Looking at Toby, it seems to be mainly a cleaning app, it's built for stuff that gets dirty again, like vacuuming and counters. My app I made it do one thing really good and not have to much clutter. Mainly the once-a-year, easy-to-forget things like changing water filters, fuel filters, changing oil, trimming apple trees, etc. It does things Tody isn't built for, like auto-scheduling the next service the moment you finish one, only nagging you about gutters in the right season, and tracking multiple properties if you've got a rental or a cabin. So, while technically I can use my app for cleaning purposes (e.g. set every week change sheets, vacuum floor), I use it for things that happen once a year, only in certain seasons, before winter, every 3 years, etc. And I don't have to worry about the things that might be weeks or months, or years away.
I've been working on releasing an app for maintenance tracking for home. I've always had problems with having in my calendar to replace a battery in my chicken coop every year, then things come up and I end up replacing the battery a few weeks later, so I have to go and change my calendar event. Or fertilizing my hops every two weeks only in the summer. Then in the winter I am getting notified every two weeks. So I built a simple app for tracking those with floating repetition and seasonality. [0]
Also recently got a lot of home VHS tapes digitalized and always had trouble with playing from Google drive or finding the right video. So I just built a webapp this month to split the videos into clips, transcoding it for better streaming, Google casting support, and tagging for search. [1]
I built a maintenance tracking app that I can use for household/garden tasks. I had a problem where things like replacing a battery for a chicken coop, I'd be a month late on replacing it and I had it in my calendar to replace every august, so I'd be replacing it early every year. And I also had in my calendar to fertilize my hop plants every 2 weeks, which meant in January I'd get a calendar event to fertilize my hop plants.
And sometimes my wife wonders what we have to do (especially in spring) for gardening, planting, chickens, etc.
> the median distance to the nearest food store for the overall U.S. population was 0.9 miles, with 40 percent of the U.S. population living more than 1 mile from a food store. The median distance to the third-nearest food store for the overall population was 1.7 miles. When the ERS researchers looked at rural food store access, they found that the median distance to the nearest and the third-nearest food store was 3.1 miles and 6.1 miles, respectively.
While I agree that a heat pump can't work with hot water baseboard, there is an alternative.
The alternative is removing the baseboard and with a calculated heat load, replacing with panel radiators which run with much lower temperatures. The retrofit wouldn't be too difficult (compared to ducting) as it would involve running 1/2 inch PEX to each room.
With an air to water heat pump, you typically add a buffer tank that among other things helps keep preheated water warm. It is basically a hot water tank so doesn't last through the night
However for other hydronic applications such as solar water heaters there is typically a thermal storage tank which can help store heat like a battery.
Keep in mind a few things. One is some heat pumps are now operating down around -22*F. Second is geothermal is a water to water heat pump that isn't affected as much by the limitations of air temperature (but has other limitations). Third is radiant heat flooring with tubes in concrete acts as a thermal storage tank. Finally heat pumps for heating work best at low temperature hydronic water and can also be used for other applications such as DHW (domestic hot water) which needs to be at slightly higher temperatures than a buffer tank has.
Huge fan of your product. Was using a different coffee subscription that would always show up late and I'd be without coffee. The scale does work well and I've only had once or twice have coffee show up a day late.
Hmm interesting. Just looked it up. Seems to be that BPA/BPS is the problem with it. It seems like phenol free thermal paper is the answer to that issue, although there isn't a lot of information on what is used instead.
I just wrote a go program to directly write to the usb via gousb. I wrote the model of receipt printer that I used, but it's a very generic ebay receipt printer. https://github.com/moosilauke18/printodo-worker
In my case, I like the physical representation, but sometimes I only have my phone on me when I think of something. And sometimes at night I don't want to turn on a light to write something down.
I created a todo thermal printer so that I can write messages whenever I remember something. For example when I'm lying in bed and I remember that I have to do something or reading a book and think that's a great thought that I should look more into someday.
Basically I have a mobile app that I can send a message to a api. Sometimes it's just a note, sometimes it is a todo item.
Then I have a raspberry pi that polls the api for new messages and prints them onto a receipt/thermal printer on my desk. Then every morning I usually look and see if there is a todo item, or more long term item.
I haven't exactly thought of how to store the messages, but basically when the "receipt" gets to CVS level, I rip it off and store it in in a document shelf organizer. Every few months I'll go through the receipt for any long term touch items.
I live in southern Vermont and have a lot of dead ash trees. Interesting enough, while there is emerald ash borer 5 miles away from me, it hasn't made it to my property. I had a state forester who specializes in EAB come and take a look and found no evidence of it. Apparently around 2017 there was a drought that affected a lot of the ash trees near me and most have died from that. None of the trees had signs of flecking which is key and he took a look at the firewood and found no evidence. He said that if one ash tree has EAB, all ash trees around it will also be affected. And there are a few very healthy ash trees.
Even in Vermont, a lot of the rural area is conservative. Consider that ~1/3 of the population lives in the Burlington Metro area, add in a bunch of other small college towns that are more liberal and you can see why Vermont votes more liberal. Indeed the rural parts are probably more liberal than other parts of the country, but you'll still see quite a few trump signs and places the vote strictly Republican/More Conservative. Even our Governor is Republican (although rather left for a republican). Take a look at how towns voted in the last Presidential Election: https://electionarchive.vermont.gov/elections/view/82048/