[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I have an attic that gets direct sun until the afternoon. It gets quite hot. I had easy access to the rafters so I used radiant barrier, and the difference is very big. As you're putting it up you can tell that it's blocking the heat standing in an a covered vs uncovered area. In subsequent days when it was all up it was obviously cooler. It's still hot but not unbearable.

Radiant barrier is more expensive and fiberglass probably would have worked just as well in this situation, but I didn't know enough about air flow in that space to tell whether fiberglass would impede anything,so I used radiant barrier and left a gap at the bottoms and tops. It is very easy to install. Fiberglass wouldn't be too hard either, but the barrier is daed simple and there's less volume to move around.

In general, my experience say it's going to help, and whether you do fiberglass or radiant barrier is up to you.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's unfair to blame the restaurant when the private equity firm that bought them deliberately stripped the restaurant's assets, hoping to rip off some later buyer. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/private-equity-rolled-red-lobster-rcna153397

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So does it disable telemetry, remove Edge, remove all the crap from the start menu, and stop presenting Web results in start menu search?

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 112 points 3 months ago

Nick Cage and John Travolta in Face Off

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 82 points 3 months ago

Yeah, and the risk of death with euthanasia is even higher!

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 144 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just before he was elected, his campaign conspired to prevent the release of US hostages, a move they made to make Carter look bad. This is one of the reasons he won. The man worked directly against the benefit of US citizens for personal gain.

It's a shame that Carter gets the blame for failing to reach an agreement to release the hostages, instead of Regan getting pinned for the much worse behavior of deliberately delaying their release.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's funny because he lies to his significant other instead of fixing his own issues.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 70 points 6 months ago

You like this episode of Futurama. Would you also like to watch this episode of Futurama?

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The creators call it an inverse vaccine. A vaccine causes the immune system to recognize a compound to attack. This treatment causes the immune system to ignore a compound it had previously recognized. So they are specifically saying it's not a vaccine (and OP is misrepresenting them), even though that word is in the phrase, something roughly like antivenom is not a venom.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I hear a lot that gas is cheaper for heating and I took that as the truth for a long time. A while ago I did the math though, and for my house is would have been nearly the same annual power bill if I replaced my 90% gas furnace and water heater with electric units. Although the price of gas is far more economical for heating, there's a monthly gas usage fee that's a flat rate. If you go all electric, you don't pay that, and over the course of a year, I didn't heat enough for the lower gas price to offset the flat fees. If instead of a regular electric furnace and water heater, they were heat pumps, electric would have been much cheaper than gas.

This certainly would depend on your local prices and weather and how well your house is insulated, but if you need a new furnace, I'd do the math over a year to see if gas is still the most financially attractive option, especially if you can install an air or ground source heat pump.

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submitted 9 months ago by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

I've never built a PC before and I don't know that I know all of the considerations.

I'd like something as a server for automated backup from other devices, like phones. I may also do video reencoding on it. I'd like it to be fairly small, but it doesn't need to be that small. This is what I've picked out: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3pxGP.

The case, motherboard and power supply I plan to use is the AsRock Deskmini, but it wasn't an option on Part Picker: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmini-x300w/p/N82E16856158068. This was attractive because it says it has a built-in RAID setup. This is for backups, so I'd like RAID, but I don't know anything RAID, so a built-in option sounded convenient. The Deskmeet would have been fine too, but it's out of stock.

Is the cooler OK for that processor? I don't care about a video card, and the 5700G has integrated graphics, but I don't know if I need something else to get the graphics working. Is there anything else I should consider?

Thanks for any help.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 128 points 10 months ago

If you don't need an all-in-one printer, then the Brother HL-L2350DW is great. The best thing about it is that it prints. These accolades are really the bare minimum you'd expect from a device called a "printer", but that's where we are in the world of consumer electronics.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago

I was under the impression that this was a community to discuss technology, not one that discusses the business decisions of companies in the technology sector, and certainly not the decisions of a social media company that is only tangentially related to the technology sector.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/ahk@programming.dev

Using Window Spy, Acrobat Pro doesn't appear to have button IDs to use with ControlClick. I can't find shortcut keys for almost any of the actions, and trying to navigate through the buttons with F6 and tab seems like a no-go too. The only ways I see to do this are to hardcode button positions or use or ImageSearch, both of which I find don't work well because coordinates change with window resizing or different resolution displays.

Does anyone have a different approach or know of a way to handle different displays and window sizes? In particular, I want to activate "Visually digitally sign".

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submitted 1 year ago by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/plumbing@lemmy.world

The connections under my sink have a flexible tube that I'd like to replace with rigid tube. The stub out from the wall doesn't have the nut and threaded connection I've seen before, and they've used what I think is called a no-hub connector.

Would I use the no-hub connector on the rigid tube or do I sweat something like this on? https://www.brasscraft.com/product/1-12-in-o-d-tube-x-1-12-in-fip-3/ Or is there some other way?

I've soldered the narrower water supply lines, but nothing this large. Is there anything to consider other than heating it longer?

The stub out has corroded on the bottom and there's a thin crack that the no-hub fitting covers, so there isn't a leak now, but I don't know if that will be covered if I sweat on a connector. Is there a way to deal with that crack?

As some extra info, I think that some stubs are threaded into the vertical pipe. This isn't threaded in and doesn't look like it can be removed without opening the wall and replacing it.

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Is this a termite? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml

This is from Illinois. I think maybe it's a spider wasp, but I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, so I worry that it's a termite.

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submitted 1 year ago by Kethal@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

Is there a way to block all pinterest results from search engines? This doesn't seem to work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpinterested/.

This one doesn't block results in image search: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/

Simply using "-site:pinterest.com" isn't great, because there are a bunch of pinterest domains: pinterest.com.mx, pinterest.es, etc. Typing them all in every time is a hassle.

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