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Re:Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast a... by bevr1337 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @11:54AM (#44932486)
An ideal world doesn't look like land owners building moats.

I work in energy/home automation. I'm burnt out.

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Re:Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast a... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday August 17, 2025 @11:56AM (#44932505)
We don't live in an ideal world though but in a world run by the incentives of the capital/asset owning class.
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Re:Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast a... by bevr1337 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @12:09PM (#44932611)
> In an ideal world this should incentivise...

> An ideal world...

> We don't live in an ideal world though...

Yes. That was thoroughly established in the original comment and my reply. Have you come to look for an argument? Or to show off how pragmatic you are? What's your point besides "shit sucks?" If that's your point, I'm glad to commiserate. Shit sucks.

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Re:Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast a... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday August 17, 2025 @01:40PM (#44933365)
>Have you come to look for an argument?

Nope I just gave my opinion, but judging from your spiteful reply it's clearly you looking for an argument but I won't bite.

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Re:Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast a... by mindslight on Sunday August 17, 2025 @01:15PM (#44933172)
What's the target market of your business? I'm doing a DIY solar setup, plus a bunch of liberty-respecting automation, and often lament that there aren't better ways to make such things serviceable by contractors (when I'm gone, etc). It feels like every commercial offering I've seen is for extremely rich people's "dream houses", deploying expensive niche-commercial solutions in a very top-down manner (lots of homeruns of narrow-purpose cables to multiple racks in a centralized control room, etc).
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Re:Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast a... by bevr1337 on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:56AM (#44940645)
> What's the target market of your business?

> It feels like every commercial offering I've seen is for extremely rich people's "dream houses"

You nailed it! I don't want to say much more because I do enjoy my scant little paycheck to build the moat SAAS

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