It’s China they could end up hard coding that crap and using face verification and all that stuff.

We - used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people considered together.

Interesting. I wonder if I meant “we” as in Canadians?

Oh is that why? Why, because we make our power and don’t buy it from Canada? 😂

With my job I get other people’s hydro bills to split between upper and lower tenants and I see their bills too. While I find this bill exceptionally high, it’s not really out of whack. This is just what we pay for electricity here (in BC Canada)

For reasons I’m not sure about, I posted a screenshot of my bill below in answer to the quack telling me I don’t know what my bill was.

We live in the upper, larger portion of the house and there is a suite downstairs. I’m not sure what they get up to, but the cost is high. We have led lights, central ac which we only use conservatively. Other power sucks would be the extra fridge in garage I guess, so the household (with the suite) runs 3 fridges, 2 sets of laundry machines and 2 dishwashers. Our range is gas.

I have no idea how the bill is so high. I can only imagine how much higher it would be if I charged a vehicle on top - though I do understand that would eliminate the $120/week I spend on gasoline

Lol. I just told you I didn’t do anything different.

I didn’t do anything odd. We have central ac and ran it conservatively, and had it off for 2 weeks during vacation also.

We are on 2 month billing cycles, so this is for 60 days. But I said I got blasted with the bill this month, which is in fact the case.

No unpaid balance, just new charges. That was the cost of electricity for the last billing cycle.

I got blasted with a $700 electric bill this month, and we didn’t really do anything new or different. So this doesn’t surprise me really.

If electricity is going to cost this much, I guess the only way electric gets “cheaper” than gas is by hiking gas prices until its cheaper to charge. Consumers are never going to win though.

My God. Chat gpt and my 7 year old could do better. Fuck me.

Lol. I also have a bridge to sell you

That’s 3 great reasons to avoid the app.

Only if owned by a solid, sensible company

reading that back I sound like a fucking shill. I do not get kickbacks lmao. Just wanted to share the programs that help when I can’t self-host.

The bots are becoming self aware 😰

It’s not hypocrisy, it’s for $. $ means it’s not hypocrisy. Haven’t you been paying attention?

But then everything everywhere would look the same - whatever random picture it uses for Blackrock

I just read the whole thing and didn’t hit one… Weird

The article isn’t very, uh, articulate in its reasoning. Nothing here is an actual real life problem it’s all just what-ifs, and 2 billion people aren’t going to quit using it

It really thinks a documentary is gonna help. Someone should get on that!

The best time to start with a new browser is when you get a new device. Since you have to re enter your logins or re enable your pw manager anyway, it’s just a convenient time. That’s when I switched, about 1 year ago when I upgraded phones.

Duckduckgo app tracking blocker is my new jam too. Which I leaned about here on lemmy about 1 weeks ago when I joined

As long as I could I stayed off of it. Then it became necessary for work to be able to post to marketplace, and I’m stuck with the app on my phone.

I would love to somehow silo it off from me completely but I would still need to be able to reply to marketplace messages from my phone, so not sure how it’s possible.

Sucks, but is what it is I guess. Not changing jobs over it!