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I also don’t like getting them, but I’m also getting thinner on top and it looks worse if I let it grow out. Bad times.

Composting options for the diligent home gardener or pig farmer 💁🏻

This is a really good idea if you’re in a position to be putting any cash savings aside. In a perfect world everyone would have 3 months of expenses in cash savings, obviously that’s not always realistic, but if you combine that with an offset or revolving credit then you have the benefit of having that safety net while still saving the interest cost on that money. Our offset mortgage saves us about 100 bucks a week, a good chunk of that is just my provisional tax sitting aside waiting to pay the IRD.

Predictably Irrational is really good.

I feel like I read Chomsky’s books at a key point in my life where I didn’t really get all of it but it primed me for later learning. Good list overall 👍🏼

They don’t want to be told they have to wear a mask or that people should stay home from work when they’re sick. Anything that would impinge on the rights of businesses to make money is against my freedoms.

It’s the climate crisis but for health. Some people just can’t bear to give up their treats in order to save lives.

I still make little static sites on occasion. There’s still free options for hosting, I’ve got some on GitHub and used to use netlify til they changed their free tier. Sticking a static site into aws s3 +cloud front is super cheap if you don’t have much traffic. The nice thing is that they run forever without any intervention.

Yeah zwave tends to be standalone as the Zwave Alliance owns the rights to the protocol and they test everything for conformance, so it’s more expensive. I just don’t like sticking random iot stuff on my network.

I use a bunch of zwave gear so I got one of these https://activeautomation.co.nz/remotec-z-wave-to-ac-ir-extender-zxt-600

My mum swears by Subaru cars as well for the same reason - she walked away from what should have been a fatal accident without hospitalisation.

Yeah if the West Island wants to take on our superior culture then I say give them a chance.

Hexbear is the third oldest Lemmy instance and the largest by user activity, but wasn’t federated until recently. A bunch of people joined Lemmy without realising it was built by socialists and communists, and are mad that they have to be in the same space as them even though they were here first and built/are still building the place.

I’ve used it to write marketing copy and emails, but always as a starting point rather than as a final product.

I can’t be evil in games aye. I feel too bad!

Yeah my wife is playing on a 1080ti plus a 2012 era intel cpu and it’s still fine in 1080p. Great game.

Awww yeah, first time I got in first with the daily thread.

I don’t have anything interesting to talk about but I like reading about everyone’s days. I only have to do a half day of work today to hit my hours for the week, so that’s nice. Gonna play more Baldurs Gate when I get home, such a good game.

Sorry brother, the hive mind detected wrongthink and you have been punished for it.

I’ve done that. Was looking at the radio to change songs while going through an intersection. My brain was on autopilot and I followed a guy running a red turn signal. Just about had a head on crash with the straight through traffic 😬

Oooo old school forum flame wars. Is it weird that I miss that format? Might just be nostalgia, non-threaded forum arguments are kind of annoying to skip if you want something else out of the thread. It was always fun opening a long thread at the end and seeing the final dregs of the fight play out, then backtracking to find where it started.

My mum found an ice pack shaped like a ski mask that covers my eyes, it’s magic for this. It’s black so it blocks out the light and has that ice pack gel in it so if you get it cold it stays cold for quite a while.