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by spiffotron 5mo ago
I have always wondered if a heat pump is even worth it if you don't have solar, all well and good the government giving massive discounts on heatpumps but not for a combined heatpump/solar install which would probably actually pus
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by spiffotron 7mo ago
bisexual lighting?!
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by spiffotron 10mo ago
this actually looks amazing as well, feels very vaguely a bit like classic macos
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by spiffotron 1y ago
no
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by spiffotron 1y ago
I've used nextDNS for years but the past few weeks its been breaking websites left, right and centre so I gave up on it entirely. Everything feels much snappier since I dropped them for a different option too
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by spiffotron 1y ago
"have you ever done this indescribably niche thing, which I believe renders your argument null and void, but is in fact not relatable in the slightest?"
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by spiffotron 1y ago
I used to use raindrop however found it a bit bloated with features I never use, I've switched to selfhosting linkding: https://linkding.link and enjoy the much more minimal experience
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by spiffotron 1y ago
I'd legitimately love to know why this has worked wtf
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by spiffotron 2y ago
“Claims to hate closed ecosystems but probably posted this from an iPhone” Stop knowing me
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by spiffotron 2y ago
This looks really nice
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by spiffotron 2y ago
I even have a Synology NAS and for some reason have never thought to use it for this
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by spiffotron 2y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations of a site or a self-hosted option for uploading photo collections? I’d love to share photos of our child with the grandparents but end up just sending the odd snap through WhatsApp, it would be nice to m
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by spiffotron 2y ago
I use porkbun for all my domains, I’ve never had any issues and they don’t seem to gouge you on price for the smallest things.
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by spiffotron 2y ago
Religion being used to control people? Say it ain’t so!
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by spiffotron 2y ago
I am one of these people who recently created an account to give it a look. My entire feed was dominated by anime drawings and people eulogising how good Bluesky is because ???. I could not find anything I was actually interested in. I have
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by spiffotron 2y ago
Someone did it - October 1st 12:36AM
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by spiffotron 2y ago
I'd class Primark etc as fast fashion stores really - in my mind department stores are Harvey Nicks and Harrods etc
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by spiffotron 2y ago
I think UK and US department stores are actually very very different. UK department stores generally only stock super high end designer gear, and sales / coupons are very very rare.
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by spiffotron 2y ago
I have a feeling that 123 Healthy Street, Health City, USA is not actually a real place
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by spiffotron 3y ago
It happened at both work and home - my region was always set to United Kingdom and it would still decide I want localised Australian results sometimes. It may have been fixed since I last used it of course - I just didn't find the resu
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by spiffotron 3y ago
As a UK user I find Kagi returns results from Australia far too often which is a super weird issue DDG used to have as well
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by spiffotron 3y ago
You very much can delete the app separately to Instagram, what a weird headline
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by spiffotron 3y ago
I mean I'd like to find a way to discover other people's websites who also just do it for fun rather than websites that seem to solely exist to scrape pennies and/or data from people.
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Ask HN: Is there a list of non-monetised, non-closed-ecosystem websites?
6 points by spiffotron 3y ago|5 comments
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by spiffotron 3y ago
Being from the Uk this headline had a completely different connotation. I’m very disappointed it’s not actually about car boot sales.
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by spiffotron 3y ago
I kept putting off making a blog because I thought the market must be saturated by now, who will even care? It turns out the only one who needs to care is yourself! I recently bought a random domain and my very first post went up towards th
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Ask HN: Are the 2020s the decade of peak homogenisation?
66 points by spiffotron 4y ago|97 comments
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by spiffotron 5y ago
please be good... edit: its a turnip
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by spiffotron 5y ago
Our cat has taken to sitting on us and patting our face until we wake up rather than waiting for us to wake up naturally.
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by spiffotron 5y ago
A slur is an insult, no one has to have died for something to be a slur, not sure where you got that idea from.

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