Not finished it yet but it annoys me so much that for some reason it is VASTLY cheaper for me to buy a briefcase or two full of batteries for my house than it is for the same to be done in bulk at the scale of the grid.

Just batteries would cut my energy costs to about a third of their current rate by charging them at cheaper off peak prices. Isn’t it insane that this is a feature of the current energy market?

Got a project at work related to uploading stuff to vimeo, perhaps I should just wait and see if they collapse and it saves me the effort?

Aldi, to be fair food was a bit cheaper when I was living on £600 a month, around 2017. Like £0.34 for about 20 slices. I think it is more like £0.45 now for the cheapest loaf of bread.

You can also get curry sauce with your fish and chips.

Carbs are good for a hangover if anyone wonders why most British foods are full of carbs.

Texture. Crisp sandwiches are the closest thing I can think of but crisps cost a lot more than a slice of bread.

Yeah, it’s filling and I would like to see you come up with better for £0.06 a meal.

Poverty food exists for a reason.

I was thinking of crime, either I get fed by the profits or I get fed in prison.

What if you treat it like a rental? Give it the most unreliable power supply possible.

Soldiers would never be able to feel safe again, there is no safe home to return to. Even off duty, what if someone knows?

Not a chance. Someone else can easily, but I wouldn’t be able to resist.

Both are British though

For her, I would bring home a deep fried haggis and a Cornish pasty. Embrace our culture!

Oh yeah I wasn’t really thinking of downloading porn over it, but internet at least gives a global network to connect into. Text communication is still a form of data and if it can be used normally day to day then you have more infrastructure that people are used to using and is still usable in a disaster as well, even if you lose access to all WAN nodes you should have local communication.

I know the network as a whole goes a long way, but how far can a single message actually be sent? Don’t both have a maximum number of hops and a hop is only a few km?

It certainly seems interesting, but I am not sure if it could be useful for me. Especially when no one I know is going to buy hardware for it. Is there a reason these don’t extend off the internet? Always thought some kind of internet/LoRa hybrid could lower the barrier to entry as most have internet connected devices already, and exposing them to the network some will realise they could pay less by switching to LoRa instead.

Learn something new every day. Used it for over a decade and never knew yt-dlp or its predecessor had a GUI.

Why do Microsoft have your private keys? Glad I don’t trust them with anything.

All HTML and PHP I have written was with a text editor but fair point most people don’t. I still would love to see more cool simple sites like bigclive.com

Sounds interesting, what is the benefit of this compared to HTTP though? You can still host text or basic html that way and it works on any web browser.

Do they? The UK has generally been saying what Trump wants to hear where possible and then acting in our own best interests instead. IIRC the trade deal for US meat doesn’t change our food standards so we can export ours and the US can’t send much of theirs back because it’s low grade trash below our standards.