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The Smart Home Trap: Is It Really Too Difficult To Use A Light Switch?

I’m in my 40s and I feel very tired. My bones are rattling already, way too early. Migraine once a month. I used to think I’m depressed, but really I’m not, just tired. And soo many of the people I know feel the same! Some put it down to long Covid, some say it’s the vaccines, some call it chronic fatigue, some call it other things. But many are tired. And angry, because when I was very young I fought against environmental destruction, grownups told me to stop or go to jail, and look where we are now, while the very same thing is still happening!

For me it’s the polycrisis: the knowledge that things are most probably going to get worse for many people before they get better. Like some bad vibe in the background, while one still has to try to survive every day, which gets harder and harder. I’m earning half of what I used to while everything is twice as expensive, go figure. And I’m one of the lucky ones, with a setup that enables me to work less hours than average.

Also someone mentioned CO2 one of these days, and not to forget the heat - that might be why my brain really doesn’t work very well anymore.

Now permit skirts for boys too <3

It’s Lemmy, I think we’re permitted to be weird around here!

I have very little tech. Last I bought was over a year ago, a refurbished Laptop because I needed Windows 11 for work. There’s two more laptops, one bought used, the other new over 10 years ago. Both run Linux now. I’m waiting for my ancient phone battery to inflate enough to bed my little head on it and sleep and never read another notification!

I used to fly drones, back when it was done for fun, not war. I bought so much stuff, not a week without some shit from China (drone racing causes a lot of damage and there was always new, better gear to have!). Gave it up because I considered it unsustainable - so much trash, so much shipping, disturbs birds, bad fire risk … and these days it seems wiser to not be associated with drones. Since then I have gradually turned into quite the Luddite. I am very careful about the tech I permit in my life because it adds what I call a layer of bullshit between me and my direct experience of the world around me.

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I was taking Loratadine against allergies for years. Not anymore, the allergies have sorted themselves out. Now my bones are coming apart. I can hear them rattling every month when my period comes around. Not funny, but quite funny.

Yes it is, at least an important part. I’m buying very little in general, and it’s either second hand or local most of the time - when I have to order things for repairs, farm or household, there’s enough smaller online shops in my country or at least another European country. I despise big brands, big retail, big anything and try to stay away.

I’m blocking ads - and when I happen to see one on a friend’s screen I’m confused - this is what people are putting up with between trying to read an article or listening to their music?

9 the smol frightened dog of a smol frightened nun. Not sure we’ll make it to heaven.

Left, middle and right. There’s a scroll wheel but that stopped working and it ended up being non-essential. The wheel itself turned out to be too flimsy. Next time a working scroll wheel would be cool!

Yes, but first I have to build a few and test them - they are result of a few years experimenting and thinking about the problem from the perspectives of ease of building and using it, repairability, flexibility, price … It has the option to stack frames as high as practical and cover a stack of frames with either mosquito/flynet or shading fabric or a combination of both, and add any heat source to the bottom of a stack. The current heat would be great for drying all sorts of stuff and put this to the test, but unfortunately the same heat is crap for any mental and physical activities, so this project has been progressing slowly. But it is one of the parts of my small gardening and processing cycle. Equally slow is my documentation of this cycle. I’ll try to come up with a drawing of this idea!

That is true. Whenever I see these designs I feel like I would like to develop a hybrid model - to use with either solar heat or other heat sources when needed.

Or for a low low tech solution, a drying rack that can handle a fire under it. Things will be smoked rather than dried, but that’s not necessarily a disadvantage.

Not bad. I counter with Almeida fortress

You can build stackable wooden frames, staple a net curtain to them and put them in the sun, or use those plastic fruit boxes, always covered with a net on top against insects. Placing your frames or boxes on or between rocks provides extra heat after sunset. Or the extra lazy method: place your drying net under a fruit tree, wait for fruit to drop, drag into sun or halfshade as is convenient.

When energy is low and overwhelm is much the simplest solutions are often the best.

And for indoor drying in winter a repurposed shoe shelf (or yet more stackable boxes) placed near your radiator might do the trick.

We need to study history so we can try to not repeat the bad parts. Life will not go on fine if we ignore what happened in the past.

Words have become too cheap. Too tired to read. Take your slop elsewhere.

No, guardian, this won’t do. Stop beating around the bush. This IS murder, genocide and torture, and we can only start making actionable plans against it when we call it by its name! And maybe it’s too urgent to be all newspapery-normalizey about it. More we let it fester longer the time to heal after all has burned down. Remember the last time.

I remember resting on the sofa and just listening to the hum of our metal frame Prusa. Especially when printing circles. I might want to have a 3D printer again for the sound more than its practical use!

Modern reincarnation of Ea-Nasir: ‘Muahahar, this time I’m going to add a symbol to my copper products and reduce the copper content gradually! And I’ll paint my symbol onto every wall and draw it onto the tablets in people’s homes! Once they notice the shitty quality they will have forgotten that better copper existed.’

In this contribution we analyze the process by which the commodity itself—decorated pottery vessels—was developed into a brand not by added symbols but on the virtue of its visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, centralized production, export circulation, local imitation, intentional commercial scope, and cultural reputation.

not by added symbols

What we have today are fake brands - what we would like to have again are brands that show their identity by being good quality in the first place.