Coffee Junky ❤️

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • That’s pretty cool, I was thinking about building my own thermostat a few years ago.

    My previous one died and the company stopped making them. But what I really liked is that it was a “smart” thermostat that was made before the IoT age.

    It was “smart” in a way that it had a motion sensor and basically just turned on the heating for 1 to 3 hours after it saw motion. The duration was something you could set yourself.

    I really liked that concept, because I never had to change anything during a holiday or even a night in a hotel. If you aren’t at home, no motion, no unnecessary heating.

    The thermostat was in a pretty central place in our house so you would definitely trigger it every 2 hours when getting a drink or using the toilet.







  • Did you read the article? Because there is zero infighting and it’s not about cars vs bikes. The article is basically just saying that everyone is looking at electric cars, but electric bikes and mopeds actually have much more impact at the moment. That is because in a lot of Asian countries these are the default mode of transport. It’s way cheaper to replace fossil mopeds with ebikes and emopeds.

    Also what do you mean not as many people can use them at the same time? These things have pretty small battery packs, you can just charge them at a regular socket in your house.

    Also an ebike is way lighter than a car so the amount of microplastics is way less.

    Your whole point about distance? The article starts that 60% of trips in the US are less than 10KM, easily done on an ebike or emoped.