[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm aware but I haven't heard people's experiences with them. I ask because I'm shopping for water heating right now and debating the expense of getting 240 run to the water heater for a heat pump.

Electric tankless sounds impossible (yes, I know they exist, I just mean they don't sound like something that should be able to), since the amount of BTUs required to run a gas tankless at peak is absolutely nuts -- tankless gas water-heaters run on 3/4" pipe instead of the normal 1/2" since they need to have so much burst heat. That doesn't sound possible for electric.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.

I can't really complain about the content being a bit stale when it feels like the alternative is nothing. So many communities that had vibrant counterparts on Reddit struggle to get one post per week. If it's ditto-memes on Lemmy, I'll take it.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yes but the typical gameclip set up where you have the DS-style setup of the controller at the bottom and the screen at the top is surprisingly uncomfortable because of how top-heavy that is.

Too bad phone makers have given up on experimenting with form factor. Just an endless array of oddly-sized rectangles, but not quite consistent-enough to make gameclips feasible.

Also I've hit problems with gamepad+Bluetooth audio giving my game controller bad audio latency. Had to switch to wired audio.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The discussion of this same article on Hacker News is shockingly redpilly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38055947

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Pandering. There is only one atmosphere.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Zero-K. It's a competitive online RTS loosely based on the classic Total Annihilation (which led to Planetary Annihilation and Supreme Commander). Some of its features are a bit overcomplicated, but it does an amazing job innovating within the RTS genre.

It's fast, aggressive, and fun. You spam units, claim territory (in the form of metal-extractors and energy-grid that upgrades their output, and building defenses to protect that) and raid and assault your opponents.

It abandons the hoary old concept of factions, instead giving you your choice of starting factories... and as the game progresses, you can expand into other factories to access the synergy of units. So you start a battle with a narrow slice of the unit-pie, but ultimately can access the whole inventory in a single match. There is no "teching" really, besides constructing resource-buildings, which keeps the focus on resources, construction, and combat.

It has a full single-player campaign that introduces the game's complexity bit-by-bit... but the campaign does have some difficulty spikes, particularly since the units do get rebalanced once in a while and so an old mission will become suddenly easier or harder as the developers patch the game.

The game has a Lua-based GUI plug-in architecture if you like WoW-style UI mods as well.

https://zero-k.info

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yes you do. Population growth went up. Housing starts went down. That's what created the shortage that speculators are capitalizing on.

Do people hoard food when there isn't a food shortage? And if they do, is it even a problem?

The shortage is what gives the profiteers and gougers their power.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Whatever teeth the Competition Bureau has, the Harper-appointed judge on the Competition Tribunal apparently has bigger ones.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

But if we implement proportional representation, extremists who don't represent the Canadian mainstream public could get in!!!!!11!1!1!!oneoneone

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

It’s how Canadians roll: we decide we like a party leader, we elect them, and after eight or ten years we decide it’s time for a change. It doesn’t matter who the other leader is, we just decide to switch.

I mean we elected a party that promised Electoral Reform and that this would be the last FPTP election. That should've been enough. They just changed their minds after they won.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Lost Vikings! I love how they keep bringing that one back in their branding. I've got Olaf as my bnet icon.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I'm disappointed Moto Mods didn't take off. They would've been a great way to provide a hermetically sealed phone with all the optional stuff you wanted slapped on the back. Beefier battery, better controls, all the ports you want, etc. Like, a phone with a weak internal battery but then a magnetically attached external one so you don't even have to open open the back of the phone to hot-swap.

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