They should have to provide a justification for why they are removing them. Many of those episodes are with some of my favorite comics such as Bill Burr. Why did they remove them?
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Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment.
Courage, indeed.
And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...
I’m surprised you are not using a typewriter.
mcot2 commented on How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) archipro.co.nz/articles/a... · Posted by u/whereistimbo
> with good ventilation
Mandate windows?!
> heat pumps
That means (if I understand you correctly), fans. That is noise pollution - some will not have it, and some will not bear it. And (after experience), heat pumps can be inadequate for heating: they can raise a temperature, not warm the environment.
A heat pump can be air source or geothermal and you can use them to create hot water for a hydronic system or forced air (ducted or non-ducted). So not all of those will create the same noise levels. As they can be virtually any size and now work well at very low temps, I don’t see how they can be inadequate for heating. I’d have to hear of an example.
Up in the Northeast U.S. they are still putting oil fired boilers in new homes since gas isn’t super common outside of larger cities. I’d like to see more new homes have solar, heat pumps and possibly even stationary batteries in the future. These are going to be essential if we want to get off fossil fuels.
mcot2 commented on How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) archipro.co.nz/articles/a... · Posted by u/whereistimbo
I'm looking into making a house sustainable right now and the windows are actually a point of contention. One side thinks super-high insulated (triple pane) windows are a waste of money, the other swears by them. Assuming the frame doesn't leak, does triple really make that much of a difference?
Get yourself a FLIR (the phone attached ones are not that expensive) and check for yourself. It is a great tool.
mcot2 commented on How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) archipro.co.nz/articles/a... · Posted by u/whereistimbo
I wish more municipalities would mandate tighter homes with good ventilation. Recently when searching for a new home it was so dishearting to see brand new developments where the homes had standard insulation, bad orientation for things like solar and passive heating and giant fossil fuel based heating systems instead of heat pumps. I decided to instead go the oppostie direction and buy a 1960’s split level that I am modernizing.
It’s been quite a challenge to retrofit, we really need to be building to a higher standard for new stock. While renewable energy is all the rage this rarely gets a mention.
You can insulate them to reduce heating demand, and it will help to an extent (undo that before summer to avoid cooking them), but for an unattended system, it's never going to work out very well. If the system is a year round cabin, the solution is easy enough - keep them in the heated space (which you'll have propane/kerosene/biomass heaters for), and it's not a real problem. But unattended stuff... you really just need to plan for something that can tolerate bitter cold without damage. Or to seriously overpanel the system, 10x+ what you need for summer use, and hope they produce something.
I think most people underestimate just how much delta in production there can be on solar. My house array is grid tied, 16kW, a bit weird looking (mostly east-west panels, designed for post net metering). On a really good, cool, clear, windy spring day, I can produce about 105kWh out of the system from sunup to sundown.
On a really bad, low, grey, winter day, that same system produces about 2kWh. It's literally a factor of 50 difference. And we can get several days of that in a row. I have a backup generator that I use for my office on weeks like that (separate, off-grid system).
"Winter, electric heat on solar" is a fairly good filter for those who have read about solar or pondered it, and those who have a few years of it under their belt. The second group are the ones who've tried it, discovered just how horribly it doesn't work, and are trying to convince the first group that, no, really, insert well worn idea here really doesn't fix the problems with it.
I guarantee if it were easy, people would be doing it. That you won't find any serious off grid system doing electric battery heating is because it doesn't work.
Adding on to this the energy usage of my multi-head heat pump system has been quite surprising when it drops below freezing. I have a Mitsubishi unit which is rated down to something like -15F however below 32F it uses enough energy to get pretty close with fossil fuels on price. It looks like I will have to add on to my 11.85kW solar system to be able to get the projected energy use throughout the year. Winter time will have a significant deficit and summer overproduction will make some of it back but not all. I am also investing in air sealing and additional insulation.
And because you're buying essentially the same content package, there's no reason one would expect it to be significantly cheaper just because it's streamed.
As a content package, it's evolved to be something largely different from what you get from the streaming services like Netflix. It's largely sports, news/talk shows, and reality TV and other relatively low-cost lightly scripted/unscripted content, some documentaries... You still have some traditional network content but it's been a while since I've even heard of a network drama or comedy of note.
Netflix with all their cash still has basically nothing for live news/talk shows and sports. It’s bizarre.
Hulu + LiveTV is $65 and Sling is about $50 and Youtube TV $65.
These aren’t really comparable to standard Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Prime etc. It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.
Not really. I buy youtube tv because I still want certain channels but I like the strraming aspects like not using a standard aweful cable box, watching from anywhere and from any device and the unlimited cloud dvr (which makes commercials a moot point except for the rare live show I watch). Losing ESPN is a big deal for me as I am a sports junky.
Having seen many hours of FSD beta on Youtube, with the most recent updates, I am convinced the FSD driving is safer on the highway than humans driving. I bet the stats for accidents per mile driven are much lower for FSD than humans. It does stumble, very gracefully, in really unusual circumstances when driving in city streets. But it's so so close to covering these outlier situations.
If I could choose to have only FSD teslas around me on the highway, or only human drivers, I'd pick the FSD every time.
This is pretty much my experience. A lot of people testing it are in city centers with lots of complex things going on. For the most part in suburbs or smaller cities the driving is a lot more straightforward and it is already quite good there.
- You get the benefit of high quality (true 4k, not stream compressed "4k") and no buffering.
- Plex, Radarr, Sonarr automatically downloads and categorizes your content for you, you can just sit back and enjoy your content.
- You can use whatever media player you want without having to go through a browser and its DRM. I use mpv and filters like Anime4k to automatically upscale my content, something that I cannot do via a browser or otherwise without the physical file on my hard drive.- You're not geo-locked to content, just because you're not in the target country doesn't mean you wouldn't want to watch it.
- Oh, and you can share with as many of your friends as you want without a restrictive password sharing penalty like Netflix seems to want to start enforcing.
Now, what would be a good model to stop such piracy? Something like Steam or Spotify but for movies and shows:
Perhaps a paid Plex server where I get all content from every distributor for a flat fee, and the service provider can then pay out to each distributor their portion of my subscription based on number of views. I retain access to the physical files without DRM so that I can do with them what I want, such as applying mpv filters.
Hell, it's probably in the best interest of all distributors to band together because clearly everyone having their own subscription service is a race to the bottom. See Netflix here struggling to make original content because major distributors like Disney and Paramount have already left. See CNN+ that shut down one month after starting. Due to the tragedy of the commons, where each distributor thinks they can make more money via starting their own service, this hypothetical new service would have to be some sort of joint venture between them all so that no one is incentivized to start their own.
Running a large media server can actually be pretty costly on power bills these days.