
SHOCK reaction as bait comment fallout nixes OP campaign success chances, experts warn.

Oh. Duckspeak. Ungood bellyfeel.

Smarty user here. Seems like there's a lot of us. UK, Β£14/mo for unlimited everything with no throttling (I've tried). Includes EU/EEA roaming capped at 12GB.

Entire confection π

You beat me to it. There's something particularly effective about someone who basically never swears dropping a single "fuck" into a sentence and I get the same feeling here.

Good for you on overcoming Rand's bullshit worldview. And, yeah, Threads is still terrifying all these years later. That, and When The Wind Blows.

By the time I'm fifty I expect I'll wake up with sun beaming through the window and I'll smile, stretch, lean over to the bedside table and just go full-on Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

I can't be bothered reading the article but could someone clarify for me: is the fountain of pee the means or the recipient of the communication?

Why would you think that?
SLAM "If I do upgrade to Business, will I be able to recline my seat without interrupting the person behind's meal?" SLAM "And is The Grand Budapest Hotel still available onboard or do I need to download it first, goddamnit?"

Oh, yeah, my Home Assistant setup is fucking monstrous but also, crucially, self-hosted. Why the fuck do I want my thermostat and radiators to be talking via a datacentre in another country?

I only buy my plane tickets at the airport on the day of travel with handfuls of cash pulled from a carrier bag while wearing a blood-stained shirt. I punctuate that start of every sentence by slamming my first on the desk and the end of the sentence with "goddamnit".

Personally I prefer the full range of motion offered by analogue.

"We're sorry we're facing consequences. We'll take action to make sure this doesn't happen agian."

"Here's your WiFi. Oh, you want the password? Next you'll be asking for DHCP."

Fuck it, I'll take all the "riz", "no cap", "frfr" bullshit over ANY of the other slang of the last thirty years or so. At least it makes sense.

Meanwhile, their Grandmas in the 2010s: Kids these days are too woke, they never play outside. I hate that Greasy Thunberg or whatever she calls herself, so preachy. No-one walks anywhere any more it's so sad. This Facebook user I love posts AI pictures of kittens and says immigrants are eating our pets and universities are run by Muslim terrorists. I saw some kids outside the other day and was terrified so we're getting the city to close the park and get rid of the bus shelters. All music sounds the same these days like it's made in a factory, not like the real music we had - kids these days don't even know what Motown is.

The News. Repulsive, unbelievable main characters; insane plots; waay too many subplots; you can't understand a story without reading the fucking Wiki or going two knuckles deep on a forum to get the backstory or just picking up on the mode esoteric hints; this whole annoying multi-platform thing where you only fully understand a story if you watch it on six different platforms (I had enough of that shit with the Matrix twenty-five years ago, thanks).

Yeah, my response to this argument is always the same: I work in IT, how do I barter for potatoes? If you're a potato farmer, how many potatoes is a hip transplant worth? Maybe assigning worth to things with an abstract unit isn't such a terrible idea after all...

For clarity, are you imagining imaginary unicorns or just regular non-imaginary unicorns?

My HA Instance is ready to take advantage of some very cheap energy.


The UK is currently experiencing some prolonged windy weather and my all-renewable energy provider offers dynamic pricing. That means cheap energy and even negative-cost energy. This is where my HA instance shines and saves me a fortune on my power bill. Thanks again to the HA devs for this incredible project.
For the curious, I'm using bottlecapdave's excellent Home Assistant Octopus Energy integration via HACS.

Rome knows what's up.


These water fountains flow constantly with fresh drinking water for anyone to use and they are everywhere in Rome. Covering the spout with your finger forces the water out a hole on top, creating a arch of water at perfect πΌπ΅πΎπ»πΉπ²π·π° height. The Romans were/are with us.

Does anyone know a way of calculating the energy needed to heat a home/room?
Does anyone know a way of calculating the amount of heating I need to maintain an average temperature in terms of kWh of heating per 24 hours? Ideally one taking into account weather conditions.
I have a pretty big Home Assistant setup which includes switches for individually controlling all the (electric) heaters in my home. I'm also using an electricity supplier that changes the amount they charge every 30 minutes to reflect supply and demand. Given these rates are published at least 24 hours in advance I can currently choose a number of hours to run the heaters per day and have an automation automatically select the cheapest periods. I'm paying less per kWh for heating than I would if I was using a gas boiler. Plus, it's all from renewables, so working out that number of hours is the next step.