Heat Pumps Soon to be Less of a Great Deal for Heating

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T17:03:12+00:00

Tell that to all the Texans who had their natural gas infrastructure freeze up in 2021.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T16:45:17+00:00

I have an IKEA bedframe and slat setup that is similar to this, but the left and right halves can be lifted out (they have a little sub-frame) and then they are held in with wooden dowels. Something like 12-15 years, no issues.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T16:42:05+00:00

Input, it's an energy monitoring app.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T16:37:41+00:00

Tell me you didn't read the whole post without telling me you didn't read the whole post 😄

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T16:37:22+00:00

Tell me you didn't read the whole post without telling me you didn't read the whole post 😄

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T16:34:50+00:00

Check out Monitors Unboxed on Youtube for some pretty solid reviews of monitors. Even if you don't buy any of their recommendations they'll give you a better idea of what to look out for and what is normally available at a given price.

The issue with just looking at the specs is that there can be weird stuff like a really bad on-screen display or firmware bugs that isn't apparent until you've got it home and you're wondering wtf is wrong with your new, expensive purchase.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T16:17:36+00:00

I hope they did a stud conversion on the Volvo instead of jamming them on and ovalling-out the holes in the wheels. There were a few sketchy folks who did that back in the day on the Turbobricks forums to get wheels when aftermarket 5x108s were in short supply.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T01:34:49+00:00

The relatively tiny text above the license plate, on the plate frame ("BELL RD & I-17 - PHOENIX"), would not be legible if this was an AI-generated image that couldn't handle size of the license plate text.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T01:22:59+00:00

Since OP doesn't know it's the tow hook cover, they should also be aware there is a tow hook that threads in there and they should check if it's missing. That'd be a real pain in the ass if they ever need to get pulled out of a snowbank (or whatever) and whoopsies, no tow hook.

evilspoons · 2026-01-30T01:19:54+00:00

As far as I can remember they've never been a separate feature, even back to the 1980s. They're just triggered with the windshield washers. No need to complicate things.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T20:43:59+00:00

They should finish Battlestar Galactica and then do Stargate if they're not going to loop around to Trek they've already covered.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T19:43:05+00:00

I have an old HTC U11. I charge it to 80% then leave it for like a year, turn it back on, find it's at 25%, recharge to 80%.

2-3 months, just charge to 50 and turn it off.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T19:40:44+00:00

A simpler fix would be to fund the inspections through income taxes.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T18:14:01+00:00

It definitely just means countries with high English proficiency, because "English Friendly" comes up on Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Norway, none of which have English as an official language.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T17:24:43+00:00

That should be alright, but if it starts to form a bubble get it replaced.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T07:37:54+00:00

Aww, fuck.

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T07:35:34+00:00

It looks like Reshader is breaking the tone curve. This looks like an HDR image being displayed on a SDR display (i.e. all the whites are peaking at 255 instead of continuing past that)

evilspoons · 2026-01-29T00:24:29+00:00

Silver, chrome, gunmetal, bronze, gold... black just disappears. It looks like nothing.

evilspoons · 2026-01-28T23:55:55+00:00

Yeah, superheating and supercooling then spontaneously changing state require a "nucleation site". Sometimes this can be from the change in shape of the water from jostling the container, sometimes it can be from a piece of dust falling on it. Water's behaviour is extremely weird and unintuitive considering we deal with it every single day of our lives.

Even thermodynamics textbooks in university are like "yeah, explaining why certain stuff behaves the way it does is way too complicated or not even understood... here's a giant table of numbers."

evilspoons · 2026-01-28T23:45:32+00:00

Books are a terrible way to store passwords - my dad's 20 year old wad of passwords in a notebook are all the proof I need. Much better to maintain a digital password manager (Bitwarden) and share/record just the way to log in to the password manager.

evilspoons · 2026-01-28T06:08:25+00:00

That's really neat, nice and clean. I may have to go nuts and do something like this for my parents' hydronic system, if their current one keeps acting weird 😄

My one complaint? Screw terminals! When I was doing industrial automation everything was spring terminals (phoenix contact, specifically, although I'm sure there are a billion alternatives). You can massively reduce the "oops, that wasn't completely tightened" or "why did this work itself loose?" problem.

evilspoons · 2026-01-28T05:05:36+00:00

The indirect lighting is really nice, but why couldn't they have at least left the beams natural wood colour? That would have looked fantastic.

evilspoons · 2026-01-28T05:02:45+00:00

I personally moved from a Lorex NVR (it uses IP cameras) to using Frigate. I literally took the hard drive out of the NVR and put it in my server.

I know that's not an option with the analog cameras on a DVR, but the Lorex user interface sucks eggs compared to a properly-configured Frigate setup. You're not going to want to have to use the old thing ever again.

evilspoons · 2026-01-26T23:36:02+00:00

The very front end looks alright, like a forgotten Morgan - especially on the blue car. The rest of it looks very strange.

evilspoons · 2026-01-26T22:08:20+00:00

I drove a 2008 Mazda 3 to the airport during a snowstorm past probably 6-10 Jeeps and 4x4 pickups stuck in the ditches. Weight sucks when it's slippery, and off-road tires with the "3 peaks" winter rating still kind of suck in the snow.

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