ghterve

@ghterve@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I meant to type higher resistance. On my water heater, the equivalent part that is glowing in the picture is a really thin flexible corrugated gas pipe that surely can carry much much less current than the iron gas pipe feeding it before it went really high resistance. I could totally see it glowing like this with enough current.

  My gas pipe to the house comes out of the ground inside a plastic protective pipe sleeve, so I can imagine it possibly not having enough of a low resistance path to earth to trip one of the cutout fuses on the primary distribution line. Granted, mine also has a big ground wire bonding it to the house ground, which I would think would help here…

  /shrug I was just sharing what I read. It was supposedly the explanation as to why local breakers on the house didn’t trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in this case the power heating the pipes is not coming from this house’s electrical service, so killing the main breaker probably won’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When this was posted on Reddit recently, someone claimed this was caused by a fallen power line that made contact with a gas line. So, power flowing into the house through gas pipe and back out through equipment grounds, heating up lower resistance gas pipes in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  unless the gas pipe melted through

  That looks pretty damn likely imminent to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad my wife is not like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But how is that a criticism of the Mac mini? All it does is give you purchasing flexibility (eg if you already own Apple kbd/mouse). It is like you are implicitly arguing that they should raise the price and include those components. But that would be bad for some consumers that already have those items and would help nobody because you can already buy those separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They asked for it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please take a moment: They’re - they are (the ’ replaces the space and the a) Their - belongs to them There - a place that is not here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t you use an apple kbd/mouse/trackpad with your macmini?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “blotting out the sky” is hyperbole and not reality. Those pics of the trains of dots in the sky are temporary and only present in the handful of days after a launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, many are not on the power grid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they shouldn’t “sell” it.