Bo7a

Why do you think anybody owes you anything in a lemmy comment? This is seriously weird.

No red flags in demanding to know the companies I have called at all. Nope. You don't come off as insane here at all.

The closest I'm going to get to telling you where I live is to say that I have contacted a dozen companies in the outaouais region since May 2024. And the list of applicable models is available here --> https://www.hydroquebec.com/residential/energy-wise/financial-assistance/logisvert/archive-lists-heat-pumps.html

Fill your boots, weirdo.

And I already explained 'gathering data' was me calling an installer, asking about the model and writing down their estimate on a notepad. Then a day or a week later trying another. What more do you think someone would do in this case? Should I stand up a key:value store with an auto-scaling back-end and some APIs?

I am sincerely jealous.

Calling it data gathering is probably a bit of a stretch - It was mainly scribbled notes from calling a 'certified vendor' and asking them if they have any of the models on the list.

Invariably the price for the approved model, and installed by the approved installer, was at least 2x the price of getting a similar model installed by a local company.

We have booked a local guy at $2500 for an installed system that meets our needs. Where even after the rebate from QC the cheapest 'program applicable' solution we found would have been $5600 + travel for the installer.

1 in 4 Albertans believe the earth is flat, trump is a deity, and aliens are taking their field jobs.

1 in 4 Albertans should shut the fuck up.

The scummy part of the same program here in QC is that they have a specific list of models that qualify, and a list of installers. Any deviation means no rebate

I have been gathering data from both lists for almost a year and have yet to find a combo of model/installer that comes out to any less than double or triple what a properly sized system would cost to have installed outside of that program.

I was the guy building linux systems from the trash in 1999. And then complicated distributed systems for fun. Now I want to leave everything at defaults, or just turn on dark mode and be done with it.

Working in tech has ruined tech for me. Hopefully not forever...

Humans in general.

You have a very skewed view of what normal Americans think.

You should probably work on getting out of your media bubbles.

You have a hard time tying your shoes while thinking about something else, don't you?

I let it build for 2-3 years and then explode and burn every bridge I can at that company.

Rinse, repeat.

No this is not smart, but you didn't specify 'good ways'.

Sooooooon.

You don't even need to be that different. I showed up in a western farming town at 15 years old. My hair was long for a boy, and my 'city' clothes got me harassed from the first day I arrived in that town. Isolated morons. The lot of them. They fear anything that is not exactly like they are.