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No disagreement here. But what’s the 80/20 rule for the concerned? A couple of HEPA filters or move out to the wilderness?

Very cool. What I’ve always failed to understand (despite some effort) is this: what’s the impact of IAQ on a person without breathing difficulties on a “normal” day in a major city? Or is IAQ really the domain of those at risk of wildfire smoke and/or medical conditions?

Yes! Those are all great things, I just don’t think any of them are quite as impactful embedded in a keyboard as a desktop computer.

As much as I hate to say it, Raspberry Pi has lost the affordable edge with these new “higher end” Pi 5s - tons of mini pc importers are delivering much better specs for under $200 now. The older, cheaper tiny Pi models that can do fun things for $40 are the niche that they should keep focusing on.

Astros just went 8-1 against 3 of your top 4 and you still have them 5th. Cowards!

Move to a self-hosted or privacy oriented mail host. Sucks but no way to avoid training Gemini otherwise. (I’m mid-move to Proton)

Where’s the Houston happy
Hour?

So the problem is UPFs, not plant-based diets. Excluding things from your diet still doesn’t excuse you from the extra effort to fill those gaps with healthy nutrients. Let’s compare to the climate intensity of meats?

Forcing delivery drivers to unattainable numbers of deliveries each day is leading to way more undelivered packages than “porch pirates” - but boogeymen are easier to blame

Reading this from Indonesia - the Tempeh here is great!
And the new generation of beyond meat type products was never for vegetarians… stuff is gross. Just make a bean burger.

Going off grid in TX means off grid with HVAC - 22kWh is only going to run your AC for ~5hrs. Unfortunately the standby generators still win this one. I know folks who have done it with solar + battery and it is a $60k+ proposition unless you make major concessions.

2b) utility TOU rates give customers clear price signals that let them self-schedule to the benefit of the grid and their bill, but implementing these at scale takes forever and customers don’t seem to actually load shift. What kind of DER management model can exist without being enshittified?

2) Grid systems today expect DERs in VPPs to give control of the asset over to the VPP operator to create grid svc. value, but how much control is fair to ask for? Administering these programs at small scale (and paying DER OEMs for APIs) can cost more than the program makes, ergo enshittification

Can’t wait for this. Two ideas - 1) electrification is a capital-intensive exercise with complicated incentives AND complicated ways to get a payback. Typical solar/battery/HEM sales channels suck. Some non-profits working w/ Solar For All are taking this on. Is electrification a public service?