[-] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

It's fine though: They've just asked for freedom from liability. And I'm sure they're going to use that power to build a reservoir or something...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yes.

Edit: More doing a lot of DIY to bring the project into a budget I can afford.
Which means getting specialists in to do smaller things between me doing the grunt work.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

At least you've got people in to do it!

Glares at the half finished kitchen taking up my time too

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I considered this, but was forbidden: The limescale would leave it looking manky.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I priced it out of curiosity:
One way direct from LHR to Edinburgh was about £50, with an extra £40 for a second seat, and £4 for the best seats at the front.
Honestly, I'd pay an extra £4 for a good seat on a 10 hour drive.

Obviously only £50 if you are willing to gamble on your seatmate not smelling of cheese or something.

For comparison, a flight from LHR to EDI on BA is about £120 on the same day, and takes 90 mins.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you don't already, wear breathable pyjamas, and cotton bedsheet/duvet cover. And ideally, a non-synthetic duvet.
This will at least reduce the liquid sweat, by allowing it to evaporate better.

Keeping track on when it's hot/not/rainy can help get the house temperature under control.
When it gets cooler at night, you can open the windows to cool the fabric of the house down.
Then close everything up first thing in the morning, including south facing curtains.
The cooler you can get the house overnight, the more heat it can absorb the next day.

So here, I left the window open on one room, (red) and closed on another (dark blue and teal).
When the outside temperature (purple) dropped to 15 overnight, it dragged the orange room down significantly.
(Then I forgot to close the window in the morning, so it kinda got negated 😬)

Other than that, a dehumidifier may help if feeling less muggy, though it will raise the temperature of the room overall slightly, since it's going to use energy to run.
Externally run aircon is, unfortunately, the only real step beyond that. And it's a bit of a chunk of change (£500 for a basic DIY one, £1500+ for one room professionally).

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Alternative link if you wanted to change to a non GBNews source: https://scottishgrocer.co.uk/2025/06/12/mcvities-unveils-new-pink-digestives-raspberry-cream-flavour/

It's doing some weird-ass embed here too, which my ad-blocker caught:

I was expecting Garibaldis, so it's an unexpected surprise!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I think live view is how mine are configured, with a snapshot that updates every few minutes.

Then if it's clicked, the true video stream is opened.

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I would like to start using floorplans/maps with various device actions on them. This means I need locally stored images, that can be seen over the network.
I managed to upload images to HA, but as they need to be accessed with a token, I either need to refresh the token every day (no), or have an image with a long-lived token (also not a good idea).

How have other people done things?
Is it worth spinning up an http image host?
Or maybe throwing files into an nginx folder inside HA?

Thoughts on a postcard :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

This is honestly my hope. All these locations are getting a free trial of Reform competency.
In the same way Clacton are having a fun time getting in contact with their MP for surgeries.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Step 1: Put the front on.
Step 2: Don't let the front fall off.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Because it's easy to take populist pot-shots from the side, compared to defending your decisions while actually running the country at the same time.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

It might depend. If it's not the only piece of evidence being used, then even an edited photo could be used as a data point to confirm another unedited one.

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Oh my Jesus, can we just renationalise them already?

'We can only squeeze money out of this debt strangled utility if you exempt us from liability, particularly the executives in charge'

What a load of horseshit.

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As I'm currently doing a re-wire, it's a great opportunity for me to put some metering in the house.
I'm single-phase, but I plan to monitor multiple sections of the house, which are each wired for 100A independently.

I'm currently eyeing up either the Shelly Pro 3EM – 120A or the 50A.
As it will fit nicely in the consumer unit, and supports Ethernet.

I previously looked at the Aeotec clamp devices, but they seem to be difficult to find with multiple 100A connectors.

Emporia Vue was also a consideration, but I'm always a little hesitant to buy products that require custom firmware to even work properly, when others are available. And I'd also like to avoid using 2.4Ghz wifi for connectivity.

I'd love to hear any experiences people have had with similar devices, good or bad. And how the integration with HA went.

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I guess they kinda have to do this, or you'd have to keep the same person on breakfast until they retired.

I always found it a little bit comfy that BBC pipelined a lot of the flagship presenters.
Steve Wright going from Radio 1, to Radio 2 as the listeners aged, for example.

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This was very much a me mistake, so apologies from me.

The long story short, is that we were migrating the domain between accounts.

As the previous DNS records would be wiped during transfer, we made backups, and started the process.
This morning, the "approve transfer" button was lit.
A sensible person would have gone "perfect, lets get this scheduled".
Instead, I just pressed the button.

Unfortunately, when you transfer, and are keeping continuity, you should always make sure the receiving account is ready to re-apply the settings.
I didn't, and the receiving account owner was happily asleep. 100% my bad!

All sorted now (hopefully).
There might be some weirdness while DNS updates propagate through the various caches.

I think the lessons learned are pretty obvious:

  • Consider how noticeable downtime will be, and schedule with this in mind.
  • Check that your counterpart is online when transferring a domain.
  • Always schedule a maintenance window, even if you get excited when the button activates.
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Apology from me. We're moving some things around on the back end, and my non-thinking brain didn't think to check another admin was online before handing over control of a system to them.

Hopefully, feddit.uk will be back up before the end of the day, assuming nothing horrid happens.

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