There’s the popular but expensive ecoflow stream,

At the other extremity this solarchoc one seems too cheap to be serious and uses zendure hardware. I’ll have to look on review sites…

( https://www.solarchoc.com/plug-and-play/209734-kit-solaire-2000w-4-panneaux-solaires-jolywood-500w-1-micro-onduleur-batterie-zendure-autoconsommation-plugplay-wallis.html )

And many many others between those 2 extremities…

They are always associated with a Linky smart meter (only meter allowed in the Country, no matter who you are subscribed to, there is only 1 nationwide grid operator and planner ). That meter is designed with home batteries, home generation in it’s design as well as utilities ability to selectively put heaters / car chargers into an eco mode if the need arises.

Oh, yeah: I think the smart Meter ( mandatory linky brand in France) can block outgoing if no incoming in it’s options. So not the fridge (but that one has thermal inertia going for it) but maybe a few led lights, maybe a small computer?

The thing is, I’ve been eyeing those solar+battery systems to save up a bit but I really don’t want to be part of the problem with grid failures.

Not the one you are replying to but I was thinking about what is now popular in Europe: instead of big solar farm, it’s more € 4 000 system with a bit more than a 1.5 KW of balcony solar, and a small 3 or 4 kw battery inside the home associated with a smart meter that doesn’t allow the current to flow back to the grid. It cannot allow for off-the-grid living but it does keep the grid safe and decentralizes energy generation. With the possibility of a call to share in case there is a catastrophic event.

I live very close to the border but on the French side, we had a tiny outage of about 1/3 of a second (but long enough to reset routers)… That’s probably why.

If we don’t save this way our public services, we allow a future intervention by the EU, and seeing what they did in Greece last time. We’re better off doing things slowly without people loosing their jobs rather than the IMF and Bruxelles cutting through our social contract.

Ask any Frenchmen, there are quite a lot agencies who procure exactly the same services. You do not need to fire people, tear down public services, just bring 2 or 3 of those agencies under the same roof. It will also make things simpler for citizens.

So, 3% reduction of the public deficit over 5 years expected. I don’t think it is similar to what is done in the US at all.

Title gore to mobilise ( not accusing the author, the source rather) ? Or is that just merging pyramids into bigger ones without firing people or abandoning missions? Feels like the second seeing the expected reduction in public deficit.

Fatherland is often feminine in Latin languages, example: “la patrie” in french.

All this is true, bit Vance is the vice president, if Trump goes, we’re stuck with him for the remainder of Trumps term.

Liberapay is a good way to regularly give to open projects with out having to remember to go back to a project page. A european equivalent to patreon for FOSS projects and creators.

Il ne me semble pas qu’il y ait de parti progressiste non plus. LFI, LREM ou RN sont quand même trois partis pro patronats et très paternalistes.

Ils ont tous trois les graines du fachisme en eux. LFI et le RN par leur affinités avec les idées de Mr poutine et LREM par son capitalisme néo conservateur.

And leave us with Vance? It’s the same incompetence.

It has never been meant to be a peacekeeping force but a dissuasive force. It is meant to be on Ukraine’s side from day one, not one to be in the middle. And that’s a good thing in my book. There clearly is a victim and a criminal here.

It still will be dissuasive because western soldiers and western air forces will still be used on the ground and in the skies of Ukraine. This was the French vision ( having the troops sent there be used not on watchtower duty but to make the ukrainians into the future EU armed forces by integrating western millitary standards into the ukrainian armed forces ) It’s good the UK sides with that vision.

If they wanted peacekeeping, the Russian proposition of putting UN troops as a peacekeeping force would have done the job.

Maybe because logistics is such a complicated mess grok can’t process it?

The only thing is negociation time. It takes a very long time to strike such accords and the political time in the US is very short.

Everything could be reversed tomorrow or in 2 years or never or be rereversed in 4…

Trade deals among stable countries usually account for longer lifespans to assure the market they can deploy and still benefit from it in 20 years.

It takes an especially long time with the EU as you need all 27 countries to accept it through each parliament and sometimes referendums and account for incoming countries. Any “no” is a veto of the whole accord. And you have to start all the negotiation from scratch.

It reminds me a lot of the first things that A. Hitler did in Germany after being elected. Putting the problem away.

But just like the Nazis of old, this government is going to start thinking about a way to keep putting the problem away at a lesser cost, especially once ICE get too many deportees to keep flying them out without humongous logistics.

They are going to hit the same hurdles, and (hopefully not) deal with them in the same way.

To be recognised as ukrainian. What else?

The chinese are falling into Trump’s trap and are actively helping him make his promise true: gas is cheap.

What a 5D chess player!

/S on all that, OfC !

They have all kind of trades that allows them to move around : the ever present food trucks or amusements machines for fairs, the traditional chair seating and cushioning repairs (it costs a lot, and their unique abilities and traditions is sought for antiques).

They also do all kinds of odd jobs on the cheap. Redoing the whole masonry isn’t something you would ask someone who isn’t seriously settled but simply refreshing a paint job? Cleaning up a roof, a driveway? Trimming a few tall trees? Sure.

Are they clean about taxes? Probably not.

Are they all drug smugglers and thieves? I don’t think more than the general population, really. Crimes tend to get higher when they are around but which part is them doing it and which part is people using the presence of a recurent scapegoat ?