I love having my gf over when I'm working and she's working. I tend to work harder if someone is in the room with me (under the "look at me! I'm working!" attention mindset), and we're fetching each other teas and hot waters. It's lovely.

gaming on linux

I've been hearing a lot about bazzite running on NixOS if that's something

Wife was home with me for the week, nice to have company while I work. Finally set her up with my old laptop, hers was getting a bit long in the tooth - and now we're officially a Windows-free house. Some issues getting Anki to run properly on Mint, but it was a learning experience. Have also been getting games figured out in Linux recently. Trying to do PS4 and XBox 360 emulation, that's a work in progress. Finally did sort out how to get a few other games running well though. Nice to have Shadow of Mordor and Mad Max working again, but the real excitement has been Mina the Hollower.

Showed my kid Princess Mononoke, hadn't seen it in decades. I'd forgotten a lot of it, so well worth the time.

Definitely a case of the Betty Swollocks last week!

Man, working from home is great and all until you need the aircon…

I feel you. Friday was brutal until a storm came at around 3pm, it was bliss after!

Week was fine though, went into the office on Thursday for a works social thing which was decent. Watched the F1 over the weekend, that's pretty much all there is to report!

Man, working from home is great and all until you need the aircon...

31°C in there... and a deskfan does not cool a small room.

No breeze until Friday...

But, apart from that, it was all good thanks... even got the shed painted over the weekend. It'll survive another rainy winter.

And what about the blackn1ght household? All good?

I got to have medicinal pizza this week because of the ridiculous heat. By Friday I woke up feeling a little shaky and wobbly. Eventually I worked out I was probably salt deficient given all the sweating I'd done this week so pizza was had and I felt much better afterwards, I didn't even wake up feeling thirsty so I definitely needed the salt. Not something I've ever really had to worry about before now.

This weekend has been really good, especially today with the cooler weather. Good dog walks early morning and plenty of video games.

hot.

Wife and I had a brilliant long weekend in Belfast. Def Leppard and Extreme on Friday at Belsonic, and live blues rock performances all around the city centre throughout the weekend. We visited the Titanic museum, which was very interesting, and sampled a good few pubs too.

How was your week?

Interesting 👍 thanks for the link. So it does work, just only in very specific situations.

You aren't from the uk, are you?

Ah. I see what you’re saying. You’re saying the heat from the hot water compensates for the increase in sweating.

I suppose it’s worthwhile investigating the relationship between the energy in the water and the energy lost through sweating. And indeed some people have studied that:

“Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that you increase your sweating by—if that can all evaporate—more than compensates for the the added heat to the body from the fluid.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/

Yeah it's pretty smart... And incredibly simple... Way too low profit for my country's blood (Canada) not to mention which duolopoly would own it in Canada? It can't exist as a competing business strategy. It either needs to be blocked with regulations (regs captured by industry and capital...) or it needs to be a pet project of one of our oligarchs that never grows beyond a pilot plant battery that maybe gets used to make chemicals or something via industrial heat.

Those are the average highs. It can peak well above that for a given week.

I live in northern US and have the opposite phenomenon. Average low in coldest month is 12F but we usually have about a week below 0F

You missed 1 critical part in the process. Hot stuff heats you up, that increased heat makes you sweat harder, the sweat evaporates, which cools you back down to where you were before you drank the hot drink, you briefly feel like you cooled down, which you did, just only from the increase caused by the hot drink. Kind of a win?

I've been using ice packs too. They work great. It doesn't stop me feeling hot but totally works for control sweating as much.

It's good enough to cool a computer, and those tend to get pretty hot.

Diddy-style life hack 💀️

this is solid!

Just looked up the soapstone thing... looks like Finland did a good job with one recently

No, I can't say I've heard of that one...

Is that something you've tried? I can imagine additional Health & Safety issues would arise ...?

Have you tried submerging your entire living space in mineral oil?

If we weren't complete individualistic morons we would have district heating and even district cooling. You can produce chilled water with high grade waste heat with a absorber chillers. They use 1-3% as much electricity as the same capacity compressive cooler.

Paired with a soapstone sand battery you can sink over productive renewables (instead of shorting solar panels or stopping wind turbines) into high grade heat you can use later for winter heating or summer cooling.

I’m just another imposter. Same brutal heat but think 90+% humidity… gotta come prepared

Been building an offgrid two story cabin out in the middle of the woods. Realize this is a choice and one not many would make but I know a few things about mitigation here.

Desperate times eh?

I taped a couple of those reflective insulated car dashboard sun covers to the bottom of my sliding deck doors to keep the sun from cooking the floor inside. Has the dual benefit of reducing heat loss during the winter.

Yeah, someone's putting cardboard and tinfoil up on the outside of their windows, propped up by brooms,etc...

I'm just waiting for a gust of wind...