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@administrator Yes that had worked although I see I need to click on "posts and replies." Sorry for that. 🤦♂️

@clacke As you say, I have never thought about it as being "buller", as in noise. I'm pretty sure most people think about this like me. For that reason "boulderville" would give you a similar tonal feel. The fact that it literally means something different should be completely irrelevant.

@NanoRaptor Everyone seems to think that if this was real it would cause a fire, but it has a visible breaker. Assuming that is rated correctly, it'd be absolutely fine. 66 outlets is a lot but that's still 27W per outlet, and lots of appliances use WAY less than that, leaving the remainder available to the others. People get weirdly upset about running a lot of appliances off a single outlet but the real cause of fires (in the US) is usually extension cables that are rated at less than 15A.

@NanoRaptor needs a few of these

@NanoRaptor I could unironically make use of something like this. Would actually be perfect for supplying power to an entire collection of older gaming consoles and accessories, considering most of them (especially Nintendo consoles) use under 40 watts of power, and you're unlikely to use ALL of them at once under normal circumstances. No more having to unplug and replug in consoles every time you want to switch! ...at least as far as power is concerned. Display is another matter!

@NanoRaptor And here I am making my firestarters out of wax and straw, I feel so primitive.

@strypey There are but it'd be up to them to reveal themselves.

Okay so wait

Until 1960 the definition of a meter, officially in the metric system, was set by an actual physical "prototype meter bar" that was kept in like i dunno Paris or something and physically copied so individual nations could have an Official Meter to measure against.

In 1960 they changed it and now it's based on the speed of light. But.

What happened to the International Prototype Meter Bar *after* 1960?

Does somebody just like… have it?

I want to touch the Meter

@dn @alcinnz I think Adrian's referring to the *code* that supports monetisation, and revenue-gathering features (like advertising engines and user profiling).

@lightweight Yeah, as I've said before: A huge way FOSS achieves so much with so little resources is because we cut out the nonsense that comes with monetization!