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by cricalix 4y ago
You may be covering it with your second definition, but I'm not sure - there's also the option available in Ireland (and UK and elsewhere) of a wet heat pump. By that, I mean an air-source (or ground heat extracting) heat pump tha
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by cricalix 4y ago
500 Mbit/s fibre to the house. Pi4 running OpenWRT, onboard gigabit to the house, USB gigabit to the ONT. Ubiquiti PoE 8 port gigabit switch. 4 ports PoE. 3 in-wall Ubiquiti access points, PoE. Structured cabling to every room, sma
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by cricalix 4y ago
Anecdotes are not data and all that. The dishwasher in my house is a NEFF, and it has a salt compartment. Came with the house, built-in unit. So yes, some Irish houses have dishwashers with salt - sample size 1.
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by cricalix 4y ago
A slow cooker is not a pressure cooker. Slow cookers don't have pressure seals, unless you buy one of the hybrid ones (InstantPot being one example brand) that do both functions. With a slow cooker, you don't leave the hob on for
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by cricalix 4y ago
The UK put a satellite up into space, and the Treasury shut the program down the very same day. Satellite is still up there, trying to communicate. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1214197384382754816.html (or https
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by cricalix 4y ago
It may not quite count as commercial, but the EU as an entity has their own instance. European Commission and others are on it. https://social.network.europa.eu/about
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by cricalix 4y ago
That's only the web UI. The code and so on for the hardware is at https://github.com/openenergymonitor
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by cricalix 4y ago
It's a nice project - I use it at home for a very simple setup to see what my house power consumption is; shows how I can go from 5-6 kWh per day to > 9 kWh just by using the oven. Worked out how to run the emoncms aspect in a LXC c
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by cricalix 4y ago
I don't know about good, but there's modarchive.org. Pretty large and you can listen in the browser to see if you like it. I'd also say archive.org probably has some.
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by cricalix 4y ago
The pain point here is something like .home.arpa, which is nominally the recommended domain to use for home networks (not .local to avoid conflicts with mDNS IIRC). There's still no good solution if you're using a domain that&#x2
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by cricalix 4y ago
Anecdotally, I’ve been a sysadmin for 20 years, been around computers since I was a toddler (apparently slept on top of a Data General something-or-other as a baby..). I have the skills to learn how to do dnsmasq-based blocking from scratch
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by cricalix 4y ago
First image in this blog post shows the cursor as it was first(?) seen on an Alto. So, so much of our computing paradigms came from Xerox PARC. http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-r...
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by cricalix 4y ago
Also (2020) in some ways. No commits in 2 years? Is it still alive/useable, or was it an attempt that’s just kept for historical reasons?
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by cricalix 4y ago
There are ATMs in Europe that will take the card, ask for what you want to do, ask the amount if it’s a withdrawal, and then ask for the PIN and dispense it. This reduces the time between typing and dispensing. No idea if it’s a significant
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by cricalix 4y ago
VirtualBox is cross-platform; runs on Linux, Mac, Windows. Images are portable. As a sibling notes, the Windows built-in is Hyper-V. Or if you don’t like your money, VMWare.
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by cricalix 4y ago
It's a bit of a snark, but we have floating homes - they're called boats. Admittedly, they don't have sweet curved glass, panoramic views, multiple stories, and a smart watch. Reading up on these folks, it seems like the prin
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by cricalix 4y ago
In Ireland it funds RTE TV/radio. I don't consume the television and radio media that RTE produces, and thus consider the fee a grab for money they're not owed. https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0711&#x2F
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by cricalix 4y ago
Depending how much control you have over your network, you can defeat this. I have my OpenWrt router configured to block all port 53 traffic unless it comes from the PiHole or router itself. You could also do redirects with masqing I suppos
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by cricalix 4y ago
Whoa. Wonder if they’ll ship to Ireland. I can deal with smart -> neutered by not giving it Wi-Fi or Ethernet access..
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by cricalix 4y ago
I suppose technically a panel with HDMI input counts anyway these days, because external receivers put out HDMI, but I don’t know if the prosecution of the law has caught up to that.
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by cricalix 4y ago
The law basically says a panel with the capacity to receive a TV signal via integrated receiver is a TV. That means you owe a fee for the privilege of owning such a device. Simply removing the receiver circuit is not valid, since it can be
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by cricalix 4y ago
What I really want is a dumb panel with no TV receiver; this makes it a monitor, and not subject to Ireland’s TV licensing law. There are commercial panels, but the power draw on the ones I’ve seen is higher than a regular 40 inch TV. Plus,
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by cricalix 4y ago
Tailscale have a knowledgebase article on doing it - https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole/ There's probably other ways.
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by cricalix 4y ago
London Reconnections has some articles on the subject, including how the term has basically become a political football. https://www.londonreconnections.com/2021/the-political-myth-...
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by cricalix 4y ago
A timely podcast about some of this is Hot Money: Who Rules Porn. Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times. Dives into some of the history of the industry, payment processors, and so on.
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by cricalix 4y ago
You can dodge that; go to the "Explore by sectors" a bit further down, pick any. Now you can search without having to hand over an email address. But yeah, the first time I hit that "search here.. but only after you provide a
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by cricalix 4y ago
I love that Tim was able to post all the episodes of "Secret Life of...", and then continue with new ones too. I enjoyed his book ( https://www.timhunkin.com/40_rudiments_book.htm ) as a child, and still have it.
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“Legends in the Cave” Mike Dailly – Lemmings, GTA, and More (2022) [video](youtube.com)
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by cricalix 4y ago
A retrospective talk by Mike Dailly on learning programming in the Z80 era, and onward to Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Game Maker Studio and more.
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by cricalix 4y ago
Some people do, some don't. Even as a background listen, Shop Talk Live is pretty good - and they've covered the "make money from it" before. https://www.finewoodworking.com/blog/shop-talk-live

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