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Lots of companies moved because it was cheap, but it's not anymore. Ironic that companies might choose to migrate to them now for stability, rather than price.

There are ton of variables here. One is where the return air intake is. My house only has a single return air vent in the hallway on a 10' ceiling (the furnace is directly above that in the attic). I think this is not-uncommon in the western US.

I have a room-sized purifier in each room on the floor, and they accumulate considerable dust. What I don't know is how much of that would have been successfully pulled out into the hallway, if I didn't have the vacuum of the purifier.

This is impossible for me to A/B test meaningfully given all the environmental variables - wind (house isn't airtight, wind pushes into leaks harder), wind direction (wind from the desert brings sand and other small particles), humidity, etc.

If anyone has reading material on properly controlled experiments in this regard it'd be really interesting to see. I honestly don't know if they're more effective than disabling them and allowing the central HVAC a chance to pick it up sans airflow-tug-of-war. My hunch is it's not worse, though I have no expertise here.

Long-winded post but I'll close with an anecdote: when we had those wildfires in the Bay Area back during covid, they were absolutely more effective at getting the soot and smell out of all of our rooms than the status quo.

edit: One thing to be aware of if someone is evaluating these, all of the claimed numbers from manufacturers are based on you running the air purifier on the absolute highest speed it offers. Almost no one actually does this in on these consumer grade freestanding ones, especially in bedrooms, because they're quite loud.

I'm sure folks would be interested to hear about what types of SaaS you've replaced for perf reasons, especially if you'd be willing to go back to a paid SaaS offering that was very responsive with agent-scale rate limits.

Personally, I wish iOS didn't even facilitate this.

edit: to be clear, I don't think iOS should notify the app at all. The app could register areas as "invisible to screenshots" perhaps - I'm torn on that functionality.

Knowing what the temperature is at a far-flung regional airport in a shaded housing is not especially interesting to me. I understand the scientific value of collecting that data, but just in terms of lived experience.

And yes, I live in SoCal where it's rarely above 20% humidity when this hot, which is why I was whining about it there. :)

I'm also curious if you monitor your BP though?

It's humid here (50-60%) but public spaces are all ice cold indoors. I'm just here for a graduation, fly out tomorrow.

(Disclosure: my employer owns an ad network. Opinions my own.)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bemused

I think bemused is the closest I can think of.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7th_Guest

For a lot of people, that was commuting to a job outside of their home.

* simplifying, of course.

In my enterprise-seated account I see slightly different options available (vs. my personal account) in the Capabilities section:

  Search and reference chats
  Allow Claude to search for relevant details in past chats.

  Generate memory from chat history (Legacy)
  Allow Claude to remember relevant context from your chats. Memory includes your entire chat history with Claude.

(Before the wheel, ships were steered with tillers - which early cars also tried, interface-wise.)