sanzky

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

those screens tend to be overpriced for home use and their image quality is not the best since the signaging priorities are different.

I’m not sure about Canada, but in europe you just need to reject the terms of services of the TV OS and you can use it as a dumb tv.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would go for an OLED. LG, Samsung and Sony all make good ones. I love my LG C3 and the newer C4 is also great. You could even find a C3 in a larger version so it fits your budget. the more expensive G4 is also there.

You can use it as a dumb tv if you reject the terms and services. (at least on the european versions)

Samsung is also good but lacks dolby vision and they seem to have a particular color profile that people seem to either like a lot or dislike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

depending on the outside temperature, there’s a limit to what the heat pump can do, which an internal electric heater inside the water tank takes over to reach usable shower temperature.

That is also true for solar heaters when there is no sun. and there are not many places that have climates where heat pumps cant operate these days.

Also air source heat pumps can have a COP of 3.5 so or higher. so even with a lower efficiency from the PV you might get ahead. You also get gains from the high COP on cloudy days where you might need resistance heating on the thermal one

I dont think you can claim any of them is better without doing the math.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I think they heat a refrigerant and then use a heat exchanger to transfer that heat to the water.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I would love to see numbers on how they compare against solar panels+ air source heat pump. I guess the solar heater is cheaper, but I would guess photovoltaic+heat pump probably is more efficient all around and it useful for all your home, not just water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

ok. I was not aware the two letter TLD were more restricted than the others. thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I don’t get why they killed it. some regional areas have their own TLD. .cat for Catalonia, for example.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

that's the structure of a bluray disk. It includes all that the player needs to play it (e.g. menus, chapters, etc). The STREAM folder contains the actual video, probably in a .m2ts file (you can convert it to mkv using ffmpeg or similar tools)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

there is for sure a lot of snarky students who believe they are too clever, but it does happen. There are tons of awful teachers out there. I had a science teacher who refused to acknowledge that heat and temperature were no the same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

while these news are great. it is good to remember than decreasing emissions is not enough.

if you see in a room that is filling fast with water and you are about to drown, would you be relieved if water simply started pouring a bit more slowly?

it will take decades for the atmosphere to get back to normal even if we halted new emissions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but is that enough to make a Pacifica cool? I think not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Because Wine often needs to run .Net applications and Mono is the easiest way for them to do that.

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