A hot bath being wasteful because you have to heat water and need a sewer is ridiculous.

Solar water heaters are a thing and grey water reuse is also a thing.

You don’t even need electricity to have a private bath.

In addition, prior to the modern era regular bathing was often a privilege of the elite, not to mention the hygiene concerns of a giant bowl of people soup.

Bathhouses still exist in the form of steam rooms and the like, and you could make an argument about the inefficiency of personal hot tubs, but those are more specific examples of “bathing” as a recreational activity and not a hygienic one.

It would be a crying shame if someone were to figure out a way to force those e ink displays to refresh fast enough that it kills the batteries on those things…

Nate Silver is a prime example of this thing that happens a lot with technical people. They get good at describing what is and then they start to think they understand “why”. Sometimes a good understanding can lead you to the why of a situation, but often you need actual experts to analyze the data you’ve collected.

The whole thing about the way his methods work is based on not actually understanding the interactions of the inputs he’s selected.

His book was interesting, but I wouldn’t trust his analysis too much.

“Make Tornadoes a Surprise Again!”

Source: I’ve been an embedded sw engineer for 10+ years

This seems like a pretty decent resource generally speaking. I’ll add this caveat though.

If your threat model includes anyone with large state level resources, you should stay very far away from anything with a radio in it. Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC, whatever, it doesn’t matter. It is possible for it to be compromised at a silicon level, which means you can never be sure it is fully secure.

You have to assume that anything transmitted via RF of any type is capable of being collected and compromised.

All that said, if your concern actually does include people with black helicopters, you already know this, and if it doesn’t, just remember that these technologies are getting cheaper and more ubiquitous all the time (see stingray), so be careful.

This feels like one of those things that’s kind of a confirmation of existing common knowledge. If you have dogs, you are probably very aware that dogs know certain words and develop expectations around routinely used words and actions. For example, running through a list of words my dogs know and gauging their reactions will tell me exactly what they want nine times out of ten.

Dog boops. “Food?” … “Water?” … “Outside?” Tilt “You want outside?” Dogs stampede to door

It’s kind of wild how much they understand of vocabulary, but add in the way they read faces and body language, it’s frankly amazing.

GE PFVQ97HSPV0DS - the combo one. There’s six of us, 2 adults 4 kids. You basically just can’t do a “laundry day.” We’re newly on a septic system too, so we shouldn’t be doing that anyway from what I understand.

We are basically doing at least a load of laundry a day. We’ve had it since November, if you pack it more than halfway full we’ve found that running it on a timed dry cycle works better than sensor dry.

My wife hates the sensor dry cycle regardless because when stuff comes out it feels “hot and damp” but by the time it hits room temperature it just feels clean and dry to me.

You have to clean the lint trap every cycle (I didn’t know people didn’t do that anyway) and there’s a black filter that has to be washed out every 30 or so cycles, which is a few minutes, it’s not like you have to dry it out again.

Honestly, I’ll probably line dry blankets and stuff when it warms up a bit, but I did that with our old resistive one too.

Either way, this thing works just as well as any other washer and dryer I’ve used, you just have to make sure to keep the filters and seals clean so it drains and dries properly.

It works fine for us, a larger than average American family. It takes basically the same time s load would to go through both a wash and a dry cycle.

This is why I bought a heat pump clothes dryer. Such a great set of videos.

If I were to try to explain it to my 9 year old in the shortest way possible:

“It’s the exact same thing as an air conditioner but you play an uno reverse card on it.”

I’m working on moving to local control as much as possible for my smart home stuff. Switched to zwave for my thermostat from nest, excellent move, I don’t lose connection (and automations) randomly anymore.

Also ripping all my optical media for jellyfin to avoid relying on these assholes deleting stuff from their streaming catalogs for tax breaks.

It’s not just google, it’s all of these companies.

Google is not an endpoint if you wanna be a money-laden tech bro. To get real cash you gotta create a startup and grift some money out of VCs. To do that, it helps if you “innovated something totally new” at someplace with name recognition like Google.

Everything except search and ads are simply practice grifts before the real grift. You cannot rely on any Google product to last for any length of time, even properties Google purchases will lose reliability as they fall into disrepair and neglect, see Nest.

I used to love Google everything, I was on the wave beta. I was one of the first with a cr-48. It is sad for those of us that want to contribute to something big, cool, and impactful, watch for fuschia to implode next, I think it already started when they “had” to layoff “over hires.”

One or two person teams don’t put a man on the moon. It takes a lot of really smart people working on very small specific things together to make world changing stuff happen, the culture of Big Tech is not conducive to “real” work anymore. It’s big grifts run by little grifters.

By non-believers I mean people who don’t actually drink the Kool aid they’re serving.

Fascism is a tool of the power hungry and vain that makes the unremarkable and mediocre feel special enough to hate their slightly different neighbors and embolden the worst aspects of humanity.

It’s wielded by non-believers cynically who either foolishly believe they can avoid the inevitable blood soaked ending or they don’t care. Either way, it doesn’t end well for anyone involved.