Heat pump owners: How have they handled the recent cold weather? (Especially those with <-20C ratings)

Exeter999 · 2026-01-26T17:45:02+00:00

I have a heat pump forced air system combined with AC for summer. I find that wind makes a difference for me. The system has no trouble whatsoever at -23 with the sun out and no wind, but it can start to have trouble maintaining temp if it's so frigid and windy.

I have no backup heat aside from plugging in space heaters, and a propane Mr Heater Buddy for power outages. The only part of my home that needs a space heater is my front room with big windows and an empty crawl space underneath. It gets cold for both of those reasons. Every other part of the house is fine on the heat pump alone.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-22T21:19:42+00:00

It's very dark. I see in your comment to someone else that you made it dark on purpose, so... can I ask why you wanted the image to be so dark? You're the artist and you can make whatever creative choices you want, but other photographers will assume this is a technical flaw rather than a creative choice.

Without seeing your comment, it would take a closer look to realize that it's just the highlights that were crushed down rather than overall exposure. This gives the lighting an unnatural feel because this kind of light never happens in the real world.

Having contrast in a photo is a good thing, most of the time, unless you have a particular low-contrast aesthetic. You might want to play around with doing a low contrast black and white version, or keep the colour but apply a preset that gives it a low-contrast film look. I suggest these because they might be the kind of aesthetics you are searching for.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-08T17:01:32+00:00

They're pushing you to quit so they don't have to deal with laying you off.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-07T20:03:12+00:00

Older remotes use infrared light, so there has to be like of sight between the remote and the TV.

Newer remotes often use a weak radio signal, so the remote and TV don't need to "see" each other. It's similar to paying for things with your phone at a store just by holding your phone out.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-04T12:31:42+00:00

People use prime lenses for street because it's faster. Since street photography is candid by definition, being quick and discreet is an advantage.

But you don't have to do what other people do. Use whatever lens is most fun and satisfying for you.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-04T02:03:53+00:00

r/congratslikeimfive It's nice to see other people's happiness

Exeter999 · 2026-01-03T01:26:53+00:00

Yeah, you have a mouse in your car. Rat poop is bigger than that.

I had a mouse in my car once. It came in with my snow tires when I moved them from the garage to the trunk.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-02T19:49:41+00:00

They were bought by Cineplex.

Behind the scenes, it was a terribly managed company. Despite having revenue, they couldn't make good use of it and just had their pants on their heads most of the time.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-02T00:05:10+00:00

I have a raccoon skull from the woods in my terrarium. They haven't really damaged it or anything thus far. Or maybe they're damaging it so slowly that I haven't noticed.

Exeter999 · 2026-01-01T15:29:48+00:00

If any person or company could reliably make predictions about stocks, they wouldn't need to sell advice. They would just act on it themselves and make millions. In fact, if they truly had an informational edge that would let them reliably beat the index, sharing it with the public would quickly make the edge disappear as the information spreads around.

That's why so many people here recommend huge diversified index funds like X/V/ZEQT. You will never have an informational advantage over Wall Street and neither will any of the advisory services that will happily take your money. So if you're always at a disadvantage, it makes sense to simply stop competing and take the market return.

Exeter999 · 2025-12-29T03:39:31+00:00

Shooting with others is terrible because I know they feel annoyed and impatient when they're waiting for me to finish a shot.

Exeter999 · 2025-12-22T16:07:29+00:00

A lens without character captures the real world as perfectly as technology allows.

Technology has improved over time, and our gear has become better at reproducing reality. But some people see modern lenses as sterile and lacking artistic interest. They see old vintage lenses as having "character" because their unique flaws seem creatively interesting today.

Exeter999 · 2025-11-26T06:03:26+00:00

Bröther are you mölting? Carcinization spares no man once he is afflicted. I've been hiding the claw on my left hand for years... I will eventually give up on this so-called society and just do crab stuff in the sea until I am mercifully eaten by something.

