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I STILL don’t fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc

I'm assuming you are referring to column filters and/or keeping the first row at the top of the screen:

• Filter: Select Header Row > Data > Auto Filter
• Row Freeze: View > Freeze Cells > Freeze First Row

Nobody is building it

France built the fuck out of it, 71% of their power is nuclear. Works darn well.

it’s not because regulators are blocking it

In the US, the over-regulation makes it horrifically expensive. Every plant is bespoke instead of mass produced, with exchangeable parts, personnel, and knowledge. Mass produce nuclear plants and the costs come way down.

Water/wind/solar solutions have undercut even the plummet in natural gas prices.

Wind and solar are paired with natural gas. People still want power in the winter and at night and right now that is natural gas. By opposing nuclear, you ensure it will continue to be natural gas paired with wind and solar.

Our fridge dings when the door has been left open. I'm not sure why you would need anything more than an audible ding for the door being left open.

What makes power when the sun isn’t out and the wind isn’t blowing? Nuclear, gas, or coal.

By being anti-nuclear, you force it to be gas or coal.

O, absolutely. The reality is the only reasonably economic way to do off-grid is with solar, battery, and a diesel or propane generator to top off the batteries when solar isn't cutting it.

Small wind turbines are really, really poor. You need to go high to access the good air-streams and wide to get useful efficiency out of the turbine. Any wind turbine you put on your roof will vastly under-perform for the cost spent on it.

Damn, those winter numbers mean full off-grid is quite difficult with pure solar. A propane or diesel generator to occasionally top off the batteries would be required for winter.

they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year

Obviously, we can't use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here's my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?

O, god, it's going to be huge. You really can't do the off-grid thing unless you have enough power production to satiate you over any given 3-day moving window. Trying to store power from summer until winter is going to be too expensive, instead buy more panel.

This isn't even going into the fact batteries lose charge slowly. So any power generated in summer will be much diminished by winter, even if you have big enough batteries.

Killing super-mods would have been much more effective 5 years ago, back when there were still lots quality moderators in small subreddits. I remember people screaming for years this was a problem they needed to do something about.

However, during the last blackout (triggered by Reddit killing off 3rd party apps), Reddit removed hundreds (thousands?) of moderators who wouldn't toe the party line. These people aren't coming back and there aren't quality people lined up behind them to donate their time. The mass moderator removal made the super-mod issues even worse.

Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it's specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think 'I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?'

Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer's Nexus.

~~This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it's not back up on Gamer's Nexus' page.~~

Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer's Nexus.

~~This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it's not back up on Gamer's Nexus' page.~~