speeding_slug

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[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From personal experience in Europe, I can tell you that it sounds great in theory, but it's horrible in practise. I get routinely blinded by headlights here and I feel like it has only gotten worse with the advent of LED headlights.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

I run a similar setup, but with syncthing as the syncing system. Every time I connect the phone to the charger it just syncs the database and I can even sync it outside the home network. Works like a charm. Worst case you get a sync conflict which is easy to solve.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It already exists, even as a Docker. Not as simple as an *arr style interface, but it works great one you set it up.

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[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. I absolutely love the fact that I can just turn it off after office hours and throw it in a corner during holidays and weekends. Sure, it's a bit cumbersome to take two phones with you, but it's also cumbersome to take the laptop and everything with you all the time. Just put it in the same bag and you're good. Good to note, my employer provides me with a phone, so I didn't need to buy a second one. It also means that if I switch jobs, I just return the phone and still have my personal device.

But if it doesn't work for you, by all means, don't do it. For me the good outweighs the bad.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago

To not even consider the consequences of deploying systems that may farm your company data in order to train their models "to better serve you". Like, what the hell guys?

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Oh don't worry. If you try to deposit it at a bank, they'll start asking questions right away on how you got the money. Unless you never bring it into the "official" system, the financial surveillance system will find it.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In my experience, charities try to get you on a recurrent donation nowadays instead of taking cash or transfers (although I am in the Netherlands, not Belgium). It's terribly annoying because they take the "being lazy and forget about it" and weaponise it against you.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

That I agree with. The specifics of how they build are not suitable to places like Norway (or most of Europe for that matter). That does not mean one cannot look at the concepts and apply them such that it makes sense in the context though. Many buildings in for example the Netherlands (where I live) are mainly built for keeping the heat in nowadays and overheat in the summer. Especially housing stock built from the 80s through the 2000s have overheating problems with the changing climate. This is mainly due to lack of window shading and night ventilation options. And instead of seeing a move towards shading, you see a move towards airconditioning instead, which is generally not needed if you design a building properly.

I thought you were against implementing the concepts and did not expect you to interpret the suggestion literally (aka, to build Moroccan style homes in Norway).

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That's why you make it so that you can do passive cooling in summer but don't do that in winter. There are quite a few solutions that essentially boil down to opening windows during the night while keeping people, water and insects out.

It's often called night cooling or night flushing. See for example this company explaining it.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nowadays I just roll my Linux installation back to before the updates using the BTRFS integration with the package manager. It works great and I'm never at a point where I can't use my computer because updates broke it. Heck, even if I bork it myself it's no biggie.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I use them as well. Cheap, reliable and easy to use. I only had trouble once, where I was caught in some sort of anti-spam measure and they blocked my account. An email to their support fixed the problem pretty quickly though.

One thing to look out for is to determine where you want your backups. You can't change your account's server location after you create your account afaik.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Slowly? It's already dead in most parts of the country, save for the bigger cities. For example, where I live, I can take a bus between 6am and 6pm, once an hour. Most people wouldn't be able to get home using public transport. The city has no bus lines in the city itself that aren't volunteer run.

Luckily the bike infrastructure is pretty good, otherwise it would've been a car dependent hell.

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