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Voters beginning to think Conservatives are ‘weird’, research suggests in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm stealing that line, thankyou.

17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Relevant xkcd:

Pros and cons for an extra phone number (dual Sim) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Depends on your local laws and such, but in most European countries you can get a prepaid SIM card for a couple of euros/pounds/whatever at any supermarket, making them practically free. If you need a temporary number for a scammy special offer or any situation where your number is publicly visible (Gumtree, etc) it's a no-brainer IMHO.

If your phone suppprts running two SIMs at once, it has two IMEIs so as far as the network(s) are concerned it's two distinct handsets unless they deduce otherwise.

A fun aside: years ago I did some work for a small phone company (the company was small, not the phone) and they gave me a SIM with 100 numbers in a block and access to a portal I could manage them with. Sadly, I forgot to pay the annual £10 renewal fee.

Brazil’s supreme court upholds ban on Elon Musk’s X over ‘illegal conduct’ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

"Lies". Just "lies".

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Wow. For real, I always just assumed that .com was the commercial arm of .org. Holy shit.

Edit: So, for anyone curious, .com is owned by Automattic, who also own Tumblr, Beeper, PocketCasts and Buddy Press. The WordPress project and .org are owned by the WordPress Foundation. Automattic makes some contributions to the WordPress project but they and the WP Foundation are seperate.

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You remind me of the babe.

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Starring Tim Curry as It Doesn't Matter He's Having Fun.

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Funny that in the UK, Adult Swim never aired animé to my knowledge, and there was very little handover; it just went straight from Ed, Edd and Eddy to Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a shame they never made any sequels.

Ever.

Shut up. No. They didn't.

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never heard of this movie but based on your comment I'm guessing it's about checking yourself for testicular cancer?

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A yes, Labyrinth staring Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson's creatures, and David Bowie's magnificent pouch.

And nobody would get your references in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, being the slightly dangerous uncle is a pretty sweet gig, NGL.

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Does anyone know a way of calculating the energy needed to heat a home/room? (feddit.uk)

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Does anyone know a way of calculating the amount of heating I need to maintain an average temperature in terms of kWh of heating per 24 hours? Ideally one taking into account weather conditions.

I have a pretty big Home Assistant setup which includes switches for individually controlling all the (electric) heaters in my home. I'm also using an electricity supplier that changes the amount they charge every 30 minutes to reflect supply and demand. Given these rates are published at least 24 hours in advance I can currently choose a number of hours to run the heaters per day and have an automation automatically select the cheapest periods. I'm paying less per kWh for heating than I would if I was using a gas boiler. Plus, it's all from renewables, so working out that number of hours is the next step.