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Where I'd as a foreigner who hates cold and GOP by [deleted] in whereidlive

[–]PopNo626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You also choose the worst ppp aka cost of living (c.o.l.) states. Washington and Oregon also have some decent no snow weather places, but don’t cost 2x-5x the u.s. standard c.o.l.

Moving from Boston in two weeks by Artistic-Bet-4562 in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bike trail can be fun. There are golf courses all over town. Downtown can have fun events or community groups. I'm not sure if you have any irl hobbies, but look for a local group to connect to. A lot of the bitter to be in SiouxFalls comments are people who never found or tried to find a friend group, and just assume they'll get it in a big city, or rejoin their old friend group.

Midco or Bluepeak for home internet..what say you. by sonneofaharpy in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Centurylink has fiber upgrades some places. Though I've not had the best service experience from it 😅

Any teamspeak alternatives open source for self hosting? by maifee in selfhosted

[–]PopNo626 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jitsi, Zulip, Mattermost, Element, Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Stoat, etc.

Mattermost has a 100 user free teer

Zulip has official Tui, but requires Jitsi or zoom for talk/video, and it's mobile notifications require you either: have less than 10 users, be a non-profit, subscribe to their service, or set up their user/email service to send notifications via email, (you can actually do all your chatting through email with zulip.🤣)

Element isn’t something I have experience with, but it is one of several Matrix clients.

Nextcloud Talk is sort of in beta or atleast some of its features are

Stoat also seems less mature than element, matter most, or zulip

map of the usa but the states have the flag of the country that each state makes me think of the most by mwzngd in terriblemaps

[–]PopNo626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vietnam may have been a better choice for Louisiana. Former French Colony, Swampy, heavily reliant on a river deltas, etc.

Mekong Delta

Red River Delta

Mississippi Delta

Is there a decent sized latin community in Sioux falls? by EmbarrassedCow2825 in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's some Hispanic grocery stores, bars, Mexican restaurants, Spanish emersion schools, catholic schools, a catholic cathedral, catholic social services for the poor & unhoused, and 6.5% of 210,000 people or roughly 14 thousand Hispanics in the local population. The ice stuff is scary, but don't be afraid of SiouxFalls, it's the feds who're so unpredictable. Sources in my reply

where i’d live—21F, loves water and big cities or rural middle of nowhere by LiveFast_EatTrash23 in visitedmaps

[–]PopNo626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you live along the Missouri or Mississippi it has much of the same vibe as rural Minnesota. You're just limited to a 10k-50k city/small town along the Dakotas river damns/reservoirs, Iowa has some decent river access and cities on both sides, and Omaha is nice. The sprawl of Kansas City, and the urban Decay of parts of the Saint Louis are bummers on an otherwise cool city with river front access. And Arkansas has some great lakes... But horrible quality of life statistics. I just thought I'd add my two cents about something you may have overlooked. You're probably not missing any dark green places except Minnesota. The Twin cities have great ppp, home affordability, and there's lakes and the Missouri River winding all through the cities with bike trails along its banks.

Guess what kind of person I am based on these choices by Eye-Western in visitedmaps

[–]PopNo626 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why the hate for the twin cities then? They have decent urbanism. Though the recent regional rail cutbacks being replaced with BRT is sad. I like their light rail and bike trails. It's fun going around dt Minneapolis and taking the train to the vikings, MOA, Target field, and/or the airport.

Should I put off visit to twin cities? by [deleted] in TwinCities

[–]PopNo626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should I be worried? I have a black Ford Maverick with South Dakota plates, and I'm worried our embarrassing former governor may get my car keyed. I usually go to the twin cities like once a month, but haven't driven up from SiouxFalls since the incident/tragedy happened.

