As should be known in a community of programmers, it's misguided to blame tools from their potential abuses. Every single tool for the ecological transition can be misused for green-washing, from solar panels to electric cars to carbon taxes.
Let's welcome and improve the tools, while keeping an eye on how people use them.
I STRONGLY suggest you first read Children of Time and only then Children of Ruin, you'd miss a ton of pieces and some parts of the story wouldn't be clear at all.
It's not really house heating fault, when the lockdown started everyone was at home and pollution actually went down; the strong winds those days certainly contributed to clean up the air too. And yes, those days was still cold, people were actually using heating.
Anyway the Pianura Padana is completely flat and surrounded by mountains east, north and south, the sea on the east doesn't help that much either with its winds. If you compare the shape of that red/black blob to a satellite image you can clearly see it traces the shapes of the mountains.
Count the fact that it's also heavily industrialized and populated and I guess you get why it's not like other industrialized regions.
Children of Ruin is the sequel of Children of Time, I strongly suggest you read the first book or you'll have quite an hard time to understand certain things.
I'm reading Children of Ruin right now and it's quite funny finding this article here right now. :)
>> Imagine if a car manufacturer would give you a discount on a new car, if you took your old one to the scrapyard first - everyone would immediately how this is a huge waste of resources if the car was still working. How is this acceptable with speakers??
This is pretty standard in Italy, nevertheless bricking devices is shit.
I think what Sonos did there was fairly ok from a customer-interaction point of view, but bad from the environmental perspective.
There is a difference between bricking a device and offering a trade-in program, or offering a trade-in programm. The former does not allow you to continue using a PURCHASED device (your property), the latter allows you to continue using your property or OPTING for the trade-in programm. Sonos didn't kill the devices without the customer OPTING for the purchase of a new one. I guess it's kind of bad UX, but an offer to the customer.
From an environmental perspective its obviously bad. Bricking kills reuse in a second hand market and is an insentive to take working devices out of operation.
Yet, its not the first sketchy thing I remember hering about Sonos and I am glad I bought Teufel multimedia systems https://www.teufel.de who I have no recollection of pulling any of these moves.
Even from a customer interaction point of view it's dubious. Sonos gear benefits from a network effect, so giving someone a hand-me-down speaker has potential for future sales there.
Seems like most of my data they got from apps on my Android phone, there was even an app that I just installed, opened and uninstalled in less then a minute without even logging in or anything.
set the "limit ad tracking" feature on your phone at the os level and the advertising id will become unavailable to everything. On Android this is Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Opt out
I use Hugo too but I suggest anyone pay attention since they can introduce breaking changes with minor versions.
With v0.58.0 they broke lots of themes, including mine, so if you want to create a theme for it, or even use an existing one, remember that just a small update might break it.
This[0] is the issue that broke lots of themes. The fix was certainly an easy and small one but still a breaking change, and not the only one, in a minor version change; that should have been a major version change, if you want to use semver[1] as a convention you must respect it.
