tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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Or Fedilab..

Hmm..

"last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs"

So.. they simply switched to UBlock Origin?

So now you have to do that every time you install a flatpak.

Or just stick to a normal package manager, that does all that for you.

Used it once.. it's as annoying as shit since you can't just run apps you have to type 'flatpack run org.mozilla.firefox' instead of just typing 'firefox' (and I had to google that because I just can't remember the sequence). Also for some reason it's slow.. as you mentioned a 1 second delay before anything works. I can't see myself using it again.

Cancellation must be provided in writing at least 180 days before the end of the contract.

I can't see the value in using youtube for music.. it's not like I can watch music videos in my car. That's worth $0 to me, and I imagine the majority. Spotify is better.. or apple music if you're on the fruit side.

Yeah, no.. it's already overpriced.

Paramount + £6.99 Netflix £10.99 (standard) Youtube £12

Makes no sense.. they don't have anything like the production overheads. Stuff like Star Trek and Stranger Things are expensive. '10 greatest cat videos' is not.

And cloudflare controls the connectivity.. luckily they're not (yet) evil and are happy just to provide infrastructure.

A 1kw heater (less, given they're all heat pumps these days) isn't doing squat to the range compared to an 80kw motor.

A gas car has to idle its engine to get heat. It's burning fuel constantly.. that's why you frequently see broken down gas cars in heavy traffic.

Bah.. NCSA Mosaic FTW.

So companies are people when it's convenient for them to be so, and 'just a business' when it isn't.

The system is broken. Wipe it and start again. I could imagine a system with no configured root but root only is just a security nightmare and not worth using as a starting point.

I really hope that machine isn't exposed to the internet..

In theory a root application can drop capabilities when it starts up and remain root pid, but it's not that common.. it's used for certain system apps that require root to increase security. It is not a replacement for unprivileged users.

Same here, chrome and ublock origin.. did nothing special at all, never seen any of these popups.

I assume it's a slow rollout and we've both been lucky.

I've still yet to see it.. not even had to do any of those things. Something about my setup I guess neutralises it.

Yeah it's a bit shitty right now.. I applied.. 2k with the 7.5k grant (so the bare cost is 9.5k!). Not cost effective but.. wanted to do my bit.

However, I couldn't go ahead, it just didn't make sense.

To get the grant all rooms must be heated, and the cost of required adaptation of my bathroom to add a radiator of the required size was somewhat eyewatering..
\ Heat pumps must not cool, otherwise they're not eligible, so I'm still on the hook for AC at some point (given how hot it's getting) which is stupid given they're basically the same tech.
\ Planning rules state that heat pumps are only permitted development within a very specific set of conditions, and because of the noise they make I would have to get planning permission at my own expense (and my neighbours already complain if we talk too loud so likelihood of actually getting it very low).

And, specific to the installer I was using (Octopus)..

They wanted to install a 1mx1m water tank. That won't fit in the airing cupboard (not even close) so they suggested the kitchen... making it difficult or impossible to open the back door..
\ Their heat pump (daikin) is about 2m wide. My house is only 7.5m wide, you take off 1m each side for the legal thing where heat pumps have to be 1m from the neighbours boundary, space for the door, some drainage.. the only position they could suggest was the middle of the back yard..

I'm the same.. I setup a VM but it was so much work just to setup a basic machine with ssh I gave up on it.. I'm also no sure moving all the config out of /etc into a script is scaleable at all. I get that by copying the script from one machine to another you can duplicate configs.. but we already have ansible for that.

What I've read looks good but it's going to need a track record of reliability before I'd trust it.

My first and third vaccine knocked me out for 2 days at a time.. unable to even get out of bed.

Second one, after I'd booked time off work deliberately so I wouldn't surprise anyone by not being there, I had no issues at all...