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- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
It’s much easier to run a HTPC on something small like a Raspberry Pi, or an NVIDIA Shield. The hardware on your TV is probably the bare minimum to run its own smart features, and replacing the firmware doesn’t guarantee that the TV isn’t still phoning home with your data.
- Comment on I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood. 2 days ago:
What?
- Comment on Amazon is shutting down Freevee 2 days ago:
Oh no! What’s Freevee?
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 6 days ago:
There are absolutely more Jewish voters in PA than there are people who abstained in protest over the Palestinian genocide. Michigan has a more concentrated Arab population, but you’re right that they aren’t why Harris lost.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 week ago:
CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the “2 x” part.
C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.
Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.
- Comment on Mellencamp was right: "Life goes on...long after the thrill of livin' is gone." 2 weeks ago:
It helps to find joy that does not require a thrill.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 weeks ago:
In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.
- Comment on Reddit shares soar after company turns first-ever profit. 2 weeks ago:
It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
There are far too many variables to know for sure. What fuel does the central heat use? Where is the house built? What sort of sun exposure do you get? What type of house is it? What’s in your attic? Basement? How much time do you spend at home during the day?
I would go with the central heat, generally speaking.
Homes are insulated differently depending on where you live, but the exterior walls are usually better insulated than the interior ones. The heat in one room will dissipate to neighboring rooms. You’re correct that closing vents will direct the hot air to the desired rooms first. Over the course of the day, some of the energy will disperse and warm other rooms. One space heater might use less energy than your central air, but you will need to run it longer and more frequently.
You may also find that you’re keeping the one room hotter because you’re always cold in every other room. Getting warm and staying warm are two different physiological processes. Keeping the house at 66 may feel warmer than keeping one room at 72.
Consider what each heat system was built to do. Central air is there to keep the house warm. Central air is most efficient when it is automated to maintain heat. Allowing the space to get very cold every day will cause it to run longer when you feel cold.
Meanwhile, a space heater is a short-term hot spot in a room. It’s designed to create immediate warmth in the immediate area. Use it when you are feeling cold to get yourself warm, and then shut it off. If you use each one to do its job, that’s probably going to be the most efficient.
The best thing you can do for your energy bill is insulate. Get a temperature sensor, wait for a cold day, bring your entire house up to ~70, and then go hunting for cold spots. Check around window sills and near brick or masonry walls. Airflow through your walls is dollar bills flying out of your wallet. You can place film over leaking windows, replace caulk when it cracks, and fill voids that happen when old insulation breaks down or gets wet. Check your attics and crawlspaces for airflow as well, and consider reflective foil as an inexpensive upgrade if you can get to the rafters.
If everything is properly insulated, all heating and cooling becomes more efficient.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
Fair question. You’re not going to catch a soda can, but a boat should be a closed system. The thresholds should be as low as is practically enforceable.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
First - The major problem with trash isn’t the getting rid of it part, it’s the gathering it up part. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be a problem.
The frustrating part is that this could be the easiest to solve. Require boats to weigh in and out, and account for everything on board. Minus fuel, plus fish, but those old, broken nets and plastic waste need to return to port to be properly disposed of. Throwing even a soda can overboard should result in significant fines.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
What they’re saying is that trying to reverse climate change won’t be enough. It doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path, just that it won’t go far enough.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
Two types of people reading this:
“Oh no! We should do everything we can to mitigate the damage.”
and
“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”
And it’s the latter that got us here in the first place.
- Comment on Trump expected to work fry cooker at McDonald’s this weekend in Pennsylvania 4 weeks ago:
Guarantee he finds a way to make it weird.
- Comment on Too Much 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say, the butter one looks correct to me.
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
Like drink the beer, and then flip the horse.
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
That was the first thing he did. You might have trust issues.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
And it will happen during the next Hurricane as long as thr employers face zero repercussions.
- Comment on Hollywood should invest more R&D into fake barf technology 1 month ago:
No, but that one is rough, too. Stand By Me has the story or the obese kid at the pie eating contest. That one can be forgiven for being over the top, because it was a campfire story being told by one of the kids. So of course it would be exaggerated.
- Comment on Hollywood should invest more R&D into fake barf technology 1 month ago:
That’s a really good point I never considered. If it’s played for laughs, you want people laughing. If it’s not, you want people grossed out, but not so much they need to mop up in theaters.
- Comment on Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too 1 month ago:
Yeah, Giuliani was a shitty person before Trump became a politician.
- Comment on What a musical genius 1 month ago:
I tried to get into his music, but then he told me to stop and I did.
- Comment on How do I tame my mustache for handlebar style? 1 month ago:
Yeah, there’s an awkward length where it’s long enough to curl into your mouth, but too short to comb out of the way. You just kind of have to get used to having hair in your mouth.
- Comment on How do I tame my mustache for handlebar style? 1 month ago:
I like scissors for my mustache, only because I find myself usually going after whiskers one at a time. But the electric razor is good for getting straight lines.
- Comment on Arizona Democrats fret about discovery that coud see rigged election 1 month ago:
Bullshit. The Arizona Supreme Court rules on this that those voters can legally vote. There’s no scandal except for the attempted disenfranchisement of 98,000 Arizona citizens.
- Comment on How do I tame my mustache for handlebar style? 1 month ago:
One thing a lot of mustache owners do is trim above your lip. Don’t do that. Brush sideways, and the whiskers in the middle will push the sides outwards. Once everything is trained to grow sideways, you can start trimming above your lip again, but it will be longer and at an angle. You can also trim any stray scraggly hairs, but the less you trim the better.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
Sometimes, I like the intro. The music, the visuals, sometimes they get you in the mood for the show. Sometimes, I just want to get on with the show. I appreciate having a choice.
I never want to watch advertisments.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 1 month ago:
Bats on the floor are obviously Rats, because the bottom of the B is obscured by the puddle they’re standing on.
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 1 month ago:
It’s a common type of children’s song, where things are added to the lyrics each verse and the chorus gets longer and longer. You might know There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea, or a Worm in the Garden, or the AJR song Hole in the Bottom of my Brain.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
“The company to which I’ve always given my money because I trusted them to make good products has started taking advantage of my trust and is producing shitty products. How do I avoid this?”
Stop buying their products the moment they stop making good ones.
I feel your frustration, but I think you already knew the answer. Any workaround or jailbreak or open source firmware update would just be avoiding the problem, not fixing it. Stop buying Logitech products.