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by Nursie 2y ago
You can get a new battery for your iphone, you just have to pay someone to do it. Costs about 10% of the phone price.
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by Nursie 2y ago
But even that surely is less useful these days? In the west we're no longer living in a time where most people get married and then start their lives together. People often cohabit for years before marriage, and with more women worki
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by Nursie 2y ago
>> will keep their price I think this is a bit of a strong prediction. It's already been interesting to watch the rhetoric switch from "Natural ones are stronger and more pure" to "Manufactured diamonds don't
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by Nursie 2y ago
While that is a nice idea... RR cars has been a BMW subsidiary for 21 years, having been separated out from the aircraft engine manufacturing business in the 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars
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by Nursie 2y ago
Cool, that's all I needed to know, I'll be following in your footsteps at some point, thanks for taking the leap and doing all this :) Now back to connecting an orange-pi zero to the petcube cam someone bought me for Christmas. I&
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by Nursie 2y ago
See also "Wowser", the opposite side of the coin. At some point it seems the wowsers gained the upper hand. What's left of larrikinism unfortunately seems to be cooked in the head these days. Australian politics is sorely in
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by Nursie 2y ago
Hey - As the owner of a similar system I have a question for you - do you use their phone app to control your system from your phone in/out of the house, and did it still work after this?
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by Nursie 2y ago
AFAICT you need to have it connected to the internet so that their phone app can connect (presumably via cloud servers) to the control tablet and provide controls from your phone in and out of the house. Also if you want to integrate the ai
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by Nursie 2y ago
Yeah it's not like the work done by the trades is always a shining example of competence. I can and often do do a better job on things myself, because I have more time and I care about getting it right. And with the apparent trade shor
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by Nursie 2y ago
Right now we're still in warranty but you're right, it's probably a good plan to get the contingency in place before it becomes a problem.
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by Nursie 2y ago
Yeah in the UK where I spent most of my life, it seems like you do whatever you want, pretty much. Golden rule - you don't touch gas plumbing. And you don't mess with your circuit breaker board/RCDs etc. I think installing ne
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by Nursie 2y ago
The great thing about Australia is that that is probably illegal here. We've got some pretty fucked up protectionist rules about what you can and can't do in/to your own home. It's nuts. Now, nobody is actually watching
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by Nursie 2y ago
It seems like you can already integrate Home Assistant with tablet - https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/advantage_air/
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by Nursie 2y ago
Well that's getting a bookmark! We had an Advantage Air system installed last year, and the cheap, low-powered nature of the tablet was immediately obvious. Nice to know it can fairly easily be replaced with any old device or phone as
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Everyone in the colony takes care of the children of one queen. Depending on how you look at it, she is their prisoner and the only way they get to pass on a proportion of their genetic material is by looking after her kids that share
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by Nursie 2y ago
> I don't even know how to find this feed people keep talking about. You go to https://www.facebook.com That's literally it. If you don't have a suite of adblockers and extensions like FB Purity installed, you&
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by Nursie 2y ago
Over time, fewer and fewer of them post, and they post less and less. I post a lot less than I used to as well. At least in part this is because my feed is drowning in unwanted noise. Facebook's desparate attempts to wave stuff in my
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by Nursie 2y ago
I feel this about a lot of the apparent revelations that come out of LSD and other psychedelic use, particularly the revolutionary nature of psychedelics which (if only enough people would take them) would change the world, people would rea
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Can the EU for some reason not enforce its privacy laws on Uber if Uber keeps its data somewhere else? Maybe not, especially if they are separate corporate entities. Uber EU may choose to pay for operation of data storage by Uber US. U
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Can someone clarify for me why the physical location where data is stored is a big deal? Because the place where data is collected and stored may have different rules around privacy and data protection then the place it is exfiltrated
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by Nursie 2y ago
Yes, and there's a fair amount of controversy over it, particularly the noise levels - https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/ And the fact that in some time periods it seems the miners made mor
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by Nursie 2y ago
Pretty sure Bum Farto was my player name in a bunch of 90s games. Also possible Star Wars character. Is this just an experiment to gauge the puerility of HN upvoters? Because you got me.
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by Nursie 2y ago
I mean, it's not even profit hiding is it? Corporation tax is pretty openly an incentive for companies to invest in growth and people, rather than either sitting on cash or paying out to their owners. It's entirely normal and abov
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by Nursie 2y ago
I've had rum and coke with lime but I've never seen something without the lime referred to as Cuba Libre. That said, I have never been to Cuba, so what do I know?
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by Nursie 2y ago
> though it is the fake plants that are ever blooming and ever lasting. I have recently been envious of a neighbours bushes - they flowered uninterrupted for many months, all spring, summer and autumn. Fantastic sprays of cream and crims
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by Nursie 2y ago
I believe this comment violates HN's rules to assume the best intent on interlocutors. > Say GP was 20. So what? If the GP is 20 then their personal philosophy that humans should die around 40 may be informed by their feelings that
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by Nursie 2y ago
It's more that I can't see a philosophy in which people should die at around 40 surviving in a person that nears that age, because it's tantamount at that point to saying "My life isn't worth living, it provides nei
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by Nursie 2y ago
If flexibility and plasticity of thinking are age-related, couldn't prevention of ageing maintain that? I think it's inevitable that such a change would cause big social upheavals. I find it highly ironic that those people who cal
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by Nursie 2y ago
How old are you now, out of interest?
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by Nursie 2y ago
I think most people who don't want to be extend life are actually motivated by extreme fear of death. A fear so profound that they've reasoned themselves into a corner, that this way we live must be correct and cannot be questio

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