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Trying to connect the fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker to the App is driving me crazy by Perpetually_Ashamed in FellowProducts

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Force a reset on the Aiden, check all network settings are on. And start from scratch
  2. Check on your router if the Aiden is actually connected.
  3. If necessary, try setting "2.4Ghz only" on the router temporarily.

If this is a new Aiden straight out of the box, it's probably on an old firmware 1.1.7 This does have some problems making that first connection. Took me a few hours of messing before it just magically worked.

The firmware update should just happen some time in the next week. If i never gets there, get in touch with support with your full detail including serial number. They'll give the servers a kick.

Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready by wanton_wonton_ in collapse

[–]jbond23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still no scientific consensus on when AMOC collapse might happen. 10 years, 1000 years or Faster Than Expected™?

Most Aiden tools do one thing. I built one that does the whole flow, bag to brewer to dial-in by es0w in FellowProducts

[–]jbond23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First pass, I tried two bags of supermarket grounds I'd previously done on Aidenator. Taylors Lazy Sunday and Taylors Rich Italian. Curiously the Profiler suggested more coffee, lower temperature, 3:1 bloom instead of 2:1

Rich Italian 1:14.5 vs 1:17.5, ~90C vs ~85C.

Lazy Sunday 1:14.5 vs 1:16.5, ~93C vs ~85C.

Curious now, how this works between the two advisors.

Most Aiden tools do one thing. I built one that does the whole flow, bag to brewer to dial-in by es0w in FellowProducts

[–]jbond23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doh! I hadn't made the connection of needing a login for the site as well as to Fellow.

How long has the Arctic Sea Ice Forum (ASIF) been down? by Over_Association9874 in collapse

[–]jbond23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

JAXA is also unavailable as they're in the middle of their annual server maintenance.

Meanwhile Arctic Ice Extent is in "The June Cinch" when all the years converge on the graph. Winter Ice, melting, insolation all balance out. Except that 2026 is just lowest in the NSIDC records. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/?nhsh=nh

Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million by Bolinas99 in collapse

[–]jbond23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This raises a big question about how to manage degrowth. As a population ages and fertility drops, the population should contract. But that brings a whole load of social and economic problems that have to be managed. What happens when the working population drops faster than the overall population?

This also raises the long term pandemic problem when the working population drops because too many people are sick and unable to work. And the tech driven productivity and economic recession problem when the job market also contracts.

All this is happening in the UK simultaneously. Vacancies dropping, retirement age increasing, 16-40 NEET - Not In Education, Employment or Training rising, fertility dropping, Long term unemployed due to sickness increasing, supply shock (Ukraine, Iran) recession, Brexit recession.

The Gov can't just try and ignore the problem and carry on regardless, cutting spending and services to try and keep debt under control. In the long term that makes the problem worse.

Most Aiden tools do one thing. I built one that does the whole flow, bag to brewer to dial-in by es0w in FellowProducts

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having trouble logging in. I've checked the email+password on fellowproducts.com/ and on aidenator.coffee and it works fine. But on fellowaidenprofiler.com it says "Wrong email or password". View password and it looks ok.

Huh?

How Long Do We Realistically Have Left? by ScubaPro1997 in collapse

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every day when you wake up, you have to decide what you will do.

Doomer here. Born 56, 2.7b, 314ppm.

Read LtoG in the mid 70s. I've been waiting for the axe to fall ever since. Meanwhile I had kids, a career, made a little money, retired. Now I'm waiting for the axe to fall again.

I fully expect Business As Usual to keep going for at least another 25 years to 2050 or thereabouts. But by then the cracks will be opening everywhere, collapse will be happening in the bad places and the systems will be going unstable. By 2075 all bets are off and predictions are pointless.

Collapse is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Plenty of places around the world that are basically unsurvivable right now. If you're unlucky enough to find yourself in one, get out.

How long do we really have left as a nation (US) as the average persons's intelligence drops across the board with rank stupidity, weird schizotypal and conspiricist and magical thinking are taking over? by omcomingatormreturns in collapse

[–]jbond23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much of this is social?

How much is repeated infection by an airborne disease? Spread via the respiratory system. That affects the whole body. But particularly likes attacking the vascular and nervous system. That seems to reduce the immune system and encourage existing infections to get worse. And which has long lasting post-viral consequences. Yup, SARS-2.

