Wow, they sound like my kind of people.

I’m glad they consider me a pervert slash freedom enthusiast, and not the other way around.

The billionaires are the real enemy, regardless of what flag flies over your land, and they’re trying like hell to make sure no one realizes it is the billionaires everywhere that are not only happy to see, but in many cases actually behind all of this chaos and strife. War is good for business, we are cannon fodder for their ambitions. The story hasn’t changed in centuries, only the dollar figures involved have.

Vaporware turns out to be vapor. Shocking.

Took literally minutes for her to come back down to Earth. Oh wait, that was her rocket trip.

These magic beans will not only grow twice as fast, they’ll also fix the last magic beans that didn’t grow.

Of course he will. Soon the Myanmar Junta is going to be the first and only non-US operator of the domestic policing variants of the F-22 and B-21.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, that’s why everybody needs to start fucking listening to what the historians are telling you all.

We should be so lucky…

The comment I was replying to is basically just asking “why should they care [that they’re not native to this land]?”

So - if it cools the place from, say, 29 degrees outside to 22 degrees inside, that’s the same as warming it from 15 degrees outside to 22 inside?

Oh my, not at all. If it runs for 1 hour continuously in cooling mode that’s going to be electrically largely equivalent to running for 1 hour continuously in heating mode (again, provided it’s not variable speed). Even then the electrical load will vary slightly according to various conditions. The actual temperatures achieved though, depend entirely on the thermodynamics of the system (both inside the pump itself and your whole house and the environment it’s in) which are extremely dynamic and complicated. There are almost no simple, linear relationships you can use to approximate what is actually going on. Even the approximate calculations that HVAC installers do called “Manual J” are hugely idealized and oversimplified. You’ve got things going on like solar heat gain through windows, heat losses through insulation, and heat transfer through gaps in the insulation, air losses through vents and doors and windows and gaps that are specific to your individual home and that you can’t even really measure accurately. It’s a very difficult thing to even attempt to compute or simulate no matter how much we try to develop models that accurately estimate things. On a larger scale, this is why we still struggle to accurately predict the weather.

Only the next bill will tell

That’s a reasonable position. You can make all the estimates you want but at the end of the day the only thing that really matters is what you get billed for and that will tell you the truth about what’s actually happening in your house, environment, climate, and situation. I would be confident that given the same temperature conditions you really won’t see much practical difference in electrical usage between a heat pump in cooling mode and an air conditioner (if anything they tend to be somewhat more efficient just due to better design and higher build quality). But you won’t know the true situation until all the measurements are actually done and posted to your bill, and even then you won’t be able to directly compare them because there are so many other variables that are always changing.

The name of the group is “return to the land” they should therefore be hopping on the first flight back to Europe if they’re planning on returning to their land. This land isn’t theirs to return to.

I’ve literally never felt like I needed a file server to be easier and support more protocols, and this seems like it’s trying to do way too much at once. HTTP is beautiful and convenient but as a bespoke javascript-heavy API it’s really not a particularly great way to manage files, FTP sucks and if you still need it for something you need to re-evaluate your life choices, TFTP is useful in extremely niche applications that I wouldn’t want to hook my entire file server up to anyway and certainly don’t want running along side these other options, WebDav is fine but again really only necessary in niche applications which you don’t need or want your entire file system hooked up to (or if you don’t know how to VPN) and this doesn’t seem to support SFTP/SSHFS which is what I would consider a modern standard for a secure file transfer protocol.

Just use Samba and/or ssh, every Linux distribution comes with packages for them. Both are widely used and battle-hardened, and between the two they are compatible with almost everything. You don’t really need all that other stuff.

In some ways it’s the inverse of the UNIX Philosophy: instead of doing one thing perfectly, this program is doing everything [9001] could think of, and doing it “good enough”.

As a believer in the UNIX philosophy (armed with an understanding of why it is fundamentally useful) it horrifies me that either developers or users think this is a good thing.

It’s exactly the same as an air conditioner, and no: it uses the same amount as when it’s heating. The compressor is either running, or it’s not, plus or minus a little bit depending on how hard it’s actually working to compress the gases at the temperatures and pressures involved. Unless you have a variable speed or dual stage compressor, in which case the power usage may be somewhat proportional to the amount of cooling or heated actually needed since it will slow down for smaller amounts of heating or cooling. Otherwise, the main difference in power usage and power efficiency is how long it runs to achieve the desired temperature.

Oh yes, lets give the billionaires access to nukes, that sounds safe, I’m sure we can trust them.

I thought it was too until Carney started leaning hard authoritarian.

run any game at max settings, 4K, future proofed (at least for a while)

You do understand how excessive that is right? They’re called “max settings” for a reason. Like “any game max settings 4k” on its own is already like asking for a Formula 1 car, asking for it to be future proofed on top of that is like asking for not just any Formula 1 car but one that can dominate the next 5 seasons.

That said, if you truly do believe your daughter needs this and can’t live without max settings 4k on every game imaginable into the foreseeable future, then your friend did a good job trying to meet your requirements.

… but is it truly necessary? Only you know the answer.

Joke’s on them, I’ve already been working on that for decades. *pats ublock* This baby can bankrupt so many websites and I always hoped it could collapse the ad model completely.

In all seriousness, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’re eventually going to have to build a new, free internet out of the wreckage of this one once the corporations are done with it. Technically it’s already there, nascent but ever so slowly growing and taking root, hiding in plain sight. Like the so-called dark web of tor, it already exists in parallel to the existing structures of the internet. Call it the deep web, the indie web, nostalgia web, unsearchable web, I’ve heard countless terms and most of them aren’t terribly accurate, but the web doesn’t need ads and google search to exist, it never did. It just needs humans, which despite the best efforts of big tech many of us still are, communicating directly with one another and documenting our billions of lifetimes of diverse collective experiences and knowledge.

We are the wealth of information in the internet. Corporations don’t own it. We are it.

They are freely expressing their fear of dangerous western ideas which must be censored to protect the motherland /s