Np. Rereading it now, I’m sorry my wording was so firm and final, but my experience was so terrible I felt I couldn’t let it happen to another person.

I am almost convinced these things are actual scams just to make money no matter the costs, not just a poor product that underperforms. I think they persist because it seems so plausible that it could work, but it just flat out does not, and the manufacturers just don’t care as long as it still sells.

Had one of these over 20 years ago, along the lines of the one you linked. It was positively useless. Never again. The air in your home becomes saturated with water so quickly, and your clothes stop drying because the air can’t accept any more moisture. A lot of heat comes out of the vent, ice or an ice pack would be done in less than 10 minutes, you’d drive yourself insane putting new ice in to condense upon, even if it worked, which it doesn’t.

It might work if you put a couple of dehumidifiers in the room with it, but there is just so much moisture output from a dryer I am certain it would overwhelm them in short order because they are not built for that crazy level of moisture. Also, even though your dryer has a lint screen, a ton of lint makes it out anyway, quickly clogging the one in the kit, messing with the throughput. So you take the filter out of the unit so it can breathe, and lint gets absolutely everywhere. It sucks. Don’t do it. Live with the outdoor noisy vent until you can save for a heat pump dryer. Don’t waste your money.

Neat. Please forgive my ignorance, but what is scratch?

As for your valve question can you rephrase your question another way and provide details? From skimming your website I’m unsure of where the comparison should begin (perhaps I am unaware of all the things valve offers).

Novelty? Or necessity for the future when people are living out of their vehicles.

Thank you for making a part of the world at least a little bit better. Your efforts are worth it.

IMO Canadians should examine the war in Ukraine to get an idea about how to prepare, but keep in mind Russia’s relative military ineptitude.

When things get dire, the fast and high bandwidth Internet we know will be gone, but a form of slow, intermittent Internet will probably be around; still technically an Internet.

And the back button will break the entire app.

Oh, so that’s why Google is killing sideloading.

Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.

Hey, look at the bright side, as long as you were chained to your desk instead, that’s all that matters.

uninformed for skeptical

Perhaps one begets the other.

The article is not fishy, you are just uninformed. They are powering the datacenter with turbines fueled by natural gas. You are right about the datacenter though, it’s beyond fishy, into crime territory. To top it all off, they have approval to run only a handful of turbines (after not even seeking approval in the first place, i.e. running them illegally), but they are running a ton of them.

Gary explains why.

*looks around* That’s a pretty big if.

I feel there’s a certain sad irony about the domain on that link.

I am having flashbacks to the scene in Idiocracy where the doctor is talking about his wife.

Autopilot hasn’t received any updates for years.

Like I said, demonstrates neglect.

If Kleenex were the only ones doing facial tissue, then this could be, “toilet paper vs. Kleenex”, and you’d be wondering “why isn’t this Charmin vs Kleenex?” while Charmin happened to be the TP brand they chose because they had access to it.

Tesla is the only one doing camera-only self driving, so there’s no point in delineating the two. Lidar you can expect from any other brand, so it’s a token choice in this instance, especially for an engineering entertainment video.

Autopilot is just adaptive cruise control that keeps the car in lane.

Anyone who watches the video in question knows this statement is misleading. Autopilot also stops when it detects an obstacle in the way (well, it’s supposed to, but the video demonstrates otherwise). Furthermore, decades old adaptive cruise from other brands will stop too because even they have classic radar or laser range-finding.

If even the most basic go no-go + steer operation based on computer vision can’t detect and stop before obstacles, why trust an even more complicated solution? If they don’t back-port some apparent detection upgrade from fsd to the basic case, that demonstrates even further neglect anyway.

The whole point that everyone is dancing around is that Tesla gambled that cheaping out by using only cameras would be fine, but it cannot even match decades-old technology for the basic case.

Did they test it against decades old adaptive cruise? No, that’s been solved, but they did test it against that technology’s next generation, and it ran circles around vision not backed by a human brain.

We build our own prisons.