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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org what are you building now? The things you are mentioning I couldn’t even start wrapping my head around them! 😅 They sure sound expensive, tough.

Oh boy, I’m looking for trapezoidal (like ACME thread) screws and nuts in left hand form. The rods are already expensive, but nuts feel like a total ripoff. A hex nut for Tr20x2 being 30mm long and 30mm in “diameter” costs me 22 bucks! O_o Just a single one, made of regular steel. A meter of rod is 21€. The more common Tr20x4 hex nut is just 7€ and the rod 17€, but 4mm pitch is a bit much for a leadscrew for semi-precision work I reckon.

Well, maybe I just use metric threads. I will sleep on this.

One distinct disadvantage of (replyto:…) over (edit:#): (replyto:…) relies on clients always processing the entire feed – otherwise they wouldn’t even notice when a twt gets updated. a) This is more expensive, b) you cannot edit twts once they get rotated into an archived feed, because there is nothing signalling clients that they have to re-fetch that archived feed.

I guess neither matters that much in practice. It’s still a disadvantage.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club there has to be less reliance on a single point of failure. It is not so much about creating jobs in the US (which come with it, anyway), but about the ability to produce what’s needed at home too. What’s the trade off? Is it going to be a little bit more expensive to manufacture, perhaps?

Apple unveils its AI-enabled iPhone 16 with new camera controls, longer battery life
Apple’s new phones are slightly less expensive and more powerful and will arrive in a matter of weeks, though its generative AI features won’t be there at launch. ⌘ Read more

Apple unveils its AI-enabled iPhone 16 with new camera controls, longer battery life
Apple’s new phones are slightly less expensive and more powerful and will arrive in a matter of weeks, though its generative AI features won’t be there at launch. ⌘ Read more

Water Filtration
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This $18,000 bottle of Australian wine sold out before it was released
Ultra-premium wine collectors have snapped up a new commemorative bottle of Penfolds, but what is driving the hefty high price tags for luxury drops? ⌘ Read more

Disney Raising Prices for Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+ This Fall
Disney will soon increase the cost of its suite of streaming services, including Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+. Prices will go up for both ad-supported and ad-free plans, and some of Disney’s bundles will also be more expensive. Most plans are increasing by $1 to $2.

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Instant coffee prices set to increase as crops in Vietnam suffer yield loss
Instant coffee could become even more expensive as Vietnamese producers fear farming land in the country could be halved by 2050 due to climate change. ⌘ Read more

Supply down, costs soar for fruit and veggies as growers battle fruit fly measures
Shoppers wondering why capsicums, especially red ones, are so expensive can blame the weather at one end of the country and a single tiny fly at the other. ⌘ Read more

Create a Budget on iPhone, Mac, & iPad, with Numbers
Budgeting is a critical part of life and financial management, allowing you to easily allocate your income and manage expenses. While anyone can overcomplicate the budget process, it doesn’t have to be that way, and thanks to Apple software that is freely available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, you can easily setup a budget in … Read More ⌘ Read more

Create a Budget on iPhone, Mac, & iPad, with Numbers
Budgeting is a critical part of life and financial management, allowing you to easily allocate your income and manage expenses. While anyone can overcomplicate the budget process, it doesn’t have to be that way, and thanks to Apple software that is freely available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, you can easily setup a budget in … Read More ⌘ Read more

Australia’s nuclear ban ‘out of date’ with the world: Matt Canavan
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says Australia’s nuclear energy ban is “out of date” with the rest of the developed world.

Australia is the only G20 nation which prohibits the development of nuclear energy.

Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest doubled down on his opposition to nuclear energy, claiming it would take too long and be too expensive to implement.

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Why is an Australian tomato more expensive than a can flown around the world?
Shoppers have seen the price of local fruit and veg skyrocket, but canned produce remains relatively cheap. One expert says there’s several worrying reasons for this. ⌘ Read more

Why isn’t inkjet printer ink simply replaceable like the windscreen wiper fluid in our cars? Why does it have to be so expensive and complicated?

Why this year’s bumper berry crop is benefitting buyers but not necessarily growers
Several wet years and this month’s cooler, spring-type temperatures have been ideal for raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, but as prices drop at the supermarket there’s a real fear expenses will overtake profits for growers. ⌘ Read more

Cockatoos develop taste for world’s stinkiest fruit on Top End farm
The first durians of the season are fetching more than $30 a kilogram wholesale, meaning the cockatoos are “picking the most expensive fruit in town”, grower Han Shiong Siah says. ⌘ Read more

Will living with varroa mite make Australian honey and food more expensive?
Research into varroa mite is expected to surge after Australia waved the white flag in its fight to eradicate the pest from New South Wales, a decision that is also expected to increase beekeeping costs. ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: Funding
As promised in our ‘State of Snikket 2023’ overview post, and teased at the end of our first update post about app development, this post in the series is about that thing most of us open-source folk love to hate… money.

We are an open-source project, and not-for-profit. Making money is not our primary goal, but like any business we have upstream expenses to pay - to compensate for the time and specialist work we need to implement the Snikket vision. To do that, we need income.

