Finally bought my first home but have no idea if my electricity use is normal or not, it seems off to me. Any electricians out there that can suggest if it seems normal?

My electricity provider says that we typically use 30-40kwh per day with some days up to 80kwh. I have no idea why the usage is so high. Almost all of the lighting is LED, and almost every appliance is natural gas. The only appliance that is electric is the clothes dryer.

Natural gas furnace, fireplaces, hot water tank, stove, etc.

It seems to be higher usage in the winter despite having three r2d2 air conditioners running in the summer time and almost all of our heating being natural gas in the winter. We have one plug in oil filled heater outside in the detached storage / workshop area.

We do have a well for our water system and that involves a water softener and UV filter and whatnot. Not sure how much power a well pump uses.

Does 30-40kwh average use with up to 80kwh sound normal or on the higher end?

I worry that something on the property might be siphoning power or something. We also suspect the previous owners of the property were probably growing pot, the outdoor workshop has a 200amp service and a breaker box with like 20 empty breaker slots that were filled in with just 3-4 remaining for the lights and plugs.

Any info appreciated!

My cousin, through work, has access to the search history of a Fortune 500 CEO and noticed it was full of exactly what you'd expect: searching a liquor store site for their most expensive wines, private jet bookings to small private islands, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, we all knew that! I'm not talking about luxury experiences and displays of power.

But what are the strange parts that regular people wouldn't guess?

For example, someone on reddit recently posted that their job is to duplicate a wealthy person's home items across multiple cities. Clone their house meticulously so their boss just travels with a phone. It's pragmatic but egregious.

please dont be too personal to yourself

but mine is that i began to dislike big tech and corporate social media

Heyy, I'm learning programming and trying to choose a focus, I saw you can make web/backend w node, desktop (bloatware but discord uses it so if it works it works), games (not AAA and not optimized for performance but it shouldn't matter for indie too much) Is there anything that compares? I wanna focus on one thing instead of spreading myself over a ton of languages, I do feel js is interesting for this, but I'm just starting out, so looking to hear some thoughts of people more familiar with programming.

That nobody cares about you unless you're sharing memes and being silly. People have a very obscure way of handling any ounce of negativity and struggles one is going through. They're there for your victories, but aren't there for you, for your losses.

i am a new user on the fediverse but what is the thing that in Big Social

but the fediverse is not prepared to replace

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1499200/why-don-t-countries-add-harder-requirements-for-becoming-a-president-like-having-a-decor

It seems to me the obvious next step.

I mean if other jobs requirements like IT and even accounting had started asking for more certifications and experience to work, then why the heck shouldn't presidents get asked to be more qualified for their jobs?

The country is small:

It's less than 10 000 sq km in area, has fewer than 1 million people, and GDP less than about US$50 billion. It might have a coast. It's a liberal democracy, or at least mostly a liberal democracy. It's been independent for almost 100 years, attempts a strong neutrality, and is thus generally non-aligned.

I suppose the country's currency is hard, or reasonably hard, enough that it can be freely exchanged.

In this country you can bring a gym bag with US$1 million (say 10 000 $100 bills) in or out of the country. There are banks there which you can deposit the money, and while they might be required to report this to the government, the government won't tell the governments or other international organizations about it.

What would be the consequences for such in international relations?

Thank you.

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However, I should have added, that this generally occurred between 1998 and 2004.

"Craziest" could mean pretty much whatever you want it to. Good, bad, intricate, simple or whatever. As long as the moment you saw it you knew you wouldn't forget it. I knew a guy at my old job who holds this place for me. Giant white dude and his white wife dressed as Puerto Ricans. It was crazy racist/stereotypical. Added context, this was 2 years ago.

to all the elders one , i want t ask what experiences one should not miss out . it could be anything u want to share like travel or something else . how to enjoy your 20 s ?

Does anyone know of any attempts out there of building more ethical AI models for things like text LLM, image or audio processing?

To clarify, I am talking about an AI model which is trained on a dataset of public domain, creative commons, licensed, or more intentionally fair use sampling methods.

Personally, I believe that the way the modern AI industry has built their giant models is incredibly exploitative, unethical, toxic to society and culture, and arguably not even consistent with the letter or spirit of the existing rules by which we have all been asked to play.

As a tool, machine learning may not be fundamentally bad, but who, if anyone, is out there trying to do it in better, more legitimate way?

So far what we got in a CD:

• Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers – Monster Mash
• Jumpin’ Gene Simmons – Haunted House
• The Five Blobs – The Blob
• Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters
• Neil Norman and His Cosmic Orchestra – Twilight Zone
• Sheb Wooley – The Purple People Eater
• Vic Mizzy – The Addams Family
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
• Lewis Lee – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
• The Ran-Dells – Martian_Hop
• Dracula Theme
• Bram Stoker's Dracula Theme
• Francis Haines – Trioxin Theme (from The Return of the Living Dead)
• Unknown Artist – I Put a Spell on You
• John Carpenter – Halloween (1978) Theme
• Danny Elfman – Main Titles (from Beetlejuice)
• Michael Jackson – Thriller
• Santana – Black Magic Woman
• Andrew Gold – Spooky Scary Skeletons
• Goosebumps Theme Song
• Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom of the Opera Theme Song

Any other songs you all recommend?

