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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Another great example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Rugby doesn't have comparable high speed impacts on a regular basis.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Based upon this conversation, I can tell you dont even know what other sports are.

And thats fine, but FYI NFL Football is not the only sport where people run around a field and smash bodies together, while having to think of game plans and strategies.

Flying to a different country to play these sports doesn't destroy their capabilities.

Foreign fixtures being unpopular is different to players are unable to play if they have to travel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

No, its just a sport and when people try and talk them up as some sort of super athletes that are doing incredible things you don't see in other sports I'll knock that right down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Sounds like hype to me.

Rugby is far more physically and mentally challenging.

And it doesn't require rubber padding because the players know how to take down other people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Does this mean that American Football players are just worse athletes than players of other sports?

Because I've never heard this terrible excuse used for international football, rugby, tennis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

people cruising in the left

This is a camera on a single lane road in the UK. They should be driving on the left.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

No. Traffic cameras in your area are there to generate revenue.

The camera being covered here is not at an intersection so your offtopic comment about revenue is irrelevant. This is a camera on a stretch of road where drivers usually speed, the cameras are painted bright yellow to make them obvious and do a far better job of getting people to slow for hazardous corners than a sign ever did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Its only Americans that I see being puritanical as a general rule. There are Christian sects in the UK who are against drinking, but its not the majority.

Jesus handed out wine at parties, and ordered his followers to drink wine.

Pretty sure its only because he didn't have access a good bitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, I'm suggesting that any death will be announced as an attempt of the government to murder the elderly.

As it always has, and always will be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It doesn't even have to be due to it. If a pensioner doesn't turn on their heating then its Labours fault even if the pensioner could have afforded it.

Or if the pensioner did have the heating on but it hadn't been serviced and they still died from the cold, you know the rags will spin it. Labour cuts fuel allowance and old dears die. Its not sketchy phrasing, its predictable Tory spin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So the problem is crappy guides?

I was of the opinion that anything that suggested the terminal was purely for speed reasons.

Average Windows guide. Click here, dismiss the warning, click here, click here, close the advert, click next, type in 1, accept, reboot.

Average Linux guide, go to Gnome Tweaks, third option, type in 1, no reboot required. Or open a terminal and paste the following command.

It's precise, it's concise, and it's fast but it's not required.

the are so many desktop environments

I completely disagree. There is Gnome with 70% of the market, KDE with 30%, and then various hacked together desktops with <1%. Guides should be set up for Gnome because you stick with defaults if you are that scared, maybe a reference for KDE, and if you chose something else then your already in copy/paste commands territory.

There was no part of me setting up SteamOS on my couch PC that required a terminal, which is what we are talking about here.

 

I was looking at a potential new job until it occurred to me to ask about dealing with "on-call" support.

As I work in tech, there is usually an expectation that some level of support is handled off hours in case systems go down. However this position didn't have any compensation for making yourself available and generally only 15 mins from a phone or computer to support the systems. The best they could offer was "time in-lieu" if you get called, which is basically saying they'll let you work your contracted maximum hours despite it being unsociable hours.

Fuck that.

After seeing elsewhere someone commenting that they would refuse to on-call if there was also a "return to office", because if they had to go to the office to work, then how could they possibly support it from home, it made me wonder what other things should I remember to enquire about when interviewing and asking the hiring company?

 

I'm replacing the light at my front door, and I dont seem to be able to find what I want.

My current light is solar powered, light and motion sensitive so it only comes on at night and dims when there is no movement. However during winter there isn't enough light during the day to charge it so that it lasts longer than a couple of hours.

I would like to replace it with a mains powered one, but keeping the only on at night, and dims when there is no movement so that it illuminates the house number. Everything I see appears to only have one or the other (unless they actually have both but the listing details are terrible), does anyone know the terminology I need to use?

 

Currently, landlords that have HMOs with four people or less occupying them do not need a licence.

Reading Borough Council wants to extend licensing to all HMOs across the borough for those with three to four occupants.

 

We are currently in a silly situation when dealing with refillable products for home, and I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas.

If I wanted shower gel (for example), all the refillable locations require a bottle with the capacity printed on it, and for it to be empty. And basically I don't want to wait until my shower gel is out completely before getting any more, so I would want an intermediate container however I cannot find a 1l bottle that has the capacity embossed on it so that I can take it to the refill station, and bring it home. I really don't want to buy another small plastic bottle with the capacity on a paper label that does one refill of the gel, and would have to be replaced when the label comes off.

 

It's exciting news for RISC-V fans: Raspberry Pi is adding support for the open ISA with the launch of the Pico 2 and the company's new RP2350 microcontroller.

 

Householders are angered by the discovery they cannot remortgage or sell their homes after installing spray-foam insulation to cut energy use.

 

Pretty depressing reading.

[Edit] I had the archive link as a comment but this has gained enough traction that it's not obvious. Here it is again so you don't have to give FT any clicks https://archive.is/ypkln

 

There are lots of things that can be put down to personal taste, however I can't let this abomination go.

I am referring to Branston Smooth.

Branston Smooth image

I love Branston Pickle, but I can't get on board with Branston paste. Is there a better example where a manufacturer made an updated version of a food that was objectively worse?

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Plex for books? (feddit.uk)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've picked up an eink Android tablet, which is awesome. However I have plenty of ebooks I've purchased over the years on places such as Humble, and I was wondering whether there was a self hosted solution like Plex/Emby/Jellyfin but designed for ebooks.

I've seen Calibre but it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing, and running a sync is a bit clunky for the spouse factor.

Is there anything that would index the books, show a bookshelf and allow me to read them, with offline support?

Preferably with an Android app for reading with, and the reader handling eink rather than scrolling.

 

While three armed and masked people robbed a check cashing business in Commerce City, someone else stole their getaway vehicle, police said.

Posting archive link as 9news blocks the UK.

 

In addition to BBC and ITV showing the matches, Netflix had been documenting the time between the 2023 and 2024 Six Nations.

 

West Berkshire has the highest number of school exclusions in the county.

And it has more than twice the number of school suspensions in state-run and special schools under its control.

Government data says 1,263 suspensions were issued in West Berkshire in the 22.23 autumn term to 532 pupils.

That compares to 569 in Reading, 401 in Slough, 406 in Windsor and Maidenhead and 358 in Wokingham.

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