Pardonnez moi, mon cherie

I want this as my phone background

Tom Scott has been in my life for the best part of 7 years and it didn’t hit me how much I would miss him until that montage at the end of his last video, where I was reminded of so much stuff. It really made me smile, laugh and then feel quite emotional because the weight of that chapter ending suddenly hit me.

Sometimes you can only really appreciate something when it’s too late. Tom put so much effort into all of his content. Far more than the average YouTuber.

That’s not to say he’s gone forever, which he clearly stated but I would love to buy him a drink and thank him in person for being in my life and entertaining me for all that time.

Who else immediately blinked after the title?

Love that! Thanks

Sorry this doesn’t help the issue but can someone tell me what the cat animated icon is because I think I need it immediately, thanks.

I’m in Wayland but that’s because I’m Intel Integrated. If it was Nvidia I might have leaned more towards X111

Yep I did this and then ran out of time and sold the kit at a huge loss

The second hand market for Lenovo laptops is usually pretty good. Lots of corporations have hardware cycles and recycle the things in huge waves. I’ve picked up an X230 and X270 for fractions of what they were worth new. Accessories too.

Recently I went through some pain with this myself. Had a full Heatmiser setup with wireless receivers in every room and 2 manifold controllers for our underfloor heating on two floors.

The devices ate batteries like nothing I’ve seen before and regularly dropped off the network and didn’t send call to heat signals properly, so I decided to switch out the thermostats for cheap ZigBee temperature sensors.

I then ordered a relay board from AliExpress with a baked in esp8266 cheap and flashed esphome onto it. These replaced my manifold controllers

After trial and error, I now have my heating system run by esphome and home assistant. It has been faultless! Will probably reinstall the Heatmiser kit if I sold the house though

Yep I thought the same after seeing 3 Tesla bashing posts one after the other in my feed. I don’t care for the brand but I also don’t want to hear about every single defect with them in individual posts.

I think the ‘technology’ topic is too broad and allows for this sort of shit slinging to happen too easily.

Did the same on my ThinkPad X270 last week. Went for Arch and everything worked out of the box. KDE Plasma + Wayland was a doddle too. Very happy!

It’s dual boot with Windows 10 for now but I think I’m ready to delete the Windows partitions already

I use S3 sync via the cli and use lifecycle policies to manage number of snapshots and deletion.

Some cool options for moving files to different tiers like cold and glacier but I don’t know enough about it or the retrieval costs to use it just yet

I’m really happy here.

Like many, I left Reddit after seeing so many great developers get shafted by one arrogant figure with a bunch of investors pulling the strings

Once I wrapped my head around finding an instance, I realised how interconnected the whole platform is and how much variety of content there is already. There’s a few smaller communities missing but I’m sure they will be here in time. I may even start one or two to get it going.

I don’t know how backups and longevity comes into it. Is that down to site owners? I worry we may lose a block of content one day with a server going offline.

It may be alarming having a whole bunch of people rock up from a sinking ship but I hope the majority of users dropping Reddit can bring even more great content to this platform.

Anyway, short version: thanks for having me, it’s great!