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spiffotron

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    Comment #48020858

    I have always wondered if a heat pump is even worth it if you don't have solar, all well and good the government giving massive discounts on heatpumps but not for a combined heatpu…

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    Comment #47274173

    bisexual lighting?!

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    Comment #46076895

    this actually looks amazing as well, feels very vaguely a bit like classic macos

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    Comment #44939586

    I've used nextDNS for years but the past few weeks its been breaking websites left, right and centre so I gave up on it entirely. Everything feels much snappier since I dropped the…

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    Comment #44744469

    "have you ever done this indescribably niche thing, which I believe renders your argument null and void, but is in fact not relatable in the slightest?"

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    Comment #43862587

    I used to use raindrop however found it a bit bloated with features I never use, I've switched to selfhosting linkding: https://linkding.link and enjoy the much more minimal experi…

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    Comment #43862505

    I'd legitimately love to know why this has worked wtf

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    Comment #42857923

    “Claims to hate closed ecosystems but probably posted this from an iPhone” Stop knowing me

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    Comment #42838501

    This looks really nice

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    Comment #42838482

    I even have a Synology NAS and for some reason have never thought to use it for this

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    Comment #42838380

    Does anyone have any recommendations of a site or a self-hosted option for uploading photo collections? I’d love to share photos of our child with the grandparents but end up just …

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    Comment #42363904

    I use porkbun for all my domains, I’ve never had any issues and they don’t seem to gouge you on price for the smallest things.

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    Comment #42158076

    Religion being used to control people? Say it ain’t so!

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    Comment #41901164

    I am one of these people who recently created an account to give it a look. My entire feed was dominated by anime drawings and people eulogising how good Bluesky is because ???. I …

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    Comment #41706245

    Someone did it - October 1st 12:36AM

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    Comment #41645621

    I'd class Primark etc as fast fashion stores really - in my mind department stores are Harvey Nicks and Harrods etc

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    Comment #41644221

    I think UK and US department stores are actually very very different. UK department stores generally only stock super high end designer gear, and sales / coupons are very very rare…

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    Comment #41518004

    I have a feeling that 123 Healthy Street, Health City, USA is not actually a real place

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    Comment #38567543

    It happened at both work and home - my region was always set to United Kingdom and it would still decide I want localised Australian results sometimes. It may have been fixed since…

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    Comment #38566681

    As a UK user I find Kagi returns results from Australia far too often which is a super weird issue DDG used to have as well

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    Comment #36628181

    You very much can delete the app separately to Instagram, what a weird headline

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    Comment #36534291

    I mean I'd like to find a way to discover other people's websites who also just do it for fun rather than websites that seem to solely exist to scrape pennies and/or data from peop…

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    Ask HN: Is there a list of non-monetised, non-closed-ecosystem websites?

    I'm old and I have rose-tinted glasses for the good old days of the internet where everyone just made sites for fun rather than as "side hustles". Sites which didn't have monetisat…

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    Comment #35968019

    Being from the Uk this headline had a completely different connotation. I’m very disappointed it’s not actually about car boot sales.