It's also nice to use up some of the older boards in my stash. Living in New Zealand I tend to keep a decent supply of parts as they are always time consuming to get. I've got a few too many 8266's left still!
Yeah that was my original plan, I've got a handful of the tiny seed ones. But the Esphome easy setup for the Bluetooth repeater doesn't support the c3 or anything newer. https://esphome.io/projects/
turns out the length of the esp32 I had matches perfectly the length of the wemo board I ripped out too, so fitted just fine.
I pretty much stopped remembering my dreams after some serious surgery when I was younger. I put it down to the 12+ hours of anesthetic. I occasionally remember that I had dreamt when I wake up in a weird mood. But no idea what the dream was about.
Keeping people in unproductive jobs isn't an excuse to keep a drain on the the system and bloating costs of health care.
What do they do in other countries that don't have those roles? They find jobs elsewhere or train in something else. Of course you wouldn't be able to reform healthcare overnight, it would take a decade or a generation.
Think about all the people involved in health care that aren't involved in actually providing healthcare. Billing, debt collection, assessing insurance claims, denying claims, legal fighting over denied claims, advertising etc.
All that money is better spent providing healthcare.
There are also stable companies with a solid revenue stream that don't have much growth potential, so pay out the profits as dividends. These are more in demand for retirement funds or individuals who get to point in life they need to start living from their investments. Yield is always a calculation of dividend + growth.
Tech companies that don't pay a dividend and reinvest everything into growth is a relatively new concept
It gets stored elsewhere if you continue to consume more than you use, like the fat cells deeper in your abdomen where it's much more dangerous to the health of your organs
I have so many of the AthomTech ones. Cheap, small, come with Esphome or tasmoda pre installed, power monitoring, relay or non relay versions, and no failure so far.
May the bridges you burn light your way through the world.