Floor to ceiling was a tiny hyperbole. The actual window does go almost floor to ceiling, but it's 2 panes. The topmost one has a sliding window with a fly screen. Couldn't tell you dimensions, but it's somewhat large
The exhaust pipe has a little piece of plastic at the end that looks kind of like a semi-circle. I guess the idea being you can push the window a lot closer to closed
The larger problem is that the blinds are very rigid and are easily damaged in the sort of position I had them in the OP. Opening them means that the neighbours can see directly into my bedroom which I'm not a huge fan of, but they also get partial sun and aren't double glazed or anything fancy like that
I put my high velocity fan outside my door just in front of the top of the exhaust fan, and that's actually working decently enough. I realise it will still overall heat my house, but it made my room drop maybe a degree or two over the span of about an hour, and was pleasant to sit in front of
TheStench™️ is still present. It wasn't very bad this morning, but after I got home earlier, it was a bit strong outside the bathroom and is no longer contained, so I guess the heat has reignited it
Got a phone call from a budget termite removalist this morning. They said someone will come between 12-3 tomorrow to climb up there and try to find it. I forgot to ask them to bring a ladder though, so fingers crossed they bring one. Not sure why they chose a termite specialist specifically, guess they must just be offering the best rates
That person who let me borrow their portable air con swing by today. Old unit. Reckon it's about as old as me, but it is indeed blowing out very cold air. Unfortunately all my windows are basically floor to ceiling, so I'm gonna need to cut some cardboard and tape it over the fly screen to stop more outside air coming in. And it's just my luck I've lost my duct tape in the move, so I'm gonna have to make do with very thin cello tape
Anyway, very thankful for something. My electricity bill is not going to be, but I'm hoping I might be able to convince the landlord to take the gov up on their rebates for decommissioning gas heaters and install a split system in its place, even if that means offering to cover part of the costs
Edit: I couldn't make it work so I've had to just sit it out my bedroom door and hope for the best. It's probably just creating more heat, but at least if I sit in front of it, it's bearable until evening when I can open doors and windows
I think another challenge for farming equipment would also be the uneven terrain, risk of things coming up and piercing or shorting the battery, and also overheating. The first one can be fixed by installing a metal plate like Tesla did after cars kept blowing up. The overheating part might be a bit more tricky. I suppose an air conditioner dedicated to the battery would work alright.
The other thing is, using it day in and day out, from sunrise til sunset or even later, will probably wreak havoc on the battery health. I know EVs in general suffer from this, too, but I feel like it's even worse for farming equipment, because you know they'll get a let of extreme use, whereas a lot of people with EVs might only use it for a commute into the city, or a trip to the shops
One final thing, just based off the farmers I know (used to live in the country), a lot of them, maybe even the vast majority, have no interest in upgrading until they have to. If it works, it works. Anything new might not work as well, and require precious time to learn how to use well or properly. They tend to skew towards the older generation, and emissions just aren't really a concern. Since EV fires tend to make the news a lot of the time, if they've got a perception that getting an electric tractor might cause a bushfire and burn their entire farm down, even if that's very unlikely, and maybe even more likely with a diesel, I don't think you'll find them very willing
(This is specifically in regards to Australian farmers I've known, perhaps farms elsewhere are smaller, or farmers elsewhere a bit more willing to take upgrades)
I bought a really nice, high quality, very fast charging and data transfer cable, and there's one device I own that it will not charge at all. My assumption is that it probably doesn't have a charging control chip or something else required to work with that cable. It doesn't work with any other USB-C to C cables I own either. It has to be charged with the USB-A to C cables included in the box
I wonder, would this law also cover if, say, the company manufacturing the toothbrush decided not to supply a power cord with the dock, and just stuck some proprietary cable port on it (not even a DC barrel jack or anything like that)?
Even knowing this and the grand plan, I feel like I get sucked in, too. It starts as "wanting to stick it to the man" by taking them up on whatever overly generous deal they feel like offering. "I know they'll get rid of it eventually, but there's no harm in abusing it while I can". But any "good" company won't just instantly quadruple their prices and sack all of their customer service staff on the spot. It'll always start off slowly. They'll offer promotions that are 5% less generous, they'll start to charge bag fees or service charges. They'll impose minimum transaction amounts. Etc.
By the time it becomes obvious, it usually too ingrained in your life, and the lives of many others to easily ditch. I saw this happen a lot with uber eats and Doordash. During COVID, they were paying people to stand at train stations and hand out flyers. They'd be offering like 50, 60, 70,.sometimes 80% off your order. Some of them were one time use only, but the lower value ones like 40% were usually reusable if you got a new code. Eventually by this point where you have to sign up for a monthly subscription to get any discount, it's already kinda ingrained in my life and once or twice a week when I "can't be arsed cooking" I end up just ordering something in and blowing 20 or 30 bucks on a meal rather than just keeping a pizza or some salad or other easy meals in the freezer
I could rant for a long time about the uberification of food delivery. Even places offering "in house" food delivery usually end up using on demand uber eats drivers anyway. Then they'll have the audacity to mark everything up 30%, charge a card surcharge, service fee, bag fees, priority delivery fee, on top of a delivery fee. Places that manage their own deliveries with hourly employees, not "iNdEpEnDeNt CoNtRaCtOrS" goes in my good books
Sky pretty