So the inevitable finally happened and my corporate overlords have realized they've been shoveling money onto a pyre for the last 6 months for fear of getting left behind by "AI".

We've gone from ChatGPT & Codex unlimited use to hard credit limits per user, announced over the weekend effective immediately.

The ensuing cope thread under the announcement is a scary window into how quickly an org can become dependent on a service that can switch from helpful partner to extortion racket at a moments notice.

Make no mistake, VC money's running out. The squeeze is coming.

#AIisGoingGreat

I've finally made the decision to buy some solar panels and a bit of storage.

My current renting situation really isn't well suited to it and my balcony only has room for a ridiculously underpowered 550Wp, which I can only mount vertically for now, reducing max power output by ~45%. But hey, at least it's due South.

It's been running for a (pretty miserably cloudy) week now and with the estimate from the Anker App I'll have made my money back in about 9 years at this rate, BUT

a) I don't trust my current fossil-brained, strapped for cash government to rollback the 0% VAT rate for solar power equipment soon and
b) even with the little power I make, solar is just fucking magical  

It just sits there all day, quietly consuming sunlight and when I come home from work there's enough energy stored for me to charge my e-bike and power a 2 hour gaming session with my steam deck + 4000 Lumen projector.
At the end of the day I'm at ~55% SoC which will easily replenish during the next day.

So was it a financially sound decision right now? Probably not*.

Have I become a fucking magical Druid that harnesses the power of nature and rides to work on rays of sunshine?
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY 🧙‍♂️🌞

*but fuck it, gotta enjoy that tech job money before AI gets me

#solarpunk