It's very easy to make websites without needing cookie popups in EU/UK. Every cookie popup is a reminder of how stale the thinking around tracking and data sharing is!
I've seen many great things in photos where laundry lines are strapped out between windows and across streets "ad hoc". But most of them were in photos. I think the "pulley" that carries the line and the line itself seem to be more durable than what my local building market sells... I can only get nylon lines and small pulleys, so I'm not happy with the projects I've done so far. The best lines I've found are the ones with metal wire inside.. the ones without metal in them break very quickly.
One that I would really like to have is a strong, durable multi-line rack that sits below a window. If possible, I'd like to be able to expand and contract it.
There's also a lot of ideas shared online for creative indoor solutions.
Regarding crinkly clothes: generally if you hang up a wet shirt to dry, it gets less crinkly than in a tumble drier. That's an old tip for reducing ironing efforts :)
Regarding "hard" towels etc: This one is really difficult, especially terrycloth and similar material that's supposed to be very soft can seem hard after air drying. You can try to add vinegar as a softener if your water is hard, I find that makes a good improvement. And you can generally rub clothes soft - I tried folding towels and give it a good rubbing, works well to soften them up. I would also remark that after using a soft towel once and drying it, the terrycloth also becomes hard :)
The cool thing about water is that evaporates all by itself. For free even. No electricity is required.
So an alternative to making the tumble dryer "smarter" can be to simply not use it for most of the time, thereby cutting the loss caused by "dumb" dryers.
The engineering part that's missing is related to re-introducing and improving the many awesome laundry line systems that used to be available.
And as I can learn from other HN comments below, there was indeed real studies conducted in 2018, so the comical/logical hypothesis has been further developed and empirical evidence is now also there.
It's only the second time in history that a lobbying entity is banned. Second time since Monsanto in 2017. That's not a "path". Source: the first paragraph of the article.
This has nothing to do with "show trials". If you hold 14 lobbying badges and do not respect the European Parliament's Employment Committee's repeated requests to discuss important matters of employment in the European Union, then Amazon is really showing contempt for the lawmakers and the European institutions.
It's very understandable why they are talking about a "red line" here: If a company of the size and importance of Amazon refuses to sit down with lawmakers and discuss problems caused by their commercial activities on a European-wide scale, then they're not showing the kind of social and political responsibility that's fair to require from a corporation with direct access to European lawmakers.
The decisive body seems to agree:
> all quaestors were in favour of authorising the secretary general to withdraw their long-term access badges
That's great - sounds like you're a tech person and can have fun with LMS :) I'm sure it's a lot of fun if you have a good use case/motivation.
I belong to the group of people who wouldn't run a home server to listen to 1 internet radio station (BBC World Service) in the morning hours. I'll probably throw out the poor radio and end up listening to internet radio on my laptop with a crappier sound and more fuzz to start it up. But I hope there's a way I can continue to run the radio without mysb, which is currently not entirely clear.
I'm also worried for elderly and blind people who are now thrown under the bus. It's probably not the first time they experience being slapped by the cold backhand of disruptive "progress".
I understand that there is a great community effort to run local instances of the open source version of "Logitech Media Server" (LMS).
Where I get really annoyed is that Squeezebox Radio devices are rendered either really hard to use or essentially useless.
Factory reset is bricked because it relies on mysb.com (as I understand from the forums), but moreover something as easy as streaming internet radio shouldn't be possible to carpet-pull. I don't think it's a fair alternative to say "in order to use your kitchen radio, you should run your own LMS server on a computer that's always-on" (also why not just use the computer to play the radio then in the first place).
Owners of a Logitech Squeezebox Radio can also be senior non-tech people and vision impaired. People can be happy with their device and not able to switch, certainly not forced to switch with a damp announcement like this:
> We're shutting down our servers in 1 week. Here's a QR code that you can't
> see if you're blind. And here's ZERO official advice about how you can continue
> to use your radio.
For something as simple as streaming a few internet radio stations, it's super annoying -- and shouldn't be legal. There should be a strong consumer regulation to protect from such carpet-pulling. When a company markets a device, it should be obliged to keep the service running... otherwise pay back the money or go bankrupt.
p.s. small typo in the title, worth correcting to make this more searchable. Should be "UESmartRadio.com and MySqueezebox.com servers closing"
