WeChat itself on Android bundles a Chromium-based engine to run these mini apps.

Most people in China are using Chromium frequently, even if they don't think of it as a browser.

Some cities have the trash trucks drive around playing music, ice cream truck style, and you are required to bring your trash out to the truck. Logistically that would probably work in Manhattan. Politically I don't think you would ever be able to get it done.

Part of the problem in Manhattan has been that many buildings really do not have any place they could store those sorts of bins, or at least not in the quantity of them that they need for their trash output.

Seats are purchased by the airlines, they are made by separate manufacturers like Recaro or Zodiac and not by the airframe manufacturer (Airbus or Boeing). While the seats obviously need to be compatible with the airframe, there are a wide variety of options and it is common for airlines to refresh old airframes with new seats.

IFE systems are not manufactured by the airframe or the seat manufacturers, they are made by companies like Panasonic. They obviously need to be compatible with the seat, and my understanding is that it is uncommon for airlines to update the IFE system without also replacing seats.

So, while a newer aircraft type typically will have a more up to date IFE system, there are plenty of old aircraft that have new IFE and seats retrofitted.

They need to do this to remain competitive in the premium cabin market.

You can imagine what your hosting provider or ISP will do with this.

Source: I ran a URL shortening service from 2004-2007 and this happened to me.

The total cost was maybe $30 of parts on AliExpress.

I use 433Mhz Acurite temperature sensors with a software defined radio (rtl433) running on my Home Assistant box to have remote temperature sensing. The 433MHz sensors are cheap, have good range, and have excellent battery life.

I know the Mitsubishi "wired controllers" (basically the official thermostats) can provide remote temp to the unit and the unit has DIP switches to select between thermostat-reported temp and internal return air sensor temp.

I'm not sure if CN105 has a way to provide this temp ref - if so, you could try it. Just make sure to set your wired controller (if any) as a "secondary" controller (otherwise it will also send its temp every second and overwrite the one you sent) and then set the proper DIP switch.

I was able to verify that it worked because an employee in a store literally could not transfer my SIM with it enabled. Their iPad app just gave an error of "customer has SIM lock enabled".

Interestingly the T-Mobile employee had never even heard of this feature, which suggests that basically no one uses it.

A typical US vented dryer has a 5500 watt element, although it doesn't use that amount of power continuously since it cycles on and off.

I have no idea how much power a typical dryer uses in Switzerland, but the heat pump ventless dryers you can get in the USA now typically use around 1000W when they are running. They typically take around 90-120 minutes to dry a load depending on how big it is and how much water there is to evaporate.

This white paper has a nice graph that shows power usage over time: https://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/pt_awards/SEDI_Fact_S...

You may notice that, while the heat pump dryers take longer to dry, they use so much less power that it more than offsets.

Anyway most washing machines (those who also dry and those who only wash) and dishwashers absorb around 2kW when they heat the water, for washing machines typically only one time (two if they also dry) for dishwashers 2 or 3 times. Running time depends of the program you choose: the quickest wash in general is 15' as the quickest dry, a typical wash for misc clothes is 1h/1h30', drying is 20' (much depend on how quick you can run the washer spin cycle, at 1500rpm 15' drying is enough in most cases). A dishwasher takes typical cycle is 1h30'.

Of course professional dishwashers run in few minutes, and they are far larger than the "standard 60x60x90 cm size", washing machines and dryer take the same times even at nearly-industrial product.

I’m not even sure how true that is with the latest all-in-one washer/dryer combos. The ones released in the U. S. just this year, one of which we have (GE) can do a full load wash and dry in about two hours, which is probably about how long our old separate units would take. Or at least close enough that we don’t notice or care. A load of blankets might be 2.5 hours.

And if takes a few minutes longer, the lack of a vent and the fact that it runs on a 120V plug more than makes up for it.

Haven't used all-in-ones, but one possible concern: lack of pipelining (to use a CPU term).

I wash darks first, and when they finish washing I put them in the dryer. While darks are drying, I can put whites in the washer. When the darks are dry, I remove them, and then put in whites to dry. (Continue for any further cycles/types of clothing.)

With an all-in-one I have to wait for darks to completely finish before anything can be done with white (etc). Is this a problem for you?

By doing that, they can get a good estimate of your connections available bandwidth, which is needed for the decision whether to automatically switch to a higher/lower quality feed.

It also means they can use 'dumb' servers which don't do any application-specific logic for throttling.

(The issue is not the router, though - this doesn't happen on my laptop. I think my phone is just more aggressive in assuming the Wi-Fi is down and it's better to switch to cellular. But couple that with my phone's policy to use VPN on cellular, and the switch becomes much higher friction. I tried simply disabling cellular data, but then it's even worse because every time the phone disconnects from Wi-Fi it pops an alert telling me to enable cellular data.)