GreatAlbatross @ GreatAlbatross @feddit.uk

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100% agree on this. The societal backstops get underpaid, then every other resource gets gutted, and every social problem comes crashing down on them.
Honestly, I'd consider teaching, and probably wouldn't even mind doing the pastoral side of things, if it just paid OK, and wasn't treated like "wow, you get to teach? And you get 6 weeks off in summer? Lucky!"

Helpfully, because bitcoin gets all the traderbro attention, monero has actually ended up being (relatively) stable because it has more of a purpose.

Or from the sounds of it, doing things more efficiently.
Fewer cycles required, less hardware required.

Maybe this was an inevitability, if you cut off access to the fast hardware, you create a natural advantage for more efficient systems.

Very nice! I'll have to take a look at this.

So far, I've only done some things with variable heating targets, boosting if one room falls behind, and minor adjustments on presence detection.

Smiths own a lot of their commercial property, so they can often hang on to a location when other stores on lease agreements might have closed up.

It's been talked about for a while, when the vulture capital firms would eventually be in to squeeze all that real estate juice into billionaire pockets.

Do teams photos even show to external orgs?

I am a creator!

For me, the price difference between chain pub food and nice resturant food is now too small as a percentage.
If I'm going out, and the choice is £20 a head in a half decent local restaurant, or £17.50 for something mediocre in a pub full of sports fans, it's not a hard decision.

Same as happened with a lot of the fast food places: When you're approaching "proper food" money, people will spend a couple of quid extra for something nicer.

My local does decent cheap food, and does well because of it. (And in this comparison, it's the £12.50 option)

The ninjas will get you.

It also gives you a retreat space if you'd like to stay, but want half an hour to yourself midway through.

I think Brum lives in the Cotswolds.
CT would never make it there, too many A roads.

The UK trots out legislation like this every few years.
So far, it's not gone through.
However, to paraphrase a parasomething, "You have to defeat the proposal every time, we just have to make it law once"

Always nice to have a silver lining!
I really don't want to think about a 10 year future where everyone has to go through this.

The bioaccumilation of PFAS in mortal blood is concerning for me and my colleagues.
It would be very sad to live for 600 years, only to be killed off by fire suppressant.

IIRC, the owner chose to support brexit because it might mean the UK implemented minimum alcohol pricing sooner, which might have increased his trade when the gap between supermarket and pub drinking got smaller.
It really rubbed me the wrong way that was his reason.

Spoons and BD have been on my "do not drink at" list for a while.
This underlines the BD one for me.

What's the pricing like on these normally?

It does look a lot more solid, and less nickable!

A very quick glance at the internet put it around £700 for their home one, a fair chunk more than the Reolink one (£70 ish when I last looked).

Also a high probability they have a 3D printer and are super excited for something useful to do with it.

This is roughly what we have in the UK.

For electricity, the standing charge is 61.6p/day, then 23.3p/kWh.
And gas is 29.6p/day, then 6.1p/kWh. (The numbers vary, and you can choose to lock rates for the duration of a contract).

There has been some discussion of it in recent years (after it doubled, thanks Putin).
Whether it is fair for people using less energy...But in reality, everyone has similar 100 or 60A connections to the grid.
There are tarrifs for very low users, where the standing charge is combined with the first kWh.

Once I'm off the gas boiler, and on a heat pump, I may get my gas disconnected to save the standing charge.

On a tangent, as you may be interested, we now have the option of flexible electricity pricing that tracks the wholesale rates for the day. Usually, it's cheaper, sometimes even negative. Link.
However, this week there has been a lot of expensive energy, so it's been butting up against the £1/kWh limit!

"How do I get this working in 22.04?"

"Previous question answers this." Tagged as best answer

"No, the previous question answers it with a method that was removed in 22.04"

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