You’re limited on UX when it comes to PWAs. For tools where this matters a lot, PWAs are a non-starter.

Iceland runs plenty of these and has a nice culture of frequenting the public bathhouse. It’s one of the few things you can do that is actually affordable there.

They do have the advantage of having essentially infinite clean energy in the form of geothermal heat. As do Japan in many cases, for that matter. I’m sure that has something to do with these institutions having staying power there.

Anyway, I think this idea has merits, but not as an energy saving measure. The reason for this is that in order to maintain good water quality, you have to shower thoroughly before getting into the bath, negating the potential energy benefits of the initiative. We can bring it back for it being nice, though!

Running a thermostat 15-30 minutes before the hot water is needed would only consume electricity if the water is not already hot. You probably want a well insulated accumulator tank with one of these systems to not lose the energy produced as well.

So I actually have experience with these in the north of Sweden - they are definitely more efficient in summer, but do provide some amount of hot water as well in winter on days with clear sky (of which there are few).

On the topic of using this for heating in the Mediterranean - I don’t think that’s where you want to invest, installing underfloor heating in one of those houses. That will cost some serious money. It’s probably wiser to spend it making the home less prone to get cold/hot using insulation in that case. I will admit to being out of my depth when it comes to optimizing buildings for hot climates though

Wouldn’t places with good conditions for solar heating generally not need the underfloor heating for the season when the solar heating is most effective?

This has been my impression, and why solar heating is most useful for heating water.

TRAINS

Nature’s pocket

Gotcha!

Well, I’m not in a Balatro-period right now, but when the itch comes back I’ll probably buy it for mobile as well.

Are you aware of any platform affordances that have been made for mobile in this release, or is it basically the same as the unofficial ports you can DIY?

Doesn’t quite seem to be out on Android yet, at least not in my market. I could pre-register and have it download automatically when it’s out, though.

It didn’t list a price and said there was an in-app purchase, anyone know what that’s about? Will I be able to use the copy I bought for PC or what?

Anyway, this is great. Granted, I’ve been playing Balatro on mobile for many months already, but an officially supported version is even better.

Bet you good money that the risk of getting stabbed on the bus is far lower than the risk of getting in a car crash.

Medicine generally comes in blister packs here to avoid accidental injury/death. Big bottles of medicines are just simply not a thing here, regardless of vendor.

A pair of bicycle pedals. I regretted the purchase and returned them.

For the last case of a non-return, I got a refund on a wristband for my Fitbit, which had broken after very little use.

Are you suffering from an acute case of brain damage?

so, we take something that has the same size as a van,

The footprint of a cargo bike is at most a fourth of your average delivery van

and is at least 10 times slower

Cargo bikes are usually e-bikes, giving them a speed of at least 25 km/h. If you’re driving a van at 250 km/h in a city, that’s going to put you behind bars.

Baffling levels of ignorance.

Not with that attitude, you can’t.

Ah shit, my bad. Will update my comment.

I believe they whined about something about the deep state being against them though, so I guess I connected the dots where no connection existed.

Trains are the superior mode of transport and really cool, I don’t feel old at all from seeing this

There was a lot of talk about it in the news, and the right wing party did distance itself from some of the elements of the operation. Mostly they played the fake news card though, and essentially claimed that the deep state was against them - because the investigation came from the Swedish state media company.

They also had a lackluster election result (EU elections) right after, but who knows how much impact this thing had, if any.

Anyway, basically all of them are still in their jobs and they are actively taking a shit down the throats of the Swedish population, as they are currently in the majority block of the government and can as such get a lot of their politics through.

Just hit them with a PepeHands or a ikftb and you’re golden honestly

Wanting to learn is a good requirement in itself.

Try starting with the language and then see what you can make of it in that case. You may find out that it’s not exactly viable, but then you can always try something else.

Death, and tight spaces.