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For a small place there's a lot of sandgropers on HN somehow
by dbetteridge 2y ago
For a small place there's a lot of sandgropers on HN somehow
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoFor those also wondering: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-West-Australians-called-sandgropers https://www.quora.com/Why-are-West-Australians-called-sandgr...
- marcus_holmes 2y agoTimezone effect, I think. Just us and the whole of East Asia online now. The Poms and Europeans are just about to wake up, and the Americans have logged off for the night.
- imp0cat 2y agoThis is exactly right! Good morning from Europe. :) Also congrats to the OP! Sadly, european aircon appliances are usually built the same way (last only as long as the warranty).
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoAt least there's EU legislation that's slowly improving as well ensuring longer term warranties and the like. I hope that for household appliances like aircon or solar panels this warranty or support is set to its expected lifetime of 15-20 years. In this case, it should be mandatory that the control system can be easily swapped out by an aftermarket replacement, just like central heating thermostats are. (in fact, replacing basic central heating thermostats with a tablet device has been very successful for one energy company in my country, see https://www.eneco.nl/energieproducten/toon-thermostaat/ https://www.eneco.nl/energieproducten/toon-thermostaat/; it wouldn't have been possible if the thermostat data thing was some complicated / encrypted nonsense)
- prmoustache 2y agoMy own aircons are just simple individual items that are interchangeable between rooms. There is no single control for the whole house but on the other hand I never let it run when I am away and I am never in 2 rooms at the same time so I just close the door so I only have to keep one room cool. I fail to see the need of an aircon I could control remotely with a smartphone or any smart bullshit system that control every room at the same time. And I think if I ever needed that I would probably just control the individual aircon via small esp32 with irtransmitter driven by a home server. That way the individual remotes would still be usable in case of an individual failure.
- pimeys 2y agoI have two separate aircons in our apartment. They both plugin to the wifi and I can control them locally from my home assistant instance. When hass detects nobody is at home, it will just automatically turn off both aircons with all the lights. It is also handy if it is extremely hot like now and we're both out to monitor if it gets over 30 inside, so we can remotely get it cooler so the plants, cats or server will not suffer too much.
- iknowstuff 2y agoBarely 11PM in California, prime reading time
- radicalbyte 2y agoIt's that golden hour where AU/NZ are up, Californian nerds are up and chilling and EU/UK are getting their first (or second) dose of caffeine. Just missing our East-Coast buddies :-)
- yuye 2y agoIt's a nice and quiet time. Why do work when you can read HN? Hi from east Asia!
- gstar 2y agoSpeaking of sandgropers, I do understand Advantage Air are based in WA - so it's fairly likely they're reading this!
- TeMPOraL 2y agoHopefully. Shame on them. Also, good morning from Poland, EU :).
- mst 2y agoI'm sure the timezone will tick over to the sheepshaggers instead shortly.