thetrekkersparky

joined 7 months ago

Yeah, although electric heat is 100% efficient it takes a lot of energy to heat water quickly. You're better off going with gas for hot water on demand. I imagine the unit price is more, but the install price will probably be lower.

400V in residential sounds exciting. That's one way to cut down on wire cost I guess.

Yup. That's why people use smaller heating elements and slowly heat up lots of water in an insulated tank instead. Just the difference in the cost of wire you need to run is massive.

[–] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I'm an electrician. I haven't been impressed by most of the tankless systems I've hooked up. I would definitely go with gas unless you are willing to run some serious power. Most hot water tanks pull about 3000-4500W or 12.5-18.75A at 240V. A good tankless system is upwards of 18000W or 75A at 240V and some can be around 36000W which works out to 150A. This will easily be the single largest electrical load in your house, unless you also have an electric furnace or something. Depending the size of your electrical service and what else you have in your house you may need to upgrade the electrical service going to your house as well. Most Residential Electrical services are usually 100-200A in my area.

[–] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

2 pip Kim is not to be trusted.

Lol, I guess that is a thing. They also just jacked the price on that, didn't they?

[–] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No multiplayer paywall, but they'll probably try to charge you some sort of subscription anyway that'll end up costing more in the long run.

I played the demo this morning and really enjoyed it. It seemed a little rough around the edges, I had some problems navigating the ship and finding rooms, but it seemed pretty good. Its on my wishlist now.

[–] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, I was soooo excited about the PS5, but then it turned into such a shit show to get one that I just put my money into my PC and I never even got around to picking one up when availability became more reasonable. I don't think I'd ever really want to get back into the console gaming space anymore.

I honestly assumed that she'd be one of the main instructors. Especially with Micheal saying something about Tilly being the Acadamy's longest serving instructor (or something like that) in the Disco epilogue.

I generally play single player games and have had little to no problems. Any issues I've had have required very little tinkering to fix and I've solved them all by simply searching online for the problem and finding out that its a common issue and someone has posted a step by step fix.

The biggest issue I've had is with baulders gate 3 multiplayer which I eventually fixed, but I can't remember how anymore. Single player worked fine right out of the gate.

I've also had better luck playing older games on Linux vs Windows. Heroic Launcher also works great for anything you've purchased on GOG, Epic,and Amazon too.

 

I've been running a home server at home running CasaOS for a few months now. I use a wireguard vpn to remote in to use Jellyfin on my phone etc. Basically i want to know if there's a way i can both hide my public IP (such as using a conventional vpn for torrenting) while still being able to remote in to my server?

I've been thinking of running running all my network traffic through my server and setting up some sort of firewall too, but I'm fairly new to this as this was originally just a project I did out of spite after getting rid of Spotify. I'm fairly green when it comes to networking and servers, but I'm otherwise pretty good with computers and can muddle my way through most things.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

I've been thinking of coming back to the game after about 5-7 years away. Are there any new features I need to be aware of? Has anything drastically changed? Also, how well does it run on linux since that's all I have to game with these days? Does anyone have any fleet suggestions? I'm not sure if my old fleet is still around, or if I've been booted or whatever. Thanks in advance.

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