tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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At that point it's not a tip it's a delivery charge.. just call it what it is.

But they won't because then they'd have to pay tax.. Although the taxman is going to notice sooner or later anyway..

It's an interesting point.. I do agree memorisation is (and always has been) used as more of a substitute for actual skills. It's always been a bugbear of mine that people aren't taught to problem solve, just regurgitate facts, when facts are literally at our fingertips 24/7.

Nobody trusted computers.. they were 'new'. It wasn't entirely unheard of for people to verify the output of a computer by hand, or as in your case, doing it by hand intentionally.

My first hard drive was 20 megabytes. That was considered hugely advanced.. you couldn't even boot from it, needed a boot floppy.

And beepers, and distance measurements, and a thing that lights up and says 'STOP'.

Well, few have all 3 but in general you'll get 1 or 2.

It's a lot easier to park than it was 10 years ago, but you wouldn't know it seeing pictures like this .

Here on the UK you occasionally come across someone with a 'yank tank'. Massive impractical things.. they take up more than one parking space and still poke out into the road. How in hell they get in and out of car parks is beyond me.

Luckily it's rare probably because of the sheer impracticality of them. I can barely get down my street with my large buy not stupid car.. one of those they'd have to get out and walk..

Piratebay seems to have it, probably because of this news.

I'd hate to lose the internet archive.. we need archives of stuff.. getting an old bit of hardware to work can be a nightmare when the manufacturer is gone or has deleted all reference to it . Then you find some kind soul has uploaded just what you need to the archive.

Same I rarely print . Have a brother colour laser these days (they're quite reasonably priced compared to a few years ago) and the toner isn't going to go bad through non-use like an inkjet would

Had an HP inlet a while back.. the ink dried up and blocked the head. The HP official solution was the head was nonreplaceable and you had to buy a new printer. So I did, but never would I buy HP again.

They've been trying for years and never get anywhere.

They face an issue that introducing age verification requires an ID system and whilst age verification polls well (as did earlier silly ideas like a watershed for the internet . Unfortunately, timezones exist..) ID verification polls extremely badly

So I suspect trying and failing is their holding position where they satisfy both.

Our place agreed with the landlord that if they did the legwork to find a new tenant they could teminate the lease early.

Even the smaller place (barely a cupboard) they rented afterwards to give a business address/phone is going away quite soon.. there's just no need for our company to have physical presence at all.

The unspoken bit is the reason the productivity is up so much is there isn't a manager wandering into the office and saying 'I had a great idea!'. Now they send an email, and those of us with the seniority to get away with it tell him to GTFO so by the time most people read it it's history. But the advantage of working with peoples lives can't be understated.. You can schedule your work around your life, parents can pick their kids up from school, you can have an 'off' day without feeling you have to stare uselessly at a screen for 8 hours (and, a tad more controversially, you can work whilst ill, which we've caught a few people doing.. no risk of spreading disease any more but it's not healthy).

Well the networks will try to tie people in for 36/48 months so... they kind of asked for it.

They ignored the objections to the proposal, pushed it directly into their tree and it's already live. I've had the prompt to enable it just today.

Month or so.. It isn't growing much, seems to be quite aggressive in its pruning of old stuff.

Being lemmy it's all docker, but the base OS is debian.

So.. more than threads then :p

(guessing a bit, but reports say it was 8 million at the end of july and still falling..)

Lemmy is actually quite light.. My lemmy VM is currently using only 317MB of the 1GB I've allocated it, and about half of a 16GB disk.

Obviously I'm not subscribing to every possible group there.. only a dozen or so.. but I could go a lot bigger without it becoming a problem.

TBH I'd use the celeron and get a bigger RAM stick in there (cheap), and you'll be fine for a 1 person instance.

Well.. they're only counting 'single use' plastic bags..

All supermarket plastic bags now are 'bag for life' aka. reusable (I'm not sure what was stopping people reusing the other ones, but that's the way it's done) so they don't count in the statistics.

So the statistic isn't useful - I'd like to know the real numbers (including all bags) as I expect there has been a drop, but it isn't 98%

Same in the UK. I'm looking at 20k and that's after the 5k grant. It has to come down a lot to be viable.. I just don't have that kind of cash.

How does that work then.. I get it for the portable ones, you stick the pipe out of the window, but last time I priced up a mini split it was more than twice the cost of a single room due to the installation work involved. There has to be ducting, they're not magic..

Estimated total cost of decommissioning in the UK is £120bn. But it's going to take 100 years to do it.. so yay lots of rotting radioactive buildings for the next century.

The nuclear waste storage facility cost 53bn to build, let alone run.. so way off your 'few hundred thousand a year'.