Pretty much. Brick is pretty good for load bearing so 50kg of water is not insane with the right hardware. Some anchors I’ve used were rated to do that with one screw, though I wouldn’t. I read your previous part as hanging from or inside of the ceiling but wall mounting should be good.

As for using heaters at all, it might not be purpose built, but it’s hard to beat free, even if they might have some quirks. The trick will be getting pressure moving in the right ways at the right time. The line coming from outside should give enough air to let water flow down easily to the cistern as long as you keep out contaminants/wildlife. A first flush and mesh should be able to manage that. And while I haven’t worked with ones like the top pair, ones like the bottom image, in grey, usually have a port at the bottom for draining/cleaning and you could cap off the cold water port, meaning you wouldn’t have to make extra holes. The hot water outlet port is usually at the top of the inner tank so it’d be fine.

The one thing I’m spotting is to remember the supply line has pressure and a very large supply, so you will have to make sure to either have a one way flow check valve or some other measure to keep it from sending water back up toward your rainwater inlet when using the piped supply or you could end up with a new pool where you don’t want it. Otherwise, very cool idea.

Because softeners have a maintenance cycle, most people want to just have one that serves the whole house rather than little ones for each appliance like some people do with water heaters. The pouch in the cistern is definitely not totally effective, but it’s a small upfront cost as opposed to the cost of plumbing in a system that costs hundreds.

As for rainwater, there are two parts there: the idea itself and the ceiling storage. I’ve been wanting to do rainwater for a long time. It’s not terribly complex, but requires a bit of money and effort to set up. It’s usually almost pure unless you live in an area with awful air quality, and if it’s only for the toilet(s) it should be fine anyway. On the other hand, the other part with the high mounted storage has to be done very carefully. Depending on your location, you would have to balance storage amount to last between rains, and as the storage gets bigger it gets extremely heavy. (A 50 gal drum of water is over 400 lbs, or ~190kg) A pump you have to service/replace every few years is way easier to deal with than trying to set up a structure to safely hold hundreds of kilos/pounds over your head in a place where leaks could mean heavy water damage to the house.

Introducing House Bill 33-29-5 a.k.a. the ‘save our children from pedophiles with cameras’ bill

Legal summary

• Prohibits filming anyone with a portfolio worth higher than $500,000
• Prohibits owning a camera without a $10,000 camera license
• Legalizes whipping the shit eating worm who took video of me visiting my mistress

You can re-putty the drain fitting for a better seal but the flex will require some kind of support or it will work itself loose again given time, even with a flexible coupling. Moving parts tend to get looser over time.

If it’s a broad drain, you could probably try to remove it, use the gap to add something underneath the pan and then close it back up? Or if the crawlspace has better access, you could try to do the same from below? You need to get a peek under the pan to know how easy/hard to fix it might be. Empty space could be fillable. Extant but soft bedding would have to be removed before adding something solid.

Game industry: Steam is a monopoly!

Customers: Yeah, but it’s because the rest of you suck.

Steam: Heheh, this is fun. Should we just sit on our laurels here and coast on this good will? Or maybe we should burn that good will by selling ad space? Nah, let’s add another feature people will actually like.

The salt doesn’t soften the water directly. If I remember correctly, it’s a resin that collects the charged particles of minerals in the water and the system is flushed with the salt to ‘reactivate’ the resin. Now that I think about it, it might be technically possible to mount a core in the cistern and then manually salt it every so often, but I’m not sure.

Edit: Looking into it for a minute, it looks doable. There are premade mesh pouches containing cation resin beads that seem to be for aquarists. If there’s a bit of acceptable loss of cistern capacity, it would be pretty easy to put one in.

Depending on your circumstances, you have options. A water softener is the strongest defense against hard water, but that’d would be a big upfront cost and a modest ongoing maintenance cost for the salt, and technically, given enough time with soft water, the minerals will leach back off the bowl walls, but that’s a long wait for not much action.

There are ‘toilet cleaner dispensers’ that can put out a dose of something with each flush, which could help in less time than the wait above, but still waiting.

Because toilets are porcelain, most more intense forms of removal are problematic. Pumice and other abrasives risk creating scratching/pitting that deposits adhere to. Mecahical attacks like scalers can chip/crack/break the glaze/porcelain, which is so much worse. If you were really desperate to escape the deposits maybe you could replace the toilet itself with a metal one and use wire brushes/scalers, or some other form of waste disposal like a composting/vacuum/incinerating toilet. I’ve been half considering going to composting toiletry just as a way to boost soil fertility, albeit slowly, but not dealing with water deposits would be a benefit in many areas.

Regarding the pressure washing, if you try it again, you might try tenting the toilet bowl with heavy plastic taped to the rim and a hole for the wand to enter, just to minimize splash.

You are WhyIHateTheInternet.

This will sound like heresy to some, but get away from the bleeding edge. You probably don’t need the absolute latest version of every little thing. It can feel cool knowing you know how to fix a borked install but actually having to do so sucks. Dump the hype and get to something stable for your daily driver. If you want to experiment, do it on another drive/machine. Building a custom rocketship is cool, but you should probably build it without breaking the truck you use to go get parts.

So… if consoles aren’t selling and PC part prices are increasing, is there going to be much market for games in a year or two?

Face ID? Has he not been paying attention? It’s pretty triival at this point to generate a picture of someone’s face.

I don’t. I want the ones who have something to contribute to a conversation to join Lemmy. I want the rest to take their meme-blasted voids where a person should be and sit in contemplation until they’re ready to join the adults.

I don’t have any way to know the kitty is real, but I know it’s cute.

It’s not that it doesn’t matter. Having a sense of reality is incredibly important. It’s simply, the further we go, the less access we all have to any sense of reality that can be transmitted by essentially any medium.

Between irony, sarcasm, Poe’s Law, human-made hoaxes, AI generated fakes, the low emotional valence of text, and the absurd pseudo-optimism of tech companies looking for the next big thing, there is no such thing as real or fake on the internet anymore.

Hence my confusion. I don’t know how to find out more about what’s going on but apparently zachtronics as a company is owned by ‘Alliance Media Holdings,’ and the DLC release coincides with the addition to the Nintendo store, so I’d guess we have the company that bought the IP hiring someone to port it to switch to get access to an untapped market segment and adding a few more levels via DLC to the PC version to kick up some buzz amongst the older players and help sales.

Nice build. I still am a bit confused, though. Didn’t Zachtronics break up?

Save the name somewhere and get him both the original and sequel as a birthday/christmas gift.

Ah, yes, because shiny graphics that require the absolute peak of expensive gaming GPUs is totally going to get people to take out a mortgage to look at the incredible post-processed details that change every time you look at them. \s

It’s a joke but that’s sort of what happened in the US during the CoViD lockdowns. People weren’t at work so they had free time to care about unions, racist policing, civil liberties, etc. Even if AI really could take over huge swathes of the work, there’s a fair likelihood of the people who lost their jobs turning data centers into war zones and then autonomous zones.