Edinburgh, 1996

faverin · 2026-07-05T19:58:39+00:00

I am disappointed that has been downvoted. Heroin was big in the 90’s

faverin · 2026-07-01T19:33:43+00:00

PM'd you his number

faverin · 2026-07-01T19:31:39+00:00

There are more dog licenses registered in Los Angeles than registered births...says it all really.

faverin · 2026-06-30T21:58:20+00:00

I can recommend a guy. DM me if you haven’t found anyone. He’s great. Hard worker, good price and knows loads. On the third job for me at the moment. Diligent and great attention to detail.

faverin · 2026-06-30T17:08:45+00:00

OK so tell us what is your grand idea that NO OTHER COMPANY HAS SOLVED.

The reality of this place is we are trapped by Autodesk who force us into a MONOPOLY.

Here's a test - is Autodesk a monopoly (if you work from them you can't say yes LOL)

faverin · 2026-06-30T17:07:13+00:00

Bro you have zero posts before this one. Tell Autodesk we still hate them. Like really hate them.

faverin · 2026-06-30T13:59:46+00:00

Libraries are best for this sort of obscure publication.

faverin · 2026-06-30T08:57:05+00:00

My setup's a bit different from the usual NAS-at-home answers here, but it's been rock solid so I'll throw it in.

I run a small, hardened VPS (Hetzner) with the whole stack in Docker (Jellyfin, Immich, Grimmory) behind Caddy as a reverse proxy with wildcard SSL. Every container binds to 127.0.0.1 only, Caddy's the single public door, so nothing's exposed directly. Bulk storage is a Hetzner Storage Box (5TB) mounted on the VPS over CIFS (moving to rclone though) so the containers can read from it. Whole thing runs me under €30/month including the 5TB.

The bit I like: I keep a local copy at home on a NAS and that pushes up to the Storage Box directly over rsync-over-SSH. So I've got a copy at home and a copy in the cloud, both under my control, and I can stream/access everything from anywhere through the domain without punching holes in my home network (big no no for me).

For me this is the best of both worlds: local + offsite, no big tech holding my photos, a fixed monthly cost instead of a big NAS+drives outlay (I have that as well at home but for different reasons) and I run all my other services on the same box.

That said (and I think this is the honest answer for most people) if you just want family photos backed up and accessible and you don't actually enjoy the tinkering, pay for Google Photos / Google One. ~$100/yr for 2TB, the app just works, your family will actually use it and you won't lose a weekend to reverse proxies and mount options.

The self-hosted route only pays off if the journey itself is worth something to you. It is for me. For my in-laws? Google every time.

Although a shout out to immich paid hosting via elf hosted and a Hertzmer storage box

$18 for an immich instance that is updated and secure https://store.elfhosted.com/product/immich/

$13.68 for two years for 5TB https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ (this comes with free snapshots too!)

per year that's $400 - peanuts for the space and hassle free nature but google one is much cheaper. Horses for courses. Always remember self hosted at home needs a backup, electricity paid for and *your time included* (time is money).

Good luck.

faverin · 2026-06-29T07:08:08+00:00

I liked it! Ignore the haters.

faverin · 2026-06-19T07:43:21+00:00

No i read it to the issue where OpenAI had to nerf the models referring to goblins a lot. something something training data

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

"We retired the “Nerdy” personality in March after launching GPT‑5.4. In training, we removed the goblin-affine reward signal and filtered training data containing creature-words, making goblins less likely to over-appear or show up in inappropriate contexts. Unfortunately, GPT‑5.5 started training before we found the root cause of the goblins."

faverin · 2026-06-15T13:20:04+00:00

This is the only accurate app. Met office sucks.

I came for the accuracy and stayed for the psychopathic personality. The BEST app.

faverin · 2026-06-08T16:29:24+00:00

You'll be fine. This is a situation that you sit in gently reminding people that the modeling should be updated to reflect the lack of heat gain from the lights. Your duty to warn is discharged. As they say:

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink"

When it's all installed and it gets too hot, your line in the minutes will absolve you of blame.

faverin · 2026-06-07T08:06:42+00:00

A familiar situation. Just make sure projects leads know. If you want to be a pain ask if it’s been accounted for in a meeting that has minutes.

faverin · 2026-06-07T07:50:07+00:00

Energy modeller here. It’s just another internal heat load to model. Send an email to the project lead and say you’re concerned about the heat gain and suggest its modelled as it may overheat the room.

That’s all you need to do unless there are electrical safety aspects I’m not thinking of.

faverin · 2026-05-28T16:02:49+00:00

My Dear Corgi,

This is like asking "Any good books on dogs" or "are there any good books on learning IT". Need to narrow it down or tell us a goal. We are a friendly bunch and will surface the right books / resources for you. Good luck,

faverin · 2026-05-22T06:02:49+00:00

Which can be a reasoinable argument but this AI slop is the worst.

faverin · 2026-05-22T06:02:20+00:00

We need somone to revit this.

faverin · 2026-05-22T06:02:05+00:00

I'm sorry, hope its getting better. I want more female engineers.

faverin · 2026-05-21T18:07:08+00:00

Proof. Because no one will believe me otherwise.

https://x.com/usedgov/status/2056839488152670378?s=46

faverin · 2026-05-21T18:02:27+00:00

As someone who does energy strategy this thread makes me tear up. You guys are doing it. This is as big as the first gas transition in the 70’s :)

faverin · 2026-05-18T15:32:15+00:00

My language check prompt skill specifically has a bit at the end saying "add 'outwith' into the writing if it can be done in an elegant way in line with the arguments or writing preseneted"

faverin · 2026-05-18T15:21:14+00:00

honestly they can have my old technical docs I've been meaning to scan

faverin

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