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Meanwhile, Gatwick currently doesn't have running toilets: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdew2dnxlzzo How about we fix basic issue as a species first, before going all robots a…

Buy locally configurable stuff only. That means Zigbee and Zwave and use them with Home Assistant. There are many locks and devices which support either. There's a learning curve i…

Complexity is also about empire building and job security. If every dev took the path of least resistance, and did the easiest thing that did its task, we would lose 80% of all tec…

"Poorer" countries with a per-capita GDP that's 1/5th of Bay Area have exceptional public transport. How about fix the country public transport first instead of spending 2 Trillion…

Try Konnected for garage doors. https://konnected.io/collections/shop-now?filter.p.tag=Smart... Have 2 of them and work great.

ebpf works in Windows as well.

Decisions in the US are made by big tech lobbyists, who want the supply of semi-indentured labor who can't jump jobs at a moment notice to continue as usual.

This is bad from a global warming perspective.

Search "who owns Denver Gazette": "Clarity Media, which is the parent company of the Denver Gazette and is owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, purchased the assets and rights."…

The hardware/software industry needs to be regulated by levying a carbon tax and pollution tax. The first iPhone/Android were great innovations. And subsequent iterations occasiona…

| and have an attachment to the land. This is understandable, but does not always make sense. After all, these towns were created by European immigrants who left their homeland of …

Canada has better health outcomes than the US. Same with Scandinavian countries, Au/NZ all of which have dispersed populations and spend less. Also, all the proposed HSR corridors …

You can blame Southwest or corporations all you want. But even in the 90s, people did not support HSR overwhelmingly as per your article. And in today's socio-political climate, a …

| It is hard to see that most people would prefer to use a train than a car to travel between cities unless they were going from a place close to a station to another place close t…

|The car is actually an amazing transport concept. And very hard to beat You do know you can have the best of both? Germany (where BMWs, Mercs, Audis are made), France, Japan, Swit…

| Couldn't one start locally with closing downtown to cars? This happens often in many towns in the US, but its not permanent. And people never seem to make the connection that the…

Is everyone in Germany a Chancellor? Are you?

Why not link to the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail which states: " Since its inception in 2008, the Group has issued 18 letters and member…

No it won't. Americans are too deluded by car culture to ever let that happen. You will see highways with 55 lanes each way, but you won't see an operational high speed train in th…

There are other advantages to fixing leaks & insulation such as controlling humidity/moisture, lowering mold/pollen/dust, lower noise, adding better air filtration, maybe even bett…

Without fixing leaks and insulation, you've done the tech equivalent of throwing large amounts of resources at the problem rather than fixing the root cause :) Your CO footprint wi…

Aero barrier and/or spray foam for an existing home should work well. But they are not long lasting and are often not environmentally friendly. You can also look into exterior insu…

The article mentions the most important point towards the end: “The better you insulate, the less heat you need in the first place,” No heat pump will help if your house is leaky o…

The article gives a small number of self-hosted examples. Heres some more https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

"Critical for humanity": https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1575589049573601280/ph... What a joke.