This project describes how to build a quiet $20 PID-controlled thermostat controlled fan for cooling your media console or gaming cupboard.
The software is ESPHome and Home Assistant. The hardware is an ESP32 with a regular 12v 120mm Computer Fan (PWM) and a simple Temperature Sensor (DHT11).
With a $10 18650 rechargeable battery you could probably get a couple months on a single charge. Esphome can deep sleep between readouts: https://esphome.io/components/deep_sleep.html
Deep sleep pulls the power draw down to 50uA.
Of course if you also wire a solar charger next to the battery… maybe it will never run out.
Except when they're actively expounding upon and peddling bad news to ensure the stock price drops at the right time. That is what Musk is most frustrated by.
In my mind, all negative news about Tesla is now called into doubt as being news peddled by shorts. This is the challenge of declining journalism standards: all news now has someone with a vested interest behind it.
I havr to disagree here. Considering all the real trouble Tesla is currently in, not to mention Musk himself, and with otger car makers catching up electrical vehicles there is undeniably some doubt about Tesla as a company. On top that you have shaky financials and the departure of important executives, also in financial department. So yes, just looking at that without any hard number crunching and financial analysis the picture is not rousy.
All of which is sad, Tesla really had and still has some appeal to it. I don't think that appeal in itself is enough for a public company.
And by the way, not all negative reporting is automatically bad journalism or even fake news.
> Even that was close, and the Republican candidate was _accused of molesting children_.
There, fixed that for you.
Look, I'm very progressive, but we need to firmly stand behind "innocent until proven guilty" especially when it is so easy to create a slander campaign against a political opponent. And, yes, even the democrats are capable of that.
For every service there are very relevant factors about what makes the product good or bad. If you don't separate these 2 or 3 factors, then over time everything becomes a score of 3.6.
In the case of Amazon, the relevant options are:
1. Likert scale of quality:
a junk, just don't buy it
b cheap and works good enough for occassional use
c higher quality: willing to spend more and you'll get a much better outcome.
d overpriced
2. bad shipping, bad vendor, poor customer service
I hate seeing a bad review for a product based on the last item, they're normally outlier issues or whiners and I normally try to filter them out.
In the case of rotten tomatoes it is, again a different set of parameters.
