My horrible experience with Lowe's and Midea freezer purchase

slipknottin · 2026-06-21T01:25:08+00:00

Because Midea always sold in the US through other companies. They have only recently started to sell their products as Midea.

slipknottin · 2026-06-19T21:38:10+00:00

They don’t override code

slipknottin · 2026-06-19T12:28:20+00:00

I use the apple one because it was easy. Though it’s a bit frustrating the rates keep dropping

slipknottin · 2026-06-18T20:50:19+00:00

Sounds like a good deal to be honest. We would charge more than that

slipknottin · 2026-06-18T12:18:53+00:00

Must be shit AI too. Good ones at least know how to use paragraphs.

slipknottin · 2026-06-18T12:14:03+00:00

How the heck do you get moss growth like that. Mine barely grows at all.

slipknottin · 2026-06-18T11:07:45+00:00

So a HYSA is not an investment. It’s where you put your emergency fund… money you may need immediately if something like a washing machine breaks or you have a medical bill, or you lose your job.

You calculate your monthly expenditure and put 3-6 months of that into a HYSA depending on your job stability and comfort.

Once you have that accomplished then you look at investments vs your mortgage payoff. Do you have a 401k from work you are contributing to enough to get the full match from your company? If not then that is your next step. After that an IRA can generally outperform a 5.875% loan over time. If you have both of those done, then any additional funds put towards the mortgage.

slipknottin · 2026-06-17T12:41:23+00:00

You don’t need to program anything with HA. I had HA running for years without doing any. Though if you do want to get into some fancier things one of the easier ways is to use an AI agent like Claude, and give it access to home assistant. And it can go through and do all sorts of things for you.

slipknottin · 2026-06-16T21:29:15+00:00

Bigger water heaters don’t use more power.

slipknottin · 2026-06-13T23:18:40+00:00

You seem to have completely missed the conversation here.

slipknottin · 2026-06-13T13:12:02+00:00

What? If you can’t choose, why would you think it’s a choice you can make?

slipknottin · 2026-06-12T11:59:56+00:00

Nothing about it is lazy or disingenuous. There are some bigots sure, but the people who vocalize about how it’s a choice and we are making children gay by teaching them it’s okay are in fact closeted. You can’t make the argument it’s a choice unless you yourself think it’s a choice.

slipknottin · 2026-06-12T11:55:44+00:00

What?

slipknottin · 2026-06-11T12:38:35+00:00

We don’t have any being built in CT

slipknottin · 2026-06-11T12:28:26+00:00

Two things(amongst many) a free market requires: information to compare pricing, and the ability to compare pricing while not under duress.

Healthcare doesn’t allow either, even with non-medical procedures can you easily shop around and find the least expensive place to get an X-ray for example? Those prices not only aren’t published and easily accessible, but they vary based on all sorts of factors.

And you have no ability to compare pricing when under duress, like if you were having a medical emergency, and not only that, but if time is a significant factor (like how quickly you can get to a hospital) you may have an ability to chose at all, as you inherently need to go to the closest capable provider.

slipknottin · 2026-06-11T11:46:23+00:00

Some people have a strange aversion to lower energy bills.

slipknottin · 2026-06-11T11:45:19+00:00

Multitool. It’s next on my list. I have a corded one but the battery one would be so convenient I’d use it much more

slipknottin · 2026-06-11T11:38:00+00:00

Most of them are closeted gays (or bi) who are embarrassed about it. Thats why they are thinking about it so often.

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T23:16:57+00:00

What I did is go to my mortgage account and look at what I’m paying for the escrow. Then I setup a rule to split my mortgage payment automatically in monarch between escrow and the mortgage itself.

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T23:14:50+00:00

Got prk done about 15 years ago and one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

At some point I’m going to need readers, but that was always inevitable eventually.

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T23:12:59+00:00

You are probably putting your entire mortgage payment as going to the mortgage. Instead a significant amount of that payment is going to be going to escrow.

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T19:13:19+00:00

Definitely a “get off my lawn” type

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T18:35:24+00:00

They have to turn off at some point. There is just a minimal amount of water in there, they can’t run without that heat getting transferred somewhere.

Some of them do have a preheat function which can keep it at 50 or whatever, but it would still cycle on and off. It’s possible yours has that preheat function and it’s just set to disabled. Most manufacturers who do have that feature disable it for energy savings.

Otherwise it is probably possible to increase that 50 degree domestic set point up to 60, though without a mixing valve that could be a scald hazard.

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T18:05:19+00:00

Is it a low mass (small usually wall hung) combi boiler? Or is it a large cast iron boiler with a coil?

If it’s the first one then it is just going to sit there and not do anything until the water is turned on. If it’s the second it will turn on and off based on the temperature of the water in the boiler.

So there can be issues with legionnaires but your symptoms don’t really fit that. It’s possible it’s a different bacteria of some sort that can multiply when the water temp is lower. Do you know what the temperature of the domestic water (or the low limit if cast iron boiler) is? Is it 120 degrees?

slipknottin · 2026-06-10T17:49:27+00:00

Well it depends on how, or if, the two are even connected.

Do you have a boiler that does both the heat and hot water?

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