Unfortunately, I feel this may become the new normal.

That’s the thing, the PE firm already sold the major assets (the real estate) to themselves and leased it back to HBC. It’s their standard playbook.

Right, but once you factor in those improvement, replacement and maintenance costs, houses aren’t really an investment.

Right, they don’t consider expenses and upkeep there, but it would be quite detrimental to most people if the same would apply to principle residences.

Taxing sale profit would make things incredibly complicated. Actually determining profit would require tracking any and every expense paid as part of owning and maintaining the property, calculating depreciation of various components, etc, etc.

A reminder that cities aren’t loud, cars are loud.

An HRV tempers the incoming air with the air going out no matter the season. So, in winter, it recovers some heat from the exhaust air and exchanges it with the cold intake air, keeping heat inside.

In the summer, it’s the opposite. The exhaust air cools the hot intake air, keeping the heat outside.

It’s essentially always working for your benefit (except for one edge case that I can expand on if you’d like), always providing fresh air and exhausting stale air while helping to keep the interior temperature where desired.

I’d recommend keeping it on all the time, no matter if you open windows or not.

They’ve really had a bad reputation. Poor treatment of employees amongst the others mentioned here.

I still don’t think I’ll ever recommend TD to anyone.

A 30 year old friend of mine didn’t know about incognito mode. A certain subreddit popped up, on his projector screen, as a recommendation when we were searching for a sports stream to watch. I don’t think anyone else noticed or would really know what the sub was, but I later casually mentioned this really cool browser feature to use in case you need to search something weird.

I learned one shouldn’t assume that everyone is familiar with all the digital tricks to hide what they’d prefer others not see.

A bicycle pump or other type of air pump warms up when the air is compressed.

A spray can or propane cylinder cools off when the gas inside it is released.

Plug the two together in a loop, put some coils on either side so that heat (or lack thereof) can be easily exchanged with the space, and you have a heat pump.

A heat pump doesn’t generate heat, it just moves it using the physics of pressure and state changes of a fluid (refrigerant). Moving heat in this manner uses less electrical energy than would be used generating heat from that electricity.

Heat pumps are very common. Refrigerators would be the most ubiquitous (heat pumped from inside to outside), but there are AC units, of course, and also clothes dryers and water heaters that are available.

Yep, doesn’t make economical sense here yet. Better to put money towards air sealing and (the right kind of) insulation.

I’ve just started using linkwarden and love it as well. I chose it over Karakeep because it archives a copy of the page so it’s still accessible if the original page is modified or becomes inaccessible in the future.

a group of hopping mad local business owners claim that the lack of street parking will make shopping a nightmare for car-bound customers and will cause problems for people with mobility issues.

I’ve not known anyone to be bound to their car. Also, isn’t transit much more friendly to those with mobility issues than a car would be?

What are you using for oil? Perhaps it’s rancid. Or perhaps you have an allergy.

Well, that was an adventure.

I find you can get close to the old Bitwarden extension functionality with changing the appearance settings. I agree though, the interface change was definitely a step backward.

Organic Maps is mentioned several times in here, but just a note, the project was forked due to the closed nature of some parts of the project and profit seeking of the major shareholders, contradictory to stated values.

The fork is called CoMaps. It doesn’t look like there’s an app release quite yet, but I’d watch for it coming soon.

I heard about the Organic Maps fork but they were still looking for a name. I like that theyve gone with CoMaps. Short, easy to remember, and represents what the app stands for.

Just another day in Florida.

Yes, I meant in a way that prioritizes monetary gain. Improving property for ones own enjoyment is totally fine. Homes should not be thought of a good monetary investment vehicle, though. In fact, they usually aren’t when all costs are properly factored in.