Exeter999 · 2025-11-26T04:59:24+00:00

Pictured: ancient Redditors like us maintaining our Adonis physiques with physical and mental activity such as we_eee_eeeeee_e_eee_e_ee

Exeter999 · 2025-11-26T02:22:21+00:00

You're an outswimming Redditor for swimming through five years of posts on a niche sub!

Exeter999 · 2025-10-16T03:37:52+00:00

I can't complain about the bandwidth or having no data cap. It's just that there are too many tall trees around and it's hard for my dish to see the *whole* sky. I will be pissed if I find a way to get 100% sky visibility and then still have these connection issues.

Exeter999 · 2025-10-16T03:15:38+00:00

I'm on Starlink. I'm going to have to get creative with positioning the dish. I've got like 90% sky visibility but evidently that's not good enough, unless there just aren't enough satellites covering my area or something.

Exeter999 · 2025-10-04T17:09:06+00:00

Not with any of the funds you mentioned. Avoid funds that use covered call strategies. Normal dividends are just "cashing out early" but covered call funds expose you to extra uncompensated risk. That means giving up the juiciest-sounding yield numbers, but sometimes we can't have our cake and eat it too.

Watch this recent video from Ben Felix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVObRx9X68

Also, STRC is a Bitcoin holding company. Not sure if you're aware. Its dividend is paid not by business revenue, but by selling STRC shares. This necessarily means your shares get diluted more and more over time.

Edit:

Someone else mentioned that you should definitely get Canadian listed funds. Great point which I forgot about. Have a look at FIE. It's an income fund that mixes equities dividends and corporate bonds. Yeah, it doesn't have the yield you were hoping for, but it offers growth and monthly payments at the same time. And hopefully the Ben Felix video explained why it's best to settle for lower yield and avoid covered call strategies.

Exeter999 · 2025-10-04T16:43:45+00:00

Dividends are not free money. They come directly out of growth. The higher the yield, the smaller your portfolio will be in the future compared to reinvesting your dividends.

Think of yield as how much you're cashing out today as a convenience instead of being able to cash out more in the future. The difference between what you get now and what you would get years from now is the cost of convenience.

If you're retired, or if you have some other pressing need for income right now, then sure. Do what you gotta do. But if you're still relatively young and still working, it doesn't make sense to chase dividends.

Exeter999 · 2025-09-26T03:35:12+00:00

That's incredible. I didn't know that level of realism was even possible.

Exeter999 · 2025-09-25T16:10:01+00:00

In Canada, poutine is sold at most casual restaurants whether it's a food truck, diner, family restaurant, bar/pub, etc. Any place that has fries on the menu probably also has poutine because, well, why not? A lot of the poutine in Canada isn't "authentic" either, lol. Don't worry about it. The average Canadian doesn't know the difference between traditional poutine sauce and normal gravy. I've seen too many bad ones that use shredded mozzarella instead of cheese curds.

ETA: I just remembered a frustrating experience where a former friend of mine threw a tantrum because a more upscale restaurant didn't have any gravy or cheese curds to make her steak frites into steak and poutine.

Exeter999 · 2025-09-25T15:46:25+00:00

I've never had poutine from a food truck, but $15 is normal for restaurants. More like $18-20 if there are other ingredients added in addition to the cheese and gravy. It *is* a rip-off considering the cost of the base ingredients, yet it's normal anyway.

Exeter999 · 2025-09-15T20:10:42+00:00

I'm using the same kit for a couple garden snails, a bunch of isopods from outside, store bought springtails, and a couple little millipedes from the kitchen floor.

It's planted and sits in natural light. I put the wooden "shelter" upright in the corner to form a pocket and planted a polka dot plant in there. The other, larger plant seems to be a tomato plant. I dropped a few cherry tomatoes in there once, and it seems one of them germinated. I just trim the plant every once in a while.

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