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They seem to be operating very well with the 2000 services (the number doesn't seem to have changed much in the last few years which is interesting, despite them adding new features, etc).

The domain is obviously very complex as its not just a ledger, but risk, loans, overdrafts, savings, etc as well as premium offerings, interacting with different payments networks like FasterPayments and Mastercard. Then there are the budgeting features, payments between friends, support system (Which is probably quite complex in its self), card issuing, internal dashboards and metric services, etc, etc, etc. I can easily see how this gets to 2000 services and I didn't even begin to think about the business accounts, US accounts, etc.

He may have created it, but he is by no means the sole reason for its success.

If this is just a way to ensure donations go to the right place (maybe I do `tea donate` and it splits the donation between the packages I have installed) then that is quite interesting. But Max's blog post has stuff about staking tokens and getting rewarded. Its so poorly explained its almost impossible not to take it as a scam. More importantly, what are they going to have for the average brew user that brew does not have? How are they going to drive people away from brew and over to Tea?

Interested to here more, but not putting out any hope for this.

I agree, I am not much younger than OP, but I think the GenZ version he posted is much more engaging. His default one is definitely lacking soul. But I dont think you have to give up Minimalism to gain that soul.

I am interested in what baby sitting you have to do with HA?

I would say my home assistant (on a Pi4) is stable maybe 95% of the time, with most issues solved with a reboot. The biggest of those rare issues is that my zigbee dongle occasionally just refuses to work which isn't really an issue with HA its self.

I tried OpenHab in the past and was not a fan, but thats not to say its any worse.

Nice, very similar to countdown. If you've not seen it then '8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown' is a great comedy version of the classic show on Channel 4 in the UK.

About 5 years ago that was still a thing!

Yes there is.

Steel plants sometimes have deals to operate at certain times for load shedding anyway, but how about they use the times when we have an excess of solar/wind and its not well suited to steel production (maybe due to shift patterns) to generate onsite Hydrogen using that excess power? Then they have readily available onsite green hydrogen.

I think things like this will become an absolute necessity soon, using green power at its peaks to store resources for use later. (Obviously batteries will also be essential, although I would rather see gravity storage with big reservoirs like they have in Wales)

You're not the only one bro. I am pretty sure its not just us two either. Dont feel too hard on your self, but use that energy towards staying in contact. Write a list of people to talk to, etc.

Really? Its less than the cost of a pint. Not exactly expensive considering the benefits. Sure it could be free, but its not expensive.

It doesn't do adverts inside the UK. Outside the UK they do. I always get a bit confused when I access it via the work VPN and see adverts!

I mean, when its an option (being in a big city means this actually is a thing quite often) its kinda cool. Especially if its a good cinema. Bloody expensive though and not the kind of thing you can do on a lazy Sunday afternoon cause you're bored.

That is exactly what has happened? The police will be aware of this, and the government need to decide what to do.... The first step is clearly to engage with the platform. Maybe its you that doesn't understand?

Yeah when I read the title of this article my first thought was 'isnt that a thing, why is it news'. Then I realised that its not very common and I was just thinking of the book/TV show!

It's been years since I frequented a forum like that and the admin claiming that people should just ignore it and its not an issue because people have smartphones really drives home what I hate about them.

Tom Scott has done videos where this has been either used directly as part of the video or has been in the background.

For example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI - It certainly makes for a cool background.

If only they were available in the UK

The City has an MP and takes part in general elections. Its very much part of the UK and London. It just has some laws relaxed. I am not even sure that the whole 'the queen cant enter' thing is real. I have heard several times its just a custom they follow but not actually something they could enforce or do enforce at all.

Ill take this opportunity to echo this persons words. Keep the great videos coming.

No, you dont. They work fine (at least my MX Master does) without, however you may loose some features like back and forward. Plus you need the software to customize settings like what button does what.

Right, cause covid. You know, when no one was using the service but they had to keep operating for front line workers... hard to make money when there are no users.

This is bizarre but, I at least, in the UK wouldn't consider 'Ford' an American brand as we often get quite different Ford's to the ones sold in the US (Even when the name is the same, they often look totally different like the Focus). I know that's wrong, but its just the way it is. (Although Mustang is the exception to that).

I feel like when most people think of American Cars they think of big GM's, etc and at least in the UK they are not really are really famed for comfort, instead they were always famed for handling badly and having terrible MPG. Now don't get me wrong, I know the US has some great cars, but I think the markets are very different and the ones that have been available to us have been awful, expensive, or both.

My point is, I don't think people are buying the Mach-E cause its an opportunity to try the 'famed American Comfort Car' but more because its a good option for an electric car, and that's what a lot of people in Europe want when buying brand new cars now.

Sure but if the thing you're fixing requires fixing other parts how do you get to 'one commit fixes one thing'. Its simply not possible sometimes. Unless you hack in half baked fixed for the sake of a 'commit to fix X' then have to change that in the next commit to fix Y, etc. That's just a time wasting exercise.

Found the American... You're kidding yourself if you think that's it for life aspirations. Or if you think the taxes are the end of the world. I am sure most people in 'welfare states' would agree that they would rather that than the American system.

I've never heard a good thing about brave... What makes you prefer it over Firefox?

You dont have to 'Install' those apps. You're just moving their resource bundle (which yes, is a folder, but most people will not ever know) to a nice place where its easy to find. You can put it where ever you want, but there is an expectation that you will use Applications folder to keep things tidy. I dont see how its confusing, or why a normal user would be confused? They don't know anything about it being a folder unless they explicitly try and open it...

BBC have lost the rights this year, sadly. They can only show a few things and Discovery have the majority of them, so I and am pretty sure many people I know will not be watching.

Why wouldn't it be able to? Strip back linux and it can run on almost anything. Its been running on PC's since those specs were normal for a desktop lol. The original Pentiums went as low as 60MHz and they could still run just fine.

EDIT: Looks like its not, but I still dont see why it couldn't. May not be very useful though.