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

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

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Holy shit. That was really good.

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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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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.

sabreW4K3 OP ,
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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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I remember I used to use Winamp then Sonique then Foobar 2000 and that's when I switched to Linux.

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Yep, the press release says opening the source code. It also says they're inviting developers to contribute.

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I'm assuming that they don't have enough revenue to continue paying developers, so they're trying to find free labour and this is the last gasp attempt to keep WinAmp alive.

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Google under Sundar Pichai is a terrible company that only succeeds based on its size and monopoly. Let's be honest, they're saying that search results will become secondary as they push their service. How do you, as a CEO and board, sign off on an idea that kills most of your (ad) revenue pursuing something that you haven't even figured out how to monetize? Make it make sense.

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There's a bunch of things you can add to normal blinds to make them smart, the problem you'll face is that most of them are battery powered.

First example: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EGSpRhZ

Second example: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwOUwWR

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Sorry I couldn't be of more help

sabreW4K3 ,
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You're right and all my blinds are Venetian, so I should've thought of that.

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Rather than raise tariffs, wouldn't it be better to increase standards?

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Rather than make it more expensive to import cheap solar panels, wouldn't it be better to make the required standards more stringent. That way, if China makes tonnes of high quality cheap solar panels, US consumers can still buy them cheap while being assured of their quality.

Concurrently, the US manufacturers can figure out how to reduce costs to compete.

It just seems to me that artificially increasing prices doesn't do very much except line the pockets of authorities and hurt the average person trying to be more green.

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Settings shortcut: Settings > Account settings

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I’m not stopping you, lol

I would argue that what you're doing is far worse, you're tempting me! 😭

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Done

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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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