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Solar Panel Placement
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Small-time fruit growers facing ‘death by paperwork’ amid expensive fruit fly protocols
Produce from small-time Riverland growers is disappearing from supermarket shelves as soaring treatment costs for the ongoing fruit fly outbreak risks allowing bigger businesses to muscle them out. ⌘ Read more

I bought myself a Tilley LTM6 hat. It was expensive and still feels a bit strange to wear because nobody wears hats here. But it’s comfortable even with my big head (I always have to buy XXL caps and helmets) and it protects my face and neck pretty well from the sun. And it comes with a lifetime warranty! ⌘ Read more

getting a new phone soon. Ill go for a iphone 14 this time. I have always had android, but Im a bit tired of it now to be honest, want something else. I will get the standard model. the others are way too expensive. I use it mostly for photos, so I hope its good (either way it’ll be better then what I have now).

@prologic@twtxt.net: I understand the benefits of using hashes, it’s much easier to implement client applications (at the expense of ease of use without the proper client). I must say that I like the way the metadata extension is done. Simple and elegant! It’s hard to design simple things!

This looks like an interesting audio player, a bit expensive but a good replacement for the phone

https://www.hidizs.net/products/ap80-high-resolution-portable-music-player

Hierarchies make people optimize for raising in the hierarchy, and accumulating power, at the expense of actually doing what the group needs. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity | Hacker News

Can Hong Kong’s next leader John Lee fix the city’s housing crisis?
Years of lethargy have set Hong Kong on its way to an entrenched housing crisis, with homes growing smaller but more expensive. ⌘ Read more

How the US’ Xinjiang labour law has crippled China’s cotton industry before even entering effect
Even though the Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act does not take effect until Tuesday, traders in China’s Xinjiang region say losses have been mounting for months, as buyers shun what was once prized as the world’s most expensive cotton. ⌘ Read more

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Hong Kong slips one place to fourth most expensive city for luxury spending as hotel rates take a huge hit from pandemic, Julius Baer report finds
Hong Kong is the fourth most expensive city globally for luxury goods and services, a notch lower than last year, as a dearth of tourists crushed hotel room rates, Swiss private bank Julius Baer says. ⌘ Read more

inflation benefits the debtor at the expense of the creditor. The real danger is deflation.

inflation benefits the debtor at the expense of the creditor. The real danger is deflation.

The complexity is a feature. It means standards can be replaced with products that let providers get their cut. It means putting data into the slowest most expensive database in cost and enviromnmental impact.

The complexity is a feature. It means standards can be replaced with products that let providers get their cut. It means putting data into the slowest most expensive database in cost and enviromnmental impact.

Wohoo! My budget expenses for November are balanced! Had €100 left even, and that goes straight into savings.

Bahn2GPX
For me, the best option to travel long distances within Germany is to take the train. I don’t have a car since July, but I have a BahnCard 50 for years, with which I get up to 50% discount on (unfortunately very expensive!) train tickets. ⌘ Read more

I genuinely hate looking at appartments in Paris, nobody ever responds, and everywhere I like is fucking expensive

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I keep going back ‘n’ forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what’s involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better yarn.social advocate. ^⨰^

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t automate anything but I have sensors in every room to warn me if the humidity is too high and one in the fridge to warn if it’s too warm/cold via xmpp message. It’s working pretty well and was not expensive. I have fhem running on a raspberry pi which also serves other services.

Jugaad is an attitude towards delivery which originated in India and consists of three simple tenets: Humility: use whatever works without prejudice Openness: keep your options open Frugality: small expenses keep regrets small Jugaad takes agile to the extreme – George’s Techblog

@dgold@dgold.eu I’ve heard a lot of people successfully run Linux on Macbooks. Never tried it myself as they are too expensive for me.

personal brands are Very Expensive Ghosts

The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365

13: expensive-looking. space runs some evil curlbash, return some similarly evil cmd line. have yet to find out what systems the other keys are supposed to infect, but I think I identified grub and plan9 already? whispers to itself at night. extremely cursed.

Only the best illusionists can cast illusions that fool themselves. Sounds academic but makes them highly sought-after - True Resurrection is expensive and settled inside a zombie brain, such an illusion is as good as any soul.

outtakes:↵* expensive will↵* will loans↵* if you’re not paying for your decisions, you are the product (of your decisions)↵* will isn’t free, the afterlife is for paying off your decision debt

Maybe the loss of net neutrality will revitalize interest in muni broadband projects, though they will be more expensive given the loss of common carrier status.

1. companies figure out that humans are expensive security risks and start doing without↵2. machine economy does not turn on humans, it just increasingly ignores them, humanity watches at the sidelines/bottom of the gravity well while the solar system lights up

Terraforming protip: Instead of sending your own bots (expensive!), uplift a local species. Their economy will do the rest.

Fractals ooze against the windows, notes frolic around the ship. Trip guides in silly shirts offer expensive freshly pressed orange juice.

In Fractal City, maps are intricate and expensive. And if you leave them unguarded, squatters will move in and turn them into territories.

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