Can someone ELI5 ? VAT collected by companies including hotels has to be paid to the government. Here the government pays the invoices VAT included. Isn’t this operation neutral ? Since this seems to be a big issue, I guess not. What am I missing ?

Do you think you get 5 days workweeks and paid holidays just because your ancestors politely asked for it ?

Well I exaggerated the « being sliced in two », what I ment is that it can be a bit painful when you’re moving forward and the doors are closing at the speed of light. And when they close, it looks like there are no sensors, it feels like you have to fight your way out of the crocodile mouth.

Some people do not know they will have to scan, but can we blame them ? I feel the ones not ready to scan are not daily commuters, they take the metro occasionally, are waiting in the lane without visibility on the gate, and see they have to scan only when it’s their turn.

Nice ! That is almost 0 kWh daily, isn’t it ?

1100 per month. To be honest we were invited to pay that insane amount by Luminus but never agreed to. We then switched to Engie. Current monthly invoice is 300, since it’s the first year with PV I don’t know what to expect. My elec and gas consumption are at zero for a few week but they still show some daily amount in the application. What is also insane is the price they buy the kWh (~10 cent) from the PV vs the price we buy the kWh (~ 40 cent?)

Hi, old small house from 1950 here. My monthly payments had been increased from 180 EUR in 2015 for gas + elec to 1100 EUR at the peak of the crisis last year. I could not afford paying that much and as I did not know how much it would last, I went to the bank and subscribed a 12 years loan. Here is what I improved during last year, with contractors :

• New roof with 12cm exterior insulation
• Solar panels on the new roof
• Battery 5kWh
• New gas boiler in replacement of 20yo gas boiler
• new thermodynamics boiler for water heating with PV energy in the summer
• New pellets stove in order to have a second source of heating.

Thanks to those, I’m 99% self sufficient in the summer.

On my own I DIY interior isolation in the sleeping room upstairs (low cost but high comfort addition as the walls are not super cold anymore).

What I regret not doing, because too big , complex, and afraid of humidity / moisture : exterior isolation of all the walls and/or between the two layers of bricks.

Thank you for the link. I read it and it was helpful. Now understand that I can read, post and subscribe to communities on other instances while staying connected only to Lemmy.world.

May I ask how it does look like to live in Taiwan ? Are you afraid for your future there because of geopolitics ?

I like it. I like that there is no Karma, the possibility to view downvotes. Actually I’m not missing Reddit.

I still have to understand how I can view other Lemmy instances content. And how to login using brave on IOS which is currently not working.