Use your hose on the outdoor unit. I use compressed air on the indoor ones, like OP.
I mean, I guess that would work, but why wouldn't you use a vacuum cleaner? I mean, if you're hitting it with compressed air, now all the dust is all over the room.
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California pays 19 dollars per kilowatt hour.
I think that you might be thinking cents, not dollars.
Typical residential electricity prices in the US are two digits number of cents per kWh.
Also, I'm pretty sure that California's residential average price in 2025 is above $0.19/kWh. Maybe that's the cost of generation alone or something.
EDIT: This has PG&E's residential pricing at about twice that, unless someone's getting low-income assistance.
They list their cost of generation there as being about $0.14/kWh.
They signed up for a program that explicitly set your AC higher during high-demand periods and then surprise Pikachu faced when the company did what they said they would do.
If the price swing between peak and off-peak is dramatic enough, I guess one could probably cool water during off-peak hours and then use a heat exchanger or something to use it to sink heat during peak hours.
https://home.howstuffworks.com/ac4.htm
Chilled water systems - In a chilled-water system, the entire air conditioner is installed on the roof or behind the building. It cools water to between 40 and 45 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 and 7.2 degrees Celsius). The chilled water is then piped throughout the building and connected to air handlers. This can be a versatile system where the water pipes work like the evaporator coils in a standard air conditioner. If it's well-insulated, there's no practical distance limitation to the length of a chilled-water pipe.
That's not intended to store energy, just transport it, but I'd imagine that all one would really need is that plus a sufficiently-large, insulated tank of water.
I lived in TX while I was stationed there for like 3 years. Exactly 0 people I’ve met there had a generator.
I think that it's a good idea to have a generator in places that get serious storms, and coastal Texas can get hurricanes. I don't think that this is something specific to Texas' power generation, which is what I think the parent commenter is complaining about. Florida, which really gets whacked with hurricanes, is somewhere I'd really want to have a generator.
That might speed it up, but that certainly is not a prerequisite.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal'
Of course, Altman is referring to chonky enterprise-grade GPUs like those used in the Nvidia DGX B200 and DGX H200 AI platforms—the latter of which OpenAI was the first to take delivery of last year.
You wouldn't be using these for gaming (well, not of the 3D graphics sort).
They run in the tens of thousands of dollars each, as I recall.
Probably more correct to call them "parallel compute accelerator" cards than "GPUs". I don't think that they have a video out, even.
What they do have is a shit-ton of on-board RAM.
EDIT: Oh, apparently those are whole servers containing multiple GPUs.
https://www.trgdatacenters.com/resource/nvidia-dgx-buyers-guide-everything-you-need-to-know/
The NVIDIA DGX B200 is a physical server containing 8 Blackwell GPUs offering 1440GB RAM and 4TB system memory. It also includes 2 Intel CPUs and consumes 14.3kW power at max capacity.
For comparison, the most powerful electric space heater I have draws about a tenth that.
DGX H200 systems are currently available for $400,000 – $500,000. BasePOD and SuperPOD systems must be purchased directly from NVIDIA. There is a current waitlist for B200 DGX systems.
These guys run a bot that indexes all of the Threadiverse.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
It's not made obvious to new users, but it's generally a considerably-better option than simply looking at anything local to your Lemmy instance (including All) if you're trying to find new stuff for a number of reasons, most-importantly the fact that your home instance will only ever see posts from a community on a remote instance if at least one other user on your home instance has subscribed to that community.
Just grab the community there (!communityname@instancename, which it will copy if you click on the community name) and search for it on your home instance. Your home instance will contact the remote instance and learn about the community if it's never heard of it before. At that point, you can subscribe to the remote community, and if you're the first user on your home instance, it will start getting posts for that community.
This is less-critical on large instances, like lemmy.world, because you've got better odds that someone else with the same home instance has subscribed to a given community, but even there, if if you use All to find new communities, there are going to be remote communities that you just won't ever see. The only way to get a complete list is to do what the lemmyverse.net guys do, to index all instances on the whole Threadiverse.
Plus, this is searchable, sortable, you get a single entry per community so you don't have to crawl through all the
potentially offensive to you
posts to find a community, you can see communities that are rarely active without waiting for someone to post, etc.
While I agree with your broad point and have made the same point myself -- it is just wildly impractical for people to try getting the whole network to blacklist everything globally to fit their exact set of tastes -- I will grant that there's probably room for user-curated whitelists or something. I understand that Bluesky does something like this. That way, instead of having to discover each individual community, you can subscribe to someone's list of recommended communities and have them "auto added" to your subscriptions or something like that.
Well, genetic engineering is advancing at a good clip.
I understand the convention is that the wolf is really a thousand-year-old polymorphed dragon, regardless of physical appearance.
for tech I may not use enough
Yeah, that's kind of my take as well.
If HMDs get to the point where they can replace laptop screens, then manufacturers can just exclude the laptop screen from portable computers and ship an HMD, so that'll offset some of the cost.
I also don't care too much about the price if it's honestly something that I'd use day in and day out. If a manufacturer could give me a display that is equivalent to my existing, traditional monitor but perfectly fills my visual arc and gives me a private view of the screen, I'd be willing to spend $1000 or more; I use my monitor all the time, and in the past, I've kept monitors for many years before they get thrown out; they have a lot more longevity than, say, a GPU. My problem is just that, as I mention in my comment, my experience is that HMDs just aren't a reasonable replacement for displays today, as they come with too many drawbacks. Even if the thing cost nothing, I'd still mainly use my laptop's display. So at best, an HMD is a device that I'd use occasionally, for special-purpose cases. And that dramatically reduces what I'd be willing to to spend.
There are HMDs that do win in their own niches. VR displays like the Index are better than traditional monitors for playing VR games. The Royole Moon I have is better for watching movies on the go than a laptop screen. AR glasses like like XREALs are the only way to do AR; can't really do it with a traditional display. There are probably some people out there who really, really want to do these specific things a lot, and for them, that might be worthwhile.
I'd still lug out my Moon if I knew in advance that I was going to be viewing sensitive stuff in a public environment. With video cameras and stuff all over in today's world, I'm a little uncomfortable having passwords flash on the screen, for example.
But there isn't any HMD that I'd use in preference to my computer's screen for general use. And that makes the thing a toy or a specialized tool that I'm not getting use out of most of the time.
I think that conscription is fine where there's a military need for it.
I wouldn't say "it's the right decision" across the board, though.
Kind of like asking "What are your feelings on amphibious assaults? Good or bad?"
I mean, they're a tool. There's a time and place for them.
I don't think that conscription has some sort of intrinsic social benefits, which some people seem to. Nor do I think that it is morally-objectionable, which some others seem to.