It’s $545 for 36 cans on Amazon.

I need to insulate and air seal my basement ceiling and rim joist bays.

I fucking hate instagram. So I have a friend who always sends me instagram posts. I don't have an insta so I view them in browser but anyways. I have this feeling when watching insta content and it's just kinda making me agressive. It just feels fake. It feels like there's always this hard to describe layer over every. Single. Post. This air of cliché normativity. Everything's unbearably clean, Almost sterile. Everything's unbearably performative, always feels like it's hiding something, I cannot quite grasp, but that's too important to just retouch away, like insta does. Everything has this unbearable rich-american-kids-from-a-bad-teenage-tv-show-vibe. Everything I receive from there is just kinda hard to watch. Like, the content, the message can even be good and well intended takes on politicial subjects. But the way it's presented always screams "vanity" to me.

So my question:

Is it just me or is everything on insta intentionally or unconsciously vain and superficial?

Am I just massively prejudiced?

Is it just the bubble i get insights to or do you see this phenomenon spanning across different bubbles on the platform? Ppl with insta account s please tell about your experiences. Idk just frustrated about insta ig.

i don't defend targeted ads since they are bad (i use uBlock)

but what monetization system is a bit more ethical than targeted ads but can last unlike donations

how would you solve that issue

In your humble opinion, are the majority of the homeless people responsible for the situation they are in? IOW: do they deserve to be homeless, because it is their personal failure or do they not, because they are a victim of the circumstances (the reasons they are where they are are largely out of their control)? Have you ever talked to homeless people? Are they really just "bad people" and "will never change" or are they hardworking individuals who've just had a punch by life that they were unable to stand after?

Does anyone here use anything other than Discord for chatting? What exactly and how much?

"use" is the key word here, I'm interested in actual usage, not just the names of alternatives that I already know

Boosts are welcome. Thanks for answering

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i dont think so but what do you think

The older the internet gets, the more it's like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What's is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/casualconversation@piefed.social/p/2355887/i-m-planning-to-make-a-game-to-celebrate-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-voyager-missions-wh

I never finish projects, so I'd like to set a hard deadline, in this case 2027-08-20 (Voyager 2 launch)

I'm thinking that it could be a (local splitscreen? Or maybe like one of those hand-off/relay style story games where you pass the controller when it's your turn) co-op game where one player acts as Voyager 1 and the other as Voyager 2. It has to be a co-op game, we need more of those I think, and I would love to learn how to make one of those. Maybe you could solve puzzles or unlock secrets by working together, I dunno. The story will be a mix of real life events (emergencies / crisises that occurred during the mission, real images and recordings, etc.) and fictional bits too (nothing too outlandish though, probably not aliens I think?)

Both Voyager 1 and 2 explored Jupiter and Saturn, and while 2 went out to Uranus and Neptune, 1 did a flyby of Titan (the largest moon of Saturn). I'd like to include those five as "worlds" that each player has to explore. Voyager 1 has also passed the heliopause, and in a few weeks will have reached one light day from Earth, so I'd like to include that too. Perhaps there could be interesting things that happen as the Voyager probes travel the cosmos?

What are your thoughts? Are there any noteworthy events or challenges that the Voyager missions went through that I should include in the game?

The project is still in very early planning stages, but I think it's a really cool way to celebrate the Voyager missions!

For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.

Recently I finished my switch from memorized and re-used passwords to KeePassXC and KeePassDX based on recommendation of other Lemmy users, and I like the workflow.

In a similar fashion, I also recently purchased a domain name, and set-up paid e-mail account(s) at Purelymail with that domain.
I use Thunderbird on desktop and phone for now.

It's OK-ish on desktop, but the phone experience is poor.
On desktop, during set-up it requires filling fields such as "Full name" to continue, which can even be deleted later. Thankfully, there is some advanced option to skip guided setup after this.

On a phone, the name field is equally mandatory, only to then be flagged as "Optional" in settings after setup.
It also requires BOTH IMAP and SMTP. Not only that, it verifies that the SMTP server is valid and the user can be authenticated (I didn't try without IMAP).
Trying to load that account via export from desktop shows an "invalid data" error.
Furhtemore, I can't receive e-mail notifications.
I have them enabled, I allowed necessary permissions, there is a permanent notification stating it works, RethinkDNS shows active connection to the IMAP server, when I open the app, the e-mail is immediately there.