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.

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

Yeah but it’s back to the “good ole boy”network here. Not excusing the guy but there are assholes everywhere. However it t makes a huge difference whether their behavior is acceptable or not.

I like to believe that in most places people would be horrified and he would have immediately been discouraged/cesured/sanctioned and never do that again

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

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!

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

I do wonder about that. My ex’s uncle decided that financial and legal issues were insurmountable so he could no longer be here. Obviously I have no idea whether a humane option would have been an option, but his issues were clearly temporary so any opportunity to intervene could have saved a lot of collateral damage. Including, while his family appreciated that they didn’t have to discover him, that cop shouldn’t have either

My brothers and I were competitive growing up, so we all cheered for different football teams and hoped our team would beat our brothers. I liked the Jets because I was impressed by stories of Joe Namath being rebellious

You said “army”, so what about Army? The first local hockey game I took my kids to was a local college vs army.

Realistically there is a lot of sports that are not the majors. Maybe there is a minor league team or a college team you want to cheer for.

Or heck, why does it even have to be local? My kid is big time into soccer and our country’s teams don’t have much history, so he and his teammates cheer for teams from other countries

Sometimes it’s not the wording of the law but the way it’s implemented. Sometimes the law can seem quite egalitarian, but that doesn’t help if the mother is always assumed both the default custodian and less income. Thats no longer as true as it used to be but judges can be old fashioned

I’m quite cynical about it. No matter what is short money, the funding is always for education or fire fighting. It seems more likely they always shuffle around the budget so the shortfall always end up where we’ll vote for it

My experience with a Pi4B has been rock solid and plenty fast for what I’ve tried so far, at low power consumption.

While I had problems in the beginning, it was all from the micro-SD card. People here will recommend staying away but I’ve had no problems since buying an “extreme” card. Well, starting to hit the size limit now - I can no longer kick off multiple concurrent updates because limited free space available on, I think, 16G card. Get bigger

If you’re starting with ha, don’t feel confined to only one.

IMPORTANT: a local area mesh is not just a low powered way of connecting devices but is inherently local-only. Highly recommended

The more common local area meshes include

• Zigbee - open standard, lots of inexpensive sensors
• Z-Wave - devices need to pay for certification but are more standard. I found more smart switches using this in my area
• Thread - the new standard. Same frequency as Zigbee but IPv6 based. Slowly rolling out.

The new Matter/Thread standard has support of the major players (Apple, Google, Amazon) so seems like the way to go for the future, but products are slow to roll out so you can’t count on it yet

Personally I found the strengths of each compelling so quickly added all three of the above to my ha setup. Ha is fine with it so why limit yourself

I follow the principle that devices must work “as expected” for my users, automation adds capabilities but does not replace them. This comes together with a focus on smart switches

• can be used interactively just like any switch
• continue to work as expected even if ha is down
• typically act as routers to strengthen your local area mesh. I have switches acting as routers for Zigbee, zwave, and Thread, so all my local area meshes are solid everywhere
• then I can automate