God the ramifications of this are honestly terrifying and I’m not even a US citizen.

It’s the one time where I am glad to have a slightly unusual name.

Honestly it’s so nice. I ended up buying lastname.tld so now I will always have firstname@lastname.tld even if I change provider because I can just point the domain to whatever provider I like.

Ops coworker completed a side quest

IKEA is therapy

[Insert Tom Scott Video Here]

Leah has said some dumb stuff but I think this particular separation from the GNU project was the correct decision. The dogmatic no blobs approach wasn’t working, it is better to reduce/minimise the binary blobs and support more devices imo. Don’t agree with their previous actions though.

Turner

Not entirely the case anymore. Libreboot switched to a blob reduction policy in order to support more hardware. Hopefully this will bring things forward quite a bit over the next year.

The hardest choices require the strongest wills

IT DISGUSTED ME

I’m in a similar situation. Finding a good installer is tricky. I’m in a terraced property so similar there as well because there’s very little space to install an air source pump. In an ideal world everyone would have 27mm piping but in my case I could get away with less and some better insulation. Sure it might not achieve the maximum efficiency possible but I’d hazard it’s at least a better than our current boiler.

For now though I’m probably going to stick with the boiler with an OpenTherm stat to keep it running low. I’ll try and bump up our insulation and hopefully things improve in a couple of years when the boiler gives up the ghost.

Golden dogs are best dogs

Same. I just didn’t have any use for signal after SMS removal. Yes I know SMS is insecure but I was stuck. Either you use a separate secure app and magically convince everyone else to use it whilst falling back onto a separate SMS app anyway (for those who don’t use the encrypted app). Or alternatively you just have to use a mainstream app like Google Messenger with SMS plus RCS.

At least when signal supported it I could migrate family to signal and then our communication would be encrypted and they could still message everyone else over SMS. It meant a large portion of my messages were encrypted. After SMS removal everyone I had on signal just quit so there was no one to communicate with. Trying to get people to use multiple apps was like herding cats.

Don’t know if it’s just me but the UK seems to have an involuntary fear of heat pumps despite them being far more efficient if installed correctly. Especially since we demolished all our gas storage. Can’t wait for it to become another part of the culture war they’re trying to spin this election. Something something environmentalists stealing your boiler and leaving your grandma in the cold.

I also cannot understand why we don’t promote modulating thermostats like the OpenTherm protocol more. Literally lowers your bill for the same amount of heat if you have a modern boiler.

Surely it’s still somewhat better than leaving the lid up though? Obviously not perfect but still.

I’m pretty sure the haunted Victorian pencil that is Jacob Rees-Mogg said that the UK not having universal USB-C was a “Brexit benefit”. God help us all.

This is very bittersweet living in the UK. But still obligatory fuck Apple.

Or social anxiety which is the special kind of purgatory where you constantly rethink about how you’re going to reply but don’t actually do it and the more time that passes the worse it gets…

On behalf of Britain - please don’t