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hgazxon Spain bans offices, bars and shops from setting AC below 80 degrees (27C)

I live in the south of Spain and I can’t think of anybody who doesn’t own an AC.

hgazxon Spain bans offices, bars and shops from setting AC below 80 degrees (27C)

Interesting. I basically live at 30 degrees, even more, at all times. You get used to it.

hgazxon Spain bans offices, bars and shops from setting AC below 80 degrees (27C)

They force shopping centres to show a thermometer where it can be seen.

hgazxon Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius

Spain can solve all those problems by ourselves. If the EU doesn’t let us, then Spain must leave the EU.

Yes I mean Russia. I don’t give a shit what they are doing. What’s the alternative, buying liquefied gas from the USA? Have you been paying attention to what they’ve done the past decades? Lol

hgazxon Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius

This energy crisis is a self inflicted wound- people here have consistently voted for candidates that have refused to build nuclear, have put CO2 caps in place, have made enemies of everybody who could sell us gas, etc. They deserve everything that is coming to them. I have absolutely no sympathy for the prices that they are having to pay.

hgazxon Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius

The fact that we don’t have as much freedom as we should means we have carte blanche to keep taking freedom away from us? What an argument. A self fulfilling prophecy!

Yes we should have the freedom to keep our lights on if we want as long as we pay our bills. And if we want we shouldn’t have to build a ramp to our business. How are these things even something to argue about?

hgazxon Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius

Freedom is a good hill to die on.

hgazxon How prestige outlets get away with copypasta

That’s pretending that there’s prestige in being a student in journalism.

hgazxon Intermittent fasting 2 days vs. 1 day per week

Why is it called fasting when you’re allowed to eat 500 kcal ? I would’ve assumed it meant 0 cal

hgazxon Encoding issues in a spreadsheet received from digital collection donors

That happened because the xls file was opened with something other than excel. Accept no imitations!

hgazxon Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some want them gone

Mexicans are flooding America. Some want them gone

hgazxon Choosing PHP in 2022 and beyond

Php will never be able to shake off its legacy. It’s a lost cause imo. Which is a shame since it’s faster than most (all?) languages in common use for backend development of websites.

hgazxon “This game has been shamelessly stolen ”

His younger self probably thought that working on drm was more interesting than working on improving gameplay.

hgazxon TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

Use it for longer and it will eventually learn what you like. It’s full of small communities, like Reddit.

hgazxon TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

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Looks like it’s dropping anyway. Is there a more updated graph?

hgazxon Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)

The only thing I can think about when I read that is how terrible design was back in the day that there was so much empty space inside the case of a laptop that you could practically fit another laptop inside of it.

hgazxon The Best iPhone

Flagships are now so much better than when they costed $400. But don’t worry because there currently are phones that cost $200 and are better than what you got for $400 years ago, so you’re covered too.

hgazxon The Best iPhone

I’m not sure when the 14 will be released but I would wait if you can. It will be better at (most likely) the same price tag.

hgazxon The Best iPhone

No SafetyNet, so useless for some of us.

hgazxon Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

Which is precisely why most of them will stay poor forever: making terrible decisions over and over.

hgazxon West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres

Ban petrol cars is bringing votes from whom? I don’t know anybody who supports that.

hgazxon Upgrading what might be the oldest running Linux install

I wish those people would work on emerge.

hgazxon Lagâri Hasan Çelebi

I liked Mew better.

hgazxon Google Maps launches Street View in India

To develop Google maps you need to pay engineers a Google salary, which is impossible anywhere but America.

hgazxon Fake Dog for Home Security

I liked supervisor but I disliked how slow it was. Systemd is doing the same job for me now at lightning speed.

hgazxon Fake Dog for Home Security

What kind of area has a significant amount of kids walking into peoples garages and stealing stuff?!

hgazxon Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site

Calling something “anti science” is a boring overplayed trope by itself.

hgazxon ‘Zoe’ becomes the world’s first named heat wave

>Coming up next, names for cold snaps, tide surges, landslides and solar flares.

I assume that heat waves are now named by the mass media to give undeserved importance to the topic of global warming.

hgazxon Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

It’s not that profound. Humans have become addicted to sharing every moment of their lives through social media, and then watching what other people have shared. Most people no longer have time to themselves since they feel like if they don’t share what they are doing they aren’t doing anything. And if they aren’t doing anything they have to keep up with others (FOMO). Meta will only disappear when someone else creates an even more engaging and therefore malignant platform.