This could be my next phone but has two big problems I see immediately. No earpiece so you can't, you know, hold it up to your ear and make calls like on a normal phone, you either need to have a bluetooth earpiece at all times or use speakerphone. The other thing I don't like is the Blackberry-like form factor. Nothing beats or comes close to the landscape slider layout. That said if it's open-source hardware I could at least potentially mod up a landscape slider version with an earpiece.

lol don't worry. I feel the same about your house heating.

You will not die inside your house from not having heating. People survived for millennia without natural gas furnaces. Turn your furnace off! Just put on more clothes!

"built to contain heat". sigh. I'm not going into a thermodynamics discussion. Seems like europeans can't grasp the concept that insulation works both ways.

Anyways, get an AC for the living room and use a fan to push the cool air into your bedroom at night. Yes, it's not ideal. But sleeping on 40C is worse.

And also something something "60 kg AC". yeah, you're doing it wrong. I just checked and my 7000W Daikin is less than 30kg for the heavy part (the outdoor unit).

As for the install, I got tired of idiots here doing terrible jobs. I just bought all of the tools and nowadays I install and service my own air conditioners and have zero regrets. And no, you don't need any license to do this: the refrigerant is inside the outdoor unit from the factory, so at least for the initial install (and for the next 10 years if you do it right) you will not need any refrigerant.

You tried to be snarky and all you said was the exact same thing I did, just more verbosely.

Or at least legally bind it to get a 4-day workweek temporarily.

Do you do that in the winter too? 10C with a couple of sweaters is quite a pleasant temperature too...

This is my favorite response to these idiots. If you don't need air conditioning, then you don't need heating either. They talk about how amazing their houses are in the winter because they "retain heat" and whatever bullshit, but they actively heat it.

Turn the heating off, or shut the fuck up about AC.

Enjoy dying.

I dont know man, I live in Argentina and my "tiny split unit", 3500W, is more than capable of keeping my bedroom cool.

Even my "large" 7000W unit for the shop was so big that ... i had to help a friend to help me lift it to the wall brackets. It's bolted to the brick wall with 4 10mm bolts.

Those "tiny split units" do just fine in Japan where they have even less space than you do.

Sounds to me you're just making excuses and, somehow, trying to blame "the americans"

I do not understand why Americans try to push AC so hard.

Imagine choosing death instead of accepting an american is right.

Germany is on the same latitude as as newfoundland idiot. 37C is NOT normal.

That's not how climate works. Madrid is at the same latitude as New York City and New York has blizzards and regular snow. Madrid doesn't.

There will be even more market for obscene luxuries for the rich, that's their plan to keep the economy from imploding. Everyone else gets Universal (Very) Basic Income if they're lucky, or terrafoam or mass graves if they're not.

Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.

"How did you get hired?"
"I was top at Fortnite. You?"
"Combat flight sims."

"Damn, two Boeings just crashed over an oil refinery on city limits and took out half the city."
"Did you remember to save your position beforehand?"
"Yeah."
"The reload and continue from there. No-one will notice."

I love computer games. I have XPlane 12 and many scenery packs. I rank well on Elite:Dangerous. From the sounds of it, the FAA would see me as over-qualified. In reality? There's no way in hell I'd be taking those kinds of risks with real lives. There's a huge difference between having good reflexes and a good eye, versus having the complex 4D spacetime relationship mental models needed for robust air traffic control.

You see, Linus has embraced transhumanism and is testing out the new kernel as a supplementary brain function, using MOSIX to offload all of the irritable comment generation at yet more nonsense on the mailing list to an Elizabot that he has written specifically to do this. This saves his actual brain for real work.

AI is not currently capable of performing any meaningful conceptual abstraction, it is only capable of very basic mechanical abstraction. Abstraction is itself multi-dimensional. Nor is there any indication that AI could ever perform multi-dimensional abstraction or multi-dimensional decomposition. Precious few humans are capable of it either, but some can.

No, AI would need humans because the best system is not a pure system but a hybrid system, and that means transhumanism with AI operating as an additional brain function rather than as a replacement for a brain.