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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I acknowledged problems with reliability and repairability in my own post.

    Factoring in the lifespan of an appliance is definitely a good idea, but it’s also true that old appliances are often incredibly inefficient compared to their counterparts. As always you have to be a savvy shopper to find out what is good and what is bad. I’d never get myself a smart fridge but a modern one has features I wouldn’t want to miss.



  • My modern fridge automatically defrost itself and has an incredibly silent compressor. More than once I forgot to close the freezer door correctly and still it’s not covered in ice on the inside. It uses so little energy into its day to day operation.

    My modern drier has a heat pump built in to effeciently heat the air. It also detects how long it needs to run to get my clothes to the perfect dryness.

    My modern dishwasher has a heat exchanger system to retain the heat from the dirty water to warm the fresh water. This saves energy.

    Modern devices maybe have their problems. Sometimes with cheaper components or worse repairability. But don’t pretend like the only innovation we had over the years was to add wifi to your appliances.








  • You can set acls on directories that get applied recursively. This makes ist possible to have all files be the correct permission. I am on the go right now but you should look into setfacl. It’s been a while but I am pretty sure that worked. That way you should even be able to say which groups or users can do what with granularity.