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    rmuk ,

    Only if your computer's manufacturer paid for it.

    rmuk ,

    It's like saying "prove you don't own a poodle". How do you prove that? I can tell you I don't own a poodle... but how can you be sure?

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    rmuk ,

    Man, that doesn't sound like a sentiment made with brand conscientiousness in mind.

    rmuk ,

    I've seen things. I've seen them with my eyes.

    rmuk ,

    It's advertised as something like a Chinese version Cirque de Soleil, but it's actually propaganda from a far-right cult that claims they're being persecuted because people just won't stop being gay, or listening to women, or believing in evolution or using modern medicine... Not even joking.

    rmuk ,

    Amen. Monitors, digital signage and, as you said, business projectors are the way. CEC, auto input switching and ARC are all the smarts I want in a TV.

    rmuk ,

    Yeah, there's still plenty of places where AirBnB is competitive. When I'm in cities in France and Germany an apartment tends to cost about the same as a hotel room. Outside of cities hotels tend to cost a lot more.

    [OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? (lemmy.world)

    Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third...

    rmuk ,

    Y'see, I would have said "parrots ate 'em all". It still works.

    rmuk ,

    Scrub-a-lubba-tub-tub!

    rmuk ,

    The UK government is still trying and has been very open about their contempt for objective oversight foreigners.

    rmuk ,

    Consider a refurbished USFF business PC.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=usff+pc

    A unit from any major brand will be good and there are i5/8gb units available for well under £100 that will happily shunt 4K video about. Plus they have the advantage of coming in a nice case, lots of ports, included storage, etc...

    rmuk ,

    I used Kodi with a Jellyfin plugin for media center duties.

    rmuk ,

    TIL there are colour-coded helmets on worksites. Makes sense, I suppose. If you need a first aider or something it's probably easier to look for a particular colour helmet than just Jim.

    rmuk ,

    Is that Oatly?

    Fuck Oatly.

    And Fuck Fuck Oatly.

    rmuk ,

    Ah, you got me. Luckily I know a website you might like...

    rmuk ,

    I should try making my own, it's presumably just a case of soaking oats in water? I guess? Also, Aldi's oat milk is really good.

    rmuk ,

    RTO?

    Rollercoaster... Tycoon... On... line...?

    Rollercoaster Tycoon Online?

    We're getting Rollercoaster Tycoon Online!?

    rmuk ,

    Oh, well, that's less fun.

    rmuk ,

    E2EE, unlimited attachment sizes, rich formatting, read/delivered notifications, reactions, group chat, stickers, a third-party app integration, stuff I'm forgetting about, and all part of the standard Messaging app.

    rmuk ,

    One of my greatest skills is that I can convince a non-French speaker that I'm fluent in French - down to inflections and slang - by slurring a sentence of semi-random phonemes in an appropriately Gaelic-sounding way.

    Uuuuhhh... C'in ueone du pas se lumbranhéu dol se né frunitigier au Brenlibop aux, uuuuhhh... <waves hand vaguely> frie somién parlesonophe, non?

    rmuk ,

    Are those sideburns or part of his peaked cap?

    rmuk ,

    Take a look at FRIEFUNK, a cooperative mesh WiFi network covering a number of cities in Germany. They primarily use firewalls running OpenWRT with the mesh handled by the amazing BATMAN project, which presents a standard network interface for IP traffic to run over. I'd love to live in a city where this kind of thing is possible.

    rmuk ,

    "Invisible bat people", I thought.

    rmuk ,

    I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here, but Nokia was a general tech company doing this sort of thing long before their handset business took off. They were known for phones the same way IBM was for laptops but that was almost a distraction from their core business.

    HMD, the company that now makes Nokia-branded phones, is Finnish. Not only that, HMD is literally the same division that Nokia sold off to Microsoft, then MS spun off as a separate company and still has a lot of the same senior staff. The people making Nokia phones in 2024 are the same people who made them in 2004.

    rmuk ,

    Nokia is a proponent of OpenRAN and associated technologies, which are open, vendor-agnostic standards for phone networks backend kit as opposed to the very, very proprietary systems of yore; I'd say on the basis that it should be easier to tell if an OpenRAN box is leaky. Obviously that requires vigilance on the part of the operator so, yeah, fuck knows, but it's harder for OpenRAN kit to lie.

    As an aside, most countries have Lawful Intercept laws. Part of these laws require that the network kit has a standard physical port that gives full, unrestricted and - scarily - unlogged access to everything they handle for use by your government's intelligence agencies.

    rmuk ,

    Oh, boy, story time!

    One of the first manufacturers to include asymmetric encryption as a standard component of their engine immobiliser across all their cars, at least in the UK, was Fiat in the 1990s. But they faced a quandary: once they keys were encoded with the appropriate codes, what should Fiat do with the codes? If they kept a copy it would be an expensive project and charging customers to access them every time they wanted a new key cutting would be terrible PR. They could gimp the security so you could just clone a key, but then it would be very easy to sidestep the encryption.

    The solution they came with was pretty clever: in addition to the standard pair of blue keys the car came with, there was also The Big Red Key. The Big Red Key contained a code that could be used to program other keys or to change any of the parts of the engine that were part of the ECU without having to involve Fiat at all if that's what you wanted. The customer was given an advanced security system without being beholden to the manufacturer. The Big Red Key was comically oversized, and it came with a sticker, fob and in a bag all with clear warnings to the effect: "Do not use this key. If you lose it your car is ten kinds of fucked. Do not use this key. Keep it secret, keep it safe."

