Correct on the chocolate. And it’s best if the chocolate is near melting temperature so when that warm marshmallow hits it, it melts. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Debian does minor releases every so often, too. For example the current version of Trixie is on its 7th point release (12.7). Trixie was released last August.

I’ve found I don’t need bleeding edge most of the time. But if I do need something more up to date, there’s usually a package for Debian available. Wine is one example; I needed a more updated version than Debian stable ships, and WineHQ has it packaged for that. Installs easily and stays updated automatically.

No, I haven’t looked into it lately. Sorry.

I feel you on not knowing where the break even point of heat pumps is! It’s so frustrating that that isn’t published.

Well it would vary for every house, season, amount of sunlight, etc. It’d require extensive testing and data collection to determine.

I’ve never used SUSE, but it’s one of the oldest Linux distributions still going. Sad to see this.

Our Ecobee thermostat does detect motion and can, in theory, automatically let the temperature drop if no one is home, for example. I tried it when we first got it, and I found that it must have been detecting our cats, so it was activating the heat when no one was home. I turned that feature off and went with the schedule instead.

Also, we have a heat pump with electric heat backup, so it may actually be cheaper to keep the heat constant, if it avoids using the electric heat. Unfortunately, I have no idea where that break-even point is (i.e., at some point, it’s likely cheaper to kick on the electric heat to bring the house up to temperature, versus running the heat pump for many hours - but I don’t know where that point is - and it certainly varies based on outside temperature, sun hitting the house, etc…).

These days, my schedule is extremely variable, so I just leave the normal schedule in place most of the time. I wish Ecobee made it easier to go, “Hey, today, I’m going to be out from 10-3, so let the temperature drop during that time.” (As it is, I have to adjust the permanent schedule each time, or I can change it as I’m leaving the house and tell it to resume the normal schedule in a few hours. But I forget to do it.) Home Assistant isn’t great with that kind of one-off thing either, unfortunately, as far as I’m aware - you pretty much have to set up an automation to run.

I have a ludicrously complicated script that sets the temperature for my pellet stove, using a generic thermostat (using a zigbee temperature sensor, and a Shelly switch to control the stove).

For example, if the temperature outside is above 50 (F), set the pellet stove temperature to something really low to turn it off. Turn on below 45.

If the electric heat kicks on (from the main hvac thermostat), set the pellet stove temperature high - I want that running if the electric heat is on.

I think it aims for 72 during the day and 70 at night, or something like that.

Oh and the ceiling fan nearby kicks on if the pellet stove is running. As does a vent fan in our bedroom.

No one else has responded. I’ve had some alcohol, so this might not make much sense, but I’ll take a stab at it:

There was a user on reddit that would set up a story that was seemingly related to the topic of the post, then end it with the Hell in A Cell reference, just like this comic does. The Hell in A Cell was a reference to a fake wrestling league (on TV) where they would come up with crazy plot lines, like the one described.

Yeah that’s the other thing. Other people having money to spend would help rich people have more money, which is what they want. A rising tide lifts all boats.

I get the 3.8 lb jars for $16.99 (or less) at BJ’s. That’s $4.47/lb. The box in your link is $6.03/lb.

Mitch is still occupying that seat and votes, Weekend at Bernie’s style.

That might be what they were thinking, no need for a hub.

Yeah that’s not the issue, that’s what I was talking about in my comment. My issue is different.

I remember, when I was first networking my home computers in 1998 or whatever, someone telling me that coax with the BNC connector wiring was superior to RJ45 with twisted pair cables.

And at that time, it might have been, somehow, but even if that were true: It wasn’t hard to see into the near future and realize that twisted pair was where the tech was going, and investing in coax at that point was going to be a waste of money.

I had forgotten about that one.

Slashdot was really something. I guess it still is, technically they are still a going concern. But long before things like reddit, Facebook, Myspace, etc.

5 digit UID here. I spent many hours browsing /…

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Yeah, exactly how I read it, too.

I had that experience, too. Then, some years back, I just stopped having issues with audio in Linux, it Just Worked.

But, maybe a year ago, my desktop machine started this thing where there is noise when the audio driver is active (I’m guessing, I don’t really know). That is, if the system plays a sound, for some seconds after that, I’ll hear noise from the speakers. Then it cuts off, until the next sound is played.

I’ve done some searching on the issue, without useful results, everything is about the power saving setting, which has had no effect for me. And the issue those people are having is different than mine, and I haven’t hit on quite the right search terms to distinguish.