GreatAlbatross
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
- Comment on I built a Home Theatre for the Price of a Soundbar, and it SLAPS! 20 hours ago:
So long as you have the space for a receiver, it should be the first thing anyone buys for home cinema.
It gives you so much flexibility.
And since everyone is gradually upgrading their non UHD ones, you can get a receiver with HDMI switching for very little now. - Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
Bumble bees do not produce large amounts of honey.
They keep enough food for a couple of days bad weather, but otherwise they don’t overproduce at all. - Comment on Rail freight scheme sees 64,000 less lorry journeys in first year 3 days ago:
One of HS2’s huge benefits will be taking large amounts of passenger traffic off the ECML, freeing it up for more freight.
(Which is why I get grumpy when headlines scream “it’ll only save 30 minutes”: It’s not the only reason!)
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 6 days ago:
VAT on meat you say…
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 6 days ago:
And expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.
“Minister, we have a cunning way to lower the speed limits, and go metric, at the same time…”
- Comment on Typhoo Tea teeters on the brink of administration 6 days ago:
But how will I get an “ooh” now?!
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 6 days ago:
I mean, we should be able to interact with mastodon via fedipub, right?
If we had a separate server, it might be messy, as then there are two sets of accounts.
- Comment on Any hope of ‘getting Britain working again’ must not demonise people on welfare 1 week ago:
I’d say the conservatives do a pretty bang up job treating disabled people badly.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 1 week ago:
I’ll keep an eye on the feddit.uk applications for grauniad@theguardian.com in that case!
- Comment on You have hell yeah! friends 1 week ago:
I once changed a friend’s autocorrect from “regards” to “lots of love”.
And I somehow managed to keep my mouth shut long enough for a lecturer to get a very funny email.
- Comment on It's a way of life for us. 2 weeks ago:
This is me right now.
I’m deciding whether to buy the £250 UHD player, and £400 receiver to justify the TV, despite the perfectly good HD player and receiver sat under the TV. - Comment on Police investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand hand file to CPS 2 weeks ago:
20 years, for a more serious answer.
I found it frustrating at school when my history teacher finished at Afghanistan, with no discussion on how it related to the current situation.
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- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
Big bus.
We know they’re paying you off with day savers, don’t deny it! - Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
I can only speak from a UK perspective, but most home ADSL/VDSL/Fibre providers don’t have limits, other than “if your usage is tanking the network, we’ll ask you to knock it off” type clauses.
Most providers are also signed up to an agreement that if your speed drops 50% below the agreed speed on the package on average, they’ll either give you refunds, or let you out of the contract.
The only ones that throttle are the bargain basement operators aimed at people who don’t care, and one otherwise very competent provider that for some unexplainable reason only gives 1TB by default, charging an extra £10 for 10TB.
And I guess there is also a pricing step up to guaranteed bandwidth. For business use, they tend to be things like 1gbits headline, 500mbit guaranteed burst, 100mbit guaranteed sustained.
- Comment on #notaseagull 4 weeks ago:
From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.
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- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 4 weeks ago:
He was made sticky by vicky.
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- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-12: DVD takes nearly half the pie, while Blu-ray and UHD share just over a quarter piece each! 4 weeks ago:
I think for a lot of people, DVDs hit the spot in the same way CDs did: Quality that was good enough to never think about again.
Glossing over how CDs are at the limit of human hearing, and DVD isn’t close to the limit of vision, imagine the average person with a £300 TV across the room, using TV speakers, and maybe not wearing their glasses.
For them there isn’t that much difference getting a BD/UHD, other than occasionally noticing the 25/24hz speed up. - Comment on Altered the timeline 5 weeks ago:
That doesn’t sound very typical.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 5 weeks ago:
The way to tell so often seems to be if someone has called it AI or Machine Learning.
AI? “I put this through chatgpt” (or “The media department has us by the balls”)
ML? “I crunched a huge amount of data in a huge amount of ways, and found something interesting”
- Comment on Universal will be releasing "THE WILD ROBOT" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 3. 5 weeks ago:
Same here. Kinda crazy that it’s releasing so fast on home media, but I get it.
Going by the reviews, it has a good chance of being a family favourite, so getting it out the door for xmas makes sense.I’m also refusing to watch the trailer, surprises are fun!
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 5 weeks ago:
You’d need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!
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- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
I like to think of it like a passive action that helps handle the smaller amounts of moisture (humans breathing, cooking, laundry), but also an action that helps reduce the problems of acute issues that occur. That way, when something does happen, there is at least a dampening effect while the leak is fixed.
Leaks and rising damp still need to be addressed, obviously.Examples are things like vermiculite render on the outside, Steico/Wool batts as normal insulation.
The downside is, it’s expensive. The insulation is only as good as fibreglass/rockwool, and costs about 3x as much.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 1 month ago:
There is another thing that I sometimes talk about on here, breathability.
You either need to prevent any moisture moving in any direction, or allow vapor to move with breathable materials.
Ones that allow water vapor to move, but not liquid water.Older buildings, where the original materials were breathable, should ideally continue to use breathable materials. This prevents issues with water wicking through one old surface, then getting trapped behind another. It also removes the risk of damaged or badly designed vapor barriers allowing things through, as the materials themselves help get the moisture out as a passive action.
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 1 month ago:
They’re also changing the way you get money after someone buys something.
eBay balance, apparently. So by default, when a transaction happens, the money stays in eBay, and you have to manually transfer it out, instead of scheduled timed payouts.
- Comment on Anon takes a driving test 1 month ago:
And also that you communicate that you’re aware what you’ve done, and how you’re going to continue.
I did it on mine, and said “I’ve just come off at the wrong exit, so I’m going to just continue along here.”
Examiner said it was OK, and just directed things back onto the route at the next junction. - Comment on A Next Generation Approach to Heating and Cooling Buildings 1 month ago:
Building wide generating and averaging absolutely makes sense.
It needs tighter regulation though. As when you have apartments that are effectively tied to a provider, protections need to be in place to stop ridiculous energy price hikes and maintenance charges.