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Cake day: July 15th, 2025

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  • Heat pumps move heat. In the summer, it’s pulling heat from inside and moving it outside and the opposite of that in the winter.

    Basically, the temperature differential is what makes the difference. The larger the differential, the more energy it has to use.

    In the winter, when it’s 30 degrees (F) outside, and you want it to be 70 inside, that’s 40 degrees it has to move. In the summer when it’s 90 degrees outside, and you want it at 70 inside, that’s only 20 degrees.

    Air source heat pumps, as the name implies, pull heat from (and exhaust heat to) the ambient air. When it’s really cold in the winter, there’s less ambient heat to move inside, so it has to run longer. Some (all?) heat pumps also have an auxiliary resistive heating element to make up the difference which lowers efficiency quite a bit.

    Granted, newer heat pumps can work well down to lower temperatures without having to engage the aux heat than the older ones I’m familiar with, but in a nutshell, that’s why they can potentially use less energy in the summer.








  • But you mentioned the colour correction is set to grey scale, isn’t that exactly what you want from reading mode?

    I honestly don’t know. Maybe? I’d need to try with another Android 14 phone (which I don’t have handy right now) to see.

    When I took a screenshot on the Minimal and emailed it to myself (to view on my laptop), the screenshot was in color.

    On my OP3 on Lineage 16/Android 9, with “Reading mode” enabled, the screenshot was in black and white.

    A number of things could be different, but that’s all I’ve been able to test at present.

    It’s also possible to set your display to grey scale in the settings for “modes” so you could create your own mode there called reading mode and change the display settings for that custom mode.

    Either I don’t have that option or it’s buried under a different name/menu path.