u/Yutenji2020

The SSO (https://www.energy.gov.au/rebates/solar-sharer-offer) looks very interesting, especially in our new "rare spikes" world.

It relies on the Retailer being part of the SSO. Does anyone know if Amber is part of SSO?

I've got a call into Amber to ask them, but historically they've been slow to reply.

2 years ago I thought Amber was amazing, and told everyone who would listen, plus a few who had no choice.
Since then it seems to have slowly moved to the "Trump" approach, getting worse and worse almost as if they're trying to see how much we'll put up with.
Examples:
- Frequent 'app failures' and / or 'behind.-the-scenes' failures
- Very inaccurate forecasting. Today, for ex. in NSW the forecast for the next 5min is 23c (been similar all morning), but when the actual rate comes along is >35c (i.e 50% higher)
- Smartshift. I have had to take to manually instructing the battery to charge to 100% by 3pm because I can see the rates will be higher in the evening. Why can't Smartshift even manage that no-brainer? [My solar is low, but I charge from the grid at a low rate to offset the evening higher rate).
- "Smartshift has sent a command to your battery" Yay! Any chance of knowing what tf that command was?
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You don't need to reply to this. I just had to get it off my chest.

Sorry in advance for the bleak subject, but I’m trying to be ready …

Our Labrador is 15yo, in good shape for her age, but the bad day can’t be too far away when she’ll leave us. She’s already slowing down a lot.

It’ll be awful for me and my family and I know it’ll fall upon me to handle the practical stuff. I don’t want to disrespect her nor make things worse for my family by blundering around, not knowing what to do.

Can someone layout some simple advice on what to do on the day, and in advance, to reduce the stress?

I was just looking at a photo of an aircraft carrier and realized I’ve never seen one with the bridge/tower on the port side.

Is there some practical reason, or some country arbitrarily started that way and it just became convention?