VibeSurgeon
@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 5 days ago:
This area of San Jose is in commuting distance to Silicon Valley offices, where you can get very large pay packages upwards of $400,000/year (average for L5 at Google in the Bay Area).
Artificial housing scarcity (the zoning restrictions in San Jose are very strict) combined with the massive incomes in the area has led to the situation we see today.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not sure it would be safely possible to mount the outdoor unit where I live, but it certainly does look like an interesting product.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
With steam/hot water radiators, though, I imagine it’s even harder. Can these systems safely be modified to pump cold water?
I think this would result in humidity issues.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s going to be this hot again, and worse. This is well-known.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I already have a portable unit and a sealing kit, plus blackout curtains. The curtains can’t be deployed with the window opened enough to get the hose out. Running without any blackout curtains is an immediate non-starter since dawn is at 02:00 here, and my bedroom window is to the east.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not going to be able to get an installer to mount a unit up on the floor where I live. It’s higher up than the 10th floor.
I’m also not going to be able to get the permit from the association to drill up a unit.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s pretty common for people to already have a heating solution in place that can’t practically be replaced with a reversible heat pump. District heating being a primary example here.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is assuming that installing an AC is an alternative.
I can’t install one in my apartment, there’s just no way to set up the outdoor unit for the bedroom. Our windows don’t accommodate window units, being casement windows. That leaves portable units, which are not particularly effective, and on top of that forces a serious amount of sunlight into the bedroom, hence ruining the whole thing. Dawn is at 02:04 here, fwiw.
My only hope really is that my apartment building would install some kind of central cooling solution, which is an incredibly expensive endeavour.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 2 weeks ago:
If the foil gets warm, it’s heating up the space like a small radiator, right?
- Comment on When in Rome? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they were threatening to arrest a reporter for the Swedish national TV who was doing a story and touched the water as a part of it.
A new low among some truly low lows
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 2 weeks ago:
Take the L with grace
- Comment on You may use Adobe trademarks [...] provided you meet the following guidelines: 4 weeks ago:
The reasons brands do this is because they risk losing protections if their trademark becomes an established verb.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 4 weeks ago:
Here in Sweden the launch of Spotify was the step that basically killed music piracy overnight. They even had the creator of uTorrent working on building the service, interestingly enough. I believe I downloaded my last song the day before I got a closed beta account.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 5 weeks ago:
It boggles the mind that Americans cannot figure out any other way to buy groceries than by using a car.
I cover all of our shopping needs comfortably with a bike along with walking to the closest store.
The problem is that you’ve fundamentally fucked up your built environment, and trying to paper over your failure with car apologia is just not going to cut it
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hold up, why does the watch delete the data weekly? Surely this is the actual problem.
- Comment on I will kill you 1 month ago:
Congratulations, you played yourself
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 month ago:
Fell for it again-award kind of vibe
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 month ago:
Top 3 dumbest person on the planet honestly
- Comment on Over 2,100 parkrunners and supporters rally against legal threat over trans policy 1 month ago:
I think of it as a recurring low-stakes mini-race I can attend each Saturday. It’s good fun, I highly recommend it
- Comment on Over 2,100 parkrunners and supporters rally against legal threat over trans policy 1 month ago:
A part of what parkrun offers is the timing aspect - you get an official finishing time that gets registered and compared against your own historical times, against everyone else who finished that day, and against your category, which is your gender + age-bracket.
- Comment on AI for good 2 months ago:
And video streaming. Oh the things we invented to facilitate gooning
- Comment on Update announcement for the gamers 🚨 2 months ago:
Wrong, it’s Jacob Batalon
- Comment on AI for good 2 months ago:
It’s an open secret in the AI world that gooning is one of the primary use-cases
- Comment on You Actually Do Need to Understand Mythos | Hank Green 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s supposed to be read as “vulnerability known to the vendor for zero days”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I can think of some thingsImage
- Comment on Turbines are our friends 3 months ago:
For heating I’d guess it can still be relevant. As a means of producing electricity though? Yeah
- Comment on Ope 3 months ago:
It means “replace ‘USA’ with ‘Trump’”
- Comment on Genius. 3 months ago:
Delicacy is maybe not the word I’d use, but it certainly exists
- Comment on (Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset. 3 months ago:
Slay the Spire 1 has the option for everyone to use beta art for free if they feel like it, no DLC involved. I bet they might do something similar for this one.
- Comment on It's literally science 4 months ago:
While all of these things would obviously be great, you still need to do the exercise.