    So what happened? People happened. A small mibority of people saw The Big Red Key and insisted on using it as their day-to-day key, but it wasn't as hard wearing as the blue keys (hard plastic instead of silicone) so it would crush or crack and, of course, people would lose them. Then when they needed a new key or needed work doing on some easily-stealable components that the ECU would validate they didn't have their The Big Red Key, so they'd need the ECU security module wiping or replacing - which was expensive, over £1000 if I remember right.

    Naturally the shitty tabloids got hold of it and every week The Daily Mail and The Sun were full of stories of Innocent British Motorist™ Conned™ By Foreigners™. "If Mandy Pleb had known how evil Fiat were she'd have bought a Rover," they'd moan, and Fiat had a real PR disaster on their hands, despite bringing a quality security technology to market, including it as standard and resisting the temptation to profiteer off it.

    So they gimped the security. Future Fiats didn't have a The Big Red Key. You got your blue keys which were dumbed down and, at least for a time, went back to inferior symmetric encryption to the detriment of the overwhelming majority, but at least a handful a prats were saved from themselves and the power of tabloids to change the world for the worse went unchallenged.

    In short, fuck tabloids.

    rmuk ,

    Honestly aside from #6 and the bedbugs bit (pun intended), you're describing every city I've ever been to.

    rmuk ,

    "Do you like me? Reply YES or NO. To opt out of future advances text OPT OUT to 84033. This message was sent from A Crush at no cost, but your network may charge you for SMS services. Please check with your network provider for more information about charges for intra-classroom messaging.

    rmuk ,

    Satisfactory?

    rmuk ,

    ...yet.

    rmuk ,

    Honestly any parts you buy today probably won't be much good in 30 years.

    rmuk ,

    Depends. How smart is Leo?

    rmuk ,

    Did you know the world naïve is written backwards on your water bottle?

    rmuk ,

    One in each hand, swung forward to meet either side of your enemy's head. A simple gesture that sends a powerful message.

    rmuk ,

    Not only is HMD Global not Chinese, they're actually the same Finnish company that people think of as "Nokia". Nokia do a lot more than just phones and they sold their mobile phone arm to Microsoft, who then spun it off as it's own company called HMD who licensed the Nokia name.

    If you want to buy from a European brand, HMD/Nokia are worth considering.

    rmuk , (edited )

    Also, Nintendo is from Japan which is natively called Nippon which translates as "Sunshine Town".

    rmuk ,

    And coming soon our new expansions: Archers Wood Street, Terrace, Boulevard, Crescent, Mews, Brow, Parkway, Place and Square.

    rmuk ,

    😩

    rmuk ,

    dictatorship or an undeveloped country

    Right-Wing Government: why not both?

    Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)

    Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...

    rmuk ,

    I'd like to fine you at least €20/hour for typing with your fucking toes.

    rmuk ,

    Three HP ProLiant servers running ProxMox cluster. Each box has a VM for Portaiber, as well as mismatch of VMs running Home Assistant OS, OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Windows and Debian, along with a Windows file server that connectes to four cheap NAS running Ubuntu LTS with a combined 20 mismatched hard drives by iSCSI and borgs them together with Storage Spaces.

    It's a fucking mess, if I'm honest.

    https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/4790202e-dfd6-4717-bbeb-08495165541b.jpeg

    rmuk ,

    I buy from Bezoco maybe once or twice a year, if I really can't find something anywhere else, and they always, always offer a free Prime trial.

    If you don't know this already: you can cancel the Prime trial immediately and still get the full 30 days (or week or whatever) out of it.

    rmuk ,

    Okay, so, yeah. "Righty tighty" never worked for me but you know what did? Turning Clockwise would eventually make the screwhead block up against the wood. "Clockwise, blockwise".

    rmuk ,

    Have you ever read that Wikipedia article, Timeline of the Far Future? "Median half-life of the ThinkPad X220" is listed between "The Sun reaches the top of the red-giant branch of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram" and "the Moon spirals below Earth's Roche limit, breaking into a ring of debris".

    rmuk OP ,

    massively overcomplicating things

    ...you say? 🤔

    rmuk OP ,

    Thanks, I gave that a go and it actually came up pretty close to the numbers I already had (after converting BTU to kWh anyway) so that was a useful sanity check, thanks!

    rmuk OP ,

    Thanks, I already suspected I would need to get Excel involved and this confirm it! The window thing you mentioned is very real - my place has single-pane 2×3m windows everywhere; their insulative properties are basically negligible.

    Once I've got a reasonable set of estimates going I'll probably push the calculations into a Helper to produce daily numbers automagically. If it works reasonably I'll post an update on here. Thanks again!

    rmuk OP ,

    Thanks for your response.

    Why not just use standard thermostat functionality: set the target temp a bit higher when rates are low and a bit lower when rates are high.

    That was my original idea and it actually works pretty well, but since the cost of power spends most of the day at industry average rates electric heating gets pretty expensive which is really what I'm trying to minimise.

    One thing you don’t mention is whether you have any way to store heat

    I don't, but I really, really wish I did. The place I'm in is rented so I'm loathe to make big changes like installing storage heaters (installing relays in the walls behind the current radiators doesn't count, shush) but I had old-fashioned, 1980s storage heaters exactly as you described in my old place and I loved them for the exact reasons you described. They weren't active with a fan, but even just having a very heavy, very hot thing in the corner of the room was enough to maintain the temperature and given my electric rates regularly get below 5p/kWh and sometimes even go negative overnight my heating bill was basically negligible. Consider me a member of Team Storage Heaters.

    As you suggested, what I'm trying to do is turn my walls, floors and furniture into the thermal mass of a storage heater, by making them toasty when it's cheap in the hope they'll keep the room slightly warmer when it's expensive.

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