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

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

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.

Fundamentally I do agree with your original comment, was just commenting because I essentially have nothing to delete from Reddit lol.

Yeah I used to be a Lurker, but since coming here, I’ve been making a point to contribute more.

Yeah of course. To me, the news was also that they actually posted it direct to Reddit. I also just posted a thing about power prices, but not as it relates to any politics.

Actually, I would like to add, as is stated in this post, they are also limiting bonds. I knew about this prior, because working adjacent the real estate industry, it was actually big news. Of course their clients want to get as much bond as they can, and now the vast majority of rentals won’t be able to take as much now.

Not only would we need to swap out a gas heater, hot water, and a new stove, we would very likely need an upgraded electricity supply. Our old house has a 35A main breaker, maybe that is what was considered enough 53 years ago. I don’t know what capacity the cable itself has though. Exactly how far would the carrot side of any such program go?

Sounds like the military is saying “stop hiding civil services in the military budget”. Or put another way, the cost of climate change is gradually being revealed.

Seems like a typical response when you have more applicants than postings. This basically happens with job interviews too. If we didn’t have such a housing shortage, people wouldn’t care as much. More infill! Less kowtowing to developers!

I’m waiting for the RedReader dev to put in lemmy, he has expressed interest.

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.

To some extent, yes, but also no. This is just a symptom of wealth accumulation, it’s not all about ‘boomers’ it’s about greedy people, it just so happens that many boomers were in a strong position to be greedy and get lucky. We still have corporations and banks making too much money, we shouldn’t forget about those.

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

At least power prices are only $2000 a year or so, Rental price and interest rate hikes are going to hit a fair bit harder. But yeah, it’s still contributing to inflation, because everything is going up, and then corpos will use this as justification to raise their prices even further. Wonder how much of this is because of the fuel price spikes mid last year.

I am on Amber, and yeah we got to directly feel the brunt of it. Other providers absorbed the cost in the short term, to raise their prices in the long term to recoup. The prices on amber are looking a bit more sane these days, but it’s still a roller coaster so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you want to actually keep an eye on power prices as you’re using it. fwiw I’m in SA, which is a little different to the markets in the rest of the NEM. No coal baseload here, coal power is only what comes down the interstate lines.

Just go with the harsh moderation.

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