https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50887893

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/94042/alcohol-most-harmful-drug-based-multicriteria/

Alcohol is a lot worse than “sleep, sloppy fighting and risky driving”.

I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.

HDR shines the most on OLED. Pun not intended. 😅

My point is that not all houses can be insulated externally. In fact, many cannot even if it would be technically viable.

I thought it was pretty obvious but happy to clarify!

Are electrical combis actually better than gas though? Sure there will be fewer emissions on the edge (the end user house) but it’s not nearly as efficient as a heat pump, which would put pressure on the grid, increasing the need for gas and coal power plants.

I’m wildly speculating here though, I have 0 data to back up this hypothesis.

I live in a conservation area where external insulation will be a hard sell. There’s a lot of such areas around, some a lot more restrictive than where I am.

Yeah I had a heat pump engineer come and do a survey and heat loss calculation, and the conclusion is that I would require 2 pumps to produce enough heat. I’d be looking at around 20 grand upfront for that, after the government grant being applied.

For that money I could probably replace all windows with triple glaze and add insulation, and come out a lot more efficient than replacing the gas boiler.

In fairness, that would also likely get the house ready for a single pump, and when electricity prices cease to be kept artificially high it will probably be economical to make the switch.

Ah yeah of course. That makes sense, thanks!

Can you not just avoid the problem by not binding any end devices to the bulbs?

A Shelly RGBCCT isn’t going to control a GU10 bulb.

Ok I’ll admit my ignorance. Why not?

Ah got it.

What do you mean, happened to you yesterday? What happened exactly?

There’s Qubino Z-Wave devices, and some Bluetooth ones though my experience with those has been a bit dubious. And integration outside of their own ecosystem is still via WiFi (except for sensor beacons which are BLE).

The issue was that using the old mechanical switch would shut down the router in the bulbs. A relay absolutely solves that.

In any case, it seems to be possible to use a Shelly RGBW2 in CCT mode. Here’s an example of how to do it in Home Assistant’s native Shelly integration though OP says there’s also tutorials around showing how to do it via MQTT.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/converting-shelly-rgbw2-color-white-mode-into-a-cct-mode/589985

Or a relay switch and keep the existing mechanical switch on top. I like Shelly but there are tons of options.

Have you got any references to that?

Another commenter posted an article from over 5 years ago with something close to what you describe, but I don’t think they’d be reacting now to something that happened that long ago.

Sorry I’m out of the loop. What did they get caught doing?

money is meant to change hands and should never become an asset worth holding.

Forgive my admitted ignorance. If money should never become an asset worth holding, how can inflation be better than deflation for the working class?

Proportionately, the rich hold a lot more money assets than the poor, who generally don’t hold any or very little.

“Alleged?” What game are you playing here, Guardian?

This must be the most well documented attempted coup in the history of world politics. Not just a coup, but also (ongoing) plans to assassinate the President elect, the Vice-President elect and a Supreme Court justice.

Mobile app, web app, firmware, bootloader…

opt-in by default

That’s not really what “opt-in” means.

Please point out at which point I was hostile.