For the same reason big hair can make someone look crazy. They make you look unkempt.

Sadly Lidl trollies in the UK doesn’t. At least not at my local.

Their trollies used to have plastic hooks fitted to the front of the trolly, but they’ve been removed for some reason 😪

They could be upgrading hosting infrastructure - sometimes this requires servers to be shut down or restarted. They might also be applying database changes such as migrating data from one server to another, or updating the structure of the database to improve performance or support new features.

Honestly, there are quite a number of reasons for planned downtime.

Unplanned downtime is a different story. Usually that’s because something unexpected went wrong and there will be engineers trying to get things back up and running ASAP.

Thanks! I’ll try this next time when I get one of these popups.

One really practical way to learn some new recipes is to use a recipe box service like HelloFresh or Gousto.

They deliver a box with all the required ingredients and easy to follow recipe cards.

For anything that you make & enjoy, you can keep the recipe card and cook it again using store bought ingredients.

These recipe boxes regularly have deals and promotions (e.g. 60% off, refer a friend, etc.) so it doesn’t have to be too expensive.

Or if you don’t want to order one at all, it’s worth knowing that HelloFresh make all their recipes available online for free. So you can download and print off any that you like the sound of, without ever even ordering one of their boxes.

looking forward to finding a proper solution

To the contrary, I think you have a solution in search of a problem.

Your solution is smart contracts, and you’re asking us if we agree that your cloud storage example would be a good use case for that solution.

Does anybody else find Tom Scott annoying?

I love channels that deep-dive into the details of things, etc. But I’ve always found Tom to be so smug and patronising.

Is it just me?

This is worse than the time Elon Musk bought Twitter and ran it into the ground.

To be honest, I think whichever approach you take is unlikely to have a significant effect on how much energy your website uses overall.

For example, servers in datacentres are very powerful and are able to run more than one thing at once. So if you were hosting your own Lemmy/Mastodon instance, there’d be no reason why you couldn’t also host a standalone website on that same server. The difference in energy usage would be negligible.

In contrast, you could argue that Lemmy is less efficient than a straightforward static website because the content of your blog posts will inevitably end up being federated to many other instances. That means multiple copies of your blog will be transferred between multiple servers and stored on multiple hard drives, etc. Whereas a static website lives in one place and doesn’t end up using so many resources.

At the end of the day, whichever you choose will likely have very little impact. So I wouldn’t worry too much about your blog’s green credentials.

I’m saying this as somebody who is pro protecting the environment, but also pro prioritising our efforts in the places they’ll have greatest impact. You’ll probably have a bigger impact by walking to the store instead of driving.

This is where I have to give credit to modern WiFi routers and mesh access points.

The ones I’ve owned most recently allow you to switch off the LED lights in the admin control panel. I can even set them on a schedule if I want them on during the day (to indicate status) and off at night (so I can sleep).

Much better than old routers which used to flash whenever data was being broadcast.

Well, you could be on to something there. Postman Pat didn’t present BBC News at Ten last night, like he usually does. He must have been suspended and taken off air.

Yeah, plus he’s always up early in the morning. Just when day is dawning.

Isn’t that a little sus? Why’s he creeping around like that while everyone else is asleep?

Monday night’s BBC News at Ten was presented by Reeta Chakrabarti.

Given the Snapchat photo that’s been trending on Twitter today – it seems increasingly likely to be Huw!

Yeah. Honestly, I’m still not sure I understand it. ELI5?