GreatAlbatross

This is roughly what we have in the UK.

For electricity, the standing charge is 61.6p/day, then 23.3p/kWh.
And gas is 29.6p/day, then 6.1p/kWh. (The numbers vary, and you can choose to lock rates for the duration of a contract).

There has been some discussion of it in recent years (after it doubled, thanks Putin).
Whether it is fair for people using less energy…But in reality, everyone has similar 100 or 60A connections to the grid.
There are tarrifs for very low users, where the standing charge is combined with the first kWh.

Once I’m off the gas boiler, and on a heat pump, I may get my gas disconnected to save the standing charge.

On a tangent, as you may be interested, we now have the option of flexible electricity pricing that tracks the wholesale rates for the day. Usually, it’s cheaper, sometimes even negative. Link.
However, this week there has been a lot of expensive energy, so it’s been butting up against the £1/kWh limit!

I knew I shouldn’t have given away my 7850!

I love Mint for this reason.

When my OS works well enough that I don’t even have to think about it day to day, it’s doing its job.

Why make a new area on a new engine, when you can sell an old area on an old engine?

crack

Don’t forget “Give them an identical badass twin sister”.

I still don’t get why my laptop shipped with BIOS raid enabled.
It only has one drive!

There is nothing wrong with using things that “just work” when you need them to.
Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.

You have to clean it regularly using a cleaner that descales.

You take the green USB, it’s Ventoy.
You click the wrong option in the list, and suddenly it’s GParted.

Kinda like the BeltBox, but less brightly coloured.