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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone2nd rule
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    18 days ago

    The unit actually came with an assortment of very helpful insulation accessories. The tube going to the window is double-walled and it came with sheets of adhesive insulating foam for wrapping it up as well as insulating sheets to stick over the window panel. I did end up using tape (not included) to seal the gaps around the window panel. I would highly recommend this unit to other renters.


  • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone2nd rule
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    19 days ago

    Mine is general purpose, I suppose. I’m gauging its performance based on the temp of the air coming out of the unit, I think the room I’m using in is within range of it’s cooling/heating capabilities. Didn’t realize GE was making water heat pumps, nice.



  • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone2nd rule
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    19 days ago

    Theoretically you could use a heat pump to heat water that would generate “waste cold”, but heat pumps typically don’t get nearly hot enough to heat water as much as a gas water heater does. I suppose one could be made but it would be very difficult, I think. It would need to use the ambient air in your house and suck enough heat out of it to heat your water, and if your house is about 72°F / 22°C and you want water at 130°F / 54°C (which is pretty typical) that seems like a challenge, especially since water is so much denser and has a higher heat capacity. I have a portable A/C with a heat pump and it starts to struggle to heat my apartment once it gets down to 45-50F outside and it struggles to cool once it gets above 95F.










  • Recently started a new job and for the first time I’m fully emersed in the Microslop software suite. Somehow Outlook and Teams haven’t failed critically but I still hate them. Someone emails me a PDF, so I open it. No, I don’t want to open PDFs inside Outlook, so I download the PDF. Where is it? Is it on my Onedrive or does the file actually exist on my computer? Does anything exist on my computer?

    In my personal life I haven’t touched Windows in about 4 months now and I don’t want to go back, although I’ll probably be booting up Windows 10 because I just downloaded the pre-alpha version of Kitten Space Agency. Planning to try Bazzite soon, we’ll see how that goes, I’ve heard good things.