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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Swedish Navy's ships do have some bonkers designs, like massive barcodes printed on the side. It's so that when they get back to port they can scan the navy in.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Obviously they'd never be able to track down Shitpeas, because he works exclusively online and the Internet doesn't have a postcode.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

Forza Horizon 4 has an awesome open map based on several disparate areas of England and Scotland pushed together. It includes the Derwent Reservoir and damn, which drains into one of the Rivers Derwent, which leads to Derwent Water - none of which are actually connected in real life. I thought that was a neat Easter Egg.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago

In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.

Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

For all our differences we still have so much in common.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

...well, then.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

B for Biden.

Hold your applause, please.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ackshually it's "advert", not "commercial", innit.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the definitely-not-costal city to the north-west of the also-definitely-not-costal city of Chicago, right?

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

This older still initiative can help: lie down in the forest and become one with the moss.

 

The UK is currently experiencing some prolonged windy weather and my all-renewable energy provider offers dynamic pricing. That means cheap energy and even negative-cost energy. This is where my HA instance shines and saves me a fortune on my power bill. Thanks again to the HA devs for this incredible project.

For the curious, I'm using bottlecapdave's excellent Home Assistant Octopus Energy integration via HACS.

 

The apartment blocks - two of perhaps a hundred - are surrounded by open greenery, wide walkways and dense tram networks. Most of them have café bars, bookstores, grocery stores or the like on the ground level and loads of benches, play areas and exercise equipment dotted about. The place is rife with Third Places.

The remarkable thing about these is that, to the locals, they seem fairly unremarkable.

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