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  • C [email protected]

    It’s ridiculous how obsolete US utility companies are, especially water companies that often require you to show up to their office in person to activate service or set up automatic payments (You want a voided paper check? I don’t even have checks for my account. What’s wrong with a debit card?).

    And they go crazy with their estimated bills. I worked an IT job where I’d fly to some city in the US for a week of work, fly home on Friday, do laundry and submit expense reports, and do it all again the next week. Was pretty much never home. Got a water bill for $300+, and they wanted to try and argue with me that the bill was correct. They suggested maybe I had a leak somewhere, as if a leak that resulted in a $300+ bill wouldn’t have been causing some blatantly obvious issues that I would have seen.

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    Oh, it's unreal. You probably know this, but for anyone else reading the thread: water meters have a leak indicator. On analog meters, it's a small spinning indicator; it could be a dial, needle, or just a spinning icon.

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    • fredselfish@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

      Jokes on them. My electric company reads the meter from thier office and can shut power down remotely.

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      Fill their office with wasps, problem solved

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      • fredselfish@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

        They can shut your power remotely.

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        Exactly.

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        • fredselfish@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

          Jokes on them. My electric company reads the meter from thier office and can shut power down remotely.

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          Same here and a hell of a security risk if you think about it

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          • tired_n_bored@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

            Same here and a hell of a security risk if you think about it

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            Congratulations! We've been misreporting your electricity use and have remediated the charges. You now owe $4200 in past due charges, due immediately, or your service will be terminated.

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            • tired_n_bored@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

              Same here and a hell of a security risk if you think about it

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              Hopefully they set a password unlike that water supply facility

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              • J [email protected]

                Oh, it's unreal. You probably know this, but for anyone else reading the thread: water meters have a leak indicator. On analog meters, it's a small spinning indicator; it could be a dial, needle, or just a spinning icon.

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                I’m confused, how does this leak indicator work?

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                • kairubyte@lemmy.dbzer0.comK [email protected]

                  I’m confused, how does this leak indicator work?

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                  Whenever even a slight amount of water flows, it spins. Shut off all the faucets and spigots, and it should not move. If it moves, you have a leak.

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                  • B [email protected]

                    Every month is wild. Do the electricity prices change based on the season or why can't they just calculate the average over a year?

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                    Wait fuck I switched up gas and electricity. Electricity used to zo be done that way but then they installed the automated meters.

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                    • N [email protected]

                      That's some top tier capitalism right there. And i always thought Norway was one of the more forward thinking countries in Europe.

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                      it is a capitalist solution to solar and wind being unpredictable, and from what I understand it works fairly well at incentivizing batteries and solar power usage.

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