N0b3d

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Controlling heating (lemmy.ml)
 

I have a (non-automated) gas fired boiler supplying my heating. It comes on before I wake up so the house is nice and warm for me when I crawl out of bed.

I also like the bedroom to be warm at night when I go to bed, so the radiator is on in the bedroom.

What I don't like is waking up in a room that's too hot.

So is there some way of controlling the TLV on my bedroom radiator, maybe turning it down overnight? I know I could just remember to turn it down when I go to bed, but the plain fact is that I don't.

When I explained how the vaccine works to an antivaxxer, they asked about the thousands of people that died right after taking the vaccine. in c/coronavirus@lemmy.ml
[–] N0b3d@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Punch him in the face.

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Why is Ubuntu packaging so shit? (lemmy.ml)
 

Of course, that presupposes that you agree with me that it is shit. Okay, well, if you don't, you don't.

Look. When I install a new system I do not want a screen reader. I do not want fonts for umpteen different languages that I didn't even know existed, let alone be able to read or write in them. Yes, all of those people that need those things should be able to install them, I don't disagree with that at all, but why the hell are they foisted on the rest of us, gobbling up disk space for zero reason?

It gets worse.

I'm not allowed to uninstall ubuntu-advantage-tools despite not having Ubuntu Advantage, because if I do so I'll find that I'd lose the ubuntu-minimal package, amongst other things, which is "used to help ensure proper upgrades" and you're warned you shouldn't unindstall it.

Of course ubuntu-advantage-tools is just one thing, there are... let's just say "many" packages which you just couldn't live without (because if you tried to, a whole bunch of packages that you actually couldn't live without would be uninstalled as well. Like the GNU C pre-processor. Why? If I'm not doing C programming I don't want it. It's that simple. But great gobs of the system apparently rely on it. Or gcc. A running system relies on a fcking compiler. F. R. O.

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K-9 Mail replacement? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've been using K-9 for some years now. Today, some idiot (i.e. me) decided to update it through F-Droid. The new version is.... horrible. It feels like MS Lookout or some such sh...thing.

Can anybody suggest a replacement that just does basic email and doesn't have some kind of "slick" UI? Thanks.