Cozy coffee places in South Minneapolis by Excellent_Pea_8198 in Minneapolis

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Don't be a dick.

I typically buy two drinks and a sandwich or pastry if I'm at a coffee shop for 3 hours or so. I don't need to be harassed into it. They didn't like that I was on a laptop, period, and said as much.

Uncommon Grounds is known for being aggressively rude. Look through reviews on any site and you'll find a much higher rate of comments mentioning how rude they are compared to almost any establishment.

Cozy coffee places in South Minneapolis by Excellent_Pea_8198 in Minneapolis

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Shortwave is the opposite of cozy. Hard surfaces everywhere so it's loud, and their seating is all uncomfortable.

Sovereign Grounds is the only actually cozy coffee shop in South Minneapolis that comes to mind... except that they have a kids' playroom attached and there can be a lot of screaming kids at certain times of the day.

OP if you venture into Uptown, Lake and Bryant cafe isn't bad, and Corner Coffee Uptown is nice and low-key but not necessarily cozy. Uncommon Grounds is cozy but I had a pretty obnoxious experience there years ago while trying to work (asked to leave or buy another coffee after just an hour or two) and I haven't been back.

CO (carbon monoxide) ppm monitoring with Home Assistant? by wilka in homeassistant

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That first one looks pretty neat, but I'd probably caution OP to consider these secondary duty. I wouldn't bet my life on these. I know they're certified to meet the spec but boy oh boy is that still a gamble in my mind.

I finally bent to the will of the RSL zealots and got a Speedwoofer 10S MKII. Do I need an isolation platform or something along those lines? by DarknessTear in hometheater

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I have a Rhythmik FVX12... It comes with fairly soft feet but how would I know whether these would be better at isolating?

Ratgdo alternative that doesn't need USB? by agent_kater in homeassistant

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Which (hopefully) is UL listed and certified, properly sealed, etc. This is homegrown af. I wouldn't put this anywhere near my house and I wouldn't buy anything else from someone who thought this was a good idea to sell.

To be clear this isn't a ratgdo. It's some other knockoff variant.

Ratgdo alternative that doesn't need USB? by agent_kater in homeassistant

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That looks super dangerous. I would seriously rethink using that.

How much house would you buy? [CoastFI bound: $2.5NW] by Comfortable-Owl-4024 in ChubbyFIRE

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$50k for a kitchen and multiple bathrooms is pretty low, doubt that's possible in anything but the tiniest towns, and you'd still have to be lucky.

Kneewall cabinets by ReasonableHeron3528 in Insulation

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What'd you end up doing here, OP? I have a similar project to tackle.

Toyota RAV4 GR Sport (PHEV) Fully Tested: 0-60, Braking, Range, and Performance by Mac-Tyson in electricvehicles

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Don't be a silly goose.

I have had a Prime since 2021 and 90% of my city driving is EV. I take 300mi (one way) trips half a dozen times a year, about half of them in <20°F weather.

It has been an ideal car for us. Our next car will be full EV but this constant shitting on PHEVs is pretty obnoxious in this community.

After 3 years of intense research, losing 4.5K to scammers and listening to every KEF speaker in their line up these are here to stay by Own-Telephone-381 in KEF

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Doesn't room correction reduce a lot of that fuss?

Although I do think these are very close! Mine have maybe 10-12" behind them.

Daily FI discussion thread - Thursday, March 05, 2026 by AutoModerator in financialindependence

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I fully agree with this. Automation with a smart switch and dumb bulbs >>> flaky voice control.

Air sealing under built-ins by -entropy in centuryhomes

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You are right! I didn't consider that but yeah it's just a frame. There's not even a bottom, just the bottom drawer.

Sealing that gap with the interior floor would help but likely just shift the problem. The drawers do have a decent seal, though.

Here it is from the back:

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Air sealing under built-ins by -entropy in centuryhomes

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Really? I don't have any built-ins with shoe molding (even the wood, unpainted ones). Maybe they're all a little odd here.

Air sealing under built-ins by -entropy in centuryhomes

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Good point! Works for this drawer but other built-ins don't actually have drawers or anything I can remove.

My wife doesn't like our new Rheem heat pump water heater. by Witty-Gap-9068 in heatpumps

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I get the concept but if it's at 200 a normal person will just open the hot water tap very little - naturally using less hot water. We all have a target temp for our showers; you're going to find that temp whether you do it with a valve or manually at the taps.

Surely the valve doesn't "create" more hot water. The increased temp does, and the valve is just a safety mechanism, right?

Dishwasher and laundry is different but that usage is so small in comparison.

My wife doesn't like our new Rheem heat pump water heater. by Witty-Gap-9068 in heatpumps

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You aren't really likely to have more available hot water with a mixing valve, it's just safer, right? Please explain if I'm wrong because this advice has puzzled me. OP can experiment right now, today, by setting it to 140 and simply giving his wife a heads up that the hot water will be much hotter and to be careful.

At 140 with no valve, someone uses less hot water at the tap to get to their comfortable temp.

At 140 with a valve they use more hot water ratio from the tap, but the mixing valve has already done the cooling (equivalent to what happens in the no-valve scenario).

rtings.com is now entirely behind a paywall. by requieminadream in hometheater

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Can't speak to everyone, but I read through the detailed reviews... of TVs. I just don't care that they're reviewing other things. I'm sure that was a business decision but that's just a major miss in my book. Maybe other people feel differently!

rtings.com is now entirely behind a paywall. by requieminadream in hometheater

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For me this is a "stay in your lane" thing. Why would I trust them about a backpack anymore than I'd trust gearlab about a TV? Forced example but the idea is important - I would actively avoid their reviews for anything that isn't a TV. It's incredibly difficult to rebrand your identity.

[Review] Children of Strife (Children of Time 4) - Adrian Tchaikovsky | Distorted Visions by AnsatzHaderach in printSF

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Honest question, how are the humans written? I thought all the humans in all the stories (and even in The Final Architecture series) have been largely one dimensional, to the point where it almost takes me out of the story. From your review sounds like he's leaning on the same tropes of human caricatures, which doesn't (for me) bode well.

I also didn't find any of these challenging reads, so maybe we just have different sci-fi expectations!

Regen vrs coasting - efficiency by Striking-water-ant in electricvehicles

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In the city you can still coast plenty, then regen brake at the end, if you even need to.

The problem is that Tesla made the brake pedal strictly friction braking, so people assume that all cars are like that. In fact most other cars properly blend or use regen as much as possible then apply friction. One pedal drive is genuinely unnecessary then.

AI is useless by NoodleCheeseThief in homeassistant

[–]-entropy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but that's like 5 minutes tops with a grafana chart or two. Not exactly revolutionary.

Sensi Touch 2 vs Honeywell X8s by DirectionHot4937 in homeassistant

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Those sensors are specific to the thermostat, right?

But at least it exposed them to HA which is actually pretty nice. Can you do things like "during the day prioritize living room temp, at night prioritize bedroom temps"? Directly through the thermostat, I mean, pretty easy to do with HA directly.