If something is broken to the point that the car can't heat up, yet it's cold that there is thick ice on the windshield I would think twice about driving. Even if you could remove the ice.
No one said anything about anything being broken, just about the ability to remotely heat up the car before starting to drive. Having a heating and having a remote controlled heating that works with the car switched off are two separate things.
Sry, what I meant to say was "No one spoke about the complete heating being broken. Heating is a basic requirement in a car imo. Remote-controllable, engine-off heating is not."
Remote deicing of the windows in the winter sounds rad and more then just a gimmick.
Even with gloves on it can be quite cold to remove the all the ice from windows. Or you sit in the cold car for 5 minutes waiting for it to defrost on it's own.
And yes, if your climate control is broken I would pay to fix it.
Edit: When you share a car and have no dedicated parking spot the location information can also be interesting.
It's possible, you have to put in some effort. Active ventilation to outside, working with PPE on, washing in isopropyl alcohol, curing with UV light. At least that is what I would do in smaller apartments.
I live in northern county and can vent my 3d printers exhaust to the outside. Friend of mine from CPH did the same with his resin printer.
And if you actively went it outside carpet and close proximity should ok ok'ish health wise. It's just effort and noise that a lot of people don't like to put in.
> That rules out most apartments in countries like the USA and UK
Yes I've always wondered why they love carpets so much. When I lived in such an apartment it was terrible. Always dirty and dusty. I'd much rather have a plastic, wooden or tile floor (the latter not ideal due to breakage though).
But you can ventilate, especially if you blow the air outside through an active blower.
And finally, makerspaces are a great way to do these things anyway. A community that can support and help you when you run into issues, friendly people around to borrow equiment and materials from, and they're usually pretty cheap if you don't get a fixed desks.
Rare win for Germany, the the land of bureaucracy, made it easy to install *small* residential solar.
You can buy small solar panels in the supermarket, and plug them into the wall socket, which normally is a no no. Per household a maximum of 800 watt though.[1] For more you need something proper that does not just connect via a normal wall socket.
[1] Maybe also 2000 watt but only 800 feed into the grid?
You can have up to 2000W panels with an inverter up to 800W. Note that the 800W is what you're allowed to produce, not feed in, but it can still be beneficial to overprovision panels because with 800W of panels you won't produce 800W of power in mornings, evenings and winter. Panels are also cheap af in Germany currently, about 60€ for a 440w panel.
At the time of release of the A6000, having a mobile app to take a picture (and not having to buy an adapter like some other brands) was cool enough that you could deal with the (at the time, relatively minor) jank.
Biggest thing is they never really improved the mobile apps... and in some cases IMO they got worse.
Could imagine that countries like India the majority of buisneses also have an whatsapp account.
Never tried it, but it seems that calling a regular non-account via whatsapp will still work. But routed through watsapp servers. If someone can confirm or deny that, would be cool.
You can make it a video call, or invite other friends in. Even when the called person is on android. I'm not sure if that would work with regular call. (iOS to iOS probably has this already, I don't know)
Also you are connected via wifi, it's free. Even when you are in another country.
For a long long time I had a prepaid sim, and would just call my out of country family on whatsApp / Signal from home. Basically did not pay anything for it.
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