Oof. I literally know your pain.

I want to go solar so badly, and yeah, the heat pump model was toward that goal. I may still go ahead and put money aside for it (they’re like $1500+ and this gas one was $500). I could probably Craigslist the gas one and get a little bit of money back I suppose.

I just got the old one disconnected and pulled out and the new one unboxed, and thankfully everything is in the exact same spots and same sizes/threads as the old one. After I eat a quick bite, I’m gonna clean behind and around where it goes and should have the new one installed shortly after. 🤞

Yep, at least according to the images of the one I just bought so here’s hoping this goes smoothly. Hopefully the intake/output connections are the same size too. It didn’t list them and I didn’t have time to read the manual without missing the same-day delivery cutoff.

If it was a kitchen outlet, it may have been a 20A (2400 watt) circuit. Still, a kettle and space heater at the same time would still have been stressing that.

Did it show you the combined wattage or max out at 1800?

Ok, I’ll bite: What MUD, and does it still exist?

I used to play AVATAR MUD back in the day and, surprisingly, it’s still online and has active users/quests as of this writing.

What kind did you get, and do you recommend it?

My washing machine is from 1997 and is old-school mechanical all the way. No issues (yet), but I need to be prepared.

I think it’ll do the crispy crust, but depending on what you’re making, it can only prepare the dough and you’ll have to bake it in a regular oven. Its baking pan is kind of shaped like a small bucket, so everything bakes into that shape.

It’s got 18 different style recipes (or you can program your own). Right now, I’ve just made soft bread like I’d been making with the Kitchen Aid.

After I first started making bread at home, yeah, same reaction: spoilt and never looked back. Though I do keep a loaf of store bought whole wheat on hand occasionally.

Store-bought white bread is just too sweet; like a really crappy, unfrosted cake.

It’s kind of like powdered milk. I’m not sure about getting it at the grocery store (never looked) but the stuff I have is marketed as survival food. Comes in a big can and you reconstitute it with water.

It’s great for baking and seasoning (put some in a salt shaker and go to town on your popcorn; so good), but it doesn’t work like regular butter in all cases (e.g. it’s not great for sauteing).

I’m lactose intolerant, so I switched to buying powdered milk at the grocery store ages ago since the small cartons I’d buy for cooking always went bad before I used them up. Haven’t had a problem with butter going bad, but figured for baking it’d be easier to just toss the powder in with the dry ingredients like I do with the milk. Seems to work well.

Oof.

I hate winter, but it’s one redeeming quality is if I am feeling lazy or accidentally leave cold food in the car after a grocery trip, it’s no big deal.

CD-3000

Oh, you’re working on this too?

It’s been on my backburner for a while, so if there’s anything I can do to help, lemme know. My goal is to transition my instance to Piefed and port over Tesseract rather than go to Lemmy 1.0 so yeah, I’m willing to help however.

The one I bought ~8 years ago for my old house is what I’d love to find new. Everything’s mechanical on it (temp, ice/water/crushed ice selections, lighting, etc) and it “just works”.

Wish I’d have brought it with me when I moved, but the one that came with this house was only 2 years old, so figured what the hell.

On the bright side, the replacement board came in today and seems to have fixed the issues. So, at least I’m only out $80 for that.

I bought one of these from my local hardware store last year, and it’s been great. Amazon Link for Example

The instructions say to place it like 20 feet from where you suspect there’s a hive if you’re dealing with an established nest. You’ll also want it a fair bit away from where people go since it will attract them, and they don’t always go immediately into it and tend to swarm around it.

This spring, I’ve just been moving the trap around every few days to catch the queens. They’re out foraging and starting to build nests, so I rotated through the spots near to where I suspected there were nests last year.

Since I made this post, I’ve caught 3 more. Those 3 were in the same day, and it was after I moved the trap into the tree by the front porch.

Update: Got 2 more today. I was going to move it, but I’ll prob wait until I go 1-2 days with any new captures.

That was my first thought since it matched the behavior.

I took the panel off, extracted the control board, and none of the buttons appeared to be stuck. This was bypassing the button “covers” and just using the PCB buttons on the board itself (basically just hooked the bare board back to the wiring harness to test.

What makes me feel like I wasted $80 is the control board looks pristine. No visual evidence of failure, no apparent moisture damage/corrosion, etc. Still hoping that’s where the problem is because I can’t return the replacement board (unless it’s defective itself) and I haven’t the foggiest idea of how to replace the main control board (assuming I can find one). Even then, that may not be the issue (could be a dodgy wire between the panel and the main board, for example).

From what I’ve read, even Samsung repair techs basically just throw parts at it until it’s fixed or they replace it under warranty or tell you you’re out of luck. (Mine’s out of warranty)

I’ve had it on a UPS for several months because of exactly that. My power’s pretty stable, but when it’s about to go out in a storm/winds, it goes full poltergeist for 2-3 seconds, flashes rapidly, and then either goes out completely or back to normal.

Granted, it raw-dogged power for its whole life until then, so it could have had accumulated damage.

Yep. Last summer was super dry (my poor lawn lol), and had way more yellow yackets than I can ever recall. If this summer is dry, too, hoping my preventative actions will help.