we've been wondering if there is currently some kind of Anti-Proton campaign going on. Constantly people will loudly complain about completely benign things and get lot's of people agreeing with them.
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by fundatus 8mo ago
What's the issue with a privacy-focused AI assistant that doesn't store all your data?
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by fundatus 8mo ago
And the reason for that? Fossil fuels. Cited from one of your articles: > “Our industry continues to face difficult market dynamics and challenging energy costs, with European gas prices around three times higher than the US,” Arnaud Val

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