Posts by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
(DIR) Post #APJCVaLRrCPVngNbxQ by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2022-11-05T23:24:49Z
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@stux How to blow $44G. The Geocities server was switched off 10 years after Geocities was sold for $3.6G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities
(DIR) Post #APNL1idvVcVUp71goq by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2022-11-07T23:19:10Z
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@alejandrobdn All email clients suck. I still use mutt for checking crontab logs. Have you tried Roundcube ? I've had to shift to that for human to human comms, due to everyone using html mail and embedded images. Roundcube seems to me the least bad email client but it does adds extra complexity, including a web server and DBMS to the email hosting experience.
(DIR) Post #ASOxxhWPZnNtkfv0a0 by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-06T11:46:31Z
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@matthannon If you try to tell me "eating meat is bad" then I'll push back, as I don't agree. If instead you want to raise standards of livestock welfare and tax or fine excess runoffs into watercourses, we're on the same side. Saying getting on a plane is immoral wins few converts. Saying air fuel should be taxed as much as surface transport fuel is a more reasonable approach we can agree on. Your choice !
(DIR) Post #ASm8L5oV1fKg3c8oWu by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2023-02-17T16:01:07Z
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@matthannon Sixt offer a Tesla Model Y long range for collection from Glasgow Central Station for about £72/day. I'd find the journey more relaxing by train myself, but I regularly drive my EV from the Midlands to Edinburgh and back without it being a big deal. Tesla have more convenient chargers than those which also suit my vehicle.
(DIR) Post #AXABgJ1tkJhi7oBTsG by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-28T21:59:56Z
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Block from start helps prevent Metcalfe's law from eliminating all but one commercial and well funded Fediverse tech protocol compliant platform, which can bankroll it's own growth to monopoly status, whence it can grow the way a cancer grows - by throwing toxins into neighbouring tissue and expanding the tumour into the space vacated.
(DIR) Post #AYWQl8Ep1Ksrb6ZzH6 by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2023-08-08T13:24:48Z
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@Archivist Anything with a desktop just likes to eat all the memory and CPU it can get its hands on. It's why I control my 1Gb RAM cloud server which runs many services using command line only.
(DIR) Post #AZBe8FjLIgbFWJgSQa by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2023-08-28T10:37:47Z
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Might be worth watching the La Nina/El Nino shift ? If this continues towards El Nino, this would imply risk of a colder UK winter on the way based on normal patterns. But I'm not hazarding any such prediction due to higher sea temperatures. https://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm
(DIR) Post #AZBeUUOnRYXhNvg1M8 by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2023-08-28T10:41:49Z
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@matthannon Great year for blackberries and many plums here in Coventry. Apples not looking so good as last year at my normal foraging sites. I think there was an issue at blossom time, so not so much fruit was formed. I'm still expecting to collect 150Kg apples at cider making time, mostly from gardener donations and windfall collections from my usual sources.
(DIR) Post #Ai7gpFo8If1Pun3MvY by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2024-05-21T17:37:55Z
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@futurebird Have they not figured out how to put braking energy back into the battery on e-bikes ? Every BEV car does this nowadays. Didn't think of it as more expensive, in relation to the manufacture for a motor to be reversible into a generator which feeds energy back into the battery. BEV cars only use friction brakes at very low speeds or in emergency hard braking situations. One problem is the brake disks can get rust damage which isn't regularly cleaned off.
(DIR) Post #AvsvkzYi1SbZBVxJyq by copsewood@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-07T08:54:02Z
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@BrodieOnLinux For several years XFCE (previously Xubuntu, now Debian mostly) has given me better performance. I try other options occasionally, but haven't found them as fast. So I guess I'll change to Wayland when XFCE does. I used to do more SSH over X to run applications remotely displaying locally but don't need to do that now.