pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

how come smoke detectors are so common in some places? i have never ever seen one installed in any house I've been here in Spain

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Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@kitten we don't like safety, i guess

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@mildsunrise but we do require proper electrical and telecoms installation tho

Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈) @cinnamon@mk.absturztau.be

@kitten @mildsunrise Why? There smoke detectors powered by AA batteries.

For professional installations, systems with water pipes and sprinklers with a glass valve that "explodes" (and opens) when the inner liquid expands because of temperature are more common.

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@cinnamon @mildsunrise see next post

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@cinnamon @kitten right? with unsafe plugs you at least have the excuse that they're almost impossible to change. a smoke detector requires no infra

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@mildsunrise and our building has even a dry standpipe

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@kitten sure, but a smoke detector seems like a no brainer to me. it saves lives by alerting you there's a fire instead of you having to find out when there's too late (or maybe dying directly if you happened to be sleeping)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@mildsunrise no yeah but I meant it like, we obviously seem to care about security, like those examples show, so why do we ignore that specific bit?

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@kitten i guess we don't need it as badly as in the US where houses are made out of cardboard? idk

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@mildsunrise but they do in Germany too

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@kitten maybe Germany cares more about safety in this particular area because they had some particularly tragic incidents or something. maybe smoke detectors are less of an inconvenience there than here, where we literally put things on fire once a year and make barbecues and stuff

4 "back to setting fires" censord

@4censord@unfug.social

@mildsunrise @kitten iirk it was a spree of fires from some clothing or similar thingy
and well, we went hard on both sides of regulating flamability of stuff like that as well as on detection

we still have the inconvenience of fire (e.g. my living room has a wood fire place), but there are special detectors for that (same as with for kitchens)

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@4censord @kitten ah thanks, i was wondering what happened with fireplaces in particular

4 "back to setting fires" censord

@4censord@unfug.social

@mildsunrise @kitten yeah, there is two types of (specifically) smoke detectors, and multiple differnet types of fire detectors
and well combinations of the two

one type looks at light absorbstion levels (as smoke absorbs lioght), and the other looks for "amount of free ions in the air"
the light based one is good for smoke intensive fires (e.g. a slowly cooking electical device), but bad for very clean burning fires (like gases, liquids or e.g. some types of paper)

in kitchens or where there is fireplaces they are combined with temperature change detectors, so only alert if there is a sudden temperature spike

Alba 🌸

@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt

@4censord @kitten that makes: a lot of sense

Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈) @cinnamon@mk.absturztau.be

@mildsunrise @kitten ...and then there are people like me, who bought a couple of smoke detectors +5 years ago... and still have them in the closet, waiting to be installed