Kethal
@Kethal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should I insulate my garage attic? 3 days ago:
I have an attic that gets direct sun until the afternoon. It gets quite hot. I had easy access to the rafters so I used radiant barrier, and the difference is very big. As you’re putting it up you can tell that it’s blocking the heat standing in an a covered vs uncovered area. In subsequent days when it was all up it was obviously cooler. It’s still hot but not unbearable.
Radiant barrier is more expensive and fiberglass probably would have worked just as well in this situation, but I didn’t know enough about air flow in that space to tell whether fiberglass would impede anything,so I used radiant barrier and left a gap at the bottoms and tops. It is very easy to install. Fiberglass wouldn’t be too hard either, but the barrier is daed simple and there’s less volume to move around.
In general, my experience say it’s going to help, and whether you do fiberglass or radiant barrier is up to you.
- Comment on YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf" 1 week ago:
There’s no shortage of well meaning dog owners who don’t know any better.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 month ago:
Yeah, maybe they should encrypt it a third time. You never know.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
The only thing I value in Windows 10 or 11 over 7 is better multi monitor support, and even that is not a giant issue. It’s faster, uses less resources, is better organized, and looks nicer, especially nicer than 10 that looks like a lazy highschool kid spent all of a day on it.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 month ago:
My workplace requires VPN for Web sites that are authenticated, require 2FA and are encrypted. It’s infuriatingly stupid. I feel like someone higher up got sold a useless contract by a god VPN salesperson.
- Comment on Door hinge pin keeps coming up. How to solve? 2 months ago:
Other people have better ideas, but a very small dab of blue Loctite (the one that isn’t permanent) on the bottom knuckle would keep it in place but probably be removable with a hammer and pin.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 2 months ago:
Are you guessing?
- Comment on What kind of valve is this exactly? Never seen that exact connection type 2 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s a right angle quarter turn ball valve. It’s crimped on one side and looks like a compression fitting on the other. Maybe it’s a gate valve, which in my experience are far more prone to leaks, but the notches in the handle make me think ball valve.
Which part leaks?
- Comment on I'm Heading to Phoenix Can Anyone Recommend Anything Cool To Check Out While I'm There? 3 months ago:
I visited for a few days once. If you like the outdoors, the parks in the surrounding area are nice. Camelback in the city is packed and not particularly fun.
Overall, I found that Phoenix was not at all a place I’d like to spend time. You might try Sedona just a little north of Phoenix. I haven’t been there, but I hear it’s not Phoenix.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 4 months ago:
There are small annoying differences. The way it handles downloads is irritating. The settings menus are not well organized. There’s a big stupid Bing button unless you remove it. It randomly fails to honor the option to open PDFs in an external app. It’s nothing big, but if you’re forced to use it for work, it’s constantly annoying.
- Comment on Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users towards Edge in a new Research Report 4 months ago:
It’s not much: file.io/PYHlCpv2LgdE.
The Nowar thing is from a GitHub repository and there’s probably a newer version. I pick parts from it to run rather than running the entire thing.
- Comment on Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users towards Edge in a new Research Report 4 months ago:
I have a folder with notes about what needs to be done. It’s not even 20 things. Can you share your list so I know what I’m missing?
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 5 months ago:
I think the largest group by far isn’t listed: people who bought an appliance and didn’t care at all that it had WiFi and never connected it their network.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 5 months ago:
It’s a a rival of Hardvard.
- Comment on Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm 5 months ago:
People are giving some advice but it doesn’t seem appropriate for an absolute newbie. Here’s what I’d say. Absolutely do not run telnet. Because it’s so insecure and everyone knows that, it’s usually not on by default, and you would have had to start it yourself somehow. It’s unlikely that you did that, but you can check to see.
If you’re new, you very likely don’t need an SSH server running. Unless you’re logging into that computer remotely, you don’t need it. It’s probably not running, but it’s conceivable that it could run by default. Check to see and disable it if you don’t need remote login.
If you do need remote login, use SSH and use a good password. Ideally, you’d need to leave newbie territory and use public-private keys instead of a password. It’s also not a bad idea to use a nonstandard port, instead of 22. That doesn’t beef security much, but many scanners are going to look for 22 and nothing else.
