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sabreW4K3

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Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.

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I didn't even notice that 😂

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I happen to agree with you, but the problem is that it's not right off the bat. London is very complicated, with narrow streets and bendy roads. Moving to light railway/trolley is a massive investment and TfL is already in deficit.

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I actually think it's something London should invest in. I remember watching a video where it said the longevity of trolley cars dwarves busses. Currently London busses have a self life of around 15 years, if we can get trolleys that last half a century and remain comfortable and modern feeling, it's worth it. But London roads are far from equipped for them.

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Do you tunnel your usage through a VPN?

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I thought seedboxes were a torrent thing?

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Nice. You took it one step further than I would've and in such a nice way.

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Once again I look at Sundar Pichai and ask, what is the point of you? Under his stewardship, Android has lost all signs of life. The Android community is dead. There's been no innovation and the little bits of innovation they had created in recent years were quickly sunset. The last selling point of a Pixel was the quick updates and long update life but now everyone offers seven years. No identity, no community, no selling point, just blandness! They don't even leverage their money to offer cheaper hardware, the Pixel Tablet with Dock is compelling in its form factor, but upon closer look, it's less than mid-range specs, sub-par speaker performance and all with an over inflated price. At least eat the cost so that you can get one or two of these in every home. The only thing that's impressed me in recent years is bundling the watches.

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I really need to install Graphene and have a proper play with it.

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Samsung committed to seven years before Google and look at the length of support Apple were offering. Maybe we have different definitions of innovation.

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It's a shame. I remember the Google+ days when they were playing with app redesigns. Those days were fun.

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Sorry, I remembered incorrectly and thus my information was wrong. They offered four years back when Google was only offering two

https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-phone-seven-years-security-updates/

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"Boxing Streams", you ask? Hmmm. Maybe try searching for that exact term. Not that I would know.

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They're trying way too hard?

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It's like blocking IP addresses when most people have dynamic IPs. It looks like you're being hard on people and doing lots, but in reality, you're just harming innocent users.

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I disagree, there's many legitimate reasons to run VPNs. Even if said users are few in number, they shouldn't be assumed to be dodgy.

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Holy shit. That was really good.

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Nice find

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I like dark mode, but not black. In fact there's plenty of research available that mentions how poor white text on a black background is. Coupled with the font and yuck! Good luck to them though.

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Just the other day, me and @rottingleaf "designed" a new messenger to combat things like this: https://lazysoci.al/comment/9619656

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I'm surprised that Slack beat Discord to it.

But yeah, you're right. We need to invest our time, energy and support into self hosted solutions.

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I think that's the issue. We're all so used to the idea of free storage and we're not cognizant of the consequences. If we start holding some of our chips in our own hands, all these corporations won't be able to sell us out and abuse us so easily.

Also thank you!

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Further helping the Chinese? Come TF on and get real. When did America ever help China? In fact when did America help anyone? America got greedy and has sucked all of the possible profit they could from American industry, when they decided to outsource it.

It started off as raw materials and then became wholesale manufacturing and China quickly became very good at making all the things you felt you were too good to make and then became very good at the things you needed them to make and now they're just all round very good at doing all the things that you stopped doing so a handful of executives could have a larger bonus.

Help the Chinese? You're drowning in your own shit and demanding China save you like you're doing them a favour. America, the UK, let's just say, the West in general needs China more than China needs us and its because of greedy CEOs and politicians who only see things in the short term. The idea that you're helping China is your propaganda, it's not reality.

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Without Western outsourcing, China would be economically like North Korea.

Would/Could/Should

I have a feeling you're on of those guys that thinks NK is Wakanda, though, so maybe that's not as useful an analogy as I'd hope.

Ad hominem attacks, really?! Have a good day.

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In a study conducted by Axios, researchers found that a significant portion of modern pickup truck owners rarely, if never, use their vehicles for hauling, towing, or other typical truck stuff. Instead, they are more likely to be used for shopping, running errands, and commuting.

American pickup truck culture is far from practical, it's habitual. I truly hope our generation can break that culture. Death to pickup trucks, SUVs and sports crossovers

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I like the idea of doing this at the grid level. Especially if locally you have heat pumps on all houses, so it's really just topping up.

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+90% efficiency. It drops when converting to electricity.

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The video shows a commercial application with +60% RTE.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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Can we not integrate the TES into the building structure?

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Article? It's a YouTube video link

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😂

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They're saying that storing it underground could mitigate the size issues. Though I query if we'd need these if we simply installed ground source heat pumps everywhere?

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Sorry I couldn't be of more help

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You're right and all my blinds are Venetian, so I should've thought of that.

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Thanks for this post. I have a friend with baby wrist and maybe Colemak will make her return to work easier.

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I totally forgot. But I'm in front of my TV now. Sadly I can't test. It won't let me into the app unless I log in.

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How did it go?

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Glad you're sorted.

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Forgive me if I sound like I'm trying to over simplify things.

So your coordinator is the piece of hardware that listens for Zigbee devices. You typically plug your coordinator into your Pi or NUC on an extension cable and coupled with an add-on in Home Assistant or two, it will convert that to Mosquitto which is a Home Assistant readable format.

When you're going through things, just make as many threads as need be and people will offer advice. In the meantime, this video should help

https://youtu.be/sFSqgiOoPMs

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