I live in an area where it is raining more often than not so unfortunately clothes lines are not really an option for me, though i compensated by going entirely off grid. I have enough solar and battery storage that I am completely self-sufficient. I have a heat pump dryer, heat pump hot water heater, and I still use things like a dishwasher as they do use dramatically less water than doing it by hand

I guess that’s one I also forgot to put on the list heat pump hot water heater yes they are more expensive than the standard electric but they will pay for themselves pretty quickly unless you just almost never use hot water. Same for the dryer, it is indeed more expensive than a standard electric one but it will pay for itself pretty quickly with the 1/4th power used

Honestly, the majority of what you listed isn’t going to make any difference in the slightest even if literally everyone did it tomorrow.

Here’s a completely random non-comprehensive list of stuff that would actually be pretty impactful though.

Upgrade your dryer to a heat pump dryer , they use 1/4 the amount of electricity to do the same job if literally everyone traded their electric dryer for the heat pump dryer it would dramatically reduce energy usage and thus also result in a dramatic drop in CO2 generation from various energy generation sources. You don’t have to worry about your old dryer it is made of 90% material that actually gets recycled for real just drop it off at a scrap yard.

Use your compost bin actually start separating stuff for it properly . Most people don’t make use of it, if you are particular waste Company does not offer composting then simply make a compost box somewhere on your property if you can and start composting there’s a lot of things that just end up in the trash that could be compostable which would be better for it the environment and reduce the burden on the waste system.

Curb the demand for forever chemicals. Replace everything in your kitchen with stainless steel or wood or glass. No plastic or Teflon just learn to preheat your pans properly and use a little bit of oil the sticking of your eggs is nothing more than a skill issue I use stainless steel and I can make fried eggs that slide around like they’re on ice. And not just the pots and pans replace all of your utensils plates bowls. It creates a small surge in waste initially as you get rid of the old stuff but as long as it’s going forward you never purchase the plastics again it means demand will go down.

Those are just a couple completely random things that would be fairly simple and easy to do that would actually make a pretty drastic difference if even just 40% of the population would follow through but I speak from experience when I say if you attempt to get people on board with any of these they just can’t be bothered because it’s a slight minor inconvenience compared to what they already do

You mean like America?

https://youtu.be/jMmUoZh3Hq4

never miss a chance to link TC

Grid tie i fully understand being regulated heavily but man i wish i could punch and then bury alive any officials that regulated offgrid self consumption. Like fuck off its basically just a larger version of those computer battery backups you can get at bestbuy lol. Or better it’s just a larger jackery battery and solar, they gonna fucking regulate those too? We can’t have people being self sufficient that would be just awful

DIY install would cut the cost dramatically, the markup on labor was already fucking insane. You can get a roofer to do the install for the brackets and an electrician to certify the cabling for fraction of what solar installers want to do it.

Plus the equipment is dramatically cheaper doing it that way too. Go checkout https://signaturesolar.com/ and see how insanely larger your system could be for 70k lol.

Just as a quick example you can build a cart that is

27kW of solar input

24kW of inverter output

55kWh of storage

For about 30k then add 5k for cabling, lugs, fuses and breakers, and I’m also assuming you’ll need the lug crimpers and other such tools amd 5k for the mounting hardware, unless you happen to be or be friends with a welder then you can find a steel yard and make your own mounting hardware for pretty cheap.

So tldr for 40k you can have a system that wildly outclasses that 70k one from an installer. It’s not particularly difficult work to do there are a million extremely great tutorials available out there both in text and video form solar is mostly DC so it’s just positive to positive negative to negative. You can always have an electrician handle the final connection to the actual breaker box of the house and it will still be dramatically cheaper than having solar installers do the whole thing

Reference links for that price

2x Solar pallet

4xWall mount battery

2xstackable 12k inverter

Humans are remarkably good at not caring about something until it affects them personally at which point it’s too late to do anything about it

Mastercard is now trying to get you to give your bank/card in order to take the complaint lol had 3 reps ask. Don’t give em the info they might cancel your card or some shit in retaliation

Firefox mobile has plenty of add-ons that will just remove it for you

Now you’re getting it

And humans allowed capitalism to happen and have historically throughout history allowed a small handful of powerful people to take control and make everything shitty until things collapse soooooo. Capitalism is just a symptom of the disease

Which is also exactly why it will never be popular. People don’t want to have to deal with jumping around instances, dealing with the poor discoverability of the fediverse, etc. Even lemmy has that issue, I’m here because im a linux nerd so there is a decent amount of content i want here found easily but for anything else might as well be worthless.

Pivoted off a cliff with swift lmao.

I’ve unfortunately gotten tired of ironfox, some of the crap they change for “privacy” (doesn’t exist on the internet and all attempts to block things actually make you MORE identifiable) just break too many websites. After the like 30th time having to switch to nightly to make something work i just said fuck it.

They really need to be more careful about actual functionality if they want to take over as the main version of ff. Don’t get me wrong I use ublock origin, decentraleyes, clearURLs etc. But i use them for performance not privacy, blocking all the bullshit sites load to eat my battery. They work without constantly breaking basic sites unlike whatever ironfox does

Being able to hide it in net worth is the bullshit loophole, regardless of it being straight income or not having that net worth affords him the ability to get monstrously expensive things no other person could ever even dream of and he’s enjoying that life and everything in it while paying basically nothing in taxes

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/driver-shot-at-for-going-too-slow-eyewitness-says/804586303/

Boom, it happened one time so it will happen every time

!Ah, general kenobi!<

You don’t have to constantly remodel/renovate. Replacements can be reduced by not buying the cheapest thing you can find, I’ve done rental management and let me tell you even non corporate landlords are fucking retarded and waste money constantly replacing the cheapest appliances they can find instead of just getting something that can last. Same with repairs on pipes etc. They always hunt the bottom barrel cheapest dumbass they can find who has no idea what they are doing and ends up increasing the cost exponentially over time vs just doing it right.

Don’t even get me started on the money wasted marketing, it does nothing. Most people just search their desired area from the popular listing sites any dollar spent on literally anything other than just making sure your listing is updated on MLS db is money down the toilet.

I could go on but tldr if your rental isn’t at least in the black it’s probably your own fault.

Probably still a ways off. They said they didn’t want to do a 2 until there was a substantial upgrade available… And while the latest amd apu IS better, its not the leap and bound they say they are looking for so likely not yet in any type of production

That’s my favorite thing about these images. The car is so far back even speeding it should be able to stop

Ah flex panel that makes sense. Full panels are much heavier so probably less attractive to mount like that in general