@TechConnectify Well, for an evap cooler, the duct is only going through the attic because there's really no way to get it down from the roof without either going through the attic, or outside the building. A lot of people I know have switched to Window units lately because the window units have gone from huge, to something that fits largely flush to the outside wall.
Other than ducts running from stuff in the house to the roof, and a couple of network cables, there's nothing up there.
Other than ducts running from stuff in the house to the roof, and a couple of network cables, there's nothing up there.
@TechConnectify That would probably still interfere with some of the windows I think. And right now, we only have a single air intake that is in the hallway, and you just crack a window in any room you want the air to flow into.
@TechConnectify It's somewhere under 8 feet, but a bit over 7. Any lower and I wouldn't want to invite any tall friends over.
@TechConnectify @delta_vee Most of the actual AC units have been outside in the back yard, or on the roof. I've never seen one inside the house that wasn't a portable.
@TechConnectify There's not enough room below the attic in my house to run the ducts. we'd be hitting our heads on the ducts if we did that. Of course, we only have one duct since we're in the desert west, and that one duct runs from the roof evaporative cooler. Heating runs under the floor in most houses I've been in. In my case, hot water heat embedded in the concrete slab.
@developing_agent @marcan I wonder what good alternatives there are. The last time I took something apart from Triplite it was full of cheap aluminum wiring. Are there any good makers of UPSes now, or do we need to roll our own like HBPowerWall?
Reminder that availability & porting of any open-source engine to consoles is only less evident because consoles manufacturers decided their _API_ was sacred & unique & under NDA. First console manufacturer who opens up will see 100+ custom engines avail within a month.
Needed to rebuild an older game and thought I'd share the building steps/guide I wrote for future-myself in 2017: https://gist.github.com/ocornut/b991f2720e12720e6c7b0522a72aa023
In spite of efforts to make building code+data+packaging simple, it's easy to forget how to use a custom pipeline, so good to write some docs.
@gamingonlinux Yeah, but it's kind of when we really started getting more than Tux*, TUI games, and a handful of stuff ported by Loki on Linux. It's kind of the start of the new era of Linux gaming.
@gamingonlinux 2010 is about when HumbleBundle started doing indie bundles with linux games in them though.
@benjedwards Should buy some of those ipod dock to bluetooth adapters and stuff it in each one. I have one in my old ipod speaker dock.
@thomasfuchs @TechConnectify For Garage use, Home Depot has a bunch of multi-lobed LED lights with massive heatsinks on them that use 60 to 75 actual watts, and are in the 4000-6000 lumen range. A few of these claim 99 CRI, though I don't know if I believe them. (The lobes can be aimed vertically by a ~60 degree range to illuminate the garage the way you want.) I have one of the 80 CRI ones and it makes the garage quite bright.
https://orowith2os.gitlab.io/posts/wayland-breaks-your-bad-software/ In this post it says "Almost everything that didn’t work even two months ago works now"
In my experience, it's the opposite. 2-3 months ago I was happily using wayland and it was working reasonably well. Then an sddm update happened. Not only did I have to disable Wayland in SDDM, but the scripts for launching KDE in Wayland broke. Now I can't use wayland on my desktop at all.
It is working on my phone though via sxmo.
In my experience, it's the opposite. 2-3 months ago I was happily using wayland and it was working reasonably well. Then an sddm update happened. Not only did I have to disable Wayland in SDDM, but the scripts for launching KDE in Wayland broke. Now I can't use wayland on my desktop at all.
It is working on my phone though via sxmo.
@chris I have a similar, though one generation older with the same amount of ram, I installed Devuan on it with xfce, but I've also used SolydK on another laptop with similar specs. (Mine's a i5-2560m with an older radeon hd mobile graphics chipset.) Beginner friendly is the rub though. SolydK or SolydX would be better choices for beginners than Devuan, and Mint is probably the best one on your list for beginners.
@TechConnectify @smallerdemon My wife hates it being cold at night, so I can't use that trick unfortunately.
@TechConnectify @marcoarment Yeah, tesla's obsession with touch screen controls is part of what would make me less likely to buy their stuff, unless it was pre-hacked and I could add my own control panels all over the place.
@TechConnectify Yeah, saw that you added that later in the conversation. So as long as you need to eat each time you need to charge, then that's a good model.