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That indescribable feeling... after a day working outdoors, showering with purified rain water warmed up by the sun!
@carrieberry the bigger issue is the internet connected inverter and the company that controls the system I bought. #SunPower went bankrupt and the vulture capitalists that took the company over removed monitoring features that we paid for and are ransoming them for a monthly fee. #enshitification
I’m in the US, I feel this wouldn’t be allowed in a country with a functioning government
#google disabled functionality for me but not for themselves. #Sunstrong did me dirty with my #Sunpower system too. SunPower goes bankrupt and the new company took away monitoring functions that they now want to charge me for. Never have we even been able to get notified of a disruption
Honestly, I’m reluctant to buy any new technology. If it has an internet connection do you even own it, if it can be taken away amd held ransom? #enshitification
@pluralistic While my experience pales in the scale to your (as usual, amazing) article, I experienced #solar #enshittification firsthand:
My installer bolted a third party #Sunpower charging monitor to my house, which worked great to see what my hourly/daily/yearly output was until Sunpower went bankrupt and was bought out by Enphase, who, you guessed it, wants me to pay a subscription fee to see the same monitoring data. Fuck that.
Fortunately, (#Reddit to the rescue): The data from the microinverters goes through my router, and someone found a hack:
https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower
All I need to do is implement the hack and I get my data back, then reconfigure the router to cut off Enphase! Its like #UnauthorizedBread but for solar.
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