In my experience you can keep the rooms somewhat cool just but closing the curtains. If they are shaded they don’t collect that much heat. The AC only has to run for couple minutes for them to be nicely cool. If the room gets really hot (I once ranted an attic that was like an oven during the summer) it’s hard to keep it a bit cool. Either the AC is running constantly or it gets really hot.

In Spain people tend to install separate units for each room instead of one big unit for the whole apartment. Central units that let you control each room separately are quite expensive. It’s cheaper to install few small units and just turn on the ones you need: usually the one in salon during the day and the one in bedroom for the night. But that’s for AC because you can just let empty rooms to sit at 30 degree without issues. With heating it’s different, you can’t just let parts of your house to freeze. In southern Spain we don’t have freezing temperatures and I don’t know what people in other parts of Spain do for heating.

Fucking Merz…

Sorry, won’t happen again.

What are we talking about here? The machine itself + installation? How many square meters are we talking about? I’ve checked recently and two splits for 30m^2 each (so 60m^2 total) would cost me about 1.5k and that’s with the top, most efficient model.

Didn’t Germany add shitload of renewable capacity recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/spanish-households-save-renewables-expansion-electricity-gas-prices-iran-war

In other European countries that also expanded renewables at great speed – such as Germany, which increased its share of wind and solar in power generation from 28% to 45% in the last five years

45% of wind and solar is impressive.

The other day I put debian on my old dell and move my servarr apps there. Now I have a spare Linux set up box I don’t know what to do with. Old laptops are nice but you only need so many.

Really? People will finally stop pushing it on users that don’t need it?

Couldn’t agree more. ORM helps in some places and is extremely easy to skip if needed. I think most comments saying that ORM is an overkill are just from people fighting everything that’s new just because it’s new. Not that ORM is that new, some people are just still stuck in the 90s.

That’s hilarious. I had to do it once in Spain but it was only for registration. After that you verify your phone number and use that.

For login or registration?

It’s common for registration. Would be fun to have it for authentication as well. “My session expired. I need 3 days to log in again”.

“Login with your Address”

1. Insert address
2. Letter is send
3. Introduce code from the letter to authenticate

Who will implement this?

Sitting next to a laptop doesn’t mean I’m working. It’s the same at the beach and in the office.

Thinking about project involving programmable led strips but I have to finish my training cycle planning app first.

My previous company did some research on what distro should the offer employees and they picked Ubuntu. No idea what they were taking into account but for some reason Ubuntu looks attractive to corporations.

Ubuntu is a distro for corporation, not individual users. It’s fine if your company gives you Ubuntu laptop managed by desktop support but you should not install it yourself on your private computers.

This is not how you do development. Like, at all. If changing jobs is an option for you do it. If not, well, not much you can do. You’re not going to fix the entire company if management and other devs don’t know how it should work and don’t want to change.

It’s never too late. Don’t wait! Go outside, stop the first person you’ll see, look them deeply in the eyes and say it. Say it loud and proud!

Ok OP, just tell us what API tool you’re building.