Yeah, the fan being completely shrouded in plastic will dampen a lot of noise. And for the price, the fan is probably well balanced and somewhat optimised. From what I recall, the dyson bladeless fans are near silent.

You're basically trading energy to move higher volume of air. The fan can move smaller amount of air at higher speed, but larger amount at a gentle breeze feels nicer and helps with circulating the air in the room better.

You could achieve it by taking that exact motor and slapping a bigger fan onto it, but that looks less cool and probably produces more noise? Maybe there's some efficiency differences if the motor is better at spinning fast, but as a spherical cow in vacuum it should be similar.

I've got one of those, from Pantum.

It's funny, I recall Benn Jordan saying in multiple videos of his that his profits went up when he removed all his music from spotify.

Reminds me of writing my own csv parser that implemented escapes properly. The one everyone else went with of course was written in regex, so it was faster... But broke if there were escaped newlines.

Yeah, that sounds pretty bad.

I imagine as we move to renewables, a lot of places are gonna have similar situation. Maybe not as bad, but I don't know what the situation with the taxes there is.

There's a fixed cost associated with having the infrastructure that maintains a wire from consumer to producer functional, if you're not paying for electricity, you're paying for all the transmission lines and other hardware.

I can't imagine any grid making it profitable for people to sell power to it, sounds like a nightmare to try and balance load with random home setups bumping it up and down, but a fully self-sufficient solar home could probably eliminate all costs but maintenance for the grid connection, if you want backup to solar.

If it's homework, the teacher has to grade multiple classes with 30-something students in them, so they probably ran on autopilot at that point.

...equally likely, they had a laugh but this is not an acceptable way to answer it. Most likely done by the dumbass "funny" kid in class who already tired them out.

Ozempic and the like also affect impulse control (and a whole lot of other stuff, the health effect research is technically ongoing).

So if you're on it you don't feel the desire to snack, it helps you moderate yourself, and I guess it stands to reason it would lower the impulse to drink too.

Though I'm just guessing here, take this with a grain of salt.

Mint because I just want it to work. Although after fiddling with my Steam Deck, I'm now wondering if I should give Arch a try.

It is way too expensive for me, and the keyboard only supports the english layout which is a no-go, but damn do I want one.

Same situation with all the fancy split keyboards - they have 10 buttons per row, my layout needs 12 buttons per row.

Ah, I see.