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MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•How do you feel about Tom Scott going on hiatus after 10 years?English
11·2 years agoTom Scott has been in my life for the best part of 7 years and it didn’t hit me how much I would miss him until that montage at the end of his last video, where I was reminded of so much stuff. It really made me smile, laugh and then feel quite emotional because the weight of that chapter ending suddenly hit me.
Sometimes you can only really appreciate something when it’s too late. Tom put so much effort into all of his content. Far more than the average YouTuber.
That’s not to say he’s gone forever, which he clearly stated but I would love to buy him a drink and thank him in person for being in my life and entertaining me for all that time.
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When not thinking about it, do you notice your blinking?
9·3 years agoWho else immediately blinked after the title?
Sorry this doesn’t help the issue but can someone tell me what the cat animated icon is because I think I need it immediately, thanks.
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•[How is your day going?]
1·3 years agodeleted by creator
I’m in Wayland but that’s because I’m Intel Integrated. If it was Nvidia I might have leaned more towards X111
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
2·3 years agoYep I did this and then ran out of time and sold the kit at a huge loss
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?
10·3 years agoThe second hand market for Lenovo laptops is usually pretty good. Lots of corporations have hardware cycles and recycle the things in huge waves. I’ve picked up an X230 and X270 for fractions of what they were worth new. Accessories too.
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Good local-only/local-first wifi thermostat?English
3·3 years agoRecently I went through some pain with this myself. Had a full Heatmiser setup with wireless receivers in every room and 2 manifold controllers for our underfloor heating on two floors.
The devices ate batteries like nothing I’ve seen before and regularly dropped off the network and didn’t send call to heat signals properly, so I decided to switch out the thermostats for cheap ZigBee temperature sensors.
I then ordered a relay board from AliExpress with a baked in esp8266 cheap and flashed esphome onto it. These replaced my manifold controllers
After trial and error, I now have my heating system run by esphome and home assistant. It has been faultless! Will probably reinstall the Heatmiser kit if I sold the house though
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.English
81·3 years agoYep I thought the same after seeing 3 Tesla bashing posts one after the other in my feed. I don’t care for the brand but I also don’t want to hear about every single defect with them in individual posts.
I think the ‘technology’ topic is too broad and allows for this sort of shit slinging to happen too easily.
Did the same on my ThinkPad X270 last week. Went for Arch and everything worked out of the box. KDE Plasma + Wayland was a doddle too. Very happy!
It’s dual boot with Windows 10 for now but I think I’m ready to delete the Windows partitions already
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•[Daily thread] Thanks God it's Friday - Any plans for the week-end? 11th of August
2·3 years agoGoing to see Limp Bizkit on Sunday 🤘
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does Coca Cola and Pepsi taste different from the 1970s to today and do they taste different from country to country?
5·3 years agoYeah pretty much most bars and restaurants will use a mixer gun for providing soft drinks. It’s usually carbonated water and it will inject syrup for coke, pepsi, sprite etc at regular intervals. The syrup is just a box from the drink company that they have hooked up to pipes out back
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has anyone installed solar panels? What has been your experience? DIY install extra appreciated.
2·3 years agoThanks for this reply! I put off the professional install of panels as the ROI was just too far out. Self install did come up as I’m fairly competent but your points still highlight the problems. Sometimes the numbers just don’t work, even if you can do it cheap
I’m too tired and thought that sign said “Life is Rob Lowe”
MrNorm@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What are your offsite backup solutionsEnglish
2·3 years agoI use S3 sync via the cli and use lifecycle policies to manage number of snapshots and deletion.
Some cool options for moving files to different tiers like cold and glacier but I don’t know enough about it or the retrieval costs to use it just yet


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