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downtide | 5 years ago | on: Why Restaurants Are So Fucked

My local does not do food. But you can bring it in. So that is simply not true.

However, I do know some pubs that have mainly tried to become restaurants.

We once tried to run a small cafe/restaurant, with only about 8-10 tables. And it ultimately failed. After a few months we ended funneling the business to booze and coffee, with as fast a turnover as possible, which was not what the initial place was about. We were an original organic veggie food outlet. Raw ingredients were expensive.

This shattered previous dreams about running my own. But given a cheap ground rent, I might be tempted to give it a go again, but not really for profit. Totally and utterly fried me, very long days, mostly spent at the sink. Not glamorous at all. The co-owners ultimately had to trade up ethics and risk their homes.

We might have done better if deliveroo had been about then.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: Ryzen 4000 Review

I brushed off an old AMD motherboard. And did a quick CPU scout on Ebay to see what I'd need to pay for the greatest CPU of yesteryear. And for about a tenner, I could get AMD's best offering. But alas, it burnt many watts, and had barely any more grunt than my old Core2Duo in my aging laptop - so I doubt it is actually worth the bother.

I have hardware that is over a decade old, 'young' people scoff at anything over a few years old! But there's a sweet spot to be had where you can buy older, rather than ancient or new and save yourself a fortune.

That said, my latest console is a Gamecube.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: Dark mode for Stack Overflow

I prefer consistency. The system setting, is the best here. If my system is dark, go dark, if light, go light. At night, dark is great, in a bright room, light wins. Shifting between the extremes is horrid.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: i3 4.18

Shunting workspaces about is a great idea.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: Firefox 73

Using it with Nvidia/Gnome 3 on OpenSuse Leap 15.1. Screen jumped left repeatedly today, and I'm having trouble turning it off. Other than that seems to be okay...

downtide | 6 years ago | on: The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)

Just read the summary. For me personally a hot to cold shower isn't nice. But a cold shower although initially repulsive becomes very enjoyable. And when it ends the thaw feeling is magic. When you are freezing, even cold feels warm.

Some days I get so cold in my bones I feel a hot bath or hot shower is the only way to sort me out. If I'm proper dirty, a cold shower doesn't do.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

I have this odd contacts thing. Start there for calls and chats, or start with a call or chat then find the contact? Not so simple.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: Why So Many Londoners Live in 'Two-Up, Two-Down' Housing

There's plenty of space in the UK for housing. Just go up in a plane to look. The greenbelt curtails sprawl, and inflates housing value.

I don't think low-density has to even be that bad. Dumping the inner/town city road network would be a huge boon, freeing that space for green leafy walk/cycle/scooter/ways and parks.

downtide | 6 years ago | on: Why So Many Londoners Live in 'Two-Up, Two-Down' Housing

I think some of the earlier built flats are really good quality. With thick floors between too. Modern flats and houses in Britain can be built to very low standards. I watched a terrace go up near Bradford, with timber and stud walling between properties. Our bricked terrace is a nightmare with noise, but in those they must be able to hear each other fart.
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