Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

    • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
      3·
      6 months ago

      speaking of weather, if you have access to a terminal*, I discovered this the other day:

      curl wttr.in/<your region here>

      you can use lat/long, or town/city names - though obviously you’ll need to append _<country abbreviation> if there’s more than one of them in the world.

      I’d happily swap a couple days of our sun for a couple days of proper rain - ideally on even numbered days so I can still take advantage of watering my veges on the odd numbered :) Its 9am here and already cracked 21C with average temps hovering around that until Monday evening.

      (*if not just browse to it like normal its just slower)

          • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
            1·
            6 months ago

            Weird! How did you test that?

            Edit: or did you mean if it’s a rough location around multiple settlements, rather than what I assumed which is that it can’t find you on earth and shows you the coldest settlement on earth.

            • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
              2·
              6 months ago

              I was just trying various options /<townname> and when it it couldn’t find something it returns this location’s weather:

              Weather report: Oymyakon

                Freezing fog
   _ - _ - _ -  -34 °C
    _ - _ - _   ↓ 4 km/h
   _ - _ - _ -  0 km
                0.0 mm

              With a note:

               We were unable to find your location
 so we have brought you to Oymyakon,
 one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet.
  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    3·
    6 months ago

    Been trying to build up a resistance to sunlight. Spent 15 mins in the sun yesterday and almost got burnt.

  • eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nzEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I’m so glad I tinted our bedroom window last week, the afternoon sun blazing in usually makes it unbearably hot. Now it’s just plain hot even with the curtains closed. It’s a reflective tint so we also get some privacy as well as our neighbour is having some work done on their pool and have ripped out every single tree and hedge around it that was blocking the view from their two storey house. I’ve picked up more to tint the kids rooms this week too.