Nyt is an interesting case because they do have good quality reporting i might be willing to pay for. Then they post some ultra-conservative sociopathic stuff on their op-ed or opinion page and I want to block their shit.

Washington Post was also under consideration before it got Bezo’d

Huh, I came here to say the opposite. If people were similar to me, a weak paywall is exactly right

I hate the idea of paying per article: I don’t know the value at the time nor do I know whether they’re trustworthy. If something posted here isn’t readable without pay, I’m not reading it.

However I do recognize news sources the I find useful, that are high quality, that are likely to have more well done news, and i do subscribe to a couple

On the other hand I also pay a news aggregator and have no idea how their sources are paid. Do they get a cut per article I read? Is it effectively advertising where they offer teaser articles and hope to sell me a subscription?

Edit: it’s a mix of revenue

Apple News publishers earn revenue through a combination of ad placements and subscription fees, with payment models favoring those who use Apple News Format (ANF) and generate high engagement. Key revenue streams include selling their own ads (100% of revenue), utilizing Apple-sold “backfill” ads (70% revenue), and receiving a portion of Apple News+ subscription revenue based on total time spent reading.

Decades later, I still remember a few weeks without skin on my palms, elbows, knees, forehead. At the time i wasn’t sure survival was a good thing

A big difference is 70s car might retain its outer shape. Modern car not only intentionally crumples, but the passenger compartment is much stronger to keep all those sharp metal bits away from the soft squishy people

Yeah, but also not a fair comparison. Whatever the safety status that Cybertruck might be, getting t-boned is always a challenge. No car has a crumple zone on the drivers side door

And have poor performance, handling, ride. Most people really wouldn’t want one

I actually don’t remember if those ancient kindles had WiFi or if you’d need to sideload stuff. At the time they were not unusable but became a lot less convenient and the writing was on the wall

I wasn’t too upset with upgrading because the device had lasted a lot of years for personal electronics and the technology had greatly improved

I know we all fans of Libby and other library sources here, but that was part of the problem. At least at my library, you have a limited number of ebooks out at once and only for two weeks each. While that doesn’t seem like a hardship, it did mean that on a vacation I’d generally need to shuffle what books I had and I couldn’t guarantee to ever be on WiFi

Aren’t most of these already partly deprecated 5 years ago when 3G wireless shut down (in the us).

I replaced my kindle back then

(Worried about getting hit over the head with irony here so I had to check that “new”kindle: Amazon says its eleventh generation paperwhite so I’m well clear)

Why would anyone care about poor whites in the mountains? Let them survive in their hovels and shovel coal. They had no organization or other power to affect anyone

While usually I’d encourage looking at rescue dogs maybe this is a scenario to be very careful with that. We got a rescue that had been traumatized and can still be challenging at times. While she’s a real sweetheart, she’s definitely not a starter dog.

I’ll be the anecdotes for that …… spent my whole life with dogs of all sizes and have always been comfortable with them. But the only one that bit was a mini poodle

Then again, as the other guy said, I’ve always paid more attention to dogs that can do damage, vs the mini poodle bit me when I was ignoring it. Of course the most painful part of that was the tetanus shot

I was occasionally on the other side of that and really hated it. I’m four years older than my ex, but also came from a more conservative (small c) town. Usually we were at the same stage of life but …… Sometimes that four years was a generation difference, which was very uncomfortable

Oh this is outstanding! I just mentioned in a post, about an hour before reading this, about my annoyance toward a TV I accidentally turned on by streaming to but couldn’t find a way to turn it off!

Plus there’s the issue that they’ve been struggling to launch more frequently than every two years. If something happens, everyone is stranded where they are, and it’s not like anyone on the moon could survive there an extra two years.

While I see the reasoning for Artemis in the beginning, it’s been clear for years that it’s a poor choice

Recently shrinkflation hit juices. What used to be 1/2 gal, is now 1.5 L (at least in my grocery). It’s easier to just stop buying it: too much sugar anyway

I used to buy soda in 2L bottles as the best price, so it was sufficient for a family or a single person several days to a week. The reality is if it’s there I’ll drink it: the sugar rush is addicting. I think a lot of people still do this.

Now I buy soda in a can, despite the much higher price and packaging, because I’m more successful at moderating myself to a can a day (and it’s usually sugar free so the calories are no longer the problem)

33cl is the standard for beer

Same here historically. US beer cans and bottles used to be 12 oz and I still occasionally see them. I even have one in my fridge.

But most new beers (as in new brands, new styles, actual good beer) are sold in pint cans, which in theory should match a bar draft (but don’t always and there are no regulations to protect consumers)

I never go into the “swill” aisle of my package store so my perspective may be biased

Temperature and humidity is all I have other data sources to verify and even then it’s only temperature

• sensor is currently in my family room addition and it closely tracks the Remotec rm-22 ir blaster temperature there, so excellent. But a secondary goal is to decide whether it’s really worth it turning down the heat at night. You can see the family room heat pump takes most of the day to bring the temperature back up. I don’t think it’s a problem but heat pump sees the air temp is about right so doesn’t add much heat, while the thermal mass of the slab takes hours to come up to temperature
• humidity is fascinating how different from the rest of the house but believable: family room is running a heat pump so would dry, main house is a gas furnace burning inside air, so pulling in high humidity outside air. So mid-afternoon, for example, when both are heating you can see the heat pump dries type air while furnace raises humidity, while overnight the humidity evens out as both are off and the air circulates. This morning is explained by the heat pump being off: I was wonder why it’s a bit chilly. The temperature rising in the morning is misleading because there is some air circulation from the rest of the house

Thanks but this needs like half a dozen, so I don’t think this type of chart will scale

I don’t even have the right terminology so google and ChatGPT were not helpful …… does ha have some sort of trend graph that is a combination of different sets of values, over the same time axis?

A goal might be to identify events and their effects. For example perhaps turning on the dryer raises particulates and CO2: I know when I turn on the dryer so want to look at the graph for any matching changes in any measurement .

(Or maybe I’m fooling myself: I have no idea what the sampling frequency is yet)

I only have an hour of data so far

Edit: after a day’s data, now’s the hard part: deciding what to do about it and how much to trust the accuracy. I have not put the detector in the basement yet(primary goal is monitoring radon), but it’s in a family room addition on a slab, with old direct vented gas heaters (actually those are off right now, so it’s not ytesting those)

• VOC typical level is generally fine but there was a spike at 8pm well above the recommended limit. Is it a glitch/noise? Is it something I need to act on? Is it accurate? I don’t remember any event that could have caused it, so I guess for now see if it repeats
• pm10 and pm2.5 are generally fine but there was a spike just after midnight. Still within recommended levels so I’m not worried yet but will pay attention
• radon is still climbing. Still fine and they say it needs up to 30 days, but I’d expect the basement to be higher so I need this to level off soon. If it doesn’t, my likely action is to do a charcoal test and see how the numbers match up

Clearly I also need a chart that can display a limit, or two. For example, who recommends a limit of 100 for radon and epa recommends a limit of 148, so I’d like to see them both on the radon graph, and maybe a color change or something if a point in time exceeds them