OminousOrange

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

There is a bit missing with auto discovery on these frontends, which makes sense…if it doesn’t track what you watch, it can’t recommend things. Most have related videos though, so you’re not just stuck with your subscriptions.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Perhaps, but there are often related videos which provide a similar sort of discovery. One of the main points of these frontends is that they don’t track what you watch. If they don’t do that, they can’t recommend videos.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Would a passcode (different from phone, of course) or biometric unlock for the 2FA app count? For example, I have bitwarden and Aegis, both have fingerprint unlock when opened with a reasonably short timeout. So, even if my phone pin was compromised, both would still require biometric unlock to access.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Right, so fingerprint on everything wouldn’t be the best practice, because it’s all in one category and everything can be unlocked by a compromise of that one thing.

That’s a good point. I might look at removing that from my totp app and using a passcode instead.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

I’ve not really been following, but I believe the issue with Yuzu was they were asking for money through Patreon, thereby receiving monetary gain for Nintendo’s IP.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

One hockey puck topped with ketchup, please.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Really the only outcome when, in both cases, all they care about is money.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

You’re right, using electric heat (yes, even with a heat pump) does emit more GHGs than heating with natural gas in SK. The balance point is when Saskpower can get around 3-400 tCO2e/GWh (with heat pump and backup resistive heat), which is their goal for 2030, and the trend is promising.

The issue is that fuel source is discussed much more than demand reduction. The first step of any design focusing on energy efficiency or GHG reduction is reducing the demand for heating (and cooling). Only after that does it make sense to improve heating efficiency. In other words, you can throw a heater in a bunnyhug and go out at -30, but it would make much more sense to just wear an appropriate jacket.

Another consideration is that you can actually make carbon neutral power. Natural gas can never be that way.

Of course, you don’t have many options for improvement in your apartment, but at least we’re seeing improvements to the building code so new buildings will be slightly less than garbage.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

More efficient, yes. Less GHG, not in Saskatchewan at the moment.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Please elaborate. I’ve done a rough calculation here, and I have several energy models that support my claim, so I’m curious where all that work may have gone wrong.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Likely very few if they’re not from Saskatchewan.

A bunnyhug is a hoodie, for those wonderieg.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

Anyone installing a heat pump in cold climates will often have a backup heat source. If you don’t have access to natural gas, heat pumps can save considerable amounts of energy compared to only resistive heat.

OminousOrange, 2 months ago

You are able to edit titles on Lemmy, if you’d like.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

I’ve done energy models for houses here in Saskatchewan (~560 tCO2e/GWh) and at the moment, they are not cleaner than heating with natural gas, which is the typical primary heat source. Obviously, it would depend on grid carbon intensity, so there is a level of grid ‘cleanness’ where heat pumps would become cleaner, but that tipping point depends on a number of factors.

You could do a rough estimation with the seasonal heating efficiency of a heat pump based on the heating-degree-days of your location versus a certain efficiency of natural gas furnace. Burning natural gas is about 0.18 kgCO2e/kWh. So, if you have a heat pump that’s 200% seasonally efficient, you’d need the grid carbon intensity to be about 0.38 kgCO2e/kWh (380 tCO2e/GWh) to be equivalent to a 95% efficient natural gas furnace.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Definitely, that’s why I say the seasonal heating efficiency is based on heating-degree-days of the location. I’m not sure they’d get to 2-4x 200% efficient, though. 350% might be more reasonable.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

You have a furnace that provides heat, air handler that moves the air, and compressor that forces heat in a certain direction (inside to outside in the case of AC) with coils in the air handler to make use of that (re)moved heat.

Heat pumps have several features that make them a bit more than backwards AC, like defrost systems, VFDs and often dual-fuel controls. If it snows where you are, you’ll also want it off the ground. So, best to get a new system.

As another said, you might be able to reuse the coolant lines and coils in the air handler. It might not be a bad idea to keep the furnace for backup when it’s extra cold.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

I’m pleasantly surprised. Right, sometimes I forget that most people don’t live in a deep freeze like Saskatchewan.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

Nice. Saskatchewan is very cold though (about 6000 heating deg days at 18C where I am and can regularly go under -30C in winter), so 200% would be pretty reasonable for a typical heat pump. As a comparison, Tromsø, in very north Norway is 5600 heating deg days.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

To determine heating degree days for your area, you set a baseline temperature (18C is kind of standard in Canada) take the average temperature on each day, and sum the difference between that and the baseline temperature for every day of the year (zero if temp is above baseline). So if the average temp one day was -10C, it would be a 28 heating degree day.

It allows approximation of building heating demand. Some standards (Passive House) use heating degree hours for finer detail, which makes sense because there can be fairly significant day/night temperature swings.

Here’s a site where you can calculate what your location is. And here’s what Wikipedia says.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

One of the few joys of living in Saskatchewan. Now we just have to remember Alberta will be the same time as us, not Manitoba.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

It seems owenfromcanada has ding dong dashed you.

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

“Working as intended.”

-Republicans

OminousOrange, 3 months ago

They likely just sent it to anyone above a relatively low karma threshold desperate to get any sorry fool to buy their stock.