Mysa thermostats - don't integrate well with Home Assistant and can't even reliably follow schedule.
Every Samsung phone I've ever owned - great hardware, but the software is a mess, especially with all of the Samsung apps that duplicate the Google apps.
Sony smart TV - was excited about running Android TV apps, but the onboard hardware is so bad that everything lags, and I actually ran out of space after installing 10-20 apps (it only has 4GB of flash storage). Also, its Ethernet adapter has a hardware bug that occasionally freezes up my entire network by spamming it with flow control frames.
I've got this running on several units and it works great. If you buy ESP32 development boards with pre-soldered pins, you can even build the boards without soldering.
Is there any documentation on what Mitsubishi's own MHK2 units can do, how well these libs replicate it, and how third-party thermostats factor into that equation?
I recently had a Mitsubishi heat pump installed, and I'm underwhelmed by the 1999-esque stock thermostat, but the vendor swore on the proverbial stack of Bibles that it was the only one that could properly run the unit as it was designed given all the proprietary control laws and so on.
The problem is, if your landlord ever comes around for inspection, or the bloody thing breaks down due to your installation attempt, you can be held liable up to and including getting evicted.
Where can you get evicted for something like that? The worst case is that they would sue your insurance for damages, or you'd have to pay them out of pocket.
I'm especially curious about which ones are earning "life-changing" money for their authors. I couldn't find an easy way to list Substack newsletters by subscriber count, though. (By revenue would be even better.)
Roughly three categories:
1. Newsletters that cost a lot of money and (claim to) deliver a lot of value, examples being any number of finance/investing newsletters.
2. Massive newsletters with broad appeal. I imagine Scott Alexander, Nate Silver, Matt Yglesias, et al., are doing very well for themselves.
3. Anyone in an industry with extremely lucrative advertising opportunities. And any closely-followed reviewer of very expensive tech products (high sales price * affiliate cut) is probably doing well too.
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You can install the microcode driver to have Linux provide the updated microcode, if you'd like. (Depending on your distro, it might already be doing it.)
I'm running Proxmox (Debain underneath really) which has a meltdown-spectre checker package available, I followed a debian guide I believe for implementing the microcode and the results are mostly in the green now.
I haven't looked into it but as far as I know I don't think I need to worry about this for the VMs but I could be wrong.
I think the big issue is the different "tuning" for each heat pump system. For example, a heat pump water heater needs a different maximum temperature than an air conditioner, and has much different cycling behavior. This leads to very different design decisions, including refrigerant choice, pressure, compressor type, whether the refrigerant loop is even serviceable, etc. (Some appliances operate at a refrigerant pressure so high that they require being fully assembled at the factory, which would be a non-starter for a manifold system like we're discussing.)
I think this might eventually become a thing once science gets us far enough that there's an "obvious" refrigerant choice for most applications, but we definitely aren't there yet. There are hundreds of different kinds that perform better or worse in different applications.
AFAIK all of the big commercial systems that do multiple different types of heat transfer use water to do it, thus bypassing the entire refrigerant selection issue. Right now the most advanced we can do is VRF ("Variable Refrigerant Flow") systems that can individually select air handlers for cooling or heating (i.e. move the heat from one room to another). These are still commercial units and not really available for residential installs.
