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Comment · 20 days ago
That's a very important bit of news to me. As someone that's considering GrapheneOS is there guidance on these decisions either in device or a new users key concepts article I need to read?
Comment · 3 years ago
OK, you are right. I was focused in on "that’s a decade of $20 keyboards lasting a year each." BUT they didn't actually do that, which is good.
Comment · 3 years ago
They are totally worth it. The cost is almost secondary to me, it's an excellent typing experience and it reduces reparative stress injury.

I have a rosewill that is made from cherry brown switches and apparently the minimum electronics to make it work reliably unlike the low end one OP wound up with. Probably cost me $80 six years ago but it works the same as it was new, and I expect to get a decade out of it no problem.

Comment · 3 years ago
Master-Blaster rules Bartertown!
Comment · 3 years ago
It's not shame, but IMO if you value your time very little than sure dumpster diving can pay off.
Comment · 3 years ago
Basically yes. Renewable is more of a supplement to current grids for most of us. There might be a couple rare few areas that currently claim 100%.
Comment · 3 years ago
OR another (incorrect) way of thinking is that resistive heating is 100% efficient as every bit of heat generated is inside the home. VS mechanical heat has some "loss" with some of the heat being left outside the home.

But yes, mechanical might be up to 600% efficient depending on how you think about it as moving heat around based on energy usage per therm delivered inside the home is really what people are looking for.

Comment · 3 years ago
Walk around in the American Heating and Refrigeration conference for a while to get a feel of these trends, this was specifically called out by many manufacturers as driven by the green movement.
Comment · 3 years ago
I guess if you value your time far less than money you can save a couple bucks on cheap keyboards? I guess they now have a cherry brown based keyboard and can experience the different between that and awful membrane boards. Personally I think a little extra money is worth it for a keyboard that lasts years instead of dumping a membrane board in the landfill like OP apparently does.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's an industry term for mechanical equipment that can heat AND cool. One piece of equipment replaces your AC AND heat source.

Heat pumps in particular are getting a push from "green" initiatives because they only use electricity for fuel which can potentially be supplied by "renewable" sources.

ie; it's a buzz word.

Comment · 3 years ago
The top comment there was a pretty good analysis and dropped the bomb at the end.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is the thing I don't get, reddit is getting a heck of a free ride with all these mods. You'd think they would do everything within their power to enable them so why kick them in the nuts?

Also the "power" users would probably be happy to pay reasonable prices to interact with it via app/api, so go ahead and charge something REASONABLE.

There's something nefarious going on behind the scenes and it's all very suspicious. I'm happy to go back to targeted forums if I need to.

Comment · 3 years ago
I can't believe they would do this AND kill off third party apps. I'm with you on not rewarding reddit, they have become very user hostile all the sudden.

I was going to ban personal reddit use this week but I already broke that to read this topic and respond to the one dev that replied to it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Excellent point. Even as a non developer we are automating things like deploying databases for a application and complete system backups. We pay for that app to be developed but it pays off 200x once it's deployed and realized across all the like systems we manage.
Comment · 3 years ago
All the little things like this that keep getting added are why I switched back to iphone.

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