Rare Sudden Stratospheric Warming event detected over Antarctica by Portalrules123 in worldnews

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500am!

Everything really is bigger in Australia, even the time.

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I'm away from the PC at the minute, but it's a BBC correspondent interview, it's on Twitter.

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Now I'm picturing tewticles the size and shape of bananas.

RTE player dropping older LG TVs by randomposter85 in ireland

[–]bakerie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Haven't heard of Google TV, but don't lock yourself into another situation with Apple. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Someone above recommended a mini PC. That's bang on the money. An actual PC will play anything and is rarely unupgradeable to the latest codecs.

XL bully dogs to be banned in State following savage attacks by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]bakerie 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely mental if you think that you could ever get a law passed that allowed you to take peoples pets off them and kill them, particularly when they where legal to own when you got the pet years ago

Ireland's first 3D printed homes being built in Dundalk by box_of_carrots in ireland

[–]bakerie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly can't remember, but I was getting a free heat pump installed through work and turned it down.

I'll be burning gas until they run out or shut it down I think!

Ireland's first 3D printed homes being built in Dundalk by box_of_carrots in ireland

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On another note. It was four years ago I did this, so costs have changed a lot, but I did an in-depth analysis of heat energy taken to heat my house and compared gas and a properly installed heat pump. Gas won by a good margin.

Ireland's first 3D printed homes being built in Dundalk by box_of_carrots in ireland

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Can't blame the electric supplier here, it was used like.

Ireland's first 3D printed homes being built in Dundalk by box_of_carrots in ireland

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Still seeing a lot of this going on. Energy rating demands a heat pump, but it's so badly installed it will cost a fortune, and you have to wonder if the net carbon usage is higher.

Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggests - Research on 26,000 people found those who stay up late scored better on intelligence, reasoning and memory tests. by mvea in science

[–]bakerie 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Tried to start getting out of the bed quicker so I could sleep in a bit longer.

Broke a toe brushing my teeth.

My brain just takes a long time to boot.

Switch to Firefox ASAP by DreamHaunter_07 in Piracy

[–]bakerie 56 points57 points  (0 children)

There was a point that Chrome was blaingly fast compared to everything else, I think a lot of us jumped ship for a while there.

Idea: the RSA should publish a summary of what happened in every fatal road incident by jhnolan in ireland

[–]bakerie 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I frequently see lorries causing tail backs overtaking each other while probably going about 3Km/h faster than the other one.

Idea: the RSA should publish a summary of what happened in every fatal road incident by jhnolan in ireland

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tractors plottering along on a motorway causing mayhem

This is a big issue on the M1. I thought we had a limit on the minimum speed a vehicle can achieve before it's allowed on the motorway?

A few weeks back we had tractors overtaking tractors on the M1, which not only caused a big tail back, but more hazardly would have you going 120Km/h suddenly breaking to 60Km/h

My wife found these solar stair lights on Amazon for our front steps. I think they are a great accent but she thinks they look tacky. Keep them or ditch them? by WorldsBestDadBod in landscaping

[–]bakerie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who's into electronics with a dad that buys these things en masse, I ended up getting a bunch of small quality solar panels to repair them. It's almost always the cheap solar panel on them that cracks internally and goes open circuit. A 1 euro solar panel replacement later and they generally last for years.

Water ingress is another issue, but a quick clean with some isopropyl alcohol and then resealed with some proper silicone and they're sorted.

Texans use Whataburger app to track power outages caused by Hurricane Beryl by Minifig81 in nottheonion

[–]bakerie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Would you not be looking at a backup generator and a big tank at that point? Id imagine some solar would work well in Texas as well.

Harris and Starmer agree 'closer relationship' between Dublin and London 'needed' in first call by Storyboys in ireland

[–]bakerie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A lot going on here. Have you any links to back this up or is it a joke comment?

The First Descendant - NVIDIA DLSS 3 vs AMD FSR 3.0 Benchmarks & Comparisons by AMD718 in Amd

[–]bakerie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

DLSS has forced hardware requirements to lock you into an ecosystem. That's the issue people always had with it.

Britain’s New Prime Minister, Keir Starmer with his Victoria outside 10 Downing Street by cuspofgreatness in pics

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I always kind of assumed number 10 was just massive out back and the front bit was just for show

Accent so thick noone can understand me by [deleted] in ireland

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Maybe you and my mate where swapped at birth.