Always assume companies will gather, use and share your data in all ways they legally can. The burden of proof is never on the user that companies don't milk us. Calling it "misinformation" as someone further above did is bizarre. This is the default business model of big tech.
I have a similar weather display made from the m5paper, but it doesn't look so nice (no graphics). It only updates once an hour though, and lasts over a month on a charge.
From the website (https://s3fifo.com/), it claims that it needs no locking (backing scalability claims). This seems like an important part of their work too, unless I've missed some obvious trick that everyone uses. Naively, I would think that you can't update a hash table (to find the cache items efficiently?) and the queues at the same time without a lock. They surely aren't doing a linear search through the queue looking for a match
You don't have to atomically update a hash table and the queue. You can first insert into the queue, then update the hash table.
The article does seem to make assumptions that there is a lockless hash table and a lockless queue. It clarified that the lockless queue need not support removal from the middle.
ESPHome has an integration for the Airthings Wave Plus: https://esphome.io/components/sensor/airthings_ble.html
This is working well for me on a NodeMcu ESP32 with WiFi and Bluetooth. No soldering required. This makes it possible to integrate with Home Assistant without sending your data to Airthings HQ.
I actually had a similar problem trying to park in a parking garage. I talked to some people working there (they were moving 'event day price' signs around). I asked if there was a kiosk or any other way to pay (other than by phone). They said there was not and said I just had to leave and find street parking.
This happened when I was trying to park near a place to get my phone fixed!
Over the past year all of the paid parking lots in my city have removed their kiosks and replaced them with QR codes that open a website with a very unwieldy form. Very annoying if your phone happens to be dead or broken or you run out of data or something!
The way it works on phones is these apps operate as full VPN due to how network permissions for apps are handled. When you turn on tailscale, tailscale will pass through traffic it doesn’t need to touch. that’s also why you can’t have two vpn apps running at the same time.
There were record high # of businesses being created during the pandemic. There's anecdotes that it is because they had the opportunity to do so now with some extra cash + time off.
I had also seen some articles (citation needed!) that part of the employee crunch low-wage businesses are feeling is due to employees in those jobs taking their covid-money+time and training/interviewing/applying for office jobs.
I don't think we have a measure on how many people got to pursue their hobbies (rather than 'farting around'), though I'm not sure it matters. UBI proponents don't think that all people will do something 'valuable' though, just that it will be a net positive.
