In most hydronic heating systems I’ve worked on, there’s an insulated tank of hot water either somewhere in between the boiler and radiators or built into the boiler directly. The thermostats talk to valves that send the water to radiators in the rooms that need it. The boiler just keeps that water at a set temperature.

In larger buildings with really long runs, sometimes there are valves to bypass certain radiators and/or multiple tanks located around the building. I can’t say without more information about your home, but it might make sense to have one near the area you’re trying to heat most.

No storage tank at all and thermostats that fire up your boiler directly sounds very unusual and inefficient. The expansion tank you have is just meant to stabilize pressure, it doesn’t have enough volume to do much for temperature

Just chiming in to say I think this guy’s got the right idea. I realize what community this is posted in, but sometimes when you’re really into your hammer everything starts to look a little too much like a nail. If you have room for it (sounds like a pretty big house) a buffer tank would make a huge difference

…they should charge at work during peak solar and run their homes off their car batteries at night. That’s where you were going, right?

We all know art is hard, artists gotta starve

The real deal will always be there and never be easy. Fuck “content”, fuck entertainment, fuck packaging yourself for sale. To know and be known is the most human thing there is. Genuine self-expression was never commercially viable and isn’t going anywhere as long as there are two people to engage with one another. That’s art. It’s not something you can be “good with LLMs” at, no matter how technically proficient their output

I’m not interested in arguing and have already shared my experience, hope you have a nice rest of your day. From their perspective, “texting” most people just quit working and someone had to “fix” it by switching them back to their phone’s default sms client. It’s pretty clear you haven’t been tech support for an elder, a lot of people aren’t aware of these things or making real decisions about them at all. Texting at all is a big ask, they need help looking at/sending pictures, a separate app is way too much friction

I don’t have a screenshot handy, but it was very clearly communicated through both colour and iconography whether or not a conversation was encrypted. For people who still couldn’t tell, like my elderly relatives, removing sms support meant they went from 10% encrypted communications back to zero and forced the rest of us to expose ourselves again to stay in touch

Deku SMS (on fdroid) is nice to use and all, but I’m not really sure how “ethical and pro-privacy” can apply to an sms client

I felt their reasoning was disingenuous and that supporting sms had been a massive driver of adoption, a lot of “normal” people used it as a default messenger on the advice of the nerds in their lives without any idea what signal or sms were. Removing that support was a significant rugpull and measurably detrimental to their stated goal of private communication as a default

It used to, pulling that was their biggest mistake since requiring a phone number and made me trust them a lot less

Paid hype is a red flag imo

I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely

Only if you want it to be! This feels like a breakthrough :)

“you find what you look for”

“all a pissing contest gets you is covered in piss”

“petty sure” is right, try another round of edits if you really can’t find anything better to do. The day I start to care how many internet points I’m getting hopefully there’s a friend nearby to log me off. Need to quit engaging with you before I do work up some “hatred” to turn on someone. Zero beef with the guy I was actually talking to, but you kinda suck

I guess I’m just a little more pessimistic at this point, don’t actually know the specifics of their financials but assumed github had been operating at a loss the whole time. That’s pretty typical for startup stuff in general and especially so for “free” services, if it seems too good to be true it probably is type thing. I see forgejo’s transparency and ideological commitment to open source as a defense against that type of behaviour cropping up in the future, hence “feature not bug”. Like you said, it’d be trivial to host your private repositories elsewhere or for someone to spin up their own paid instance for commercial use. I’d be a little suspicious of what was keeping the lights on if someone directly replicated github’s model because, well… look how it’s going!

Pretty sure I was having a normal conversation with someone and you splashed in to call me out for something without a whole lot of thought. There’s no “threat”, none of this is that serious, I wish you peace and introspection

Someone might spin that up, but it feels unlikely. Github was always kinda subsidized as a power play on MS’s part, and now that it’s well established enough they’re squeezing it for ROI. An instance that doesn’t need your donations still needs resources to perpetuate itself from somewhere, I’d personally rather depend on infrastructure that was transparent about that (whether paid or donation based) than be treated as the product

My brother in christ that’s the exact line I was referring to, what else in the wide world of reading comprehension do you think I was talking about?

Where’d my other comment go? Editorial censorship takes this from “a really bad idea” to a super fucked up attempt at poisoning this beautiful place with the worship of wealth