I suppose you could attach some pedals to a Y2K Superbike and call it a bicycle

I don’t have any cool stories like yours but last time we had a power outage I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t have HA set to notify me. That’s mostly due to the house setup (solar inverter and batteries) but we do also have a couple of cheap, dumb UPS units which keep the ONT and one of the APs online, which for house layout reasons aren’t on backup power otherwise.

That said the power where I am is a bit dirty - before we had the inverter put in we had some really nasty brownouts that I’m amazed didn’t immediately kill anything. So it’s entirely possible that the backup power has saved something from a premature end.

Something I can zone out of, and no talking, so when someone does finally answer it’ll get my attention again. If you can’t/won’t staff your call centres appropriately the least you can do is let me do other things while I wait.

Also this thread reminded of this:

I have nothing of scientific value to add here except to say that if the focus is purely on carbs there is a shitload not being considered. One could argue that a bacon-only diet is fine in that context.

Having seen the lunchboxes full of empty carbs that some kids take though I kinda get why the rule exists, even if how they’ve gone about it has perhaps not been thought through (or is just easier to enforce).

I’m not sure if there is “an” optimal snack as a balanced diet needs to be considered as a whole.

At least it’s a shit post

Nollsy on a rollsy!

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