I just installed motorized dampers in my crawl space using Shelly smart relays! Now I have an automatic schedule so I’m not cooling rooms that aren’t in use (like the bedrooms during the day and the lower level of the house at night). Already seen significant power savings!

California king is smaller than a regular king actually! Alaska king is bigger though

Nah no way does the average ewaste tier laptop use less power than a raspberry pi for any given task. The power consumption floor for a laptop may be lower than the rpi ceiling but that’s not a fair comparison

Not so sure about the last part. It takes ehhh about 3kg of c02 to produce 1 Watt for a year. Carbon footprint to build a laptop is about 200kg or so, but you’re not offsetting one of those you’re offsetting the raspberry PI you WOULD have bought which is just a small fraction of that. After a year or 2 you’ve almost certainly burned through your c02 savings if it’s on all the time.

You’re missing out, Facebook marketplace is THE place to buy local secondhand goods for dirt cheap without getting scammed. You do need an account but you don’t need to install anything, and the payments are not done through FB

Back when I lived in a (quite nice) apartment building I was constantly surprised at the things people threw out. Perfectly good furniture but also stuff like perfectly functional printers, artwork, computer cases…

I’ve been in one car accident in my life (my fault) and it shook me up, I remember searching “how long until self driving cars.” But I got over it, next day I was back behind the wheel. As other people have said, it’s a necessary life skill for most people in North America and it does get much easier with experience and time.

Edit: one thing that helped me is to identify what I did wrong and how i could avoid it happening again. I have a motto of sorts, “never make the same mistake twice.” You can apply that to close calls as well. In your case, you say you struggle with multitasking, but that isn’t something that is out of your control. Especially while you’re still a beginner, avoid listening to music (and DEFINITELY keep your phone down) and keep your eyes on the road. And if you’re driving with other people, they will be totally cool with you telling them, “sorry I can’t talk, I need to focus on driving.” As time goes on driving will get much easier and you can probably allow for some (limited) distractions like music, etc

I get that in a perfect society you shouldn’t need to learn to drive, but that ignores the fact that if you want to be able to function in society most people in NA need to be able to drive (unless you live in one of the handful of cities with excellent mass transit). It’s a bit like saying nobody should be forced to work for a living and then being homeless.

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Thanks for the information! I may give the books a read.

Did the books come before the videogames? If so, are the games faithful to the books?

Yeah I found that to be pretty annoying as well when I started. I don’t mind the occasional political post but it’s the same handful of talking points again and again so it gets old fast. I recommend just blocking users and blocking communities; you’d be surprised how quickly that clears them out. Lemmy is small enough that once you block a dozen or two people that post politics nonstop you give the other content room to breathe.

Regular pumped hydro has an overall efficiency of about 80%. I would guess these sphere things would be similar, assuming you can put them near a high-voltage line, since the underlying technology (pump and turbine) is the same.

Haha yeah I’ve picked up on that. Oh well

It’s an analogy bro

If there’s an otherwise g rated movie with ten minutes of full frontal nudity and hard-core sex what rating do you think that movie is gonna get?

Release date pushed back another 6 months to add can-tripping mechanics

Joking aside I do check every once in a while, there aren’t any critical vulnerabilities for the snapdragon variant yet

S10E GANG S10E GANG Greatest phone ever made I’m using it until I get my identity stolen

I only use bluesky to follow a couple of ukraine war news accounts. It’s very good for that purpose. I don’t interact at all or read comments, twitter was always an absolute cesspool and I assume bkuesky is as well, or will be if it ever replaces twitter