Though as a kind of "exception", I think that charging poles for electric cars should have modbus or Ethernet and a local protocol (matter maybe?) to use with smart home systems for automation and cars should have a standard affordable way to check errors and status of sensors.
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Freecad can't keep up with professional software with decades of paid development, sadly. It has gone very fast these past 2-3 years compared to being relatively slow before that, but now the SaaS company supporting them is bankrupt so who knows.
KiCAD on the other hand, is like 50% or more of the way there to match commercial offerings and is mostly missing QoL and productivity features
That's because it is a cheap Chinese phone. Nothing does all of their R&D, engineering, software, etc... In China at the moment from the best anyone can tell. They only hire electronics and hardware engineers in China according to their postings.
The UK company registration seems just to not be another Chinese phone company so they have a marketing division there.
They are also owned by american investors.
Sodium ion batteries are going to be the solution. 18650 packs are already out and perform economically. Since the molecules are so much bigger, energy density is only like 60% of lithium based solutions, but they have a very wide temperature range and are incredibly more inert and safe and density isn't a problem for bulk energy storage.
The hurdle to overcome in inverters dealing with the very wide voltage span and bespoke charging ICs, but definitely possible and within 5 years will probably become a lithium iron phosphate competitor.
The shed as an of site backup is a good idea.
We live in the shed (it is really its own entire stone building) during our full house renovation, so I have already run electrical and cat6a to the shed and have an old router in AP mode there.
Hooking up one of those NAS boards or a 2nd hand old PC there would be a good backup option.
Wolfram alpha suddenly makes even less sense
That is true, but for embedded development it sucks because of specialty drivers, access to dbus, udev rules, etc... And distrobox with vscodium or code oss has some big big slowdowns that I can't figure out.
Saleae software simply won't work consistently in distrobox, for example. Luckily they have an app image so I could just install it there and set a few settings and now it works well. Sigrok Pulseview is better but needs a few not-dependency packages to work around it.
There is some weirdness to atomic distros and bazzite, but I am pretty happy with it!
No they haven't gotten near the main house and never inside of our shed either (only mice and I think we have trapped and killed the whole nest because the mice slowly got smaller in the traps and now we haven't had any for 6 months or more)
I will probably do traps because changing the compost up would probably cost hundreds of euros that we can't afford right now with our renovation, we have an open compost now, but only uncooked veggie scraps go on it and coffee grounds. Also maybe getting rid of most of the places they can live (we have a pile of scrap iron from our renovation that our german shepherd is convinced something is living in) might help push them further away from the house.
Sorry but YouTube is such a wealth of tutorial information that quitting it cuts you off from huge amounts of info that you (nowadays) can't really find through search engines.
Tutorials for self-hosting, embedded development, analog design, gardening tutorials, etc...
A lot of these you literally cannot find online anywhere except for tiny bits and pieces through forum posts that take hours just to put them all together. Most blog posts nowadays are so horribly written on technical subjects and leave so much out as "implicit knowledge" that they are mostly unusable except by people who are already experts, which negates the point. (Shout out to gamersnexus which has a fast, no-ad website with all of the results from their lab testing on their with text write-ups and charts)
YouTube is expensive as all fuck to run. This is why alternatives will never take off unless they have a solid monetization model (e.g. floatplane). Sorry, but people on home internet with 100 down and 30 up aren't going to be able to host peertube nodes and stream 4k video to more than a couple people. Text and music work well decentralized, but people start to become a lot less able to contribute when hosting costs become hundreds per month and their home internet is saturated and barely usable instead of single digits with light traffic. This isn't even mentioning content creators' monetization.
I think some things are very necessary for medium or bigger companies:
Dynamic Drill Tables, stackup in the spec layer and DRC import export NOT importing from other projects (and not the "DRC file" thing that does not transfer back into the GUI)
Fonts
Technical assembly drawing exports
I use it weekly in my own time, but it is difficult to get everyone "synced" on it.