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  • Here in the US heat pumps are unreasonably expensive too… We already have AC, it’s the same damn thing but backwards! There was a government credit to lower the cost, but I’m guessing that mostly affected the sticker price (since it was X% of the cost up to some maximum I think) so the heat pump company can make more. Adoption is more challenging if a building has older central AC as well, since we use different refrigerants now (much better for environment), but they run at a different pressure, so you need to replace the coils and all refrigerant lines, which is expensive.




  • Not trying to back any specific side here, but the divergence at 2013 is because they’re using a difference in price relative to Q1 2013 (so near 2013 it will always be close to zero). If you used 2015 or something the right graph would still look similar. We don’t know if such a divergence is present since the 1980s since no data is presented (making it an unhelpful comparison).

    It would also be good to see more countries included, and the actual lines labeled for which country they are. Overall I would say this graphic doesn’t provide adequate information to back up its claim.

    Also as Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe said above, different counties have different markets, policies, economies, etc. making it hard to make generalizations.





  • It looks like I just didn’t wait long enough. It does change behavior under the following edge case which is what threw me off - if you take a screenshot, click Edit, then switch apps, it stays on screen and doesn’t respond to the back gesture, you have to wait out its timer.

    I figure it should go away when you go to edit (since you can now see the screenshot fullscreen and no longer need a preview)


  • Oh, interesting.

    Testing today it appears that isn’t happening any more for me either - I guess I’ve been doing my silly workaround for months for no reason!

    And all it took was complaining about a bug on the internet to realize that it’s already been fixed (or stopped happening for some other reason) and I just never realized.

    Slightly funny, even if it makes me look like a fool!




  • GOS is quite cool! I do miss some features of the first party pixel OS, but certainly not enough to go back. Most of my gripes have to do with other apps’ dependence on Google services rather than GOS itself.

    After working out the kinks of getting all my apps set up and working (my mobile carrier being the hardest since they require their stupid app) it’s been quite seamless.

    Some stuff still needs work, for example I found that work profiles are really janky (since the work profile apps expect Google Play Services in the work sandbox, and get really confused when it isn’t there).

    I use sandboxed Play Services with the minimum permissions to make it work, mainly because most apps just crap out or have no notifications without it, which is annoying.


  • (sexism, ableism, complete delusion, I’ve gone insane reading this website…)

    I know nothing about the history and politics of Debian, but the stuff this guy is saying is bizzare.

    • Timeline starts with the publication of Orwell’s Animal Farm. This is going to be good…

    • He seems to interpret people’s personal lives as caused by Debian - talking about Joel Espy Klecker’s death, he makes it sound like the Evil Debians were chaining him to a rock and forcing him to write software, even describing it as “modern slavery” - does he think that people wih chronic illnesses shouldn’t contribute to free software?? Unless someone was actually coercing Klecker (which would obviously be bad), it seems like he was just choosing to contribute… Pocock asks if it’s fair that Klecker received no compensation despite companies that use Debian making lots of money. That’s how free software works…

    • Daniel Pocock refers to Daniel Pocock in the third person a lot, which makes it less obvious that this is his firsthand account and not someone else’s documenting of the story.

    • “The Debian Pregnancy Cluster” (???)

    • Claiming that women are only participating in Debian because of their male partners. Followed by a mention of a woman who met their husband through Debian (so was presumably involved in it independently before that).

    • Spends a lot of time listing people who died, even if their death is unrelated to their Debian participation. There’s even a graphic of people holding knives at the bottom, as if to imply that Debian is murdering people??

    • Quote “wheelchair fascism” - I am just going to provide this quote in full: “Bücherratten is demonstrating a certain amount of passive-aggressive behavior, wheeling herself up to the FSFE table at CCC, putting on the brakes and using her wheelchair to become the center of attention even before she speaks.” What the hell? I have no words here… What does this person expect? They’ve just described someone using a wheelchair to go up to a table in a normal way. They don’t elaborate on becoming the center of attention. This is equivalent to describing an ambulatory person’s “passive aggressive behavior, walking up to the FSFE table at CCC, putting their feet on the floor, and using their legs to become the center of attention” (https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-nazi-pass-fsfe-wheelchair-fascism-facts/)





  • In that case the user has made a choice is the good thing. They’ve seen what options are there and decided Windows fits their needs best. That’s better in my mind than a world where everyone accepts the OS that comes preinstalled on their machine as permanent and doesn’t consider alternatives.