This is why I end up doing so much DIY.

A job that takes a professional half a day could take me a whole weekend.
But having to play “how likely are they to fuck it up, and how much of a pain will it be to fix” drives me up the wall so much, I often just buy the tool and do it myself.

My time to do it: 15 hours, plus £200 in materials.
Cheap tradesman: 8 hours, £450 total, non-zero chance I’ll have to rip it out and re-do it myself anyway.
Specialist tradesman : 5 hours, £900-1200 total.

So it either ends up being lots of work, a gamble, or lots of money. Quick, good, cheap, pick two!

Remarkable how an industry working with a renewable resource is able to make sustainable money.

Always strange how enthusiastic friends from the americas are about dogging, cottaging, and double-fisting.

I’m the complete opposite: I don’t like rinsing under a running tap, so a single bowl means farting around with a container for the rinsing water.

Nuclear plants are, unfortunately, mostly megaprojects that are tricky to finish inside a 5 year election cycle.
This means that they either end up in purgatory, or proceeding at a snails pace as changing governments change the goalposts/funding to suit themselves.

Hosting NSFW content is an absolute ball-ache, so a lot of instances that are not NSFW focussed do not host it.
In the early days of feddit.uk, we decided to go the path of SFW, to simplify things.
I absolutely salute the lemmy-nsfw admins in taking that load on.
And it makes a lot of sense: If you’re going to deal with the headaches, you might as well focus entirely on them!

“I’m alright jack, pull the ladder up!”

That’s the main reason I haven’t bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.

Let’s just hope that it doesn’t end up like Snowpiercer!

Like the arena in my area that keeps lights on all night (apparently to help the grass grow), while causing shitloads of light pollution. Why are there even regulations for grass quality? A bit of random pitch variance might make football interesting.

Looks like a lovely place to relax after a long day asking people for heroin money.

“We realised we could use the same neural pathways that rabies does. Isn’t it lovely when nature saves a large corporation development money?”

So far, they’ve made the chocolate shit, made the filling shit, and shrunk the carton size (6 to 5).

The price doesn’t matter any more, I’m sure as shit not buying them.

Reminds me of the time I didn’t realise that my underfloor heating had week/weekend heat settings, and woke up to a 24 degree basement.

I’m glad the new builds are still required, there is no good reason a new build with proper insulation and appropriate radiators cannot be heated by a heat pump.

WRT your property: The only big practical difference in heating between gas and heatpumps, is the flow temperature of the radiators that can be reached while maintaining efficiency.

So while getting things insulated is definitely the preferred change to make, increasing the size and output of the radiators can also get an old property in range. If you currently run your radiators at 70 to heat the house(so, water delta of 50), dropping it to 40 (delta 20) for a HP reduces the effective output by 70%.

To make that up, the radiators either need to be sized for outputting 3x as much, the insulation/air tightness improved to reduce heat loss by 70%, or a combination of the two. If there is a possibility of installing underfloor heating, for example, that can make things a lot easier.

The important thing is that properties are properly surveyed, and options worked out, rather than just rule-of-thumbing everything.

I’m doing an ongoing project on my own house; gradually improving things from all angles, and as I go lowering the flow temperature of the boiler. Once I am happily running at 40, I plan to switch over to an ASHP.
I was amazed the difference swapping out the 60s radiators for new ones made. At a guess, they’re putting out 4x as much heat.
Not bad for £90!

Helpfully, because bitcoin gets all the traderbro attention, monero has actually ended up being (relatively) stable because it has more of a purpose.

When this first started getting discussed long ago, I made a decision that if the shitty US-standard meat ever got legalised in the UK without massive “this is chlorine-washed/etc.” stickers, I’d just give up on meat. Not worth the faff.

Or from the sounds of it, doing things more efficiently.
Fewer cycles required, less hardware required.

Maybe this was an inevitability, if you cut off access to the fast hardware, you create a natural advantage for more efficient systems.

Probably thinks that Starmer will just overrule government objections to their poor meat standards…Missing the point that he doesn’t really have the ability to override things like that.

Very nice! I’ll have to take a look at this.

So far, I’ve only done some things with variable heating targets, boosting if one room falls behind, and minor adjustments on presence detection.