- Comment on Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever 5 months ago:
Firefox did this 4 years ago and didn’t replace them with an alternative tracking method.
- Comment on Siding repair 5 months ago:
Maybe the insulation built into the siding isn’t worth it, but my last house had foam installed beneath the vinyl siding. I noticed that the house was much more comfortable before I knew that insulation was there. I’d recommend getting the price estimate at least, especially in a cold climate.
- Comment on PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! 6 months ago:
Rather that individuals setting up or seeking out an instance, I could see institutes whose members produce content using it, but they’d have to really care about avoiding YouTube. Blender foundation is an example, and they have a peer tube instance, but maybe universities, nonprofits, or research institutions.
- Comment on What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? 6 months ago:
There’s not exactly a shortage of things that don’t work well on Linux, but Bluetooth problems seem unfair to pin on it. Bluetooth doesn’t work anywhere.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 6 months ago:
Haha, “bothered to upgrade”. What upgrade?
- Comment on What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home 6 months ago:
I suspect the reasoning here is going to not be obvious so some people so I’ll add a little. Heat pumps are more efficient when there’s a larger difference between where they’re getting heat and where they’re putting it. I’m going to call this difference a gradient, because otherwise later I’ll be saying “differences of differences” which gets confusing. The argument here is that moving heat from compartmentalized 90 degrees server room to outside at 95 degrees with a separate system for the house, moving from 75 degrees to 95 degrees, would be more efficient than a single heat pump moving air from the mixed rooms at 80 degrees to 95 outside.
The magnitude of that effect would depend on how nonlinear the relationship between efficiency and the gradient is. I’m not very familiar with that. I assume it’s nonlinear, but whether it’s highly nonlinear from a gradient of 5 to a gradient of 20. From here, it’s quite nonlinear from a gradient of 25 to 40, but from 5 to 20 it’s pretty linear: www.ecosia.org/images?q=heat pump effeciecy vs te…
This also doesn’t consider that these are operated with thermostats. Presumably someone is going to set all of the thermostats to the same temperature, 75 degrees or whatever the preference is. The gradient at which the pumps start will be the same in all cases, and the difference will be in how often the pumps run. There will differences in the average efficiency because of the time difference, but it’s by no means obvious to me that there would be a significant benefit for a typical home. I would want some clear evidence before spending money on this.
- Comment on What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home 6 months ago:
Heat pumps are great, but what this guy is saying is wrong. Generating heat when you’re trying to cool won’t help save any money no matter the technology.
Let’s say you were deliberately trying to heat something and cool something else, like a water heater and your home. Then heat pumps are doubly effective. Maybe that’s where the confusion in this comment stems from, but that’s not what’s going on with a data center.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 6 months ago:
I thought about making a comment and decided it didn’t matter, but skeezix gave me the opportunity to do it indirectly.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 6 months ago:
BSD and Linux are offshoots of Unix.
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 6 months ago:
Am I blind?. I don’t even see where it names the study. It just says Pew, who publishes many studies. Does medium expect me to search for their sources?
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 6 months ago:
Yeah, the color scheme is the real clue there. It’s pretty subtle what their viewpoint is.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 6 months ago:
How do you think this works? Yes, Meta will partake in the Fediverse. No one is trying to stop that. That chart won’t get to 100% and no one cares if it does. People are just ensuring that there’s a place where Meta won’t be, and you don’t need billions to do that.
- Comment on Intel Unveils Meteor Lake Architecture: Intel 4 Heralds the Disaggregated Future of Mobile CPUs | Anandtech 6 months ago:
Man, this is why my work laptop died this. It an all around POS so I chalked this problem up to that. I didn’t know that MS deliberately broke sleep. With this knowledge I’ve learned how to go back to regular sleep.
- Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime 6 months ago:
Does anyone know what is untrue about “Unix time is the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970.”?
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
If I’m in the mood for better sound quality I do. Bluetooth has noticably poorer quality on anything but the worst equipment.