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Yeah, that's how we do it. Pre load the temperature before 4pm, timers, solar panels and a battery. It's definitely worth it for us, but if someone doesn't adjust their habits, they can end up worse off on the solar saver tariffs.

The part that this headline skips over is that it's followed by 5 hours of pricing that are 3 times the regular rate, and then the rest of the day is a rare slightly under the old rate. The expensive rate kicks in between 4pm and 9pm, which is pretty much when the solar supply eases off and dries up.

If you work from home, it's possible to shift some of the big load equipment to early afternoon, but some, like ovens and heaters aren't so easy to shift. You really need to do the maths to see if it works.

If you've got a battery, you're in a better position, because you can use your own solar and/or the free hours to top the battery up, and then draw on it during the expensive hours. Our battery isn't quite big enough to carry us through 5 hours, but it gets us most of the way there, so the maths made it worth us to change to the new tariff.

Because I don't believe that kids (or people in generally) magically develop effective techniques for dealing with addiction and bullying when they reach a certain arbitrary age. They don't suddenly know how to deal with complex social situations when they turn 16. They don't know instantly gain knowledge of how to deal with the addictive nature of gamified social media platforms when they turn 16. So hiding them from that stuff, and then letting their first exposure to it be when they're trying to learn to be independent and less likely to look for answers outside of their own experience solves nothing.

Social media can be addictive, screen time can be addictive, and navigating online scammers, bullies and fraudsters is something that takes experience to work recognise and work through.

So I approached it by talking to my kid about recognising what this stuff looks like, about the importance of not revealing personal information, of asking questions if they have doubts. I also let them have as much screen time as they wanted, and told them that the issue isn't how much time they spend in front of the computer, the issue is whether the computer is the only thing they want to spend time with. If they always say no when someone asks if they want to do something else, if the devices start to get in the way of life, and they never want to leave their room, get resentful at having to do chores etc, then the balance is off. And that's what I cared about. Teaching the kid how to fit this stuff in to their life whilst they were young enough to still take my advice onboard.

That's why

Edit - Unrelated, but maybe not unrelated, I also told me kid I don't care if they swear around the house, with their friends or whatever. However, I also told them that lots of people do care if they swear, and they need to be aware of the impact that their choice of words has on the people around them. Swearing at a teacher at school for example, is going to get them in trouble, and "I can swear at home" isn't an excuse for that. I tried to teach my child that the issue isn't the words, but rather, the way your words impact the people around you and your relationships with them.

Kids need to learn by doing and by trying. They don't learn by being told by their parents "this is how it is". And the more hard rules you put in front of them, the more things they have the need to rebel against and push back against when they try and find their independence. And every single kid that has ever lived explores and pushes at boundaries in some form or another. So don't turn the shitty harmful things in to forms of finding independence.

You give kids independence by giving them agency in their own life, and the life experience to use that agency in an informed way.

I didn't drink until I was in my 20s, and I've never driven a car, let alone crashed one.

I also let my kid use social media in their pre teens.

Most models don't have any kind of display at all. The most recent model that isn't widely available anywhere yet has a tiny notification window.

The vast majority of glasses out in the wild that people are using today do not have displays.

That will change, but right now, if you see someone wearing these glasses, you can be close to certain it doesn't have a display.

They don't have a display.

The glasses don't have HUDs/screens. There are no real time visual clues.

I use vernissage rather than pixelfed, but yeah, it's the only one I deliberately try and post to every day!

Interesting that he frames LLMs as both a tool that he needs to use to compete, whilst also framing their use as a scarlet letter that will tank sales if he uses them.