(note - only semi-relevant)

While southern Florida is hardly at the equator, living here has really highlighted how northern-hemisphere and temperate-centric the online sphere - tech in particular - tends to be.

We don't get spring/summer/autumn/winter so much as rainy and dry season; heat pumps are irrelevant; natural disasters come in the form of hurricanes, and weather is either sunny or stormy; the days don't change in length much; and so on and so on.

It's a bunch of little things, but it's been surprising to me how often they come up in discussions, and just how rare (sub)tropical-specific problems and topics are in comparison. It makes me wonder what it's like to live somewhere even further removed from the natural world of the north.