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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
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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.