that run on poe

That reminds me that I’ve always been mystified why thermostats require a battery when they’re wired to a furnace anyway.

That’s your own fault for not owning a Citroën!

Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the !fuckcars@lemmy.world thread on it, for the same reason.

Rad[iating heat]

Not sure if you’re trolling or if you genuinely don’t know that heating up is what makes it work.

*incroyable

I haven’t found one that works entirely locally yet (plus, for a thermostat that’s wired anyway, I’d like it to be wired ethernet instead of Wi-Fi and that makes it even harder to find), so I’m still using a “dumb” programmable one.

Frankly, I’m considering DIYing one. I’d love to figure out how to make something with similar look and feel to a Google Nest, but that sounds difficult.

[obi-wan.jpg] “Of course I blame him; he’s me!”

but this year smart thermostat non-owners are less likely to feel comfortable using new tech compared to 2022 levels.

Couldn’t that just be because more of the people who were comfortable with it bought smart thermostats and thus stopped being in the “non-owners” category?

However, 2024 homeowners are less likely to consider themselves as early adopters/tech-savvy

I strenuously object to the conflation of “early adopter” with “tech-savvy.” I am not an early adopter specifically because of how tech-savvy I am! (For reference, I’m a software engineer – hard to get more tech-savvy than that.) In particular, I am easing in to smart home tech slowly because l, understanding the security implications better than most, have a zero-tolerance policy against anything that requires a cloud connection/can’t run locally with Home Assistant.

Some of those systems are still around. For example, Roosevelt Island in NYC has a pneumatic trash collection system. Apparently it’s the only part of NYC that doesn’t have trash piling up on the streets/sidewalks all the time.

Nope, this is what happens when you replace parking with bike lanes.

If only we still had bugs.

But we don’t, and that should fucking terrify everybody.

a hedge AND a fence

Cordless power tools are really good these days.

Personally, I think most “traditional” pickup trucks are ugly. The F150, Ram, Silverado? Those are at the very best - boring. They’re definitely not attractive. At least the Cybertruck is a fresh concept for a pickup.

I know they’re inherently not very safe, but I’ve always wanted a stylish/futuristic cabover pickup, like the Dodge Deora concept:

Most “SUVs” are lies – misnamed glorified station wagons. What an SUV is supposed to be is a vehicle that can ford streams and crawl over rocks. I own an old Toyota 4Runner and a Kia Sedona. The Sedona is absolutely the better car for most uses (especially hauling stuff), but it absolutely cannot do the things I use the 4Runner for.

Hmm, good point.

Could be that Trump is responsible, in the same way that Reagan was in '80.

In other words, it wouldn’t be the first time fascists deliberately delayed hostage negotiations to fuck over non-fascist US politicians, if that is indeed what happened.

It’s almost impossible to be a Federal politician and not be wealthy.

Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

Profilie -> comments tab -> sort by controversial

It would also be interesting to see which comment is most disliked (which one has the most net negative score), but I don’t think there’s a sort that does that.