This may not be a Linux specific problem as I had the exact same issue earlier with Windows 7 and it’s one of the reasons I installed Linux in the first place....
Older houses burn oil for heating the house and water but even most of them have heatpumps installed. New houses usually also have heatpumps or geothermal so direct electric heating is more and more uncommon. Apartment buildings generally all have district heating and even some private homes do.
Yes it’s expensive but so is everything else too. Our houses are way better insulated than in most places though so that helps a little.
We’ve had negative 20 temperatures for over a week which happens about once every 10 years so the demand is extremely high and on top of that few of our powerplants are out of service for maintenance so that electricity has to be bought from abroad too.
Few cold days in a row is not an issue as buildings still have heat stored up in the structures but when it lasts for a long time the demand for more heating goes up drastically.
This is such an outdated information. Modern heatpumps work just fine even in temperatures of -20C and below. Ofcourse the efficiency gets worse the colder it is but even at worst it’s still 100% efficient. On a typical year there’s only a handful of really cold days. It doesn’t make sense not to get a heatpump just because it’s inefficient for few days. It’s not like it stops heating or something. It just effectively turns into electric radiator which is what my house was heated with before I got the heatpump anyways.
Ei varmaan kukaan tähän kerkeä ajoissa vastaamaan, mutta saako ilmalämpöpumppua asetettua tilaan, että se pysyy käynnissä, mutta ei lämmitä tai lämmittää vain vähän? Tekisi mieli sammuttaa tuo toosa kovimman hintapiikin ajaksi, mutta en sitä viitsisi pitää kiinni ensi viikkoon asti. Jos säädän termostaattia...
Surprised it’s not encrypted in the first place. You haven’t been able to listen to police communications in Finland since the 90’s. I would assume most of Europe is the same way.
Lets see how many downvotes directly quoting the source gets me.
urging the world to ‘sympathize with the Russian occupiers’
And we should have some sympathy for the Russian boys as well as the Ukrainian boys, because Russian boys, because boys didn’t ask to be on their frontline. They have to be. So there’s a lot of sons not coming back to their parents, and I think most of them don’t hate the other side. It’s sort of like as this saying comes from World War I, it’s like young boys who don’t know each other killing each other on behalf of old men that do know each other. The hell’s the point of that.
Elon Musk’s ‘advice’ to ‘stop resisting Russia’
Well, I think that what is likely to happen, which is really pretty much the way it is, is that something very close to the current lines will be how a ceasefire or truce happens. But you just have a situation right now where whoever goes on the offensive will suffer casualties at several times the rate of whoever’s on the defense because you’ve got defense in depth, you’ve got minefields, trenches, anti-tank defenses. Nobody has air superiority because the anti-aircraft missiles are really far better than the aircraft. They’re far more of them. And so neither side has air superiority. Tanks are basically death traps, just slow moving, and they’re not immune to anti-tank weapons. So you really just have long range artillery and infantry ranges. It’s World War I all over again with drones, thrown old drones, some drones there.
He “advised” Volodymyr Zelenskyy to abandon the counteroffensive and agree to peace talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
Look, I think I would just recommend do not send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in trenches, whether he talks to Putin or not, just don’t do that. Whoever goes on the offensive will lose massive numbers of people and history will not look kindly upon them.
En ole vielä edes aloittanut yrittäjyyttä ja hukun nyt jo stressiin. Tuntuu, että pitäisi tietää ihan helvetisti asioista ja etten tiedä yhtään mitään. Silmät vaan lipuu tekstiä myöten, mutta mitään ei jää päähän… No, jos tämä lanka avaa edes yhden näistä solmuista, niin hyvä....
This is not Putins war on Ukraine. There’s no clear victim and aggressor here, and any time someone talks about it as if it’s not extremely complicated, they just make it sound like they have no idea what they’re talking about in the first place.
Forcibly taking land from one group and giving it to another is not cool but neither is randomly lobbing rockets onto the civilians.
I was riding my moped on a dark gravel road back home with my buddy and as I make a left turn, I can see in my headlights someone doing jumping jacks on the middle of the road ahead. I pull aside thinking what the hell did I just see as my friend who was following me pulls next to me, lifts up his visor and is like ‘did you fucking see that?!’ We immediately go back to inspect and there’s no sign of anyone anywhere.
I can’t, for the life of me, figure out where this “pinned post” is located. I see a lot comments removed for breaking that rule, but I have no idea what it is.
Steam not launching games - no idea what to do [Solved]
This may not be a Linux specific problem as I had the exact same issue earlier with Windows 7 and it’s one of the reasons I installed Linux in the first place....
Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines (proton.me)
Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (-13F) outside. (i.imgur.com)
That massive spike of 50c/kWh at the left looks tiny compared to today even though that’s already insanely expensive
Ilmalämpöpumpun sammutus ja uudelleen käynnistys pakkasella Finnish
Ei varmaan kukaan tähän kerkeä ajoissa vastaamaan, mutta saako ilmalämpöpumppua asetettua tilaan, että se pysyy käynnissä, mutta ei lämmitä tai lämmittää vain vähän? Tekisi mieli sammuttaa tuo toosa kovimman hintapiikin ajaksi, mutta en sitä viitsisi pitää kiinni ensi viikkoon asti. Jos säädän termostaattia...
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
What's a useful mental model you've put into practice
Inversion Thinking...
New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?
mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux...
Ukrainian government reacts to American billionaire Elon Musk's 'advice' to 'stop resisting Russia' and urging the world to 'sympathize with the Russian occupiers' (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5574803
Yrittäjyys, laskutus ja alv Finnish
En ole vielä edes aloittanut yrittäjyyttä ja hukun nyt jo stressiin. Tuntuu, että pitäisi tietää ihan helvetisti asioista ja etten tiedä yhtään mitään. Silmät vaan lipuu tekstiä myöten, mutta mitään ei jää päähän… No, jos tämä lanka avaa edes yhden näistä solmuista, niin hyvä....
Anyone know what jacket Garand Thumb is wearing here? (feddit.uk)
Murena 2 is a de-Googled Android phone with a privacy kill switch that disconnects mic and camera (liliputing.com)
Condemning Palestinians is contemptible (electronicintifada.net)
I learned the word “condemn” at an early age. It was used constantly on Irish news bulletins in the 1980s....
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked (mashable.com)
It's October - What's your paranormal experience?
For the record I don’t believe in the supernatural but I love hearing others people’s stories and believe that most people aren’t lying....
Espoolaispäiväkoti keksi nokkelan tavan vetää vessat sähkökatkon aikana – ”Sehän on lapsista vain hauskaa” [kaadetaan vettä ämpärillä pönttöön] (yle.fi) Finnish
Kysyn ehkä nyt vähän tyhmiä, mutta miten sähkökatko vaikuttaa vessan vetämiseen?
You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?
I’d be Cables Don’t Tangle Man.
[META] What is "rule 1" and where is the "pinned post" located at?
I can’t, for the life of me, figure out where this “pinned post” is located. I see a lot comments removed for breaking that rule, but I have no idea what it is.