I reckon we need to have a threat to chat. About stuff. With reddit 'closing' for the next few days in some cases, and foreseeable in others, I felt like this thread was appropriate.
What are you all up to today? Anything interesting going on? I already know it's too hot.
I have been in a discussion with a colleague all day about the API controversy, instead of working. We have been talking about how Lemmy feels like what Reddit once was; a community of people that have interesting discourse around interesting topics, and not just an endless scroll of low effort posts and lower effort comments like 'THIS!', 'AND MY AXE!', or 'I ALSO CHOOSE THIS GUYS DEAD WIFE'.
I think I have been grieving the what Reddit once was for a much longer time than I realised. Lemmy feels like home, one that I haven't haven't been able to visit for years.
My husband has been following a discord channel of each sub going dark like he's watching the races. Chuckling about sub names and citing the user numbers/stats
I may have accidentally stayed up all night to watch the meltdown and am now dead. Worth it to be there for the moment /r/funny went offline though (at like 5am, omg I am too old for this sort of thing!)
Today is gonna be rough, I have to somehow perk up enough to record a YT video and seem like I'm happy about it.
What was there to watch? Genuinely curious - I would never have thought to do this because I assume that one minute there were jokes in /r/funny and the next minute it was just a message saying it was private? Or was there more to it than that. Good for you for staying up for it regardless - the world needs more people as committed to the cause as you!
Someone made a site to track in real-time all the subs going dark. On every hour, as new countries ticked over to midnight, there'd been a sudden spate of them all turning off and it was satisfying to watch but also kinda morbid and sad.
Then the site got hit by way too much traffic and wouldn't stay up, and he had to redirect everyone to watch a stream of it on Twitch instead. Which is now also dead because the last person fixing it when it broke had to get some sleep. There were 13,000 of us watching at one point last night.
It was actually pleasant this morning cycling to work, then I walked outside 15 minutes ago for lunch and it felt like the sun was trying kill me and the air trying to suffocate me.
Really thinking about investing in one of those ~£300 air conditioning units for home next year, as summers seem to keep getting worse, anyone tried those?
Portable Air-con unit is well worth the money! Bought mine about 8 years ago and it's still going strong.
Downside is remembering to empty the bucket you put the hose in to. Other than that I cannot fault it.
What make/model are we talking? I thought the portable ones weren't supposed to be all that great, and quite noisy? We've been making do with a big floor standing fan, but it only does so much.
Really thinking about investing in one of those ~£300 air conditioning units for home next year, as summers seem to keep getting worse, anyone tried those?
I'm waiting for one to arrive today! Hoping it will be a worthwhile investment
Really thinking about investing in one of those ~£300 air conditioning units for home next year, as summers seem to keep getting worse, anyone tried those?
I bought one earlier this year. It's life-changing, would recommend.
If you get a portable one, make sure you get the kind with two hoses. Otherwise you'll create a vacuum that will pull in hot air to the room you're trying to cool.
The second hose prevents that by using outside air instead.
Really thinking about investing in one of those ~£300 air conditioning units for home next year, as summers seem to keep getting worse, anyone tried those?
I'm not keen on the idea, air conditioning makes it feel even hotter when you go outside - and who wants to sit around inside on a hot day?
would agree, also air conditioning is part of the problem that keeps making every summer hotter. People in hotter countries don't use ac all the time, just drink cold drinks, keep the house shady with wind blowing through, etc.
What happened to the Gulf Stream? I learnt in school that the Gulf Stream kept our temperatures in a nice moderate range. Why did I have to run the central heating for most of May, then 2 weeks later open all the windows and keep the fan on all night? Where has the Gulf Stream gone and how do we get it back?
I think it's the inverse, the gulf stream (if I understand it correctly) keeps the UK warm as we are roughly on the same equatorial line as Canada/Alaska/Russia. Without it we'd likely be much colder in general which doesn't sound to bad right about now, though in winter it'd suck
I stay in the Northern Isles, believe me the gulf stream keeps our temperatures in a very moderate range. If you like it gray and damp the North of Scotland has you covered.
All I know about the Gulf Stream is that you can sense its influence at the Logan Botanic Garden. Just take your scary masks off first, if you want to avoid the police.
You can make cold tea, like coldbrew coffee. just put the leaves in a container and soak overnight in the fridge. serve with ice, very refreshing. To make it easier you can put it in a cafetiere, and use the filter from that to pour it out. Also tea is still drunk plenty in countries with much higher average temperatures.
Struggling to come up with ideas for dinner. Looking like it's gonna be another chicken fucking salad. Can't bear to cook anything over the cooker. Might even just get sandwhich stuff which has the benefit of being able to tell the weans to make their fucking own dinner for once.
I removed Sync from my phone homescreen and the reddit link on my browser bar.
Currently wondering how I'll see who else is too hot and if Celtic appoint a new manager (which makes me think someone needs to start a lemmy.scot instance for things like Scottish football..)
I was thinking of creating a Scottish lemmy instance, but someone seems to have bought both lemmy.scot and feddit.scot domains. I hope they actually do something with them, but seeing they have bought both of them, it doesn't seem promising. Any other .scot domain ideas would be nice.
Air conditioned office is a little bit chilly today, but at least all the bastard pollen is being kept at bay. Went to a park on Saturday and my eyes exploded.
Was paddleboarding yesterday and it was so nice just to slow down.
Its definitely a mixed blessing. My old office used to regularly get to 30+ degrees. This one has AC which does well to cool the room but everyone wants it a slightly different temperature.
Vented the flat last night so that it's mostly cool air. Shut the majority of the windows and blinds with some windows open on the shaded areas so it stays cool.
Seems to be working but it's still a bit 'ot.
Working from home today, fortunately the work laptop doesn't kick off too much heat. However, I'm having second thoughts on playing games afterwards. The amount of heat my PC kicks off is immense.
Need to find some courage to go out since I've run out of bread and cig papers...
I'm working unfortunately! We don't have air con and not much ventilation. I'm relying on my fan directly on me for the entire afternoon. Parked in a shaded area in hope that I don't take my skin off later when I get in the car 😂 Spent the entire morning doing the usual British thing, complaining how hot it is!
The heats not too bad with a fan tbf. As for what I'm doing today is work, but busy work as they don't really have a project for me to get on with since I finished this one faster than expected, and the next bit is delayed.
But otherwise sleep has been a pain as this year the hay fever seems to have activated my asthma which is fun. Oh and I have massive blisters and raw skin because Dr. Martens are way worse to break in than I anticipated.
I'm on the east coast of Scotland, and it must have rained last night, because it's muggy af outside. I think all the moisture is just evaporating. Walking outside is like going into our bathroom after my eldest has had one of his marathon showers.
My wife's away in Corfu this week with her mother, so I took the executive decision to book today off work. Bloody glad I did, because it's glorious.
Got a few bits to do around the house this morning, then I'm going to spend the afternoon in garden, under the gazebo with a series of cold drinks doing a bit of studying.
I feel like a pig in blankets, My bloody fan broke and today is the day where there is not even a little whisper of air!
I am dying! I need this heat to end... Winter please come back 😭
On the subject of interesting things... I feel like I should probably get every opportunity to sit out in the shade and enjoy a nice cool drink...
Later then some interviews. I feel so tired all I want to do is sleep right now but it's too awful to do that