I can nerd out about appliance efficiencies for days! (help), always glad to help spread the good word of that sweet, sweet COP (not to be confused with the bad type of Cop).

Tech Ingredients did a pretty great video about easily improving efficiency of solar panels by adding an enclosure and some box fans to the back of them, which seemed to have no real downsides, so I'm quite intrigued to see how he'll drastically improve the efficiency of that air conditioner in his next video.

So they were bought by Forward Research.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arweave-adds-over-7m-users-140000864.html

Foward Research is a crypto blockchain company that owns Arweave, which as far as I can tell is trying to incorporate crypto into a cloud data storage service. It's all very vague, but that's what I sussed out.

I wasn't aware that odysse was originally a crypto video sharing platform, I thought it operated more like YouTube.

Forward Research also bought solarplex, which they boast as having sold "over 120,000 NFTs", which tells me all I need to know about their intentions.

I'd steer way clear of this, nothing good can come of it, and if you have any doubts, watch Folding Ideas NFT video.

Stick with Peertube.

I’m pretty sure heat pumps are still more efficient than heat generators when it comes to residential climate control, but the levels of efficiency he’s measuring in this demonstration are not typical the efficiency in real-world conditions.

Efficiency definitely drops as the temp difference increases, but at least with modern heatpumps, they generally can remain 150 to 200% efficient (compared to resistive heat) all the way down to -22f (-30c), based on this study which has a short summary available over on Wired.

For most of the world, it either doesn't get down to those temperatures at all, or only does so for a relatively brief time. So for the majority, the sort of efficiency he's demonstrating in the video is fairly accurate to what people who can afford the top-teir models from Mitsubishi would be able to achieve most of the year.

For less expensive heatpumps that aren't rated to be as efficient at colder temps, they should still be able to achieve roughly 300% efficiency when averaged over an entire season (at least, basing that off of Technology Connections heat pump video and his location).

I figured since this wasn't actually showing you how to convert an A/C system to be used as a heater in a practical way, and was just a demonstration of the principle/capability, c/DIY didn't quite fit.

But I think you're right, c/technology would be a good fit, and I'll likely crosspost it over there in a day or two unless someone else gets to it first ^^

I read about that in an old comment on reddit years ago, but thought maybe it was FUD from a user that didn't want transplants to move there. Seeing you mention it again is finally getting me to look into that story.

EDIT: Damn, it's legit.

I know the focus of this article was on the Dam and water sources, but I'm still kinda surprised the Grist writer just passively described the farmer's 300 acres is used for alfalfa (and oats), which is itself responsible for the majority of water use in the west. It's deeply unsustainable, and I would've thought it appropriate to at least point it out in the article, but c’est la vie.

Your friend is friends with Cody?

Thanks for taking over !podcasts! :D

As for tagging, at least on PC with the normal Lemmy-ui, when I type @LibertyLizard (or just @Liberty) and then do nothing, a menu pops up next to it with names which I can click on, and that will autofill the correct formatting to tag the user in their inbox.

Also @[email protected] may like you as a co-mod over on !nolawns, never hurts to ask ^^

Thank you for volunteering! You're all modded up now. :D

They used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix.

now that Ladybird is its own project, it's not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.

...God dangit :(

Thanks for doing the research, appreciate it.

AFAIK, arizona stopped that practice. Not sure about California though, and they certainly are still blasting out almonds.