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bratwurst3000 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

skeletal88 · 4 days ago

wtf, this is totally insane.

Here the upgrades for meters are paid for by the grid operators. No changes to the cabinets are required, old analog meters were replaced by them for smart meters, at no extra cost to the consumer, and now they will replace them with new meters capable of metering by 15 minute interval.

This cost in germany is really only created by overregulation and insane bureaucrats creating work for them.

I first heard that in Germany there is much resistance to smart meters and I thought they were just silly people, but if it costs so much..

bratwurst3000 · 3 days ago

no people are stupid. Smart meters are paid by the grid operator like everywhere else. Friends of mine got one and it was 25€ a year for it. Yes germans are very stupid. we fight everything new because we think this country worked rly well in the 80s and thats where we want to be 1980

Digital and Smart thats for othet countries.

I got air air heatpumps for 3 rooms 1000€ a room and it slashed my heating cost to 1/3. And I have to explain that its not foor cooling but for heating and then the response is " heatpumps are like 20k plus you liar" or " heatpumps dont work in the cold" ... germans

Still many people dont switch because the read somewhere about magic costs that dont exist. Russian Gas propaganda is big here

bratwurst3000 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

lnsru · 5 days ago

State subsidies and insane overregulation. Think about replacing the cabinet for electricity meters (+4000€) for heat pump installation.

bratwurst3000 · 3 days ago

smart meters are paid by the grid operator and you have to pay maximum 50€ a year for a smartmeter. I honestly dont know where you get your numbers. a friend with a big house and 3 children switched to air water heatpump with floor heating etc and it was 18k€ and half of that paif by the state and the smart meter was mostly free( he pais 25€ a year for it).

and this is a hugeeee house. No solar but he is working on it.

could you link some proof of this smartmeters I have to pay? Or some calculations from firms it whatever that proof your point.

bratwurst3000 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

mk89 · 4 days ago

BTW, in Germany you're not allowed to install it yourself. At least that's what I read some time ago. I guess nobody checks, of course, but in case things go bad and you need insurance, probably they can invalidate it due to the fact you did something illegal.

Not saying it makes sense, though.

bratwurst3000 · 3 days ago

i installed mine myself and probably illegaly. But its super easy and those people who install it do a shit job sometimes. I watched professionell people flushing those pipes with compressed air....

And the fine is nonexistent so everyone should do it themself.

bratwurst3000 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

lnsru · 5 days ago

Nothing amusing. Germany is not really rich compared to nordics. And now let‘s do so math! Electricity: 0,3€/kWh and gas 0,1€/kWh. I need ~3x more gas to get same temperature in my room. And gas heating costs €10k while heat pump €40k without subsidies and probably raw €15k material cost if I install it by myself. So why should I pay more by €30k to install experimental thing for a decade when my low cost gas heating will last for 3 decades again. The monthly bill is the same.

bratwurst3000 · 3 days ago

that doesnt even make sense. if gas is 3x of electricity it should be the same cost but for every watt of electricity you get 3 watt of heating. so by your math if I pay 1w gas but need 3w for 1w of electricity and heatpumps give 3w on every watt of electricity heatpumps are 300% more effective then gas. sooo your point is also heatpumps ftw ;)

bratwurst3000 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

xeromal · 5 days ago

I installed mini splits (small heat pumps) in each of our rooms. Everyone gets their own temperature and they were only 800$ a piece. Did installation myself and it was pretty easy. Hardest thing was pulling a vacuum in the lines before releasing the freon (or whatever it's called) but all I did was watch a youtube video. They've been going strong for several years. I looked at the prices and they are still the same.

bratwurst3000 · 5 days ago

Did the same. air air is cheap and works like a charm. this 40k for heatpump is for the most luxury version every salesmen trys to sell

bratwurst3000 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

jack_tripper · 5 days ago

Sign of a rich and very developed country.

A lot of buildings in Austrian cities are still heated by burning oil or wood and the whole city smells like a bonfire.

Probably gonna have my lifespan shortened by at least a decade from all that fossil fuel pollution, but at least we banned that dirty nuclear from killing us.

bratwurst3000 · 5 days ago

air conditioning is also a heat pump. they cost way less then the air/water heatpumps and are easy and cheap to install. Since two years I heat with air conditioning and its super effective and cheap.

edit// Hot water is generated by electric solar panels. 1200w are sufficent to have enough hot water for two persons

bratwurst3000 commented on Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader... · Posted by u/dmitrygr

kuschku · 20 days ago

That depends on the language — whereas German puts spaces around —, English afaik usually doesn’t.

Similarly, French puts spaces before and after ? ! while English and German only put spaces afterwards.

[EDIT: I originally wrote that French treats . , ! ? specially. In reality, french only treats ? and ! specially.]

bratwurst3000 · 20 days ago

french does "," and "." like the british and germans the rest is space befor space after

bratwurst3000 commented on Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader... · Posted by u/dmitrygr

shevy-java · 20 days ago

> This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's first public release on November 30, 2022.

The problem is that Google's search engine - but, oddly enough, ALL search engines - got worse before that already. I noticed that search engines got worse several years before 2022. So, AI further decreased the quality, but the quality had a downwards trend already, as it was. There are some attempts to analyse this on youtube (also owned by Google - Google ruins our digital world); some explanations made sense to me, but even then I am not 100% certain why Google decided to ruin google search.

One key observation I made was that the youtube search, was copied onto Google's regular search, which makes no sense for google search. If I casually search for a video on youtube, I may be semi-interested in unrelated videos. But if I search on Google search for specific terms, I am not interested in crap such as "others also searched for xyz" - that is just ruining the UI with irrelevant information. This is not the only example, Google made the search results worse here and tries to confuse the user in clicking on things. Plus placement of ads. The quality really worsened.

bratwurst3000 · 20 days ago

the main theory is that with bad results you have to search more and get more engaged in ads so more revenue for google. Its enshitification

bratwurst3000 commented on Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy therecord.media/demark-re... · Posted by u/layer8

miohtama · 2 months ago

No, German police cannot access encrypted WhatsApp messages.

They specifically state in the introduction of Chat Control act that the reason for the banning end-to-end encrypted communications is that criminals use WhatsApp and police cannot crack the message, hence the Chat Control act. The police cannot crack these messages and they want to read everyone's messages and that's the whole point of making encryption illegal.

If you are unfamiliar with the topic, you can read more about Chat Control and encryption here:

https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-what-is-actually-goin...

bratwurst3000 · 2 months ago

i dont want to be the guy but the law is not about police having acces to private messages. As far as I understood they want to scan content for csam material by hashing. and if positive police geta involved. Or am I wrong? Maybe I misunderstood something.

but this is still somehow breaking encryption.

bratwurst3000 commented on Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy therecord.media/demark-re... · Posted by u/layer8

notepad0x90 · 2 months ago

Maybe they should "own it" instead? I don't think these days legal porn use would be all that harmful. but i don't disagree with your point.

But look at it this way, surveillance already exists, all major governments are hacking into people's phone and spying on them, and forcing telco's to do dragnet surveillance. chat control is about doing it at a greater scale and formalizing it for normal law enforcement use instead of things like counter-terrorism.

bratwurst3000 · 2 months ago

yes and I understand the benefit but i doubt the real world consequenzes. It would only filter the criminals who are good at opsec and those who arent. imho elevating a more proffesional type of criminals. Honestly most major crimes are money related. Get rid of papermoney and make digital payments traceable for law enforcement. I know there is something like gold bitcoin etc but at the end knowing how money moves is more power then knowing what people are writing