It depends what packages you need, and what they have to interact with.

If it’s all standalone then no problem until the hardware degrades.

For example I had laptop (DOS/Win98 ) with a pcmcia network adapter with BNC 50 ohm coax network dongle, 9/25 pin serial/parallell ports, maybe p/s2 port, floppy drive and so on.

I can’t think what I’d connect that to I might have a parallell port on my PC, but on that laptop I think I only had laplink so I’d need a linux app to interact with that. I do still hve a floppy drive somewhere, but how to connect that to my motherboard?

So I’d probably be limited to keyboard and trackball input, and audio + (monochrome) video output.

lemmings on black and white, blurry, slow refresh rate would still “work” unless the hdd got corrupted.

Within a lifetime current gen wifi, usb, ethernet etc may all be as rare as 9 pin serial is today - it’s still around of course, but you cant rely on it.

Beta Testing Weenie cough I mean Best Tech Wizard

Yeah but make sure you get the high mocktane stuff, too weak and you end up with punypunk.

In the 1990s all internet data was transported by snails using these things called AOL CD-ROM packets.

With the TC-AOL-CD-ROM protocol, you had to keep on gluing a copy of the same CD to another snail every day and sending it off to the recipient, until you get one back confirming the reciept.

If you do enough annoying wordplay to cause enough people to boil over with anger you can get Punpunk.

Every problem is a nail if you hammer it hard enough.

noobuntu vs arch-hole

Haha, i’d write a thousand pages of documentation before entering ticket hell. I fact I do put a lot of information into the ticket - they still won’t read it though and i’ll have to repeat myself 15 times to 5 different people.

The solution to this problem. . . I have no idea, but I’m sure they’ll appoint another delivery manager who will get hired by the ones who already know fuck-all to know less than them.

I’ve found that the few managers who want documentation, get documentation, and the others who want tickets and “story points”, get tickets and fictional bullshit - in general.___

Some cafes will do it - not as standard, but a few - maybe try the ones trying to be 1-up from a greasy. https://seahousescafe.co.uk/the-breakfast-menu

As will many hotel breakfasts, there’s often little single serving marmite things in with the single serving jam packets. I’d say about half the hotels i’ve stayed in with decent cooked breakfast have had it on offer.

I’ve also seen it in little roadside food van / trailer type things too.

Anyway, you want sainsbury’s yeast extract instead of marmite, it’s way gloopier and nicer tasting.

Royal Order Trebuchet Flatten Levant

radioactive cheese

I only use my Erin Friar these days.

Flatbed scanner, or photo with grid paper in background.

Warp it until the gridlines are straight.

I don’t know how to do the last part - I suck at photoshop.

Hmmn, the version of England that i live in is filled with cheapskates and incompetence.

I remember the uk govt having to rapidly rewrite a whole section of the the MCS to address heatpumps. due to widespread under sizing, and poor installation / system design. Sure you can get quiet ones, if you pay even more.

The govt and the HP manufactures like to do their CBA on a “best case”, “minimum viable spec”, herioc assumptions about insulation/remedial work, and minimal retrofit costs. Oh sure they “can be quiet”; but what price was assumed in the CBA? not the “silent” model that costs a few £k more.

Whole new build estates were built with inadequate systems - there’s no excuse for not getting the sizing right on such a development as the overhead of an engineer is nothing, but of course they cheaped out; save £5k cost per house. Fuck the buyer ; they can pay for all the rework, and all the immersion heater uptime in the meanwhile.

It is totally reasonable to warn people of cost overruns, poor performance and massive remedial work with heat pump installs in England since inadequate installs and uderspec systems have happened and will continue to happen whenever a customer chooses the midpoint estimate. You need to tell them get at least 5 quotes and expect to pay the second highest or something. And they need to be vigilant that they actually get the output spec that they pay for.

If they tell people these things are “cheap”, then many peple will think that means they can take a cheap quote. It’s true that they can work, but the system needs to be designed and sized right - and this is likely to mean an awful lot more expense than a gas boiler that peple are used to.

I saw a youtube video where they remediated an inadequate install - they basically doubled the power rating, and installed several extra bits and pieces, must have been at least double the original cost - but they never gave the cost of the new system or the remedial work. This makes me very suspicious they just threw £30+K worth of stuff at the video as an advertising cost.

Finds ways to get people to pay for lead poisoning.

+1. and yes use the wiki not the install script.

I think theres value to anyone with a genuine interest if they just have a go at an archinstall - I think they can setup most things of interest in a Qemu(vm), or a spare partition, or even a usb or something. Theres nothing to lose but time. I’d recommend the user knows enough about their disk setup and their incumbent boot manager so as not to screw up their main os. Though i’m very tempted to say that’s a rite of passage.

Of course everyone already has a regular backup(s) which contains some sort of list or script for all the software, configs and tweaks they normally do. If not - well another rite of passage.

No idea. The ‘typical meterological year’ is likely smooth some extremes - that will likely have less variance than any actual year. Maybe the geographical resolution is poor leading to more averaging. But that sounds a bit large of a difference to be just that. Was the total annual production way out?

Check some other tools , maybe a local one - another one might have better data on some things. Some consensus of several estimates might be better than relying on one calculator only.

It’s very circumstantial, slope and orientation make a big difference. so it has to be a calculator where you put in specific information.

I think this does it: https://pvgis.com/

There’d nbe loads of others. I’d expect most reputable solar installers aimed at residential to have calculators, or recommend one as part of the planning process. Maybe with localised assumptions. There’s one from a govt funded body in my country that makes cost and price assumptions too tand gives a ‘return on investment’ guess.

I hope Cyprus can at least agree on Cu.

Dozens of lemmings were left stunned and confused today as ‘Flying Squid’ revealed that they are in fact a hammerhead shark with a few tentacles glued on.