That is because your house is well insulated.

In Belgium, we are living in a small house with roof insulation while renovating the main house.

The small house gets up to 32 degrees inside when it is 34 outside as it has little thermal mass and is not sealed as it is an old stone atelier. We have to sleep in 30+ heat regularly during heat waves.

Main house is better insulated. We resorted to blankets over the southern windows and it is around 26 inside without us living in it at all (windows open at night and shut during the day). When we shift to moving there, it will be warmer. We would have to spend 45 000€ to insulate the walls + 10 000€ for roll shutters. Heat pump is the next best option coming in at a small fraction of that.

Yep, it is made by google to replace google fit api.

Immich!

Keeping personal photos off someone else’s server and stopping google and apple from training their AI on your nudes.

Physical buttons will now be required in the EU, so hopefully that problem will be less.

My ID4 was horrible with that. Only oversensitive capacitive touch buttons and an extremely laggy touchscreen.

I have “looked it up” and I have designed medical PPG devices professionally also. They absolutely do not “estimate” your heart rate any more than holding your finger to your wrist and counting your heart beats in a minute. That is also “estimation” just like literally all physical measurements that are measured for less than t=infinity are.

Of course, there are manufacturers and models that do it badly, especially during weightlifting or heavy flexion/high wrist impact activities.

1 lead ECG can also very very reliably measure your heart rate even during and that is what chest straps like the Polar H10 do in a variety of exercises.

Here is a good overview of fitness watch PPG testing in a variety of scenarios and how it correlates to 1 lead ECG. This guy does tons and tons of extended tests. I just chose a recent one that has recent devices. Even sleep cycle recognition in modern smart watches is getting better and better correlation to EEG, which this guy also tests sometimes.

Stress, recovery times, VO2max, etc… All of the “1 degree removed” statistics are generally a loose educated guess and generally crap.

Heart rate, HRV, skin temperature, speed with GPS + IMUs, and to a certain extent relative activity intensity can be directly measured and are not a guess if the device is designed and tested well (which admittedly, only like 10% of devices are)

Blood pressure measurements using the principle of delay between electrical signals and pressure wave elasticity is also being FDA certified right now as accurate to a certain percentage of medical pressure cuffs.

Wtf does IAG literally own everything?

It is

However, for file transfer, LocalSend is a smoother UX and supports almost any device for transfer. It won me over from KDE connect because I can transfer things with different phones, friends’ comuters when they are here, work computer in rare cases with a portable install and no need to bond anything.

That’s perfect! I ran my server on an old HP laptop for 2 years before I put together a desktop SFF server with 2nd hand gaming PC parts.

Just throw Debian or opensuse MicroOS on it and take off!

Even for a step in between the two if you need more storage, I used one of these docking stations that you can get for cheap to add more storage.

Yep

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support/+/refs/heads/androidx-health-connect-release

I think android HealthConnect doesn’t get enough notice as it is a kind of silent background service.

It is local, opt-in, and privacy respecting connection API for sharing data between fitness apps with fine control over what gets shared where. You can have the shittiest privacy-violating fitness app and it can’t just steal all of the data from your smartwatch or whatever because you connect the two apps via a stupid cloud integration.

Is your printer network attached and scanning via flatpak packages?

Network printing works fine, USB printing and scanning works also, it is just anything having to use saned that flatpaks can’t seem to use

I have hopped through multiple distros and I have never once had scanning not work on a “normal” one after correctly setting up saned. Only bazzite because of the flatpak/system split (also why any embedded programming needs distrobox)

It’s worth it to note for people switching that your network printer is unlikely to have usable scanning functionality with flatpak scanners you install (unless something has changed in the last 6 months since I tried last)

I don’t know about that but swiss privacy law is about to get so terrible that I wouldn’t switch to it unless they rebase.

Every mail service has a drawback

Posteo can’t do custom domains

Mailbox.org has non-anonymous registration + tracking

Proton is based in Switzerland with horrible incoming privacy laws

Nubo is a startup and unproven security-wise

Tuta doesn’t allow 3rd party clients

Startmail has no calendar

Localsend is absolutely my go-to. It is awesome.

iOS, computer, android, whatever, it just always works and is fast and everything is extremely user friendly.

I essentially stopped using kdeconnect except for its automatic clipboard and notifications.

Syncthing is a bit more complicated to set up, but that is what I use for “file sync” which in my view is different than file sharing which is different than file hosting like next/owncloud.

I mean, that is extremely easy to answer.

1. It was an otherwise-wasted material that is already bonded, minimal tools needed for processing,

2. In colder climates, fur was already attached to the leather which means that warm clothes could be crafted easily, fast, and by gathering all of the materials at one place. In early historic times, growing suitable plants and having the capacity to process them, strip them, straighten them, and weave them was not always possible and would be a full time job where it was, which means less time working in agricultural fields. Plus, animal fur has bigger growing seasons and is much warmer than any plant alternative.

The real answer for the modern world is that leather is a byproduct of the very shitty industrial meat industry. The meat industry already has more leather than they can get rid of and it regularly goes into landfills. From an environmental standpoint, it is much better to use the leather than almost all other materials used for those tasks which burn oil and use oil to create them (every leather alternative is simply shitty petroleum-based non-recycled plastic, every one). From a moral perspective it is shitty to give more money to the meat industry, but they make the vast vast majority of their profits on the meat and not the hides. If everyone switched off of leather right now, the same amount of animals would be brutally murdered, but instead their hides would be dumped in landfills and the ocean after stripping it off of the meat.

This isn’t even getting into waterproofing. Almost all clothing waterproofing is petroleum or animal oil based (wax is either petroleum or harvested from bees) except for natural rubber which also has a bunch of negatives.

It’s funny because this is also what happens with UK companies. Britwashing. They aren’t EU, they have bad privacy laws, they are more of a surveillance state than even the US, and they physically arrest and imprison people for online speech (and then arbitrarily setting rules e.g. arresting people for supporting Palestine). They are also a police state that especially targets threats to corporate interests like how police officers will literally go undercover and have sex with with climate activists to surveil and spy on them https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-56820122

Especially Unilever, for some reason people in this community seem to have a hard-on for it, even though it is not a great company.

I have written a more detailed comment on it before, but 2d printing is much more technically complicated than 3D printing, and the resolution is literally an order of magnitude difference (0.2mm vs <42um) and the printer has to print full color on any surface with microdots in a very very short time. People would throw the printer out if it took 10 minutes for a single paper like a large first layer takes in 3D printing.

Aldi here in Benelux has the “River” brand. That is what we buy.

Agrum soda is big here (grapefruit flavor).

They have very good tasting zero sugar drinks:

• Ice Tea (uncarbonated, this is our absolute staple)
• Cola
• Agrumes

Then they have sugar versions of

• Tonic
• Green Tea (Lipton green knockoff)
• Bitter lemon
• Cola
• Lemon Lime
• 4 lemons
• agrumes
• orange (fanta)

Quite the range, massively cheaper per liter than name brands, and small cans except for the ice tea to help not drink too much.

I used it about a year ago and there was no autocorrect, much less multi-language autocorrect. Do you know if it has changed by now?

1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &

1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver

My father-in-law got them for us 2nd hand for a joint present. Quite a decent system!

Not a real audiophile, but it works well and we enjoy it.

I also made a Google Home kind of thing out of it using an ESP32S3 that uses ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Music Assistant to make it a Spotify connect node to play Spotify through it, control it with an IR blaster, and use Voice Assistant with it if I am not too far (it has a single mema mic)