Notices by Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org)

@gilesgoat @sinbad ignoring the we're-still-moving-in mess for a moment (I'll do proper photos when we're tidy), this is the beast we have in our living room. Regular sized sofa for scale haha. It's literally taller than me. 😁

There are then more regular sized fires in err... I think 3 of the other rooms. At least 2 of them aren't active though, unsure about the other.

There are also scorch marks on this carpet mind 😬

@sinbad the inner doors in this place are surprisingly effective actually. We at least don't need draught excluders I don't think. Would be useless on the main door too - the bottom is the only bit that's snug haha.

You had no central heating though? 😬

Presumably the fireplaces were all at least still active? Some of ours are, but I've not yet dared to try starting an indoor fire. Only ever had electric before and if you'd ever seen one of my firepits, you'd keep me away from the matches 😆

This house is old and leaky. Like, really leaky. There are no seals around doors or other modern novelties. Not even the main external door. The windows are all original single glaze sash, and the rooms are enormous.

Based on current usage, it'd cost about £800 p/m to keep it at a comfortable temperature throughout.

So... We're now officially entering whatever age group it is where slippers become a thing.

I think we're off slipper and sweater shopping tomorrow. 😬

Never owned either before!

This has been my connection for 10 days now, and that's only when I stand in certain parts of the house where I pick up a single bar of 5G.

Honestly starting to develop some sympathy towards people who just flip and begin a rampage.

Ric's weren't designed to have an offline mode! 😭

(obviously I don't actually endorse rampaging)

@sinbad we're in. 😁

Just the fish and rats to move over the weekend now. And some outside stuff that we wanted to deal with ourselves. Hiring movers has actually been really nice, despite also being really unsettling haha. Helps that the guys we got just turned out to be great people.

@sinbad ah be careful with that. I had a laptop with a failing SSD and after a while, it started giving disk errors on boot. Worked absolutely fine once booted, but the errors kick in before acpi does, so leaves your fans on full and the screen turned on etc until you press a key to continue the boot.

I got up SO many mornings to find Windows had spontaneously rebooted for updates, despite sleep mode, and just left the laptop burning up all night 😩

@sinbad this sounds way more like I've just been sitting here downing whisky for the last few hours. I promise I haven't 😂

Hiccup.

@sinbad never been a wine drinker, and I'm running out of whisky... There'll be a re-stock day scheduled in after this move for sure 😆

The movers arrive tomorrow to pack our whole house up, and there's a bunch of things that I need to do before they arrive, to make sure the things I need during the move don't end up in the back of a van. But instead, I'm building tax groups and rates into this ecommerce framework because deadlines exist.

Currently unsure which is more stressful. 😩

@sinbad I'm not fussed for smart lighting, but I do sometimes think Hive would be handy for heating controls. Gone away for the weekend? Use the app to turn your heating off. Set it to be generally off through the day while you're at work but you're heading home early for a change? Use the app to make sure it's warm for your arrival. I do like this idea...

But also, I work from home. I'm basically always home. Our heating is just always on anyway. 🙄

Now this is a more reasonable quantity of garlic 😆

@shibashecurity it's 100% a typewriter thing, but I don't now remember the specifics. Something to do with the carriage...

Anyway, it's old fashioned and there's literally no reason to do it anymore, but we're only a few generations on from the typewriting days so there are still people writing content who were taught to type by people who in turn had learned on typewriters, so still erroneously teach the old fashioned ways.

@Gargron you seem to be really enjoying Cumbria specifically. If you don't mind a somewhat terrifying drive, look up Hardknott Pass. It's Britain's steepest road and has lots of insane corners, most notably a hairpin turn where if you come off of the road, you're not going to be getting back on to it again (I nearly died there myself the first time I drove it, in a clapped out Ford S-Max, pitch black and heavy rain!), but there's the remains of a roman Fort there which is a must-see!

@kathhayhoe you're not allowed to discuss climate on Facebook?

Wtf kind of an algorithm is that? Wt actual f?

I'm genuinely gobsmacked.

Ffs.

@mike I'm in the habit of double clicking the first word, but keeping hold of the second click. This highlights the whole word and then you can drag around to select the rest one word at a time instead of individual letters. A true game changer that I don't think many know about!