Natanox

Not saying it’s for free once set up, that would be silly. I just like fair comparisons. 🙂 I don’t concur though that it’s more expensive though.

Heavily depends where you live of course, but in Western Europe and many other “western” nations wood / lumber has become awfully expensive with no indication of it changing, so newer homes are most likely more financially efficient to use a heatpump (especially if you’re able to also afford a few solar panels). We don’t have to fear week-long outages either (even the extremely unlikely case of a national outage like in Spain is fully resolved within 3 days), so even if you don’t have some solar panels and a small battery to power the pump the likelihood of you ever needing a fire to warm up in a new building (which are well insulated) is absurdly tiny. And those pumps really don’t need a lot of power.

Given costs for lumber and regular professional cleaning and maintenance (again, depending on where you live) I’d assume a fireplace with chimney to be at least equally expensive if not more, at least in countries with no easy access to lumber and proper regulations in place (so most of the “developed” countries, assumably). If you have proper quality studies to prove me otherwise please go ahead, it’s all just opinion so far. The only ones I know are comparisons between either heatpumps and classical heating solutions, or comparisons of CO² emitions.

Makes sense if you happen to find a building with pre-existing fireplace of course (even though upkeep is still pricey depending on its construction). Face-to-face less though, adding a proper chimney during construction is also pricey and the additional income / cost-savings of PV over its lifetime will very quickly make it way superior in a direct comparison.

Comparing the initial costs of one with the upkeep costs of the other surely is a way to make a bad argument sound more sensible.

How about not living somewhere where this is even a possibility in the first place. 🥲 2 Weeks, wtf…

I’d also argue for solar panels / a small consumer wind turbine and a battery backup (which can power the heatpump) instead of architecture from the last millenia.

Depends on the usecase though. If it’s something you could reasonably lose in nature (like markers you put in the ground, small signs and such) I’d rather use pure PHA. It will degrade of course, but that’s a good thing after all. I’d rather reprint some small utilities occasionally than damaging the very nature I’m trying to foster after all.

It’s not like everything (or rather every dev) necessarily wants your money. We’re forced to monetize even our hobbies in an attempt to live a worthwhile life. It’s a cancerous system infecting everything and everyone.

To develop great FOSS software without the need of monetization is an enormous privilege.

Parts of human nature, however the systems that were made by those are now heavily clashing with other parts of our nature. The meme is correct.

Looks hardly better though…