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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi price match at Tesco - dozens of goods not like-for-like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because this means that Aldi has better quality food than Tesco. That’s not something I would have thought before. Before, I would have just assumed Aldi was cheaper, but now I assume that Aldi is cheaper AND better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked into spray foam insulation but not only were there lots of risks, but it was more expensive than traditional warm roof insulation with PIR boards or similar. I do think people should research what they put in their own homes.

  Having said that, there is clearly some sort of regulatory gap here as not being able to mortgage your home is a very serious consequence of a relatively small and seemingly innocuous home improvement decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you’re in the UK, if so I’d recommend legit companies run by old nerds like Mythic Beasts: www.mythic-beasts.com/domains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. Works great, incredibly cheap too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your Servernames!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t name my server names, but I do name my various Zigbee sensors in Home Assistant after Egyptian gods. Atum-Ra, Tefnut, Shu, etc. I’ve avoided the ones that also coincide with Stargate gods, as I thought that would be too exciting for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leasehold charges to be capped at £250 rather than cut to zero: Report   – Mortgage Strategy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this is better than nothing.

  The real thing that cripples me as a leaseholder though is the service charges, which have doubled since I bought the place. The whole thing is a total con.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Channel 4 responds after calls to sack Rachel Riley for Sydney stabbing post⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that at least makes some sense!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Channel 4 responds after calls to sack Rachel Riley for Sydney stabbing post⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in her “apology” and longer “clarification” it’s incredibly hard to understand what her substantial point is. I bet you could give her 10 years to try to explain how the Sydney stabbing was in any serious way related to pro-Palestine marches and it still wouldn’t make sense. Does she tweet the same thing any time there is a stabbing somewhere in the world? “Oh look, a stabbing in South Korea – perfect time to tweet about intifada?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running immich, HA and Frigate on a RPi4 with Coral or on a HP Prodesk 700 g4 (Intel 8th gen)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure exactly what you’re asking but I have a Coral mini pcie with frigate and it works great. Hardly any cpu and tiny power consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly I think they are still too expensive for most people up front. It’s a lot cheaper to run if you can charge at home, but if you can’t afford the extra £5k-£10k vs an equivalent petrol car then you’re not going to buy it. New EVs in particular are overpriced IMO, whereas the used market is actually pretty good value right now. There’s just no point in spending £37k-42k on a new Kia Niro EV when you can get a 3 year old model for £15k-20k that’s just as good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my actual biggest wish, which I will never get because the administrative costs would be astronomical, is that the cost added to goods be directly tied to their recyclability (both in materials and labor) as it would incentivize building more easily recycled products by manufacturers to keep costs competitive.

  Interesting point. I guess the price of the individual product won’t be differentiated based on cost of recycling, but there will still be an incentive for retailers and therefore manufacturers to make products last longer, which might be better in the long run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But of course it’s optional? I don’t understand why it’s scandalous that they’ve put that in the middle? Did you want it in the headline?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's O2 network is blocking duckdns.org domains⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Giffgaff uses o2 and also blocks duckdns. Additionally, whatever blocklist my employer is using also blocks it, so it’s probably a common thing now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortage of EV charging points make Sunak's green goals impossible, say businesses⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely better in built up areas. I’ve never had a problem with one, even on 4+ hour journeys on motorways and A roads. From what other EV drivers say though I gather the problem is worse in the north than the south.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tv box recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried a lot of different things before settling on a old (windows) laptop with a wireless mouse and keyboard… I just cba with any of the streaming boxes anymore, and the laptop will always be compatible and performant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone know of self-hostable security cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, just sell the old phone and use the money to buy a proper camera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Key Boris Johnson aide set key WhatsApp group to auto-delete⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this as analogous to having a telephone conversation that isn’t recorded. I don’t really see a problem with that, other than whatever legal requirement there is to record and secure government communications. I doubt the obligation extends to every single discussion that takes place in the halls of government or by phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run Nextcloud and Wordpress on one low-spec server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant that if you went to Oracle instead of Linode, you could use their free services, and then spend the $5 you’re currently spending on Linode on upgrading your Oracle server instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run Nextcloud and Wordpress on one low-spec server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming he’d be using the $5 per month mentioned in the opening post to pay for some upgrade, e.g. more storage, more RAM, etc. So he’d be on a paid tier account, but using services that cost zero dollars for the most part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run Nextcloud and Wordpress on one low-spec server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you looked at Oracle free tier? They have decent specs for free, meaning you can use your $5 to upgrade where you need it once you’ve tried it out.

  Having said that those specs should be fine for a single user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it seems obvious that this is designed to preemptively avoid Tory campaign leaflets in the heartlands with scare stories about Labour being bad for rural communities etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly that’s even more insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that following the Roman departure from Britain (410 CE), systematic construction of paved highways in the UK did not resume until the early 18th century⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, spent far too long this morning looking all the modern roads up on OSM and following them along going “wow look how straight it is!”