I remember Covid and the supply chain crisis that unfolded in Europe and the west. Most of the companies you’ve mentioned weren’t cranking out anything during that time as all of them realised that "low cost electronics" are not always readily available and that we forgot how to make them or don’t have the capacity to produce them in significant numbers anymore ourselves. A lot of basic electronic components were not available during that time and we still haven’t fully grasped the complexities of our supply chains and where they begin.
I also remember, that EE for a while stopped using the term "jellybean parts". Turns out that most jellybeans are produced in Asia.
I recently used this https://makerworld.com/de/models/1765102-10-inch-mini-rack-g... to generate various mounts for my home lab mini rack. The idea is that everything needs to fit into the same width of rack, but every device is slightly different so custom creating these becomes annoying quickly. This generator was a godsend
The unkind world we live in would see this role being abused quickly and a person not lasting long in this role. For one, in the wrong team, it might lead to devs just doing 80% of the work and leaving the rest to the janitor. And the janitor might get fed up with having to fix the buggy code of their colleagues.
I wonder if the janitor role could be rotated weekly or so? Then everyone could also reap the benefits of this role too, I can imagine this being a good thing for anyone in terms of motivation. Fixing stuff triggers a different positive response than building stuff
And: on iOS you can reduce the white point quite a bit which makes the display appear very dark indeed. You can even tie it to a shortcut which is quite handy
I‘m sorry, but you’re comparing apples to bedrooms. Israel vs. Iran is a war/conflict between two proper countries‘ militaries - which means that both belligerents stick to certain agreed upon rules and military traditions, such as trying to separate the civilian from the military world/infrastructure. In lack of another word (haven’t slept, please forgive me for the choice of word), there’s “honor“ and a notion of equality and respect (somewhat) between the foes, even if Iran has declared it wants to wipe Israel off the map.
All of this does not apply to the conflict with Hamas. With them muddling the lines, it’s extremely hard to fight a “clean“ war. You’re between a rock and a hard place - either you lose but with your head held high and your moral compass intact, or you stoop to their level thereby slowly losing your values but win in the end. If that win is worth it or not, is heavily debated in the rest of the world, but only debated in the fringes of Israeli society. But no military expert is able to suggest a real alternative of fighting Hamas without inflicting heavy losses on one’s own army.
I find the committed war crimes abhorrent and wish they’d be heavily prosecuted at least.
While I understand where you’re coming from, it’s important to mention that the German military buys googles software and hardware to self host an air gapped google cloud. I know that to some it’s a distinction without a difference, but if you want to have a modern(-ish) private cloud _now_, there’s not a lot of non-American competition out there, plus there’s the entire topic of support and consulting services. It would be great if Europe could get its head(s) out its behind and build a competitor (which is not easy, just look at how not great gcp is compared to aws) but they need a solution _now_.
And having worked together with the German government on IT projects, I’ll say that the _only_ way an OSS project would be even considered is if there’s a company backing the project that has extreme amounts of passion, patience and passibility. In the end, they need some _entity_ that is _legally responsible_ - and it’s always better if that entity is not them ;)
Haha, opening a window automatically was my initial idea, but like you I quickly converged on the latter! In addition, I just keep the bedroom door open as well, which helps a little bit too
Not the OP, but my airgradients are part of my home assistant setup. They measure the temperature and humidity, and the values are used for controlling the radiators and the humidifiers. Whenever the co2 or ppm count is too high, I flash some leds red to remind whoever is in the room to open a window - which is extremely important because a lot of people don’t have a natural reflex for getting fresh air. This is especially important when we have guests over, in our small living room, the air goes bad fast.
I was able to improve my sleep because I found out that my waking up in the night was correlated with high co2 values. Same thing with performance in my home office. It’s a small room and the reminder to open a window while I’m in the flow is just amazing.
But: my airgradient devices were anything but “rock solid“. Constant reboots, hung ESPs, I had to swap out the senseair sensors because apparently they go bad, etc.
If you want to go even a step up in the trvial to use ladder, there's the Portapack H4m project. It builds on the HackRF One and adds a screen, custom firmware (open source, extensible) into an handheld factor and lets you do a bunch of... _stuff_ without needing a computer :) Also not _that_ expensive, I got mine for about 400€ from lab401.
Valid points you’re making. Let me make a counter point: as a German, I’ve seen tanks on 5/6 occasions in my life, never using their own engines. But at the same time, I’ve seen hundreds of cars every day and breathed their emissions. It’s totally fine if tanks continue using diesel, but cars, trucks etc. not using diesel (or gas) engines anymore will have a measurable effect on my health
There are dozens of ways how browser devs could make it default, without making it default - by way of malicious compliance. Example: The first time the browser is opened, display a big fat page asking "DO YOU WANT TO BE TRACKED & SURVEILLED ON THE INTERNET??? NO (highlight in nice colour) / YES (add dark pattern here) / learn more (in tiny font)". Pretty sure most people would click "NO". Every couple of weeks it could pop up again with a similarly phrased question "ARE YOU SURE YOU STILL DON'T WANT TO BE TRACKED?" but this time with a nice UI element where the user can specify that the answer to this rhetorical question will stay the same for the next n days/months/years/decades/centuries/millenia.
Just use Wire (wire.com). True end to end encrypted multi device messenger, open source, federated and based on MLS. All you need is an email address, no phone number required. And based in Europe. They allow building your own clients (with some stipulations) and seem to solve everyone’s issues with signal here
I also remember, that EE for a while stopped using the term "jellybean parts". Turns out that most jellybeans are produced in Asia.