GreatAlbatross

This is why I did a 180 on getting hives.

Honey is nice, but driving out the bumbles around here would be criminal.

I can’t see how anyone involved with allowing this isn’t complicit.
What possible reason did the police of a foreign nation need to be physically there for, other than physically removing someone?

You will be truly British once you register on feddit.uk

In seriousness, I like to think it’s a state of mind. If you find yourself generally aligning most with the more positive British attitudes, you’re British. Though living in Wales, you may end up feeling more Welsh eventually!

If you want to feel more connected, try getting involved with local festivities and traditions.
Explore the countryside with the Ramblers. Do some pub quizzes. Go to a folk festival.
The sorts of things that involve you with pleasant people.

Honestly? It’s tricky to find communities that give you a spread.

I can recommend picking an instance that has a secondary alignment with you (for example, country/state), as they’ll tend to pick up posts in All that may be of interest other than politics.

(Though tbf, our instance still leans left on whole. Just not so crazily)

You can pick an instance that aligns with the way you like to be. But those instances are still kept in check because if they get too shit, they get defederated.

For example, feddit.uk can operate in a uk-style way for which words we do and don’t find offensive, and the level of piss-taking we do.

Small actions are possible.
I won’t buy Kellogg’s any more.
Who knows, maybe all the own brand cereal manufacturers are doing horrible things too.
But I find peace in taking some action when some awful thing is done. As otherwise, I’d just have to hang my head in hopelessness.

This was also why the uk put massive prizes out for the first devices that could be used to accurately calculate longditude.

For the UK, Which does similar things to ConsumerReports.
They’re not always experts, but they’re generally good reviews, and I honestly don’t have enough life to investigate every tumble drier myself. So having a summary of “in this price range, get this one” is very useful.

The great thing about television, is that “live” is a flexible concept.
The playback software could happily play 10 seconds ahead of what’s actually on the screen, and have plenty of time to translate like that.
In the same way that we sometimes put delays into live events to allow the subtitling systems breathing room.

Sometimes they can be worse. “I’m an expert in this field, so I don’t need to think about any others”

We do now have PTP, which has several big improvements. But it’s a lot more involved to set up.

Sometimes I wonder if customer demand creates the over-extracted espresso you often see.
But when you go somewhere with barristas that give a damn, they’ll extract correctly, because they’re confident enough to discuss it.

I’ve still had no luck persuading my mum that filling half a cup with overrun is not how it’s supposed to taste.
But when I do a 36g shot, “it doesn’t taste right”.

The best kind of bike is one you can lock up and not worry about.

The amount you spend also scales with how much you want to use the device, and the quality. It’s similar with power tools.

£100 combi drill? For the average DIY user, exactly the same functionality as a £500 one.
For a tradesman using it 7 hours a day, 240 days a year, the more comfortable/reliable one may well pay for itself.

Ah, excellent! Thanks for that, I’ll definitely see if I can do it under ZHA.

And no problem, glad you got off the hub!

Exactly this. When you read about the metaverse in something like Snow Crash, it’s a place built by enthusiasts, very cheap to use, and people have the choice of DIY, or paying someone to do things for them.

In the facebook’s version, everything but connecting costs money, and it’s all done by facebook.

Ah, I meant I didn’t want to feel like I was condescendingly explaining things to people who already knew.

It’s free software, and supports a lot of things.

Homeassistant can be run completely locally. The on an old pc, raspi, or even a virtual machine when you’re trying it out.

Operation wise, you can use a browser, or the app for added functionality (for example, it can log the battery level of your phone)

And with the various sensors and devices you can build up automations.
So, for example, when phone battery is below 20% at 10pm, flash the bedroom light to remind you to charge.

They even have a demo based on a fake house on their website for looking at.

The only physical thing you’d need otherwise is a zigbee dongle (£20-ish).

You’ll need to have a zigbee radio on a HomeAssistant instance (maybe possible with other software).
And on HomeAssistant, run ZHA (or similar) with the zigbee radio.
Sorry if that’s teaching to suck eggs, just wanted to clarify.

If you’re already set up with that, it’s just a case of deleting a bulb from the Hue bridge, and searching for it using the zigbee integration. Once it’s deleted from Hue, it will go into pairing mode. You may need to power cycle the bulb if it does not appear in the search within 10s.

HASS was able to support my white/ambiance bulbs and colour bulbs without any issues. In fact, it responds faster. The only downside is that they don’t so much fade, as jump to a new value. The update frequency is about 2 times per second.

The good news is, most hue bulbs can be controlled directly over zigbee now. I migrated mine a few days ago, and the trickiest part was persuading Hue to delete the bulbs so they could enter pairing mode.

Honestly, as someone else said, US based company, US based standards. Plus, youtube is really designed to show content designed for youtube, not old media from other platforms.

Even the BBC uploads old 576 content to iplayer as 720.
Because if you’re going to do the de-interlace etc before uploading, you might as well put it in a format that everyone is expecting.

It’s weird though, I swear I had a memory of 576 content being an option at some point…Maybe it was just some content being 50Hz.