Those rates are better then I’m being offered! I might shop around a bit!
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Good luck, think we all going to shop around a bit but pretty much most be around the same rates ?
My understanding of the MSE thinking, is if that if your annual fixed tariff estimate £3531 is <25% of what your variable would be as of 1st April (based on the same usage) then worth considering. Essentially how over the top you are prepared to pay to hedge further cap increases within the fix period.
You can get some further comparisons based on usage at their Energy Club site, which saved my skin as it renewed my last fix before this all escalated.
Im with EonNext Electric only and missed out on a fixed rate they were doing that matched the new cap from April 1st that MSE talked about and then Eon promptly pulled it as loads went for it.
The current fixed for a year offer now has the same standing charge but is about 5p more per Kwh than the new price cap at 32p per KWh vs 27p per KWh. If the predictions are correct and the next cap will rise another 47% that would put it at about 40p per KWh from October 1st.
Now Ive got to work out if its worth risking paying the extra 5p per KWh over the summer months when my usage is low as no heating and have solar panels and battery vs saving possibly 8p per kwh over winter when I will use a lot more for heating and less solar input, etc. which currently looks to be a £300 saving based on the 47% increase in October, making it worthwhile if the price does go up that much.
Something I have noticed is that all the fixed deals ive seen so far dont have any exit fees like they used to so you can drop out any any point and switch to the price capped rate, so if the next price cap ends up being less than the fixed rate (Which I doubt) you can change fee free to the capped tarrif.
The current fixed for a year offer now has the same standing charge but is about 5p more per Kwh than the new price cap at 32p per KWh vs 27p per KWh. If the predictions are correct and the next cap will rise another 47% that would put it at about 40p per KWh from October 1st.
Now Ive got to work out if its worth risking paying the extra 5p per KWh over the summer months when my usage is low as no heating and have solar panels and battery vs saving possibly 8p per kwh over winter when I will use a lot more for heating and less solar input, etc. which currently looks to be a £300 saving based on the 47% increase in October, making it worthwhile if the price does go up that much.
Something I have noticed is that all the fixed deals ive seen so far dont have any exit fees like they used to so you can drop out any any point and switch to the price capped rate, so if the next price cap ends up being less than the fixed rate (Which I doubt) you can change fee free to the capped tarrif.
Everything seemed much better/simpler/cheaper a few years ago, wish we could turn the clock back to those heady days. Maybe we will be looking back a few years from now thinking the same.
One of those still exists, the rest not so much.
Been putting off checking what my new rates are likely to be as there is so little I can do about it.
A mere five and a half grand increase a year.
A mere five and a half grand increase a year.
The world started to go wrong when a packet of Space Invaders stopped being 10p.
about the time thatcher nicked the milk
Starting to wish I never threw that calor gas heater in the skip couple of years ago when sorting out shed.
Been putting off checking what my new rates are likely to be as there is so little I can do about it.
A mere five and a half grand increase a year.
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Now thats a quote and a half, if you just leave it stay on the capped amount it would be a fraction of that, still a £1600 increase though based on your current usage.
It was also in the news the last couple of days Octopus making a big deal about their new variable rate being £48 below the price cap, those fixes look like they are taking the ****.
Last June I fixed electric and gas with Octopus until July 23. Yes I'm feeling smug
Hope they don't go bust
Hope they don't go bust
They could well include the reduction but £48 off isn’t a lot when the price rise are so big.
I don’t think the conversation about price caps against an average household helps. Years of acceptable prices means people have just been paying and not looking at how much they consume.
Average a year appears to be 12000 kWh of gas and 2900 kWh of electricity for 2-3 people living in a 3-4 bed medium size house.
Yes I've always thought the whole price cap calculation thing wasnt very well thought out, I have no doubt that there will have been a lot of people out there who saw the price cap figure when it first came out and thought that it meant that they could use as much gas and electric as they wanted and only ever paid the max price cap, and possibly still do. It would have been far clearer to give the price cap as an actual rate per KWh and standing charge rate for each utility.
To complicate matters even further the price cap is also different depending on what region you live in.
So your beloved Stern are weak, don't let Gary hear you.
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If you read her autobiography she actually regretted this alot and ensured that a similar move to take it away from nursery's was stopped. Given the ****ed up state the UK was in when she came to power and the economic powerhouse we where we she left I think the milk is worth forgiving her for.
I've told them several times.
To save on energy within pinballs maybe we need a trevor bayliss powered pin.
People need to move to LED. Just saying.To save on energy within pinballs maybe we need a trevor bayliss powered pin.
true. i hate incandescent. even in old EMs. they’re bloody awful. dim, hot, energy suckers.People need to move to LED. Just saying.
I always swap em back to proper bulbs, it’s how they was meant to bePeople need to move to LED. Just saying.
(90s stuff) I just can’t see the ball properly with LED with the 60hz flicker you just see like strobe frames of it.@Neil McRae what os do you think pinballs should run if not linux? Linux is light weight quick and license free it’s ideal for imbedded systems.
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Linux is fine, it just needs to be a distro with something with more security than a rusty old padlock.
Linux is 100% not license free.
Linux is 100% not license free.
Linux it self is licence free, what you put on it might need a license.
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No - it is licensed under GNU and the GNU license is a shocker - go read it!
If it’s not free there are about a billion illegal devices out there. Inc pretty much every raspberry pi.
GNU is usually free, you do need to include all the license files etc.. but you don’t need to pay to use / share / sell it.
Iv never come across an imbedded product using Linux that had to pay for it, it’s the reason pretty much every phone is android (Linux) why every router is Linux why every tv is webIOS (Linux) they can use it for free.
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The Linux Kernel is licensed under GPL2. Under the terms of this license, Stern must offer to provide the source code with any modifications they've made.
Note that this doesn't apply to Stern's actual game code (which runs the machine, decodes the assets, etc.), only the open-source components like the kernel and other libraries not written by Stern. They do make modifications to the kernel, and don't offer any source. So they are breaching GPL terms.
The spirit of pinball has always been open with mechanical diagrams, schematics, etc. provided in the manual and that's part of what drew me into the hobby.
Note that this doesn't apply to Stern's actual game code (which runs the machine, decodes the assets, etc.), only the open-source components like the kernel and other libraries not written by Stern. They do make modifications to the kernel, and don't offer any source. So they are breaching GPL terms.
Security can only go so far with physical access. The Connected stuff needs to be robust to any remote threats for sure, but fighting mods like PB, scorbit, etc. is a losing battle
The spirit of pinball has always been open with mechanical diagrams, schematics, etc. provided in the manual and that's part of what drew me into the hobby.
We could do with nationalisation of the energy industry worldwide. Far too much money drifting out of ordinary peoples bank accounts into the hands of the already wealthy minority. Water & energy are 21C basic human rights and should be run by non profit organisations who reinvest all surplus funds they earn back into generation and infrastructure. It’s unlikely to happen, so jump on the money grabber bandwagon and buy shares in water and energy companies - the healthy dividends you receive will help subsidise your bills
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