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I remember being frustrated by the lack of communication. The sysadmin was then talking about it on the weekly openmic hour on anonradio and that was a bit better, but the rest of the support was laconic messages on bboard when people asked about updates, and silence most of the times.
The feeling I got was that there is, understandably, a hierarchy of users, and the inner circle is overworked and sometimes struggling, but also incommunicado towards the rest the of the members. Perhaps I'm not the right kind of social person, but I tried and failed to feel at home there. Maybe I misunderstood the whole project.
I still think they are great and I kept donating to it for a while even after I stopped hanging out in com and mastodon. I will maybe try again. I have to invest more human time on it.
The resistence to cooling with AC comes from way before HP became popular and remains, somehow. Part of it is because it's perceived as a luxury (while heating is not), partly because being relatively uncommon until recently its surprising for some people and therefore the perceived cause of illnesses and malaise.
It'll go away. Because it's really vitally important, and because air/air HPs are perfect trojan horses to normalize AC cooling.
.. That being said, I had to call 3 companies in Germany before I even found one willing to sell me a air/air HP. And the cooling function has to be carefully ignored if you want it subsidized.
... But yeah, it's slop.
(Love the tv pickup story. I also thought of that, in other situations)