This is such an odd post. So many details that are highly debatable, not many important details.

For example, is the egg refrigerated or room temperature? That changes the timing a lot. Talking about accurate timing is pointless without at least some idea of the initial temperature.

I don’t use a ice bath, or any kind of cooling down for hardboiled eggs. I don’t really have a problem peeling them, unless they are very fresh.

I own my data. I own my installation. That’s what I care about.

Why would I want to own the hardware, when it’s in an inaccessible building far away.

Lithium-* batteries don’t actually have any specific useful numbers. It’s something like this (the actual numbers are pulled out of my ass and depends on battery time and test parameters and even then I’m simplifying):

• At 0 volts, the battery is dead.

• At 1 volts, the battery is practically dead.

• Discharging to 2 volts kills it after around 100 times.

• Discharging to 3 volts kills it after around 10 000 times

• Discharging to 3.5 volts kills it after 100 000 times

• Charging to 4 volts kills it after 100 000 times

• Charging to 4.2 volts kills it after 10 000 times

• Charging to 4.3 volt kills it after 1000 times

• Charging to 4.4 volts kills it after 100 times

• Charging to 4.5 has s significant chance of it catching fire

Now choose how many charge cycles you want it to survive, and you know which voltage to consider 0% and which to consider 100%. The bigger difference, the bigger capacity with the same battery.

This is why a phone with 0% battery can tell you that it’s out of battery.

You can also adjust what “killed” means. Is it when battery capacity is reduced to 80%? 50%?

I have to repeat - the numbers are not accurate, and this is strongly simplified.

It’s just an illustration of what 0% and 100% means it’s just where you are on the useful range, according to the manufacturers definition of useful.

Just to be clear: Do you want a way to save anything interesting that might happen, or do you want to save everything as automatically as possible?

Not all foreigners are criminals. But all members of a gang are gang members.

Isn’t it illegal in US, to be a member of an organization that has an obviously criminal purpose and/or obviously criminal methods?

What is the odds that court is where you go?

There’s so many other outcomes I keep hearing about in your news, but I don’t know the odds.

Once upon a time it was like that. I don’t remember which decade I saw that last.

I remember this. From the 90’s.

Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay.

This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It’s just autosave. That’s all it takes.

Then represent the person like that, but not worse.

Plenty of people in history is presented as pure bad, but reality is more complex.

For example, we know Adolf Hitler as one of the worst people in history (at least here where I live). But he did a lot of good for Germany. At the time, this is what he was known for, and that is why he was popular enough to be democratically elected.

But if we only know him as a purely bad person, we will not recognize the next Hitler before it’s too late. We will see a person doing good stuff, but with signs that too many people will ignore.

There’s also the idea that when you do good, you deserve to be recognized for that, no matter what else you’ve done. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also to encourage more of that.

Argh, that sucks.

So why can’t I read them for free too?

I can. Don’t you have libraries in your country?

A little tip for when you try out different methods: Check the weight of the silica gel, to check your progress.

For example: Take a container from the AMS, weigh it. Give it an hour in a food dehydrator. Weigh it. Repeat until weight no longer drops. Give it a couple hours or more in an oven that’s at least 100 °C. Then weight it again.

Now you know how long it takes in the dehydrator, and how well it works.

Later you can weigh it again, and compare to the weight out of the oven. Now you know how much water is in there.

Nailed it!

If you assume that people actually want to do the right thing if it’s easy, and then you make it easy, it usually works.

Even when this isn’t enough, it should still come before anything else.

Yep, all my smart thermostats are zugbee. No phoning home by design, so I don’t have to worry about missing functionality by not giving them internet connection.

And that goes for almost all my smart home. I only have wifi things when I couldn’t find a realistic zigbee option.

I do NOT want my thermostats to phone home. I don’t see any value of that.

But they are connected to MY smart home system (Hone Assistant), and THAT is accessible from the internet.

I get the remote monitoring and control that I want, and they don’t get any of my data. Perfect!

Or just “1.5 months”.

If it was 46 days, there will (arguably) be times where it’s less than 1.5 months.

I guess the intention is automation that updates every month, leaving you with half a month to fix issues.

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You’re not getting the point.

A: You csn shop there without an account. It’s your own choice. An account has pros and cons, and it’s your choice.

B: I don’t know how it works in US, but in my country a McDonald’s account is a fair deal to me. They pay me a fair price for some personal info. And if I go to McDonald’s and I for any reason feel like they shouldn’t register that particular visit, I just don’t use my account.

C: I want to use Windows, but logging into a Microsoft account does not give me any benefits worth the cons. So I use Windows without a Microsoft account. And it will be annoying to keep track of a “fake” account just for that.

Yep, that’s basically what I have.

I’m ready to buy a factory new car, when I find one where the data is mine.

Yes, but this is not one of those times.

Imagine someone poops on your doorstep, and then removes half of it.

You can say it’s good that they removed some of it, but that’s probably not the point you would want to make.