@TechConnectify @delta_vee The first house I lived in, the heating ducting was under the floor. That doesn't work for ranch style slab houses like my current one though. Oddly, that house had a separate closet for the heater and hot water boiler too. Would have been a lot better to put them in the same closet since they both needed Propane or Natural Gas.
@TechConnectify @delta_vee ACs were introduced rather late here, most houses don't have them. The ones that do are usually mini-split ductless style or window units. Central AC other than the split units is essentially limited to commercial buildings, and I've never worked on the AC on those.
@TechConnectify @SocialJusticeHeals It would have made more sense for them to be located together here since both of them do the same job, using natural gas to boil water, but they're in two different areas of the house for me. No idea why.
@TechConnectify @delta_vee It's a gas fired, water boiling furnace. I'm not sure how I'd fit cold air through the hot water line.
@TechConnectify @delta_vee It seems bizarre that you'd need a whole unit for something that's essentially a radiator and a fan.
@delta_vee @TechConnectify The only split units like that I've seen, the indoor unit is flat against the wall and doesn't use ducting...
@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.