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If your house design can accommodate it, have some sort of awning on the north side of your building. Not everyone can afford it, but if you can spare a couple-hundred dollars on a cheap camping Gazebo, you can stop the sun hitting the brickwork and windows and that will account for a few degrees.

I put a cheap Kings Gazebo on the north side of the house yesterday morning.

We didn’t need to put on the AC at all!

Despite the builders best efforts, our Zero Energy designed house is doing pretty well.

We have an 80th Birthday Party here this arvo with 50ish guests. I think that we may need to turn the ACs on.

My brother purchased a trade-in Focus ST really cheap while He was waiting for his company car. It was horribly uninspiring to drive.

When he got his company car (first a Ford Ranger that had uncomfortable seats, then a Ford Mustang that also had uncomfortable seats, until finally a Focus RS, which didn’t hurt his back, but were so comfortable that he couldn’t get out of them), he gave the ST it to his Wife. She said “I don’t know why anyone would have purchased this car new. Unless they didn’t take it for a test drive and and just assumed it would be as good as the RS”.

For a few months they had two cars, the fastest Focus that ever existed and the slowest Focus that ever existed.

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I was struggling to decide between the chocolate and the icecream.

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Peter’s should make their new product announcement on April First this year.

Because certain political powers in Australia think that the US model has no problem’s whatsoever.

It is how the NHS is being pushed in the UK so we need to fight against these profiteers and their mates.

Back in the old days, we had mini-USB-B , USB-A, USB-3.0 A, USB-B, USB-3.0-B, micro-USB3.0, and a dozen other semi-proprietary mini-USB-B form factors.

Before that we had all the D-Sub variants like DB-25 and DE-9 for both Serial and Parallel data transfer, DB13W3 and DE-15 for Video signal and dozens of other variants for all sorts of proprietary data formats

I was referring to the EU laws that are making USB-C charging mandatory.

Isn’t that the entire plot of the movie “Trading Places”?

…which is a Christmas movie.

The solution is a legislated minimum standard or quality.

I’m surprised that the original legislation did not provide this guarantee.

The problem is that there is no certification of new good cables. There is no guarantee that the replacement cable may be just as defective as the one you are recycling.

One good thing about the MFA program was the proprietary chip guaranteed a minimum standard of quality. Unfortunately it also resulted in a minimum cost.

#NotTheOnion Microsoft will make millions of computers obsolete and will generate thousands of tonnes of eWaste on International eWaste Day.

“Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE's 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day [1] (you cannot make these things up!)”

Pure Hydronium (H3O+) is the most acidic substance. Pure Hydroxide (OH-) is the most caustic oxidising agent.

Dihydrogen monoxide is what you get when you mix the two together.

I am inferring a difference between an algorithm that is based on simple rules, and an algorithm that is constantly being dishonestly modified for commercial, political and financial benefit.

It is “making love on a surfboard” beer.

Alternatively, you can make voluntary Superannuation contributions to lower your taxable income.

The problem is that with the Cost of Living crisis, we all need that increase in our wages and salaries to be able to survive!

The fact that comments are prioritised by simple rules, an not by some sort of monolithic ALGORITHM, keeps the discussion dynamic.

In sectarian societies, there are community centres, free library’s and non-religious community groups with public spaces.

Even in Capitalistic societies, shopping centres and shopping malls are a place for communities to grow.

The myth that Community requires Region was created by religions so they could more easily control their indoctrinated (just like capitalism).

Honestly, I think is the whole ”First Post” mindset.

When you post a reply on Mastodon, it is more intimate, the only people who see it are the original tooter and anyone who actively seeks more commentary. It is a dialogue between two people, or multiple dialogues between one person and many others.

Lemmy is more like a forum, where everyone can see all comments, right underneath the original post. It is more like an open-table discussion.

It is not that Lemmy is more social, it is just less personal.

Have you seen “Civil War” yet?