Temperature control seems to have so much delay that it seesaws wildly and isn’t actually useful in practice. I couldn’t get mine to boil eggs without it stopping the boil constantly, unless I set it to 160°+ IIRC.

It’s Lemmy.ml, where the mods are tankies.

IoT could be great, but can’t be created by capitalism. If you hand e.g. Town Planning to the Ku Klux Klan and they just use it to screw over black people, that doesn’t mean town planning is bad, it means the KKK are bad and shouldn’t be trusted with jack shit.

The problem with the IoT is that the convenience/feature gains are marginal and commodifiable, whereas the gains from selling data are massive and direct to the manufacturer. Also there’s every incentive to lock down your ecosystem and avoid compatibility with competitors, and there’s no incentive to invest in security either.

Name a case where someone actually prefers a horse for actual work that isn’t just about the novelty of having a horse do it…

All sorts of rough terrain stuff, where hooves work great but wheels don’t. For example, hilly terrain on a ranch.

Anywhere where you have plenty of pasture to feed a horse for cheaper than the oil cost of a car/motorbike. Or just needed to be more off-grid than an early automobile would easily provide.

Anytime you want a self-driving vehicle. If you were blackout drunk in the 1900s you could stagger to your horse and your horse could carry you home by itself.

Basically anytime you didn’t need the extra horsepower/speed - my mother would talk about a veggie seller when she was growing up, who had a horsecart in the 1950s/60s that went up and down High Street every day kind of like an ice cream van would today. The horse would walk along and stop when someone came out, and then when someone bought some veggies the horse would tend to cheekily start walking right around the end of the purchase instead of waiting for the veggie seller to tell him first. Could he have bought a truck? Maybe, but trucks were expensive so maybe he just couldn’t afford it. Either way, why bother? The better specs aren’t even useful for the task. Nowadays this would be impossible as it’s now illegal to go that slowly down High Street, due to all the cars.

Why would it piss them off? They’ll just push over your bike, anyone who parks like that doesn’t give a shit.

I was expecting a cat. Plz fix.

Yes, but also this wouldn’t be as much of a problem if Europe had invested more into renewables - switched more extensively from gas/oil heating to electric, been less NIMBY about renewables and wind turbines in particular, built more electrified rail.

This is Europe’s third oil/gas crisis in a decade. It should be seen as the new normal by now.

I’m pretty sure “beardos” is only there to rhyme with “weirdos”.

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No they’re not. Plenty of MAGAts are just monarchists, or think that Trump will fix the USA, without having a specifically Christian ideal. Also a handful of them are Jewish, e.g. Ben Shapiro.

Give me $500 and I’ll commission an artist then send the resulting art through a fax machine AI generator.

I imagine it’s like photography, where the main skill is in positioning and such. Or like any art, where having the right eyes and good taste is what makes good art great. A real artist could make prettier slop than a layman could.

On the one hand: Yes, go to the ballot and vote blue. Even if they’re 99% Hitler. If you think you have “nothing to lose”, go look at Syria or Russia. ‘The worst the Republicans could do’ is worse than you can imagine.

On the other hand: Have you ever heard of the ultimatum game? Imagine you and a friend are offered $100, and your friend offers you a split of $X. You can either accept the $X, or reject it and you both get nothing. You might think you should accept the $X no matter how low, but if the scenario happens again and you have rejected low values last time, your friend will be more likely to offer you a fair X. Otherwise, if your friend’s a bastard (and he is), he’ll offer you $1.

Anyway, in 2020 the X offered was a Biden, and in 2024 the X offered was a Kamala. If every Leftist votes for Biden/Kamala/Next, then the DNC will keep offering the same dogshit or even shift right because 1) they want to grab more centrist voters (who won’t vote for a more progressive candidate), and 2) they won’t lose any leftist voters so why not. And then when the right-shifted candidate loses they’ll blame it on “leftists didn’t vote enough” anyway, in spite of the statistics saying otherwise.

So in other words: If you’re willing to vote for a 99% Hitler, don’t be surprised if you’re offered a 99% Hitler. Unless you’re expecting the DNC to be extremely principled, anti-corruption, and spineful?

“Vote blue no matter who” isn’t a solution; it’s forfeiting democracy (if you follow it, you literally don’t get to choose not to vote blue) in pursuit of… not letting Republicans in. Great! The Dems reliably prevented Trump from being re-elected, right? No, he trod water in the status quo but didn’t actually fix the core problems, so Trump’s “vote me in and I’ll burn down the system” still resonated with voters. But hey, at least Biden prosecuted Trump and all the criminals who he enabled to flagrantly break the law and rewrite it to their benefit? Not really, no.

“Vote Blue No Matter Who” is a travesty which can be at best justified as a strategy of lesser evil - but still evil. If it doesn’t have an expiry date then you’ve already abolished democracy, and that’s fucking horrifying, even if it’s the correct strategy.

Shipping containers are a bad idea because 1) you need to cut holes for doors/windows and that destroys the stack ability, 2) any shipping container old enough to not be resellable (and therefore costly) is not in a good condition to make a house out of, 3) you still need a foundation and pipes/power so you’re not saving that much money compared to a wood frame, and 4) steel sucks at insulation like you said (not to mention shipping containers don’t have eaves).

You know, we could make them even cheaper by cramming them so close they share walls and then stacking them on top of each other. And because they’re all together, we can call them apartments.

Not openly. He allegedly admitted it to his ghostwriter, behind closed doors, but publicly denies it. He claims it was a misunderstanding, which is plausible.

Yes, but for any given technology successfully replaced, there were multiple attempts with tech that were unsuccessful. In the 1890s everyone thought shipping would be replaced by airships, and yet despite every aerospace engineer’s best efforts they remain niche at best. What replaced seaships? Planes! JK it’s still 90% seaships.

Don’t worry, the cost inflation of HS2 could easily be achieved on any maglev project too.

Got a link?

Put this thing in a VM and then let a scammer remote into it, see what he does.