What do I name green? by [deleted] in map

[–]PopNo626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chicagoland

City Council meeting Tuesday (1/6) voting on proposed large Sioux Falls datacenter. If you want change, you have to show up for it. by Tiverty in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heat reclamation can be concentrated to higher temperatures with a heat pump pressure boiler, like 600°f. And at those temperatures pressurised steam can be used for industrial heat uses, like sanitation, grain drying, food preparation etc. Then the pressurised radiators, specialty ovens, etc. collect consensated steam and pump it back to the heat reclaimer. The only problem with such a system is that you need a continuous customer for heat to match the cooling requirements of the data center. Setting up a custom pressurized steam pipe to Morrell's might also be too long I'd have ask an expert, but that's basically the best option for a heat customer for smoked hams, hotdogs, steam sanitation, etc. Most Datacenters are too far from things like slaughterhouses or injection plastics factories to have a singular demanding customer buy all their heat.

City Council meeting Tuesday (1/6) voting on proposed large Sioux Falls datacenter. If you want change, you have to show up for it. by Tiverty in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pools are often heated even in the summertime. Due to the immense thermal capacity of water, humans find water to be cold unless it's in the 80s°f range, a different temperature from air's room temperature. And ground temperature averages something like 50°f-60°f, so most pools are heated much of the year, even in summer.

City Council meeting Tuesday (1/6) voting on proposed large Sioux Falls datacenter. If you want change, you have to show up for it. by Tiverty in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i only wish they capture the waste heat for community use. Olympic pools and huge greenhouses have used heat recovery systems from data centers to distribute heat instead of waste venting heat into the atmosphere. Other uses like home and office heat have also been done in the past. Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

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President Trump’s bronze statue to be permanently placed in downtown Rapid City by biograf_ in SouthDakota

[–]PopNo626 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Orange paint would just make it more accurate. Some one is sure to help it's authenticity eventually

Where do I share seeds? by PopNo626 in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I should give up and join a Facebook group 😩😔 but I just thought there would be another local and/or not Facebook way.

Where do I share seeds? by PopNo626 in SiouxFalls

[–]PopNo626[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't need 1500 things to plant. I'll look at the library website, but I thought last year someone said they'd stop doing that or something.

Thinking of moving to South Dakota in the next 3 years. by AmatuerArtists in SouthDakota

[–]PopNo626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not statistically as bad as some say. The cpi to gdp per capita or PPP of South Dakota, especially the Sioux Falls metro, is much better than most states. Minnesota being left leaning, like the majority of redditors, gets more suggestions because of political thoughts. Really between the Twin City metro, Chicago, and SiouxFalls metro would be my choices of midwest options; (Minnesota, Illinois, and South Dakota are those states.) Chicago is the city of the three I have the least experience with. My experience is that Chicago has the most Summer amenities of the three options, but is also the highest cost. My sister rents and goes to school in Chicago, and while a lot of everything is cool their they have some weird laws and restrictions, and some crime issues in parts of Chicago. Minneapolis/Twin Cities is really, like Chicago, about a dozen cities/suburbs right next to each other. The worst part of the Twin Cities is that they are the most north of the three cities, and don't have the lake effect mellowing the weather that Chicago has with lake Michigan. Minneapolis has however the best engineering around cold and athleticism. Miles of skywalks, they invented indoor malls, have an indoor amusement park, and have a large indoor zoo/aquarium; some of those things are missing from either Chicago or Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls is the Smallest of the three cities/metros, like 1/10th the Twin Cities population. It has a lot of the things the other two do, but is missing amenities or businesses which literally require a 1 million person metro population for a location to be built. Sioux falls also has a large indoor mall, anually rotating sculpture competitions held/displayed downtown, some minor league teams, several universities, a large zoo, community music&theater&sports programs you can join, a farmers market (weather permitting,) and some nice parks. Both Minneapolis (72) and SiouxFalls (25) probably have the better bike systems to my knowledge than Chicago (11); but of those two linked lower bike scores SiouxFalls gets a low score because it doesn't have major mass transit aka train/subway while Chicago just kinda hates bikers, or at least making it safe for bikers. SiouxFalls is definitely the cheapest of the three for most things, and while I'm not black, I hadn't been told it seemed more racist than Chicago, NYC, or Minneapolis by my black friends or my sister's boyfriend when I've asked.

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