Aren’t they sorta being boycotted of a sort anyway?

I’m not a g*mer but it’s my understanding the things don’t sell worth a rip, the games that were exclusive are no longer or are in the process of no longer being exclusive. Their naming schema is garbage too.

Replace it.

No need for a scene, no need to be perceived as an ass. Just replace it.

you guys

I sure as fuck didn’t elect anyone.

Winona’s Betty’s Big Brown Beaver

That’s a dead on description.

It has bridged a few times. The brine tank sits behind bollards so it requires pumps and sometimes removing the bollards and getting our skidsteer to hoist it up.

I’m late to reply but I feel the same. I do a LOT of work in high end homes. And it is such a good reinforcement of the outlook I hold.

Lol no. That is/was me. feinsteins ghost.

lol

More or less, yeah that’s right. You can fiddle with the backwash settings, prolong them so you backwash less often but the trade off is more wear on the power head components, more wear on the resin in the tank, but I dunno if the decreased life of the equipment is worth the cost, despite it all.

They do. Some are a little north or south of 3:1, but a very good rule of thumb is 3x whatever the resin tanks water capacity.

Typical all in one units like the grey/black plastic tank where you add salt, with the smaller fiberglass tank inside only hold about 10 gallons of water in the resin tank so come backwash time, it’s about 30 gallons.

I have no problem with an icemaker, or someone possessing an icemaker. They’re built in to all modern refrigerators, and quite nice compact countertop models exist. Those are perfectly fine.

But these two people have the capability of producing about 650lbs of ice daily. One of the units is a commercial one you’d find in a mid sized restaurant.

One of the RO monitoring valves I installed is hooked up to a jockey pump with a 200ish gallon tank, just for a spot free rinse for their car. Excess for the sake of excess.

That’s also, just at the house they have in this city they also possess a home in San Antonio Tx, Denver and Vail Co, San Fran, and somewhere in New England so I assume they have similar systems at all of their homes. The waste these two humans create is criminal.

Two under cabinet Scotsman nugget ice makers. Two under cabinet Subzero models, one commercial sized Manitowoc NXT Indigo capable of producing nearly 500lbs of ice daily.

For two human beings.

The thing is, it isn’t even “used” per se, it just goes down the drain as mineral laden backwash. 800 gallons (or nearly enough for me to call it that comfortably) is just washed down the drain. Every day. Approx 16-18 gallons every hour. 24 hours a day.

That doesn’t include the two salt based water softener systems tied in to the two 2" domestic feeds. Those are in 350 gallon resin tanks and takes about 1,100 gallons for each backwash cycle. Granted they only backwash once a week but yet again, another 8,000 gallons monthly, just to backwash. (Resin tanks take roughly 3x their capacity to clean)

It’s absurdly infuriating. In a just system, people who do this would be made an example of.

Exactly right. It is all going down the drain. None of it is recaptured for any sort of use, even though it could be captured in a grey water system as I have my WSPS (water supply protection specialist cert allows grey water design and use).

Absolutely wasteful. Likely not outright intentional, probably just indifferent but the end result is the same. Thousands of wasted gallons.

They don’t. It is a married couple, in their 60s.

The icemakers aren’t the type with a cold box, to help keep the ice frozen and waste less. They are the type that constantly replenishes into an insulated box, but the box does not get cold itself.

I am certified for greywater collection and use. They were offered options for it, including irrigation as my license allows for it. They specifically declined. Their proximity to salt water precludes any sort of well system or ground water use, and the general groundwater is brackish (salt laden)

It’s not a significant name to anything but me. It is arbitrary. I appreciate the concern.

We are grist for the mill, comrade.

16gb phones disappearing and being replaced by phones with half to one quarter the current RAM.

Without some major fucking optimization this is going to be a shitshow.