How do you connect it to your existing hot water system though? Already got a heat pump too, when you have the most sun the heat pump barely uses any power for hot water and don’t need much.

I have wondered about solar/fire heated pool or hot tub, but that is adding energy demands in the first place. That said with the heat lately a cold pool could be nice. Can get 5000L for just under £100, 3-4m wide. Heating it could make it usable into autumn though.

Every live OS I have ever run can see physical drives if they exist, sounds very odd to not be able to see it from there and yet grub loads.

If grub loads can you boot a recovery image from there? Are you sure grub isn’t installed anywhere else too

If they don’t see the drive at all it’s fucked. If they see the drive but not partition I normally use testdisk to try and recover the partitions, photorec to look for files if that doesn’t work and it’s not encrypted.

If it isn’t visible at all then you are looking at drive repair, if you are asking this question that probably isn’t something to attempt. Try another set of cables and port just in case that is the issue though.

Hey, wanna join me on my illegal Minecraft server?

TIL Sid Meier’s Pirates was released on Wii.

My PC certainly doesn’t.

Aren’t old games pretty small though? It’s new ones that you may need a huge volume to store many of them. Depends how much we are talking of course. 2TB or 50TB?

Well let’s start with how much you need.

Then we can all cry. Currently looking at replacing HDDs with SSDs and significantly cutting down on my data storage requirements - basically uninstalling all those games I haven’t played in a long time and probably won’t. Plus it’s easier to avoid getting sucked into playing ESO and wasting money on it if it’s behind a 100+ GB download. Majority of games I actually play are under 5GB so I could go pretty heavy. Couple second hand 512GB SSDs perhaps? Under £100…

I don’t use them, work me uses them and I am getting paid in that case so who cares that it’s terrible

After walking through CEX on the weekend I don’t know if you will beat second hand laptop pricing. The significantly higher availability of laptops seems to make them prices that just can’t be beaten.

Unless you can get away running a pi zero of course. Sorta tempted to get one but not sure how much I could get it to do. Would do data storage just fine, depending on how much space you need.

And the result of those shit tools is their problem.

You want my camera to verify me? Fuck right off.

That is a problem for my employer rather than me.

If you are using it as an emotional dildo/fleshlight, sure go ahead. If you think you are in love with it then you need help.

Cyberbully the clanker until it uninstalls it’s self

You don’t have to use electron crapps.

Tell* it to fuck off

I wonder how it will compare over time, will the overall performance you can get per hour of labour in wages go up or down?

If a high end PC costs twice as much, wages only go up 50%, but high end PCs are twice as powerful. You are still getting more performance for your work. But if performance and wages barely change while costs rise significantly, now performance for labour has actually dropped. Generally more interested in how it compares over longer time frames rather than month to month spikes.

I remember it quite a bit before Trump but yeah, and then kinda seeing it progress into more and more pro Trump stuff.

So TLDR is you are cooling the hot side of it with water and then that water goes through the pipes underground. As its even hotter you are going to lose more temp to the ground - realistically you wouldn’t even have to go as deep for something like this surely? Though you do want a decent surface area for all the pipe.

I did have this sort of thought a while back, but I was thinking of getting a water source heat pump instead and found not many options. Modifying a cheap unit may not be too hard, shitloads of silicone and some boards around as much of the hot part as possible.