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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 push most people towards it
this actually looks amazing as well, feels very vaguely a bit like classic macos
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
"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?"
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
I'd legitimately love to know why this has worked wtf
“Claims to hate closed ecosystems but probably posted this from an iPhone”
Stop knowing me
I even have a Synology NAS and for some reason have never thought to use it for this
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 make an actual collection.
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.
Religion being used to control people? Say it ain’t so!
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 not been back.
Someone did it - October 1st 12:36AM
I'd class Primark etc as fast fashion stores really - in my mind department stores are Harvey Nicks and Harrods etc
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.
I have a feeling that 123 Healthy Street, Health City, USA is not actually a real place
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 results provided by Kagi any better than DDG to keep paying.
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
You very much can delete the app separately to Instagram, what a weird headline
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.
Posted by
spiffotron on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:58AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm old and I have rose-tinted glasses for the good old days of the internet where everyone just made sites for fun rather than as "side hustles". Sites which didn't have monetisation or adverts or analytics gubbins all bundled in or blogs which aren't hosted on closed ecosystems like medium or substack etc. Is there a good source for finding these rare spaces again?
Being from the Uk this headline had a completely different connotation. I’m very disappointed it’s not actually about car boot sales.
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 the end of April. I kinda knew I wanted to write about gaming, and I feel it’s slowly developing and a core concept is forming every day that goes by.
I don’t really care about up to date gaming news and reviews, it turned out I’m interested looking back on my own history of gaming and talking about anything gaming adjacent I love so I write about those things, and hope other people can relate! I have dabbled in an attempt at an SEO post as well but it was for a game I am actively playing so doesn’t seem too disingenuous!
People shouldn’t get bogged down about what to write, you’ll eventually discover what you want to do the more you actually do it. It’s like a muscle!
And a link if anyone is interested: https://chronodrift.com
Posted by
spiffotron on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.
There's such a low cost of entry on most forms of digital media / art now that more people than ever just seem to be copying what's popular and adding to the non-stop barrage of beige unoriginality.The Dribbble front page could all be the same designer at this point, electronic dance music particularly could be made completely interchangeably by any artist, no one seems to have their own design...
please be good...
edit: its a turnip
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.
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.