‘doesn’t make there products intentionally shit’ and ‘competition shoots themzelfs in the head’. I think I know why they are winning the race

GAN is not just faster and smaller, it’s side effect is also efficiency.

But it’s currently still a high end way of going power switching. So it’s more expensive, so not all power supplies use it yet

House power wise our biggest users are AC appliances (heat pumps) they do not benefit from a more efficient DC adapter.

A phone at 5000mah who charges every day from 0-100% would use 5Ax4.2Vx365d = 7,665 Kwh x €0,22 = €1,68 (excluding efficiency loses). This is too small to make reasable investments in phone adapters. But I do see that a better computer power supply (when use regularly) can make a difference to your power bill

I always seems to miss lunch. It’s actually just handy st this point

I have so far had 4 advance replacement (get new hardware, ship old hardware back later) for free. Even outside warranty period. And this story is the same for all my friends as far as I know off.

So I guess we both had quite some different experiences

• Does it also come with HDMI CEC?

• Does it come with good basically lifetime support?

• Would it get developers optimise for that exact hardware?

• Would it run as quit and efficient?

I’d you just going for raw hardware speed. And don’t care about anything else. You can always make a faster system yourself.

But I know enough people who don’t dare to touch anything near a custom computer, who are looking into this cube

The idea of such boss probably is “they are probably making to much good, in the hopes it comes back and they can eat it themselves”. I do not agree with this idea, and there much better ways to control it if they wanted to.

Nobody should cook for a trashbin. ‘reuse repurpose recycle’ it should get a better end imo.

Sensor? Home Assistant? Howmuch is good enough…

BTW just in case, I think it was TechnologyConnections who did a video of a fan. But the air from a fan creates friction with more air, and you can get way more out of a fan when it’s surrounded by more air (so don’t stuff it in a carton window hole)

For anyone looking for some cheap help tips:

1. Block the sun from comming in, by hanging a curtain or bed sheets on the outside of the window. Of course real shutters would be even better, but price and time wise this gets you there.

2. Close your windows in the morning BEFORE 8:30 or so. Open then after 20:00 BUT ONLY iit’s colder outside. Keep them open during the night. You can not cool a house down with warm air. Yes it’s warm inside, but it’s even hotter outside so opening a window during the day does not help you. If you like a breeze, buy a fan

I have a stack of Google Home minis, and it’s a pile of trash Im trying to get away from.

You ask it to play music, it says “ok” and then just do nothing at all.

And these days it has the nifty AI stuff in it to. So it hallucinates some answers too!

You really think I’m looking forward to a new speaker from Google?

If you sign “quote” in ASL it looks like this. You are secretly learning sign language

Per view, YouTube premium pays more then add supported ones. How much exactly I dont know.

But it’s all relative. For example Patrion would be a much better way of supporting a creator

This is because some breed of people thing you should add pull handles to a door that needs pushing. (such a door needs a push plate, and not handle at all)

It’s the door design, not the user in most cases

A battery is energy per volume.

So instead of buying a big battery, we have a small one and all the devices go along with it. The house and water is heated when the battery is charging. And the setpoint is lowered when energy is expensive.

This extends our our “battery capacity” without the investment into more electrical batteries

The first 3 are me, the 4th I haven’t done (yet)

The answer changes based where you are from, and who you are

° Power is almost always stored on DC batteries.

° Converting (DC to AC, or/and AC to DC) makes you lose about 20-30% of your capacity

= Use as much DC as possible!

if you want to charge a phone from a power station. Use the USB or DC ports that is has. This can save you 20%+20% (battery DC to AC and back to phones DC)

Don’t charge a power bank, to charge a phone. Every converting step takes a bite out of your capacity

But basically all big or motor/compressor appliances run on AC and changing them to DC requires skill and time and money. Although doable for me, I would not recommend this to anyone without them having an Electrical Engineering degree

A pro is that is not Windows 11

I would fail my exams if I was blindfolded

We managed to get 12 generations into our family tree. I can confirm there are more name changes and weird things happening than you think. We definitely kinda used to do this…

We labeled the doorbel with an doorbel icon. Believe me they still try to press the pin numbers on the smart lock. I just made an automation that it would now also just ring the doorbel in our smart home