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Very much so, people try to sell it like it's a magical solution to all the world problems. Even if it was as amazing as people tout it to be right now (it isn't) it wouldn't make …

Interesting, I would have thought in many cases it is maybe not trivial, but easily doable at worst. Do you have some personal experience with that?

Water heating, AC, fridges and freezers, maybe even EV charging (in some cases) could be done at any time during the 24 hour period, if setup with proper hysteresis.

Making thermostats that are aware of dynamic energy pricing or, better yet, are in part controlled by the energy company ( I want my house to be 21-24 C, I don't care when the cool…

I feel like this is one of the biggest missed opportunities. Why do we insist on our energy system to be infinitely flexible and full power available 24/7? Is a habit of doing the …

Dynamic energy pricing with smart power-hungry appliances controlled by the energy producer would be a great start.

I see, thank you for explaining!

Fair point about shared roadways that probably split communities. Do kids attending the same school really live that far apart? Seems like a very long distance, especially in a sub…

Thanks for the info! What system / DE do you intend on using? What type of work do you do on your computer? I was thinking about getting a wireless keyboard+mice and attach RPi at …

I get the joke but let me just mention that wood campfire is one of the worst solutions (if done at scale). This may sound idealistic (like the other comments mentioned) but I thin…

Not sure if absorbing solar in particular has some unforeseen consequences but I saw an interesting article the other day: Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable https://cs.stanford.edu/peo…

Why can't they just walk or bike to their friends? 2-3 km walking distance is perfectly fine, bike extends that range significantly (10 km at least). This was the case for me. Sorr…

That's why so many people are cautious about "EVs to save us all", to put it mildly. We are so focused on climate change and greenhouse gases that we do not see a lot of other issu…

Just nod and smile.

I've been washing dishes by hand my whole life and just recently got a dishwasher. When washing by hand pre-rinsing and soaking is essential so I kept doing that even after getting…

Tangentially I want to mention that rinsing dishes before running the dishwasher is a known anti-pattern. The first washing cycle is exactly that - a rinsing cycle. I know this is …

We are easily manipulated into thinking how stupid people must be but in reality it is often a bad process, tiredness, mismanagement or cost cutting that are responsible for it. I …

What? Software getting slower faster than hardware getting faster? Impossible!

Sure but why include that if a text processor is too much for the board? To display static images or demoscene visualisations?

Same here. A great advantage of such devices is they can later be easily repurposed to control home automation, audio system or make a simple DIY project with them. It is much hard…

Are your other microcomputers capable of normal office operation?

Thanks. This is a bit surprising to me since they advertise two 60 Hz 4K display drivers...

I wonder if anyone here is using RPi as a main PC? Seems to be capable of most office work with a bit of multimedia on the side. My laptop is dying and I would love to get somethin…

Don't forget "refuse". A ton of stuff is not worth the materials from which they were made in the first place. A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex products are essentially…

I just wonder how do "mishaps" like this square with techno-optimists looking at graphs going up and convincing us "everything is on track for an amazing future!" [1]. I don't know…