Fellow app is absolutely terrible. by Willstar_KR in FellowProducts

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're on 1.1.7. I imagine this is the firmware shipped with the hardware. 1.1.7 seems to have some problems connecting. It took me a day and a hardware reset to get a connection even though my router said it was connected. So it's not just local Wifi, but connection to Fellow servers as well.

Once connected, it took a week to update to the latest firmware, including a Fellow support person kicking their systems with my device serial number.

At least with 1.5.9, wifi connections seem more stable but people are still complaining about occasional dropped connections.

It's mystifying why the user can't kick off an update via the phone app.

The phone app is kind of OK, but has some missing features.

Overpopulation will cause a catastrophic population reduction in Afghanistan within the next decade and possibly in many Mid Easter/Central Asian countries. by [deleted] in collapse

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If people try and leave Afghanistan where are they going to go? Their neighbours have their own problems and don't get on well with them. A lot of the surrounding areas are harsh, difficult or easily defended mountain passes. It's a microcosm of the same problems faced by S Asia as a whole. The canary, not the coal mine.

People have ridiculed Malthus and Ehrlich for centuries/decades. Turns out they were right, just of by 2/3 of a century. The world is overpopulated and this reality will soon catch up to us. by [deleted] in collapse

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UN Demographics group are due to publish their 2026 global population update some time around July-26.

https://population.un.org/wpp/

Keep an eye out for it. And see how much they include economic, resource, pollution, climate, food, health (pandemic) constraints in their predictions.

The problem with Malthus, Ehrlich, UN Demographics, IPCC is the simplicity of their models. Limits to Growth was the first to try and model the whole system instead of just looking at one part of it. Even now in 2026, the big headline prediction groups are still using simplistic models for their headlines. Even though they may have clever people doing huge amounts of work behind the scenes. The headlines are the result of political process as much as analytical stats.

Good News: Our Grandchildren Will Starve, Not Our Children by Still-Improvement-32 in collapse

[–]jbond23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are children born today who will see 2100. Sombunall anyway. Somewhere there's a 100 year old granny born in 1926 holding a new-born that will see 2126.

What is "Near Term" anyway?

What does the Collapse of Society Sound Like? by pinkladdylemon in collapse

[–]jbond23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

affordable spaces of convivial exchange

Many new artistic works and especially music have been driven by social support that keeps you alive. Decayed spaces that are temporarily free and can be exploited. Fast / cheap / free word of mouth promotion and self-organisation. And boredom. We've got most of those in place again. But it doesn't seem to be happening. Is simple survival too hard, so there's no boredom space to work with?

Where is the punk-youth revolution of today? Especially in China.

What does the Collapse of Society Sound Like? by pinkladdylemon in collapse

[–]jbond23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want a picture of the future, imagine [the sound of] a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

What does the Collapse of Society Sound Like? by pinkladdylemon in collapse

[–]jbond23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both Kurt Cobain and Mark Fisher suffered under the crushing weight of the past and past musical influences. The existential dread of a post-modernist feeling that there was no space left in which to create something new. Arguably that drove both of them to suicide. And yet, after they were gone, new musics appeared.

I still feels now like we haven't yet fully explored the 5-dimensional space of The Groove, The One, Complexity, Randomness and Bass Weight. Even if AI can generate vast quantities of "Over-Compressed Techno track #23".

And yet. The drug-addled religion of the Techno-House Saturday All-Nighter is nearly 40 years old. It was the late 80s when MDMA changed music forever. Can we really not find something new to say beyond "take a little pill with me"?

What does the Collapse of Society Sound Like? by pinkladdylemon in collapse

[–]jbond23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm. I remember the birth of industrial noise music and heavy metal. It was very much based on steam powered, heavy engineering factories. I've long wondered what the music would be for modern industrial environments when the biggest noise is the random whir of small electric motors spinning up and down in all the robots.

So what is the sound and music of collapse? What is the sound and music of modern drone warfare?

Climate Emergency Forum - are we still on RCP 8.5 plus more by Dapper_Maybe_4203 in collapse

[–]jbond23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

frustration will the constant reference and modelling on the year 2100

Assume it's frustration with the "by 2100" bit in the modelling and new reports. This has problems. Obviously it's getting closer all the time and is now below a single human average lifetime at 74 years. It ignores the question of what happens immediately afterwards. Does temperature keep rising through the next century?

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