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Losing a phone is just a nightmare for me...

It's a good idea. And if you already buying a new one, so you can definitely go to the "brick" mode

But if phone is lost the sound actually can help you to find it.

I think most of the cases people give up and unlock it

"My account didn't get shut down." - But why not yours?

This is a mystery. My guess is that the Chinese censorship system (The Great Firewall) knows my account is not associated to a Chinese National, so they don't care. Or, there could be legal restrictions/complications because I'm a US citizen. Who knows? I wouldn't be surprised if my little fuuck up didn't land me (or my WeChat account) on some sort of list, though.

It's hard to live without trust for me. But knowing so many stories about...

It actually felt that way...

"...reduce reliance on air conditioning" - that's gonna be amazing. But it is still hard to get fresh air...

Most air conditioning systems don't provide fresh air. They just cool the air already in the room/building.

It doesn't dehumidify, which is important. In hot and humid weather, dehumidifying improves comfort. It also prevents mold.

So that's a real disadvantage compared to a normal AC, which does dehumidify.

However, you could combine them. Install a smaller AC system that uses less energy. It will probably still dehumidify enough. You'd still save a lot of energy this way.

A modern "variable speed" AC system should be a good match because radiative cooling doesn't work as well on cloudy days. A variable speed system can scale up (provide more cooling power and use more energy) on those days, and on other days when radiative cooling works well, it can scale down but still run a large percentage of the time to keep humidity under control.

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Above I assumed when you said "fresh air" that you mean air that is dry enough to be comfortable.

But you might have meant literal fresh air, i.e. outside air to replace inside air with chemicals, smells, etc. For that, there's heat recovery ventilation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation). It can transfer heat and humidity from one stream of air to another. So you can pump your cool and dry but stale air outside, and bring in hot and humid by fresh air, but you can transfer the heat and humidity from the incoming air to the outgoing air as they pass each other.


Yes, we need glass that is transparent to wind.

Its called Windows. But if you bought it from Microsoft , you will got creepers peaking you along with advertisements. And it crashes a lot.

You can do this today, and this would only work on a roof in that context.

Wow I'd be proud too

I see that there are lots of us remembering

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