You say that as a joke but I’m sure there is probably some camgirl is out there selling their “slightly used” toys for more than they bought them for.

Thank you for clarifying because I was expecting a “BOFA dez nutz” joke.

This is a bit of a side note but I remembered you were looking for things to do while you were in MN a while back. If you still are, the National Eagle Center is always fun to visit. It’s in Wabasha which is almost exactly an hour drive from Rochester. It’s also probably a better place to pick up souvenirs.

You would think that but where I work we are still manufacturing NEW equipment with GPIB. Industry moves at a glacial pace and plenty of compainies will still pay to have GPIB as an option.

I’m sure enough people bring in electronics filled with roaches or bed bugs that they no longer take any chance when they see even one bug.

I actually really like the unified remote app. It lets you use your phone as a remote for any computer on the same network. I think the premium version just lets you link more computers otherwise the free version is just as good.

When you stop using roku and just plug in a cheap used laptop or something instead

Nope. Youtube ads are served from the same domains as the videos so there is nothing you can to to block them via DNS. Your best bet is just installing Ublock for them. Now a days an ad blocker is a security necessity anyways.

His first wife is kinda cute in a dorky way even in that unflattering picture. His second wife looks like a blow up doll.

Although your captions do still make sense considering, back when I was still buying stuff off amazon, the amazon basics stuff was surprisingly good quality compared to most of the other garbage on there.

Clearly you’ve never played genshin impact.

To clear up my initial comment.

…the whole “funding a genocide” thing…

Also yes, imprisoning a civilian population in a location and then bombing that location is genocide. They are clearly and deliberately exterminating civilians. The fact that we didn’t remove all support the instant they started doing that is appalling.

Also before you even start with the whole “hamas is using the cavilians as human shields.” Yes, they are. But that doesn’t mean Israels solution of “kill them all and let god sort them out” is remotely acceptable.

Except Bidens base is also getting smaller. The whole funding a genocide thing isn’t exactly winning him any supporters.

I only do the refrigeration side of things and I don’t do residential stuff so I’m not sure on exact pricing. Pricing will also vary greatly depending on the exact area. For example in my area we have a high enough ground water level that open loop geothermal is easy and that is the cheapest/easiest method of geothermal. The other types will also vary in cost depending on soil type and moisture content because that will partially dictate how big of a ground loop you need. The amount of area you have for a ground loop will also be a big factor because if you don’t have enough yard area for a horizontal loop then you need to use a vertical loop which can be heniously expensive.

As far as payback goes they are far more expensive to install regardless of the type but the ground loop (assuming closed loop system) can easily last over 50 years and that is the most expensive part of the whole system by a large margin. Out of the $25,000 you mentioned I would bet that about $20,000 of that was just for the ground loop. The rest of the system is going to be more durable as well due to not being outdoors. The expected lifespan of the other components is 20 years and they can easily last far longer than that. So the energy savings is only part of the cost savings. The other part is that geothermal heat pumps need practically no maintenance and break down far more rarely than any other conventional heating or cooling solution. With how long they last and how durable they are a geothermal heat pump can probably pay itself off just with avoided service calls.

In colder areas like that the heat pumps are usually ground source so the ambient air temperature doesn’t change the performance much.

BBB is a scam. Companies just buy their scores on there.

People think France is bad, but they have objective proof about the UK.

That’s fair. But even so, as long as you have brakes then you can always stop. As long as you have brakes and steering you can always stop fairly safely. I already said a sudden brake failure could be dangerous. I can’t think of any way you suddenly completely lose steering. There are plenty of failures that make steering way harder but I’ve seen a vehicle completely dragging a dead front tire sideways (hit a deer and broke something major, I was only a witness so I don’t know what) still have enough steering ability to safely pull over. I guess your steering wheel could fall off but I’ve never heard of that happening without someone tampering with it.

In all my years of driving complete beaters in awful road conditions, I’ve never encountered a mechanical failure that was that dangerous. The closest would be when I had a strut snap and punch a hole in my tire while driving down the highway. But even that didn’t wind up being particularly dangerous. I still had way more than enough control to just make a controlled stop on the side of the road.

The only mechanical failure I can think of which doesn’t always just allow you to make a controlled stop is a busted brake line or master cylinder. But a lot of times that will still result in a slow enough loss of braking capability that you still have time to make a controlled stop before your braking ability is gone. Everything else that I can think of will render the vehicle completely undrivable before it breaks in significantly dangerous way. Of course that doesn’t mean that things won’t break in a far more expensive way if ignored.

Or Oscar Meyer which is a hotdog.

That sentence makes no sense. That’s like saying “this ‘website’-shit isn’t helping the internet grow tbh.”

Instances are Lemmy. They’re all seperate platforms that just so happen to share stuff and use mostly the same code. It’s just people hosting their own social media sites.