Okay, so my airing of grievances post had some issues.
So, lets swap it up:
What events are you looking forward to in 2026?
I don’t “look forward” to it per se, but I honestly am very curious what happens with Google’s “Sideloading Ban”
I wonder if there’d be any bypasses.
Or if someone would make a usable Linux Phone by then.
Like I really want an all in one device that you can unlock and relock bootloader at any time and the bootloader is lockable to a custom user password that locks out any evil-maid attacks by anyone other than the device owner. I wans such a device that can work both as a phone and as a computer.
Furry convention! Had to miss last year’s cuz my partner and I got COVID a week beforehand D:
Trumps suicide
In 2025 China installed over 500GW of solar power. That is an insane amount it’s over 1.3 gigawatts a day or a large power plant per day. Sodium batteries have gone into production and gonna be sold at like 50$/kwh. These price points and scales are where it’s cheaper to build 2 times your power needed in solar and have like a week of battery backup so you can power everything off solar and wind. Right now it’s 60/40 fossil fuels/low carbon sources for electricity production, 2026 will be the year it flips to 49/51 in actuality, it might take a year or two before analysts actually realize it has happened.
Oh, I’m not sure how I missed this:
I had been really looking forward to the World Cup
I’m going to jump into a Meshcore rabbit hole here, potentially converting a Raspberry Pi into a repeater if I get further in.
I’m ready for 1,000 downvotes. I’m fucking pumped for the white house ufc fight card.
This is kind of what I’d hoped for this question originally. I don’t enjoy Trump and was looking to ask something that would lead to comments about a bunch of obscure things some groups were looking forward to, ideally not too political. It was going to be a moderation nightmare though and my other “what are the bad things about Trump in 2025” got me educated on why rule 6 exists
I hate Trump and everything about him. On the other hand, mma is the only sport I’ve ever cared about or watched. Seeing it grow and change over the last 20 years has been so cool. It feels like seeing it on a national stage like this will be MASSIVE for the sport and its growth. Thats especially true considering the new streaming system it’ll be under. As a side note, its always surreal when im watching an event and then Trump, kid rock and Mario Lopez walk out together mid event.
If those events attract those kind of people… maybe take a hard look at yourself?
Thats a ridiculous statement, but nice try lmao. Bad people are still people and tend to enjoy good things…
Oh shit, this is a real UFC event:
Yes indeed
And then a Gathering of the Juggalos in the new ballroom
More personal I suppose then anything large. But I’m getting solar installed! Was supposed to be installed last fall but due to weather it was pushed back. I’ll be glad to see lower, if not negative power bills (especially since the price recently jumped). Having 39 panels installed. So that’ll be nice.
I’ve got 7.2KW waiting to go on the roof. 400W bifacial panels with Enphase IQ8A’S. I have 3 panels running now and they generally shave 3kwh per day of my bill right now. In the summer peak the same 3 panels shave twice that off. Just have to get the racking materials and a few other things so I can get started.
I’m lucky that I can DIY the whole system where I am at. Hopefully the battery systems will start to drop in price before long.
Yeah, being able to do it DIY probably saved you a ton. I had been saving for years (didn’t want to pay interest on a loan). But had to pull the trigger last year because the government got rid of the 30% solar incentive. Funny side story, I also told a friend of mine about my plan; her fiancé is an electrician in Germany, and he was baffled why it was going to cost me so much. It would have been cheaper to have me hire him, fly him first class, get him a swanky hotel for however long it took, and pay him like x3 his normal rate.
Absolutely. Already replaced the roof, plumbing supply lines, and electrical systems. 18K houses need work but the payoff is huge.
Right now I’ve got about 5600 invested in my solar system. Mainly the racking and then batteries. Once it’s in place I have the option to add another up to 4.8KW. Local power rate sucks for the area. Mid summer the power is around .20 per kwh, the co-op nearby is less than half that. House is all electric and I run a couple servers so it adds up quick.
Google is building a datacenter in the next county over and a few more are coming in elsewhere, they are supposed to provide most of their own power but no one is sure if they are or not. I’ve seen a couple high renewable line upgrades and additions for power equipment which seem to be upgrades for reliability and filtering in the local grid. All the original 230kv lines have been upgraded to 345kv.
I’m in town but my house is ideal for a small vertical axis wind turbine. Generally at times wind is up solar is down, but gotta figure a few things out. One of the turbines that sit along a wall would be great but I have to figure out a design I can make and will be practical.
Pierre Pollievre getting the fuck out of office, or at least stepping down. he’s fucking pathetic and only seeks to divide the country.
goddamn I wish we had proper vote reform for ranked ballots or whatever, and didn’t get stuck with the Liberals
Hopefully trump death
April 1st I travel to Cozumel Mexico for a couple weeks of diving. Another 30 hours in my happy place (up to 100 feet under water) will be amazing.
Nice! Ocean, cenote or cave?
Ocean. I’m rescue certified and trying to get going as a videographer on a shoestring budget. Eventually going to expand my skill set some more so I can do some mine dives a few hours from where I live. Hopefully get to the point where I can do some cenote dives to play in the halocline.
Getting my backup situation under control so I can be less stressed…finishing my basement studio and maybe starting on my gaming room finishing. Id love to have more people over for playing some old console games and ps1/2 (which are a new console btw).
The state of the world I choose to ignore
Waking up from the Nightmare.
At the pace of current events, probably not being killed in a probable future war near me
