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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • It heavily depends on the season. I had a look at the live prices, and currently the price of electricity is about 0.6SEK/kWh.

    However, back in 2022-2023 we had electricity prices as high as 2.7SEK/kWh.

    Sadly, the EU wants a unified energy grid which will increase the cost of power.

    Sweden aslo needs to upgrade the transmission infrastructure between areas




  • I don’t have a lot of crazy stories, but I have one unusual story.

    I got to go take a private train with my dad.

    We had one first class car and one locomotive.

    My dad worked in the train industry, he sold equiment used for railroads.

    He called me one day and asked if I wanted to ride a private train, I had time so I gave the only apropriate answer, “yes”.

    So after having worked a night shift I slept far too little, got on the train to the city my dad was in to ride the private train back.

    He was doing a demo of his company’s equipment and had arranged for them to use a private train, I just joined him on the journey to our city as a fun and interesting experience.




  • THE solution is not to buy the wife an Android, that is ONE solution.

    In total, there are a few solutions, I number them to make it easier to refer to them, not to order them from best to worst.

    1. Get yourself an iPhone
    2. Get your wife an Android
    3. Wait for iOS 18
    4. Switch to a messaging app like Element or Signal.

    1 and 2: Unless you yourself can accept switching to using the other system, it is unfair to demand that the other part does that.

    I have tried to switch to Android, I did it back in 2019, but I just disliked the feel of the OS enough that after dropping my phone and smashing the screen after 2-3 months, I didn’t even bother to get it fixed, I just moved back to my iPhone.

    1. iOS 18 will have RCS, and will probably solve this.



  • I was drawn into a discussion with a group of people from hexbear, who decided that since I didn’t agree with them a full 100%, that I then had to be treated as a troll just because I registered my account with lemmy.zip.

    I took a long time to finally get them convinced that I may be one of the good ones, I decided that I didn’t want to have to do that again and blocked the instance.

    I have a huge blocklist of instances and communities, I generally only browse All, so I see it all, unless I block it.

    I mostly block non English or Swedish instances/communities, but I have plenty of blocks of instances/communities that I either find annoying or disagree with.