Probably, but it'd be pretty trivial to add some weight to the door.

I'd like to see some focus on cheap thermal storage as PV is terribly inefficient for heating. Especially in the winter months.

LFP is safe and is under $100/kwH.

100% this. If it was DIYable, its an order of magnitude cheaper.

I have leftover panels from an off grid install, and its extremely hard to get an approved permit for a small roof solar array + off the shelf AIO (Ecoflow/Anker)

While I agree with underestimating capacity, the problem only really applies to off grid.

For regular homes, it just means less savings.

It means some other infrastructure (fossil fuels?) needs to take up the slack, and people underestimate actual costs at larger scales.

It’s the big issue in Germany for instance - it’s all fun and games until Winter.

Germany has more wind in winter, so traditionally has more production of renewables in winter months.

It has dramatically higher thermal heat demands in winter - far higher than is compensated for by that. Even if everyone switched to heat pumps.

True, but higher demand for heating in winter is not specific to Germany. In the end, Germany will likely need to import energy anyway - just as it does today. But this means this question may not be the most relevant.

Which is fine, since you're still reducing your reliance on the grid.

However, when you're off grid, underestimating capacity means your SOL and need to buy a generator and burn fuel on-site.

And? Any coal not used in summer is coal not dug up.

If you dont like leaving your main video player, IINA on mac is scriptable, so I just use shortcut keys to send start/end indicators to a script which runs ffmpeg on the timestamps.

Im sure other video players like VLC support this, but I found VLC's apis very lacking.

mpv has plugins for this like https://github.com/serenae-fansubs/mpv-webm

"pretty obscure to configure every equipment I have at home"

HA actually makes configuring every piece of equipment and integrating them easy. If I have only 1 thing to control, then yeah, it's probably overkill.

I'd say the majority of people don't know how to install an OS on a device and having the ability to run Chrome on what is likely e-waste is a good thing.

I applaud the efforts of people/groups like MrChromeBox who figure out how to flash linux onto Chromebooks. There are great designs like the Samsung Galaxy book in red with Amoled display (thin metal body) unfortunately it only has 8GB of ram.

Bad news. It's physical trackpad. https://youtu.be/mBkYho_4CSg?t=226

I can't go back, now that I've discovered the joys of "tap to click". But I doubt most new Mac users would notice.

I really dislike "tap to click" for some reason. I like the feedback of actually pressing it.

A physical trackpad can also do 'tap to click'.

Really? Terrific.

I used a base M1 air for my primary personal laptop for 5 years. It was fine with VS code and any development work sans running containers.