MigratingApe

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[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This hits so much.

Signed - married parent of two kids below 3 y.o.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

If all of them were subject to Alaska Airlines’ WiFi equipment installation post-sale, which required unbolting the door plugs, then all of them have to be rechecked and rebooted. This you won’t hear from them :)

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But mah profits!

737 Max is still a developing example of what happens when you leave corporate to self-regulate themselves.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Then I don’t know why, but I am sure over 30% of heat in my house escapes through the roof.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I lived in flats before, it’s a totally different story, unless your flat is on the last floor or on the corner there is not much heat loss assuming your neighbors also use the heating.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Invoice from yesterday for December 2023. I used 201 m3 of gas, calculated by provider as being equal to 2224kWh of power for which I paid 682.81 PLN (157 € to be exact) in total including taxes and surcharges. So 3.397 PLN or around 0.78 EUR per m3.

December was one of the coldest months this season. Last year I used maximum of 250 m3 per month which happened to be January/February. This then exceeded 200€

This includes both warm water and heating using low-temperature floor heating. Current thermostat settings give me 22C on the base floor and 20C on the first floor (where most heat escapes, obviously). I also have mechanical ventilation with recuperation.

Shit’s expensive.

With current prices of electricity, the same heating power with perfect constant COP of 3 (not possible with December temps for air heat pump) would cost me 666 PLN. (Nice). How can I offset the cost of installing it in the first place LOL.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

Lucky you. 175 square meters, 25cm styrofoam on walls and 30cm rock wool on ceiling and I pay 200€ per month in winter for gas heating in Poland. Solar panels are not economical in current regulations and billing rules have changed so those with heat pumps pay at least twice us much in coldest months.

We are fucked from every angle.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why downvotes? They are both right, with an exception of MacBooks. Otherwise, you are limited by use cases predicted by the manufacturer, even if it "just works".

I use both iPhone and MacBook, with the latter mostly as a Unix that, again, "just works", but I can even go as far as compile whole GNU userspace natively with Gentoo Prefix (one of many options).

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

And just recently you can find a new type of can openers that literally disassemble the upper lid leaving no sharp edges!

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

It’s worse! There are guys on YT disassembling them and finding not single-use alkaline batteries inside but fully rechargeable Li-Ion batteries (for use in hobby projects). Forget the environment, how on earth is this economically justifiable for producers? People buying them pay not for nicotine but for all the electronics inside with a small addition of substance for their addiction.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Brother for life.

You bet it. I got one toner refill for like $6 for Brother laser printer which is happily chugging along with factory installed drum after 2600 pages printed during over 6 year period. No DRM, no driver drama, and you know what happens to jet printers with such sporadic usage.

The reason is SIMD instructions / vectorized assembly instructions with consideration for delay slots, instruction latency, memory access times etc., for which GCC and Clang optimizers are both terrible and cannot automatically transform C code to them in any but simple cases.

This is also a reason why specialized DSP processors with SIMD capabilities have dedicated proprietary compilers for them.

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