After 15 years with Macs I just last week bought a Surface Pro 6. Windows 10 is alright, better to live with than I thought it would be.
It was also significantly less expensive than the MacBook Air I was considering (AUD $1250 vs $1850) without being concerned about keyboard longevity.
Overall, I’m quite happy with my choice.
Heating comes on at 4.30am in cooler months, turns off when we leave to go to work (along with the bedroom, hallways and kitchen lights which come on at 6am)
Heating comes back on at 2pm if outside air temperature is below a certain threshold.
Bathroom floor heating and towel rail switch on and off at various times during the morning, afternoon and evening depending on the day.
Does this mean you constantly have light there even when you're not around? Any particular reason for that (maybe the switches for it are placed awkwardly or so?)
My cat is often underfoot or very close by, without the automation I’d be turning the lights on and off manually many times a night. They only come on at 1% brightness.
Assuming you mean security nor for yourself (as in, to see where you're walking) but for burglars, thinking about this for a bit I'm not sure if this always works as intended. Would be interesting to see stats. But it's definitely not as simple as 'light on = scare away intruders'. Suppose your hallway light goes on every single day, even if you add some randomess to the timing, a burglar which scouts the neighbourhood a couple of days will quickly figure out the light being on doesn't mean anything with respect to you being at home or not. Moreover it would be convenient for him/her once inside the house since there's more visibility. Unless of course that also means the neighbours can then clearly see someone being in the house. Then again, if your neighbours don't know you're not at home that matters less.
The radio telescope at Parkes was built prior to DSS-43 that is the article's subject, they're located approx. 4 hours drive apart.