GreatAlbatross

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 31 minutes ago

IIRC, the reason it wasn't previously taxed, is that it would have opened up writing off gambling losses against tax.
Don't quote me, obv.
So maybe it would need a lot of other tax law changing at the same time, to not end up encouraging people accidentally the other way.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

You'd need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only thing I can see really shifting it, is people saying they'll support trump to stay in with their communities, then making excuses why they stayed home on election day.

And if I'm honest, that's a hell of a hail mary pass.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There are some in the datahoarder community pushing a PB.
They mostly store Linux ISOs.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

z-wave may be easier than expected, as I think the devices stay linked to the hardware dongle used. (This is just from memory, mind!). But if you need to change the dongle, perhaps less fun.

imo, it will be a bit of pain to get everything inside HA, but once it's done, you'll be inside a platform that is pretty open, and commonly used, with lots of other people (hopefully) posting up solutions to problems before you encounter them!
And because it's software that will run on pretty much anything, you have the reassurance that even if something crazy happened, you could just reinstall an old version.

If it were me, I'd clear an entire weekend day, power off the old kit, and work away at getting HA controlling everything.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Because if they remaster it, they can also remaster the price.
Which is probably why they've pulled all the old versions.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I like to think of it like a passive action that helps handle the smaller amounts of moisture (humans breathing, cooking, laundry), but also an action that helps reduce the problems of acute issues that occur. That way, when something does happen, there is at least a dampening effect while the leak is fixed.
Leaks and rising damp still need to be addressed, obviously.

Examples are things like vermiculite render on the outside, Steico/Wool batts as normal insulation.

The downside is, it's expensive. The insulation is only as good as fibreglass/rockwool, and costs about 3x as much.

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

There is another thing that I sometimes talk about on here, breathability.
You either need to prevent any moisture moving in any direction, or allow vapor to move with breathable materials.
Ones that allow water vapor to move, but not liquid water.

Older buildings, where the original materials were breathable, should ideally continue to use breathable materials. This prevents issues with water wicking through one old surface, then getting trapped behind another. It also removes the risk of damaged or badly designed vapor barriers allowing things through, as the materials themselves help get the moisture out as a passive action.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're also changing the way you get money after someone buys something.

eBay balance, apparently. So by default, when a transaction happens, the money stays in eBay, and you have to manually transfer it out, instead of scheduled timed payouts.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago

I can imagine that would have gone down well with Boris' biggest fan base.

Followed swiftly by everyone else burying their faces in their palms, on both sides of the channel.

And probably everyone on the ground contracting covid during the raid for bonus "yes minister" points.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Jewish people were targeted in the Holocaust. The Nazis didn’t care about anything else.

I mean, they did target other people.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nice to see NC becoming involved with the board.

I don't run that much z-wave due to cost, but I'm all for improvements and tighter integration.
Especially since when I do want to spend money, ZW works very well.

 

Following Mr Farage's claim that he had been advised not to hold in-person surgeries by the Speaker's Office, the Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he would advise MPs to take advice from parliament's security team and "do so safely" if they asked him for advice on holding surgeries.

 

Someone looted Lush.

"Don't worry darling, I got something for you"

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