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GreatAlbatross

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  • Concrete for a greenhouse base

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  • Imo, it's always worth making the right mix for the job. Am I correct in assuming that you want to do foundations around the outside, then have the middle be bare soil to plant into? Rather than having a slab, and raised beds on top?

    Around the outside, maybe dig 400mm down, put in 200mm of compacted MOT, and 200mm of C10 concrete mix. And put some rebar in if you're feeling extra (it's not that expensive). Just remember that if you put rebar in, it is an absolute arseache to rip the concrete up afterwards. Though tbh, unless you're really keen for the plants to root into the ground, I'd do a slab!

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • I have alerts that push out when the fridge door is open. And another that flashes all the lights in the house when the doorbell rings.

  • Portugal Hits 80% Renewables, Power Bills Drop €703M

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  • I feel like this is going to be a deciding factor in how comfortable countries are in the third quarter of the 21st century. "Did they start to get their renewable shit in order by 2025?"

  • Where to buy DRM-free music

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  • Maybe I'm just a datahoarder, but for me the really obscure stuff is the most worth keeping originals of.

  • We lost a real one

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  • The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn't be surprised if they just homer-simpson'd into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.

  • HA compatible Z-wave controller?

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  • To be honest, part of the reason I leaned towards having the radios on the same box, was simplicity. I have a box, with a VM, VM is backed up, new box could be stood up if needed and restored from a backup. The other was, when I knock over the network (don't ask...), I don't lose logged data from the various sensors.

    If you did want to be able to fail over quickly, so long as you make the USB device paths match (ie, have them on the same device in proxmox), you should be able to swap things over inside 10 minutes.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • "Bots? No, no, those are active users. They also don't use adblockers, so they've better than regular users!"

  • HA compatible Z-wave controller?

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  • Is there a particular reason you want to put your z-wave controller on the network, rather than just plugging it into the proxmox hardware? (Assuming I've read your post correctly). Are you looking to do high availability on the VM or something?

    I found running HAOS in a VM, and passing through USB devices worked really well, and I just bought the bog-standard z-wave dongle from Aeotec.

  • Physical user interface

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  • I haven't had a single zigbee button need a battery replacement yet.

  • Coastal road swept away into the sea in Devon

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  • Plus, the terrain near the coast here is an absolute bastard for point-to-point roads. You'd struggle to make the alternative road any more efficient than the existing b-roads.

  • Despite being 9.1% of the population, Catholics make up 17% of the UK's prison population

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  • Does being catholic give you access to church time in prison? As that might be a nice perk that people would go for.

  • xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness

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  • Very accurate. When we had the northern lights here, we pulled over on the way to the dark-sky location, and the aurora filled the sky. After it died back a bit, we drove on to the dark-sky, where we spent 3 hours sitting in the dark working out if the green bits were going to spike up again.

  • Why the NHS still wastes billions on patients who shouldn't be in hospital

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  • The 2010s gutting of social services also contributed to this. Services that might have helped the elderly continue to live in their own homes, or supported in their community, got ripped up. So everything slides until they hit the one thing that can't be cut, a hospital bed.

  • How to add weather station

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  • A London-Style Pizzeria Is Coming to Peckham

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  • Overpriced and aimed towards tourists?

  • Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown

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  • This is one of the saddest signs of climate change. And it's visible to anyone willing to look. You see them bud and bloom in november/december, then get knocked back when it finally gets properly cold. Knowing full well they've used up part of the energy store they needed for actually blooming in the spring.

  • Their Friendica Server Costs Balloned to $233 a month

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  • That's crazy. I wonder what needed so much spending. I know that when the host costs for feddit.uk were looked into, standard cloud hosting was going to be significantly more expensive than a cheapie hetzner box.

  • Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

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  • I reckon culture-grown meat will be the big one that shifts people away from slaughter meat.

    Sure, growing it from a culture will still have people refusing on ethics grounds, but it's damned sight less suffering.

  • Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

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  • That was the conclusion I reached a little while ago. So I've just stopped eating shellfish as a result.

    I'm now trying to reduce the amount of cow I eat.

  • How to add weather station

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  • What type of radio is the weather station using? Are you pulling the data using RTL_433?

  • Reading, the biggest town. @feddit.uk
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    New hire at the MERL

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

    www.independent.co.uk /news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-statistics-numbers-five-years-eu-b2667149.html
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    (Someone else) Built an LCARS based doorbell!

  • Casual UK @feddit.uk
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    I bet they want milk and biscuits too.

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Government buys back 36,347 military homes to improve housing for forces families and save taxpayers billions

    www.gov.uk /government/news/government-buys-back-36347-military-homes-to-improve-housing-for-forces-families-and-save-taxpayers-billions
  • The Back End @feddit.uk
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    I'm not sure what voodoo went on in the latest upgrade, but site reliability is way up now

    lemmy-meter.info /d/GeoFE5WIz/instance-health-breakdown
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Water firms push for higher shareholder returns as Ofwat considers bills increase

    www.theguardian.com /business/2024/dec/03/water-firms-push-for-higher-shareholder-returns-as-ofwat-considers-bills-increase
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    Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies.

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c4gpl8r2e48o
  • And Finally... @feddit.uk
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    Milton Keynes ice rink has mobile phone frozen inside it

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/clyvm03ep7yo
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    Man arrested over theft of 22 tonnes of cheese from Neal’s Yard Dairy

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/oct/31/man-arrested-over-theft-of-22-tonnes-of-cheese-from-neals-yard-dairy
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    I run my firm from Spain to save on tax - a capital gains rise would hit us hard

    inews.co.uk /inews-lifestyle/money/saving-and-banking/run-firm-spain-save-tax-capital-gains-rise-3340242
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    Chris Kaba shooting: Firearms officer not guilty of murder

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c17lk592ygdo
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    Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cd7x17ljpzgo
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    Gregg Wallace: Masterchef host denies inappropriate sexual comments

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cgk76vxzvjmo
  • And Finally... @feddit.uk
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    Student finds scorpion crawling inside Shein parcel

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c39l3ex0mpgo
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    Britain was not the... wealthiest of Roman conquests

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    Starmer appears to call on Hamas to free the 'sausages' held in Gaza in conference speech – video

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/video/2024/sep/24/starmer-appears-to-call-on-hamas-to-free-the-sausages-held-in-gaza-in-conference-speech-video
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    Farage will not hold face-to-face surgeries

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cvgx9nyep7vo
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    Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October

    www.gov.uk /government/news/protection-zones-around-abortion-clinics-in-place-by-october
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    The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2024/sep/18/the-rise-of-britishcore-100-experiences-that-define-and-unite-modern-britons