2025-01-17 14:20:06 <veltas      > After the 1666 Fire of London, the 1667 Rebuilding Act of London, proposed that all new buildings must be made of brick or stone, to prevent spread of fire
2025-01-17 14:20:58 <veltas      > Just an interesting fact, no reason for sharing
2025-01-17 14:22:20 <veltas      > It's often stated that we over-build houses in this country, I wonder if the reason for using bricks in most new builds even today was because of events like the Fire of London?
2025-01-17 14:23:25 <veltas      > Actually after WW2 we built a lot of prefab houses cladded with asbestos as both insulation and fire protection, almost all dismantled now
2025-01-17 14:33:26 <xentrac     > I lived in an asbestos-tile-siding house
2025-01-17 14:33:55 <xentrac     > in San Francisco, in the 21st century
2025-01-17 14:57:10 <veltas      > 50's build?
2025-01-17 18:03:03 <KipIngram   > Looks like someone had read the three little pigs.  :-)
2025-01-17 18:03:23 <KipIngram   > It's interesting to watch the back and forth between "quality is good" and the more corporate "cheap is good."
2025-01-17 18:03:54 <KipIngram   > Probably comes down to whether or not the person building the house (or saying how it gets built I guess) is the one who's going to live in it.
2025-01-17 18:05:09 <KipIngram   > For a while in the 1960's or so we put aluminum wiring into new homes here in the States, but then there were some fires.  I don't even know if the aluminum was really responsible for those, but it got the blame and we went back to copper.
2025-01-17 18:05:48 <KipIngram   > May have just been a combination of the aluminum and a lack of knowledge at the level of individual electricians of the steps needed to accomodate that change.
2025-01-17 18:07:55 <KipIngram   > Completely unrelated - blueman seems a lot nicer to me than the OS-shipped bluetooth management interface in Fedora.  At least if you're trying to deal with two Bluetooth interfaces.  The OS tool doesn't seem to have any good way to specify which one you want to use.
2025-01-17 18:08:51 <KipIngram   > At the console level the OS shipped with bluetoothctl, and it at least SEES both adapters and will tell you about them, but when I try to use it to connect to something with the second adapter that fails.  Blueman just works, though.
2025-01-17 18:09:37 <KipIngram   > I added a USB BT adapter with an antenna to my notebook, because the built-in adapter is just not quite capable of running my ear buds if I walk out to the patio.
2025-01-17 18:09:52 <KipIngram   > It tries, but it's too choppy to accept.
2025-01-17 18:37:43 <amby        > KipIngram: what would be the advantage of aluminium?
2025-01-17 18:39:08 <amby        > copper has better thermal and electrical properties
2025-01-17 18:39:30 <amby        > so is it to do with mechanical properties, like if the wire is easier to bend it's easier to install?
2025-01-17 18:40:46 <thrig       > copper is expensive, or something, said the shareholders of an aluminum smelter
2025-01-17 18:42:20 <amby        > aluminium is famous for being extremely expensive
2025-01-17 18:59:12 <Zarutian_iPad> Al should never be used as the only conductor in an electrical cable.
2025-01-17 19:02:43 <KipIngram   > amby: Yeah, aluminum was cheaper.
2025-01-17 19:03:08 <KipIngram   > And I see no reason why it couldn't do the job just as well, but it does have lower conductivity, so you'd need to upsize the wiring a bit.
2025-01-17 19:03:30 <Zarutian_iPad> the AlOx is the problem
2025-01-17 19:03:32 <KipIngram   > Well, this was a long time ago.
2025-01-17 19:03:32 <thrig       > probably because of the giant honking dams (not Socialism! oh, no!) the government built
2025-01-17 19:28:37 <Zarutian_iPad> dont get me started on the gov cheese
2025-01-17 23:04:01 <veltas      > Can't wait for Canada style inflation in the UK, courtesy of Labour's bold transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich
2025-01-17 23:05:51 <veltas      > Don't know why they don't understand this financial system given they invented it