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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Friends had to replace a gas heater for their water radiator system and were told that there wasn’t a heat pump unit hot enough for the retrofit.

This generally means that they'd need to upgrade their radiators to accommodate a heat pump at normal temperatures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And so long as the heat pump and radiators are appropriately sized to dump heat into the house, that shouldn't matter.

The main issue is people with badly designed heating systems running at 70 degrees flow temperature.

When you swap over to a heat pump, the flow temperature is only supposed to be 40.

So you either need to get more water in the loop (bigger radiators) or less heat leaving the building (better insulation). And an understanding that the heat pump is supposed to heat gradually.

As for the installation cowboys...yea, it's an absolute farce. £2k unit somehow costing £20k to install.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Oh no! If they continue down this path, nobody will want to privatise anything!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's a shame the shutterglasses cause issues. I can only watch so much before I need a break. Apparently the 2016 LG OLEDs were the last. Or you could set up two projectors with polarisers (I'm sure that would go down well in the living room!)

I decided against Tron the other day, as I already had a 2D copy. However, I'm hearing good things about it. Apparently it goes between 2D and 3D in the virtual world, which sounds like a very cool use of the medium.

Hobbit 2 in 3D extended edition, but missing the slip case, cost me £1.50 the other day. Not a clue why it was so cheap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As far as I know, I'm getting frame packed output from the player (PS3), which gives a 3840x1080 output over HDMI1.4.
Then the projector alternates between each side rapidly in step with the glasses. So it should be full res.
My understanding is that BD stores one image plus difference (kinda like stereo FM), but the end result is the same.

I kinda agree though, if I could afford a decent enough headset that wasn't meta-locked, I'd probably start muxing them to watch on there! Although extra glasses is a lot cheaper than everyone having a headset.

Edit: Apparently, the PS3 isn't true HDMI1.4, but does fulfil the 3D aspects of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a shame Dolby 6P didn't become more of a home use format. It had really good colour reproduction, and was a really innovative way to achieve 3D.
Two laser projectors at home is probably a bit steep for a slightly niche market, mind!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe she was trying to add unique cultures to the sourdough from the tray table.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

After a long day operating Hitachi heavy machinery, soothe your muscles with a Hitachi back massager.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A low-wiring way to do it would be to replace the bulbs with hue/similar bulbs, then just put a battery powered button in the location you want to have the controls. £10-ish for each button, plus however much the bulbs are.

Then just have the button set to toggle the lights on/off (you can also call different presets like dim etc by pressing and holding).
Then hass just directly sends the on/off commands to the bulbs.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yours may be fine.

Barry Shitpea's £100 dodgy 2000W temu special may not. And you can't expect a bus driver to inspect every bike to only let reputable brands on.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Piston aircraft still use it. Which makes it doubly annoying when some tit in a cesna decides to circle around town at 1000'.
Not just making a noise, also cropdusting with TEL.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stars of the bestselling children's book "The Snails in The Mail"

 

Direct link to the update in the live reporting of the chancellors speech. Will update the link to the full article once beeb publish it.

 

Fantastic news, imho.
Personal statements just felt like an extra thing that might cause your application to fail.
I'm 99% sure none of the technical degrees I applied for read mine, and I wouldn't blame them at all.

 

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