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The landlord special in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is why I end up doing so much DIY.

A job that takes a professional half a day could take me a whole weekend.
But having to play "how likely are they to fuck it up, and how much of a pain will it be to fix" drives me up the wall so much, I often just buy the tool and do it myself.

My time to do it: 15 hours, plus £200 in materials.
Cheap tradesman: 8 hours, £450 total, non-zero chance I'll have to rip it out and re-do it myself anyway.
Specialist tradesman : 5 hours, £900-1200 total.

So it either ends up being lots of work, a gamble, or lots of money. Quick, good, cheap, pick two!

Stolen gold toilet was 'used by defendant at Blenheim Palace the day before raid', court hears in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is a very important line of questioning missing from the records: Did he do a poo?

what is your alternative to Gillete for shaving ? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just check the source of your blades.
My favourites (well, the cheapest decent ones) turned out to be from russia.

King Charles Downgrades Trump’s State Visit to Lunch with Prince Andrew in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And we discovered that he does not sweat.

Static caravan blocks Fen road in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

On the positive side, at least it didn't happen during the M3 merge!

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would also agree.

For digital media, you can tell with a scrub whether the data has been damaged, instantly. And if it has, you can restore from a backup where it hasn't.

If you pick a format that everyone and their mum can support (something MPEG2 and high bitrate in a broadcast grade format), you reduce the risk of people being unable to decode.

As for going digital>analogue for archiving...I'm wincing, and hoping that they at least kept the originals.

In this case, I'm guessing that they had a standard format they wanted everything in.

School tries to cover huge 65 foot penis on roof that is “visible from space”. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Great, isn't it?
Article about a German school, being posted on a medium dating after we went metric for everything except the silly things.
What unit do they use. Feet.

Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or they're used as a bargaining chip by the US.

Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

New cabinet pick for the US on its way, I guess.

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Remarkable how an industry working with a renewable resource is able to make sustainable money.

[Classic Bolognese Sauce] This 130-Year-Old Italian Spaghetti Sauce Is So Good, You'll Eat It Straight From The Pot in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle!

Feddit.uk fundraising launch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We have disabled old for the time being, as we were seeing silly amounts of load coming from it, for whatever reason.

The aim is to investigate/fix when we have time.

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BBC: UK Election 2024: Exit poll results (www.bbc.co.uk)
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BBC: No, UK weather is not being manipulated (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Final YouGov MRP shows Labour on course for historic election victory | YouGov (yougov.co.uk)
 

Some proper knife edge seats in there.

Ashford on a 0.08%. If 40000 people turn up, that's a margin of 32 people.

Or is that 16, since it's a swing? Either way, 10pm onwards will be interesting!

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Complete: Reboot at 11:00 BST 2024/07/03 (feddit.uk)
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This is for a security patch.

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Rees-Mogg tells young Tories he wants to ‘build a wall in the English Channel’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Old School RuneScape player says 'see ya at a million!' after pickpocketing 500,000 NPCs in a doomed quest for treasure under multiple self-imposed restrictions (www.pcgamer.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16957157

Eat_my_yarmulke is on a quest to complete the easy treasure trail collection log (OSRS lets players track the drops they get from the game's various activities via logs, which turn green when completed), but they're also operating under multiple self-imposed restrictions. For one thing, they're playing on Ironman Mode, which means they can't do things like trade with other players. Second, they're skilling, meaning they're deliberately keeping their combat level at its lowest possible rank.

So, that means they can't get clue scrolls from other players or from fighting NPCs. They have to restrict themselves to pickpocketing roaming NPC fascists. Even worse, they can't actually complete all the clue scrolls they pick up: some of them might have requirements like "Wear steel armour" that are beyond anyone deliberately keeping their defence stat low.

The cynical among you might be tempted to accuse our poor player of automating some of this hard work, but it's a claim they brush off on Reddit. In response to a player asking "how much the script cost," eat_my_yarmulke responded "First of all, rude. Secondly my Razer Naga Trinity was like 60 bucks at best buy and has held up very well to all the clicking, would recommend," and told another that "The pickpocketing itself would only take like a hundred hours but with completing the clues it's around a thousand for me."

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Shipley Conservative Sir Philip Davies 'bet £8,000 he would lose his seat' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Private car parks to offer 10-minute 'grace period' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Glastonbury Festival 2024 gates open to music lovers (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Suella Braverman still has 24-hour security due to threats (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Completed: System reboot at 1300 BST today (24/06/2024) (feddit.uk)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This shouldn't take long, hopefully this will clear a few of the cobwebs from last week's upgrades.

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Completed: Upgrade Downtime today: Postgres, 19.4, 19.5 (feddit.uk)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13627155

We're going to try to make the leap forward today. There will be some downtime while we attempt to do this. Rollback will be around 3pm if things are not working as expected.

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