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I'm attending an all day workshop tomorrow with a bunch of leaders at my job and I expect this is a better summary of the upcoming proceedings than anything else in existence.

laranis ,

I wonder if this type of economic calculus would mean a supply of inexpensive, second-hand panels might be available in the next few years.

laranis ,

The design is based on the false assumption that Google's page-ranking algorithm favors accurate results and not SEO-gamed garbage. Google Search has been broken for some time, and now the company is relying on those gamed and spam-filled results to feed its new AI model.

God I love this so much. Though I'd bet there will shortly be two Google search algorithms, one for us engines of consumption and one directly from 2016 only for the AI to feed from.

At thrice the energy consumption, of course.

laranis ,

I have a self-filling, self-cleaning water bowl for my dogs. With two Great Danes, keeping the water bowl clean and full is a chore.

Right now it uses a digital timer and does an empty/fill cycle 16 times per day using those capacitive water sensors for the level setting and overflow detection. In a future iteration I plan on incorporating MQTT via WiFi for alerts and manual control.

laranis ,

It is a DIY setup. Basically is a sink bowl with the logic of a sump pump with high/low floats (couple of relays and sensors), a fountain pump to drain to a nearby sink, and a valve to fill. The timer drains the water every hour and the fill part is essentially a cheap shower head aimed at an angle so when it is draining and filling at the same time the water is swirling, making it (mostly) self-cleaning. I wipe the inside and outside every week or so just to make sure it is working and isn't growing anything.

Biggest worry since it is DIY is that something will fail and flood my house. I have a separate high level sensor that closes the valve, starts the pump, and sounds an alarm to help with that, and one of those cheap, warbling 9v water sensors nearby just in case.

laranis ,

It is a DIY setup. We had one of those bottle setups like you describe. For my big dogs all it did was slowly become more slobber than water. I realized the problem wasn't more water but getting rid of the slobber.

Post above describes what I did if you're interested.

laranis ,

Couldn't agree more. As a handy person myself I almost find it insulting that the video was a bit of ratcheting, a close up of a spark plug and "look how easy we should all do it".

And that comment section has to be rigged, right? No way YT comments are all that positive without one person calling him out for the over simplification.

laranis ,

Didn't Uber start as a ride sharing app? As in, "Hey we're both headed in the same direction! I'll give you a ride in my vehicle, stranger, if you pitch in for gas." Then they realized with a few tweaks they could turn their pool of near-slave labor into profit. Enshittification accelerates.

Maybe there's a Fediverse-like solution for gig work that doesn't suck all the humanity out of it?

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