It is but thankfully most people never use anywhere near that much (at least, normal people lol).

It’s closer to 48kw. North American (residential) power is weird. lol.

We use what’s called split phase where basically you have three wires coming into your electric panel: two “hot” ones each carrying 120v and one ground.

The breaker box is staggered so that every other slot is powered by one or the other 120v inputs. To get 240v for large appliances, we use big, double-breakers which connect both of the 120v inputs together.

The rest of the 120v circuits are staggered across the two 120v inputs. e.g. If one of the two “hot” cables was disconnected, roughly half the outlets in your house would still work.

Large appliances (water heaters, furnaces, ovens, heat pumps/air conditioners, clothes dryers) typically use 240v and have dedicated circuits but yeah, everything else is 120v.

I’m already electrically budgeted for central A/C, so I figure replacing the existing unit with a heat pump would be more or less “break-even”. The heat pump may even end up being slightly more efficient than the 8 y/o AC unit I have now :)

So I guess the only new load would be the heat pump water heater.

I do plan to get an EV and install a charger in the next 5 years or so, so I’ll likely end up having to upgrade my panel for 200A anyway.

Good read. I’m in the same situation: bought a house with 100A service and want to replace my hot water heater and furnace with heat pump models of both. Everything else is already electric, so I’ve been debating the need to upgrade the panel before replacing my last two gas appliances. (I think I was told that my drop can support 200A)

Still seems useless. I never turn my appliances on just to see if they work. I just…use it. If it doesn’t do anything, then I know it’s broken.

It’s also not just a single LED. In your house, yes, but multiply that by however many appliances in the wild have that same “feature” and the power wastage is much more real. It’s the same reason it’s recommended to unplug phone chargers and such when they’re not being used.

Vampire power, I believe, is the term. It’s when millions of tiny power loads add up to a significant overall draw while performing no useful work.

Then join an instance where scores are disabled if you don’t like them. :shurg: Choosing an instance where downvotes are disabled is already a preference, so making the score aggregates optional is completely in line with that.

You’re already on .ml, so they’d have them disabled given it’s run by the devs who have removed the data from the API, so nothing would change for you.

The whole shtick of Lemmy is run your instance the way you want to run it. The removal of the scores from the API seems heavy-handed and feels like the devs are forcing their preferences/values on others.

Sure doesn’t seem like it. I went to a lot of effort to make the best of the mod API calls that are available and they go and remove a useful chunk of it. 😒

This video led me into another one of the same guy doing Thunderstruck. He brought in the dryer for that one. I wish I was half as creative as that xD

Ha, one of my biggest pet peeves is developers poorly re-inventing a wheel that already exists as a standard.

I’ve been thinking of making some proxy thing that can intelligently route ActivityPub from the root to Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed and whatnot so that they can behave like one big instance and browse the same content but differently, but it sounds like as big of a project as making Lemmy itself.

That’s basically what SRV records accomplish. When I looked a while back to see if ActivityPub had support/plans to support them, I landed on, I think, a Mastaton feature request where the response was “won’t implement SRV” because “webfinger already does that” (it does not).

Personally, I think SRV records and webfinger solve different problems and can complement each other. The ActivityPub software would lookup the SRV record matching its platform and use the result from that to query the correct webfinger endpoint to resolve the user’s URI for that platform.

I have no idea why SRV records seem to have fallen out of fashion, but they would easily solve the delegation problem since that’s exactly what they were designed for. lol

Each fediverse service needs its own domain and cannot share with others.

So we put them as subdomains, (service).domain.com, so we can run multiple under the same top level domain.

The majority of Fediverse instances are run by volunteers at their own cost or subsist strictly on donations. Domain registrations can get expensive and are a variable recurring cost*, so subdomains (which are free) are the natural choice. That also leaves the apex doamin available for other purposes.

*The cost to renew each year can change and often goes up.

Latency is low enough to not be noticeable when playing video on my laptop and streaming audio to the desktop.

That’s basically my use case. Want to use my HTPC as the source and some RasPi’s or repurposed thin clients as the sinks - pretty much what I do now with MPD and Snapcast. I absolutely do not want to have to mess with audio offset settings in Emby to keep the dialog in sync. lol

I’ve only skimmed the docs (holidays are a huge time sink haha), but do you know if it can do one-to-many or just one-to-one? Like, can I have one source and multiple receivers? The docs seemed to imply it could do one-to-many, but I didn’t get to dive into them deep enough.

Ooh. I’ve been using Snapcast for my multi-room audio, but this seems more versatile. Going to check it out for sure.

Have you used it? Curious about latency. Snapcast has about a 1 second buffer which makes it not ideal for anything beyond music casting.

It looks DIY, so I’m willing to accept the ladder. The humps are a bit of a mystery, but from the look of the dirt between the asphalt and the pond, I can see them being sediment buildup from the runoff. Not sure why they’re in those configurations, though, but that’ll have to remain a mystery for someone else to solve lol.

I mean, the steps could be a safety device if you fell in since there’s no safety rails around it. The humps are probably just sediment buildup.

Again, I’m speculating, but I’ve seen those kinds of basins before.

Speculating, but maybe a runoff pond/detention basin?

Looks like the asphalt slopes toward it which would direct stormwater into it. There’s also no gutters on the building in the back, so that water would just hit the pavement and run off. There’s also a pump-looking gizmo in the lower-right corner that appears to have a discharge hose going away from the structures on the property.

I was looking for a NodeJS Activity Pub library, and the only promising one I found looks to be only partially complete. That said, I think most Fediverse platforms use implementations in other languages: Rust (Lemmy) , PHP (Kbin), Ruby (Mastadon), etc).

Several frontends use NodeJS, though. Perhaps you can contribute there or even contribute to Actvitypub-Express to bring that to feature completion?

Yeah, I’m happy for it to be inconvenient. Just this morning I got a spear-phishing email with my full home address and name trying to trick me into canceling a fake auto-renew subscription.

City or county property records should be public and have that info.