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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

dictatorship or an undeveloped country

Right-Wing Government: why not both?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I even remember seeing a documentary about how Google Glass could be used to invade the privacy of people nearby.

https://youtu.be/6PY8C1KmNwM

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My truck gets ¹/₂₄₀ Manhattan per Single Tear Of Patriotic Pride Shed As I Salute The Crippled Veteran Panhandling Outside The Gun Store and that's how I want it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The runners on my vacuum are fucked so not in my case, no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Phone keyboard fed my writing lol

What?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tell me you've never had good Mac & Cheese without telling me you've never had good Mac & Cheese.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

I chug it straight from the bottle as I wait for my porridge to microwave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Both Cat5e and 6 can deliver solid PoE which is good news for the inevitable power cuts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'd like to fine you at least €20/hour for typing with your fucking toes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I don't know about Sweden, but the UK monarch is an aristocrat that owns loads of land, businesses, trusts, etc, and his money comes from that. At least, he gets to keep about a quarter of it; the rest goes to the Government.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Two pillows. Two duvets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for your response.

Why not just use standard thermostat functionality: set the target temp a bit higher when rates are low and a bit lower when rates are high.

That was my original idea and it actually works pretty well, but since the cost of power spends most of the day at industry average rates electric heating gets pretty expensive which is really what I'm trying to minimise.

One thing you don’t mention is whether you have any way to store heat

I don't, but I really, really wish I did. The place I'm in is rented so I'm loathe to make big changes like installing storage heaters (installing relays in the walls behind the current radiators doesn't count, shush) but I had old-fashioned, 1980s storage heaters exactly as you described in my old place and I loved them for the exact reasons you described. They weren't active with a fan, but even just having a very heavy, very hot thing in the corner of the room was enough to maintain the temperature and given my electric rates regularly get below 5p/kWh and sometimes even go negative overnight my heating bill was basically negligible. Consider me a member of Team Storage Heaters.

As you suggested, what I'm trying to do is turn my walls, floors and furniture into the thermal mass of a storage heater, by making them toasty when it's cheap in the hope they'll keep the room slightly warmer when it's expensive.

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