If you have trees in your area, something is decomposing them. It could be termites (subterranean if you’re up north), carpenter ants, beetles, or fungus. I certainly wouldn’t put it close to my structures unless I lived in an actual tundra, which from the pictures, you don’t. You definitely have something up there eating all of that wood on the ground.

I live in northern WA and had a termite infestation in my house. They’re all the way in BC as well.

I avoid slop code like yours because typically the user of the slop generator has no real idea of how things actually work, the slop is over-“engineered”, and it’s likely full of security issues. Further, it also wastes tons of resources just for poorly written slop.

I especially wouldn’t ever touch your cryptographic slop.

LLMs cannot confess anything, they aren’t human beings or AGI capable of that.

It’s only from in person applicants at the DC office. As long as you don’t go there to renew it, you won’t get his dumb pedo face on yours.

Unturned was a Roblox game originally, correct.

Holy fuck that was a terrible listen

Yeah, unless you have really jacked-up wiring (like, really bad), then the worst that would happen is tripping the breaker. But I don’t think you’ll pull enough amps to do that with this setup alone. Is there anything else using a lot of power on this breaker?

It’ll probably only draw a couple hundred watts, even if substantially full. The real thing to tackle here is heat. It will definitely warm up your room.

Source: I have a 26 drive array and it only draws around 350 W with all drives spinning during parity check. Usually they aren’t all spinning though, and it goes down to around 220 W idle. That’s with an Epyc 7702 and a 25GB nic as well.

So when are you picking up your arms and doing something about it?

Which initiatives? The only one I can think of is the one for natural gas hookups, but I could be missing one.

I’ve noticed that you seem to hate living in WA, every comment you make about it is hating on it in some way. You’ve even claimed that blue states deserved raids by ICE because they have gun control. Look at all of your comments in the Washington community: they’re mostly anti-legislature, hating on WA voters, or blaming anyone besides the rich (Brian Heywood) when ballot initiatives don’t work out. Why do you live here if you hate it so much? There are plenty of nearby states that are cheaper to live in and do not have the democratic supermajority that you hate so much.

I feel like every article posted about Mythos is an ad.

Meta tried to recruit me several times, even after I told them that I’d never work for them. They offer decent salaries, but it’s not enough for me to forget morality. I don’t understand why people work there.

Sure, YMMV. But I replaced an oil fired furnace with one. Back in 2021, I had to spend about $900-1000 every three or so months in the winter. My heat pump comes out to about ~$60 a month, or $180 for the same timeframe at the same time of year. My area has relatively cheap hydro @ ~$0.15/kWh (USD) and it was a no-brainer. Even if my electric was $0.60/kWh, it would still have been cheaper in the long run. Note that I only have one of course, so it’s different than your setup, but mine is also a Mitsubishi.

I can’t imagine what it would cost to fill my oil fired furnace tank these days. After doing some research, it seems that heating oil prices in my area are around $5.90(!), meaning to fill my 500 gallon tank, it would be nearly $3,000. Of course, I never ran it empty, but it would still have been around $2k these days… for three or so months. That’s insanity. The heat pump has already paid for itself multiple times over by this point.

It’s important to note that while they sure do use a lot of electricity, they’re extremely efficient. In most cases, they can double (or triple) the amount of heat energy output than energy consumed. Resistive electric heating can’t do that, neither can natural gas, oil, or any other form of whole home heating (except maybe if you’re lucky enough to have geothermal heating, but it could be argued that geothermal is also a form of heat pump).

To be clear (because I was confused at first), the creator in this context is an instructor of an online blender class, not a contributor to blender itself.

The best I can do is give tariff refunds to companies and fuck over the lower class.

These days, they make heat pumps that work in freezing conditions. Plus, a lot of the heat pump water heaters have the heat pump directly on top of the unit, so if your water heater is in conditioned or semiconditioned part of your house, it shouldn’t ever reach temperatures where it runs into inefficiencies.

Heat pumps are some of the only appliances that have more than 100% efficiency. They’re practically magic, and I think everyone that can afford them should get them. Of course, for house heating, you should still have a backup furnace (my heat pump has an electric backup)

The only thing really stopping me is money. I can’t afford it, and it’s difficult to open up bank accounts in Europe as a US citizen.

That’s how it worked for my school in the mid to late 00s as well.

I agree when it comes to most “smart” home devices. However, I wired an ESP32 to my heat pump for remote control and automation, which has been absolutely fantastic. Also, I use a ton of ZigBee and zwave, since those are not “smart” by themselves and are local-only.

It’s the cloud bullshit that always breaks and spies on users that I hate.

pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices.

They aren’t using cell tower data, if that’s what you mean. I’m guessing that unless you degoogle, your first suggestion won’t do too much.