I would love to get one but to retrofit my house would cost about $20,000 which I currently don’t have laying around with me.
My PV system provides an immediate and on going benefit which is why I could finance part of that. Unfortunately a heat pump is only useful for me about 8 months a year and will never “pay for itself”
It just means mask has slipped.
White phosphorus and cluster bombs are still used by the US.
Meanwhile the list of fuckery is so long it’s hard to pick a starting point.
It’s all been over blown hype for sometime now. PCI 3 vs 4 vs 5 doesn’t seem to justify the higher prices https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-pcie-50-vs-40-vs-30-x16-scaling-benchmarks#overview-and-differences
My last major “whoa” moment was switching from disk to solid state. Otherwise most upgrades feel like they are marginal improvements for the last decade.
I believe quantcast had a white paper tracking an entity across multiple IPs and devices from 2010. that’s around when I worked for stalker tech companies. Anonymity is an illusion and has been for a while.
I switched from Debian to an arch based distro. holy shit is it weird reading about some new things latest release only to have it pushed to the repo the same month or even the same day! I use btrfs so when things break its a 5 minute rollback and reboot.
A mixture of electric and natural gas. Natural gas to bring the whole house up to ~65F (~18.3c) and then I have electric radiators to make only the areas I am using comfortable.
That usually trends $120~$150/month in natural gas or around $1000/year. Financing a heat pump + installation could be $170 to $200 month in payments for 15 years.
I know the price of natural gas is going to sky rocket relatively soon but as Terry Pratchett’s boot theory illustrates, it is expensive being poor.