Right? The ships are quite cavernous. You’d think the cabin air would last them more than half a second lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfCjxZE0YgI

True. That’s just what the water company here recommends if your dwelling is going to be unoccupied in the winter. That, and draining the hot water tank (though in this case, I’d just be relying on the gas not going out).

The good thing about having two dogs is that they’re cuddly space heaters who occasionally fart. lol

I actually do have an emergency plan for this scenario. Back corner of the finished basement is the most insulated part of the house, so it’s where we go in weather emergencies (tornado warnings, etc).

Yeah, if I think the house is going to deep-freeze, I usually just shut off the service valve, drain the water out of the pipes (open a faucet upstairs and one downstairs), and wrap a blanket around the valve to try to keep it from freezing. If it gets to that point, I’m usually looking to abandon ship if possible to somewhere more hospitable.

migrate items from your fridge to the garage or yard or a balcony.

During one outage at my old house (where power outages were very common), I was bored and piled up a bunch of snow on the patio and made a snow fridge with shelves and everything. lol. Worked great.

I do keep jugs of water on hand in the basement for emergencies, but yeah, good call to move them somewhere with less heat loss in events like this.

Thankfully, everything came back up after just about an hour, so warm and toasty now.

Ugh, same. Just have not had the opportunity (read: money) to have everything re-insulated.

I still have gas hookup since I haven’t upgraded my hot water heater to the heat pump one yet. I was going to have all that removed eventually, but I may keep it and put a vent-free gas fireplace downstairs.

Yeah, a whole house genset is on my list. I have a small one, but it can’t run my heat pump; it’s mostly just used to keep my servers and fridge running.

I live near a few important things and am on the same part of the grid as them, so unless it’s a very local outage (basically on my street), then it usually gets fixed pretty quickly because the important things are also down. So that’s kind-of kept me from really making a generator a priority.

The good news is the whole series Bluray release comes out on March 25 and looks like it’ll be between $50-60.

I’d go further and demand that the team I’m hired for re-write the app completely and not just re-engineer it from the AI slop codebase.

You gotta watch it.

The penultimate episode literally made me squeal out loud, and I’m about the most stoic person you’ll ever meet.

Lol. Touché.

That just seemed like something my friend would send me. She finds all kinds of r/CrackheadCraigslist things on FB marketplace and knows what I’ll laugh at.

FB marketplace?

My dyslexia initially read that as “plump and dumb” which is also accurate.

Don’t forget AI is now the term for anything a computer does.

That’s one of my biggest pet peeves when I’m interviewing new hires. They’ll say things like “In my previous position, I wrote bots for [business purpose]”.

Bot? No, you wrote a script. I realize it’s a matter of semantics, lol, but words have meaning.

Totally forgot about the Borg, but I guess I never really thought of those as mech suits.

I was just thinking about that! I want to say no since it was basically a fancy space suit that could open wormholes for time travel. I don’t recall it having any features that we typically associate with mech suits.

Aside from Melora’s assistive pseudo-exoskeleton from the self-titled DS9 episode, is this the first mech suit in Trek? I don’t recall any prior, but my memory isn’t what it used to be lol.

It really was. I was excited about new tech back then, and what it could do for me.

Now? Everything has to be “smart” and tied to the cloud, pointlessly tied to a subscription, has to harvest data about me, and is generally working against me on all fronts.

At some point between the mid 2000’s and today, I went from a hardcore tech enthusiast to a quasi-Luddite.

That’s a valid point, but I’ve come to learn the Lemmy devs are only going to do what they want to do when they want to do it. With the exception of obvious bugs or security issues, I’ve just stopped reporting issues to them; not worth my time.

This RFC is just about how to present the information returned from the API (activity pub is not involved at this level) and trying to be consistent with other apps in how they do so.

Example being the spoiler tag. That’s implemented in most clients as a custom markdown container - there’s no ActivityPub model for that, only how the markdown text is rendered.

Further, if the activity pub collections is added, the rendering for the gallery wouldn’t even need to be changed much, if at all. Essentially, I’m not trying to let perfect be the enemy of good.