My spinning rust is expensive. Man.

POP isn’t sync; pop downloads all the messages locally and you tell the server what to do with them once they’re downloaded.

The result is that you have your messages on your device. But when you go to another device, it’s a different set of messages with different read status.

Unless something has changed, that’s how it worked last time I used POP and that’s why everyone used IMAP now that there’s multiple devices (phones, laptops) in play.

You’re right about self hosting email; it’s a pain.

Lighting helps.

Oh, Canning is the process I was thinking o.

There’s broadly two types of pickles. One is fermented. The other cooked a brine.

Is this fermented or cookedbrined? Looks like a cooked pickle recipe to me but I’m not an expert.

I’m willing to try it.

ETA I just checked and with an EV (short trips) my house averages about 25 a day (past month only no heat no ac) of which 16 is the overnight car charging rate. I’d be tearing the place apart looking for a server rack.

Outdoor workshop having 200a service isn’t that surprising. It’s a shop, you need power for things. Maybe they planned a big electric heater and a dozen big power tools like saws and or lathes. Or welding. Chances are the cost between 100A and 200A wasn’t much. Saved money not populating breakers.

Figure out how to read the meter; they usually have some kind of display for instant consumption. Turn all the breakers off - that should be zero. Flip them on one by one and watch for spikes. The noninvasive option is to buy a clamp meter but you have to know how to use it and how to be safe in a live panel.

Non-LED lighting can add up fast. Electric clothes dryers are arguably the least efficient use of electricity in a home. Portable AC is pretty bad too. Well pumps can draw quite a bit - make sure the pressure tank is working and the well pump isn’t running a lot. There’s efficient models but they’re expensive. Side note - put that UV on a battery backup. It doesn’t need to be much but any water usage during an outage, or simply a longer outage means the lines are potentially contaminated and need to be disinfected. You could have a fridge that has bad seals or a freezer that’s set too cold - I pushed my freezer one setting cooler and it runs A LOT so I set it back to default.

Things like older TV can draw more than you think. Passive draw from standby appliances can add up but you still need a lot to make a difference. The blowers on the furnace and water heater if you don’t have a chimney are going to be pretty beefy. Old furnaces have fans that are not too efficient.

Hour by hour analysis could be useful to look at. Look for a Green Button in the billing portal.

You could also enter the dark side and set up something like the Emporoa Vue and Homeassistant and get all the data.

I remember when I replaced Azureus with utorrent. It was amazing - azureus killed my computer and utorrent in its entirety was around 2MB and could handle all the torrents I threw at it. That and azureus/vuze started bundling adware!

I’d moved off to headless torrent clients by the time I read about utorrent bundling malware but I think it goes back to 2011.

Why ask if you won’t accept the answer?

I found this https://krg.ca/en-CA/assets/Council/2024/May/EAUFON.pdf which includes the terrestrial uplinks that do in fact exist.

Wireless has really limited range at high speeds. It needs to be high frequency to handle high speeds and high frequency is interrupted by mist, to say nothing of snow or rain, and high frequency also must be line of sight and simply doesn’t cover much distance. They would need to put up a tower roughly 1/4 as often as a wire carrying pole for much less reliability and much less capacity. Wireless is almost never the correct answer to a fixed connection.

“Overtime” doing “paperwork”.

Far be it from me to tell someone they’re maximizing their income but ACAB and it’s significantly in excess of what is reasonable.