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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • The reasons our houses aren’t as well insulated comes down to climate and cost.

    Climate, people don’t die from extreme temperatures here like they do in places like Europe and North America.

    Cost, we don’t have the demand for better thermal protection so anyone who wants to improve their home has to pay.

    I’m in the process of trying to improve my home atm. I’ve had the blow in insulation replaced with batts, I’m replacing the windows with double glazing and I am trying to seal all of the gaps and vents that let out the heat. It will cost me 10’s of thousands of dollars by the time I’m finished, but it will make our house comfortable without costing us a fortune when we are retired.










  • I’ve got an iPhone 13.

    I used to upgrade about every 2 years because that’s how long my contract was and there was usually some killer feature I wanted. Now, new releases only have incremental improvements so I’m not in any hurry to buy a new phone.

    I’ll probably keep this phone for another year or 2 as there is nothing wrong with it, even the battery life is still great.

    So I’d say iPhone sales are “collapsing” because of a lack of innovation in the market, cost of living pressures, and handset durability, they just last longer.