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  • This is true, but it’s shocking how few people have heat pumps, especially in colder climates.

    Still, it’s also far less efficient than using a gas furnace (to the point that most people would actually burn more fossil fuels per Joule of heat from a resistive heater than from just burning the gas directly in a furnace).

    Of course, if you’re doing something useful with that energy, using the waste heat is an extra benefit. Like using waste heat from a power plant for district heating.


  • I’m pretty much the same way with places I’ve lived where I had to drive everywhere. My current city though, 6 months after moving here (and 6 months of living car-free) I could give people detailed directions around a significant chunk of the city (the areas where I went).

    Same when I moved to a different part of the city and started biking around that part of town.




  • Launchpad is the basis of Ubuntu. And while OBS is pretty good, it’s nowhere near as good as Launchpad. And what Launchpad does helps speed up Linux development in many ways.

    Another example though, that’s maybe more relevant: Ubuntu made it super easy for me to swap out CUPS on 22.04 with the latest version (published as a snap) that added a driver for a printer we needed. On most LTS type distros, doing something like that is painful. On Ubuntu, it was incredibly simple.



  • lengautoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldMicrosoft should be terrified of SteamOS
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    5 days ago

    Those are two orthogonal things, but they do both point towards Valve being the better choice between the two. But if there were a Valve vs. Microsoft duality where the choice that’s better for anyone that’s not the two of them is to side with Microsoft, I’d be disappointed with Valve, but I’d choose the Microsoft route.

    I don’t think that’s likely, as Valve have repeatedly made choices that are better for the consumer even when they’re not better for Valve, but I’m not ruling out the possibility.























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