I personally use the original amazfit bip. Cannot be newthough, I sourced mine from aliexpress, and even there they are ex-demo and stuff. Heart rate sensor isn’t amazing but I don’t know if that’s maybe my hairy arm. The main reason I got it, can be used with gadget bridge, for best privacy

Edit: worth noting that I had to flash it with English firmware, which did mean I had to use the official app originally

There’s now more product competitors now. Also is this a sign that parts shortages are easing?

Yeah after at least 2 mild summers, it really does seem like our time is up. El Nino is also flagged for this summer http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/outlook/

Gas hot water heaters tend to be a lot more efficient than gas cooktops. The flat bottom of most pots and pans means a lot of heat will escape up the sides, but hot water heaters can be designed with this in mind. On pots, I have one that basically has heatsink fins on the bottom to better capture the gas heat, but this is far from typical.

Environmental issues aside, gas is also a pain for installation. Solid pipes are more difficult to route, and leaks are, of course, dangerous. Electricity is dangerous, but it is easier to contain. It doesn’t leak into the air, and because it’s a closed loop, we can measure if it isn’t all returning and shut it off (RCD/GFCI). It also has flexible cables. The downside is that, heat pumps require more maintenance. They’re a vaguely complicated mechanical system, as many fluid systems are.

Deaths are sad, if we consider that people can be brainwashed and it isn’t entirely their fault, it’s a tragedy.

That said, this is… Evolution in action. I don’t just mean darwin awards dumb, but more specifically that technologies (social or physical) are actually a part of Evolution, not aside from it. That also means that dealing with misinformation is actually becoming a part of evolution, literally for survival. Or if not critical thinking, then what group you attach yourself to, aka what network you trust. Which in some ways, is actually not all that different from before modern technologies.

Rubicons especially

Yes. Email forwarding from arbitrary email addresses at my domain

Here I’ve been doing that manually with my own domain. Wonder if it will allow you to use your own domain.

It’s a fair question, but then I might revisit the question, what is the threat model? Which is higher risk? Online attack, or Fire while at home, where you are isolated from a device you’d likely also try to use to call emergency services? It is a genuine question, rate of attack on the public is probably not that substantial, but fire is also not super likely.

Though you have got me thinking, an outdoor fire safe near the front of the property… though probably only possible if you live in suburbia.

I put my recovery codes on paper. I’ve said elsewhere, but the threat model has changed. Heck, I even printed my password vault with paperba©k using wine once (shredded it shortly after because i didn’t have a proper storage procedure.

I see two different, perhaps even 3 different questions here. The first is the headline: Is crypto dead. The second and perhaps third are: Will it recover to where it was before and sustain as an industry.

The short answer to the first is pretty obvious to me: No. Crypto will settle in a niche, which might just be cross border payments beyond effective monitoring.

For the second: No. The title here in this case is abridged, it conflates the bubble of crypto with cryto itself. It bypasses Bettridges law of headlines by combining two questions in one. Honestly I couldn’t be bothered bypassing the paywall so I didn’t read the whole article. Market activity is correlated to interest, and number of people who haven’t yet been hit by a wave of FOMO, and either went with it or dismissed it. Web3 is failing to catch on, that was the latest gambit, and there hasn’t been any clues that something else is in the pipeline. I partially attribute this to Folding Ideas, who did great breakdowns of both NFTs and The Metaverse. The NFT one was easily his most popular video, and while not so engaging, that someone who very quickly came on the stage as a market force of crypto, releasing yet another video against the entire thing, is big, even if not so watched. So we might actually be looking at the market not just reaching yet more heights.

However, this is where the third question comes in. It’s linked, but not quite the same as will the markets recover. The retail side of things is going to start consolidating, but there’s still institutional momentum behind the scenes that has some momentum. This will continue to build out, because they’re offering the tools. Even if the market shrinks, there is still a place for them, and they’re betting the market doesn’t completely implode, which doesn’t seem that likely. There’s enough true believers and other people treating it still as a viable investment to still allow it to shrink and sustain as a boring investment vehicle. It might even get a few more blips, but it seems like the FOMO news articles getting out into the wider public won’t do their thing anymore. Boring is what I envision the future of crypto to be.

It’s a fair point. If you go to a business and go, hey I’ve got something for you, are you interested, then yeah that’s entrepreneurship. I suppose the difference is that the role there isn’t well defined. So maybe that’s a significant difference, direction of solicitation.

Reminds me of the Bloomberg thing on spy chips a while back that wasn’t really substantiated.

If they don’t have alternative sources of work, then they effectively work for Amazon, and it should be legislated as such. That excuse only works in a labour market with a lot of competition on both the supply and demand sides. Legislative systems really need to be more nimble to keep up with the loopholes that larger organisations can put money into investigating. But yeah, we all know why that doesn’t happen.

Taking example numbers from the article, but not explicitly stated, it kind of sounds like 15 floors, about 60m tall, is the point in which density starts to sacrifice ecological concerns too much.

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the CTBUH, the whole life emissions of both energy use and materials for a 120m concrete and steel structure are nearly five times higher than those of its 60m equivalent.

That’s still tall enough for many things, so I guess the rest should be handled by a bit more space use and better mass transit.

That is a fair point. I suppose, because you just described me, that yeah I do happen to have my own office, but not everyone can.

I guess the irony is then, Reddit is going to experience this exact problem as mods have fewer tools at their disposal.

Just go with the harsh moderation.

Meta has the capacity to make really evil products, let’s not start the EEE treadmill.