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What are some good somewhat older smartwatches that have a heart rate sensor and work with modern versions of Android?
  • I personally use the original amazfit bip. Cannot be newthough, I sourced mine from aliexpress, and even there they are ex-demo and stuff. Heart rate sensor isn't amazing but I don't know if that's maybe my hairy arm. The main reason I got it, can be used with gadget bridge, for best privacy

    Edit: worth noting that I had to flash it with English firmware, which did mean I had to use the official app originally

  • Protestation
  • Keep in mind that when you describe a country, you are usually describing the government, the system of rule, and thus the ruling class. Sure it's not your ruling class, but it is a ruling class. So you still can't trust them.

    Then there's evidence of interference with politics as their ruling class tries to bring your country down to advance themselves. Thus making your local ruling class even worse.

  • Victoria bans gas connections in new homes from 2024
  • Gas hot water heaters tend to be a lot more efficient than gas cooktops. The flat bottom of most pots and pans means a lot of heat will escape up the sides, but hot water heaters can be designed with this in mind. On pots, I have one that basically has heatsink fins on the bottom to better capture the gas heat, but this is far from typical.

  • Victoria bans gas connections in new homes from 2024
  • Environmental issues aside, gas is also a pain for installation. Solid pipes are more difficult to route, and leaks are, of course, dangerous. Electricity is dangerous, but it is easier to contain. It doesn't leak into the air, and because it's a closed loop, we can measure if it isn't all returning and shut it off (RCD/GFCI). It also has flexible cables. The downside is that, heat pumps require more maintenance. They're a vaguely complicated mechanical system, as many fluid systems are.

  • Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds
  • Deaths are sad, if we consider that people can be brainwashed and it isn't entirely their fault, it's a tragedy.

    That said, this is... Evolution in action. I don't just mean darwin awards dumb, but more specifically that technologies (social or physical) are actually a part of Evolution, not aside from it. That also means that dealing with misinformation is actually becoming a part of evolution, literally for survival. Or if not critical thinking, then what group you attach yourself to, aka what network you trust. Which in some ways, is actually not all that different from before modern technologies.

  • ‘No time to waste’: getting Australian homes off gas crucial for meeting net zero targets, report says
  • Not only would we need to swap out a gas heater, hot water, and a new stove, we would very likely need an upgraded electricity supply. Our old house has a 35A main breaker, maybe that is what was considered enough 53 years ago. I don't know what capacity the cable itself has though. Exactly how far would the carrot side of any such program go?

  • ‘Wild west’: Australia’s would-be tenants asked about tattoos and social media as calls grow for regulation
  • Seems like a typical response when you have more applicants than postings. This basically happens with job interviews too. If we didn't have such a housing shortage, people wouldn't care as much. More infill! Less kowtowing to developers!

  • Death to the Skyscraper: Skyscraper construction, and the financial system that underpins it, is not stopping any time soon, despite its detrimental impact on the environment
  • Taking example numbers from the article, but not explicitly stated, it kind of sounds like 15 floors, about 60m tall, is the point in which density starts to sacrifice ecological concerns too much.

    According to a 2015 study commissioned by the CTBUH, the whole life emissions of both energy use and materials for a 120m concrete and steel structure are nearly five times higher than those of its 60m equivalent.

    That's still tall enough for many things, so I guess the rest should be handled by a bit more space use and better mass transit.

  • Young Aussies face prospect of new levy to pay for ageing boomers
  • To some extent, yes, but also no. This is just a symptom of wealth accumulation, it's not all about 'boomers' it's about greedy people, it just so happens that many boomers were in a strong position to be greedy and get lucky. We still have corporations and banks making too much money, we shouldn't forget about those.

  • 20% price rises in electricity coming your way
  • At least power prices are only $2000 a year or so, Rental price and interest rate hikes are going to hit a fair bit harder. But yeah, it's still contributing to inflation, because everything is going up, and then corpos will use this as justification to raise their prices even further. Wonder how much of this is because of the fuel price spikes mid last year.

    I am on Amber, and yeah we got to directly feel the brunt of it. Other providers absorbed the cost in the short term, to raise their prices in the long term to recoup. The prices on amber are looking a bit more sane these days, but it's still a roller coaster so I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to actually keep an eye on power prices as you're using it. fwiw I'm in SA, which is a little different to the markets in the rest of the NEM. No coal baseload here, coal power is only what comes down the interstate lines.

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