A alternative example of this is how Apple doesn't have a way to browse your iPhone's gallery without syncing to their super slow iCloud first.

But the history is written by victors.

And he's like that because his father beat the crap out of him.

Can I interject regarding resistive heating? I’ve recently added one for my bedroom using home assistant and PID control, 22.5c during day, 18c at night, shuts off when nobody home (radar presence detector should be next step and likely save another 30%). It cost me 150kwh per month in NZ winter (single glazing, but got decent ceiling insulation).

How is filling your living space with poisonous gas pleasant at all?

P.S. basting works on induction if I crank up to boost mode.

> My parents would set timers

I'd suggest first measuring how much single load uses. In my case it's 1KWh and 0.4KWh. Daily load would save perhaps 4-5 GBP per month or 5% off an average bill.

DuckDuckGo index is just as good, but page itself isn't a piece of garbage like google. Heck even yahoo search has better ux now.

MVNO's for life. Weird how they haven't cannibalize their providers yet with such pricing.

Yeah, I feel like the major providers must be coasting on people who just dont bother looking into it and ares till on the same $100 plan they've been on forever (this was me until recently) and people who really want new flagship phones all the time but can't afford them outright, so they finance with a postpaid plan.

They are often owned by the providers themselves.

Even ChatGPT struggles to compare prices between local power providers. Partly because TOU differences, but a lot of time because providers straight up won't provide kWH rate. Add solar, battery and ability to shift patterns (solar charging EV, hot water automation) and it's a huge mess.

> A pickup truck should just be max utility

Yet we are in a thread where one with max utility has been cancelled and one flop of the century continues to sell.