I live in Ontario where we go down to -30C in the harshest conditions.
We have a heat pump and a furnace and they alternate based on efficiency
Somewhere around -5 to +5 C it switches from the heat pump to the furnace
I think you could get by a bit colder but it really loses out on efficiency vs burning gas unless you invest in a geothermal heat pump
If you’re using text generation webui there’s a bug where if your max new tokens is equal to your prompt truncation length it will remove all input and therefore just generate nonsense since there’s no prompt
Reduce your max new tokens and your prompt should actually get passed to the backend. This is more noticable in models with only 4k context (since a lot of people default max new tokens to 4k)