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  • Cetirizine is the best antihistamine I've used

  • It works fine for me - it has a bonus side effect - I don't get itchy insect bites; I don't even notice I have been bitten unless I look.

    Loratadine doesn't work much and traditional antihistamine is a no no because of sleepy.

    The latest all singing anti-histamine that is expensive and just been removed from "prescription only" status here in the UK doesn't work as well for me as cetirizine.

  • Robusta - a delightful alternative to traditional arabica.

  • Holy thread ressurection batman but anyway...

    On holidays in the south of France, found 100% robusta in the supermarket. What a revelation.

    It seems to be less popular down here than it might be (often on special offer in the supermarkets and a bit cheaper than arabica) but I am happy to drink it (we have a few bricks stashed away for taking home as I don't recall seeing it readily available in the UK)

    It's a very forgiving brew, great aroma and flavour, just don't expect arabica!

  • Weird Knife Wednesday: CRKT Provoke EDC

  • I wish you were here so I could meddle with those knives.

  • TIL that full automation of subway systems is illegal in the United States

  • The DLR is fully automated, though there is a fold away drivers position for use when necessary. iirc It never runs at street grade and sometimes does have software issues which makes things interesting.

    I am pretty sure the victoria line has drivers for show. It was one of the very first lines to be automated and, at the time, it was thought that passengers would panic if there were no driver, so they kept with tradition.

  • YSK some unconventional ways you can contribute to OpenStreetMap

  • Point of order - the electrical grid can be really handy as a navigation aid when walking; it rarely changes (though, perhaps sadly, some long established routes are being buried here in the UK) and is fairly/very visible. Whilst the power line running down your street might not help, the line of towers across the local hillside might be the difference between wandering lost for hours and a fast route out. Map the heck out of it.

  • Eruption. How and why wonder book of volcanoes (1975)

  • Yeh. It's basically falling apart now because of acid paper decay. I learned how to say "pyroclastic flow" at the age of 6...

  • Eruption. How and why wonder book of volcanoes (1975)

  • I have that book somewhere...

  • This volcano didn't just erupt—it triggered a hidden atmospheric cleanup scientists never expected to see

  • Yeh the F quickly forms a stable compound with whatever it can because it is really keen to donate it's electron. Cl sort of bimbles about, breaking up ozone left right and centre, lending it's electron then going "ah no I think I want that back, ta" then eventually finds something with which to bond.

  • This volcano didn't just erupt—it triggered a hidden atmospheric cleanup scientists never expected to see

  • Yes - Chlorine ions don't just react with methane, they try to react with everything, including ozone... There used to be a big problem with a lack of ozone due to the use of CFCs in aerosols.

  • Older Nvidia GPU not working under Kubuntu 26.04 / Plasma 6.6

  • The trouble with Nvidia cards and Linux is that Nvidia decides to stop supplying the BLOB drivers at, seemingly, random. Obviously once that happens any hope of distros supporting that card with an Nvidia driver vanishes fairly rapidly. You may find the non-Nvidia driver works well enough, you may not.

    Fundamentally it's an NV problem, not a Linux one - I got caught out many moons ago with a truly ancient Quadro card.

    You could argue that a distro should check your driver and refuse to install/update if it's not going to be supported but that isn't going to happen soon, or ever, because it's not a distro problem it's an NV one...

  • TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.

  • Never heard of it. Lived in England/Wales for 59 years... Will ask wife, who was a chef.

    Ok. So now I know it's what is used in steak sandwiches.

    I have never heard or read its name before - mostly because it is sold in places I don't frequent (or by food wholesalers) but also because I don't often have steak sandwiches.

    Every day is a school day I guess.

  • Is the Paris mayor really going to turn the ring-road périphérique into a park?

  • If he does it won't make much difference to traffic flow - it's usually at a standstill!

  • Red Hair distribution across Europe

  • Because the Vikings settled and formed The Russians around Ukraine, from where they spread and eventually formed Russia.

  • What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

  • What a small volume... Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣

  • What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

  • 68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints

  • French inventions are different

  • They do that in Germany too.

    There is even specific chocolate you can buy in any supermarket, in many different flavours. I am guessing the sweet chocolate and sourdough is what makes it so nice.

    Sauce: my mouth is scarred from over consumption!

  • The House on the Borderland - Chapter 22 - William Hope Hodgson

  • Not bad for a translation of the English original into Spanish and back to English again....

  • NATO approves the iPhone and iPad for classified use

  • Err NATO-Restricted isn't one of the highest security ratings. It's one that's sorta kinda a problem if it gets released rather than a "omg oh noes I am so dead if the leak gets traced to me" type problem.

    It's also actually a caveated protective marking. The NATO bit tells you that only NATO eyes can see the materiel which itself is marked Restricted.

    The trouble is there are at least 3 classification/protective marking schemes that I know of and in one Restricted is used to describe materiel that is called Confidential (or is it Secret? It's been a while) in another.

  • Not gonna lie, I kinda like it

  • Dude, get your B12 levels checked. Was feeling old and tired, so I went to drs for something else, he ran bloods just to make sure. Came back ok except B12 deficient. Now I get a B12 jab every 12 weeks and top up with high dose B12 pills every day after 4 weeks. Tiredness gone, cold feet at night gone, visual migraines gone grumpy old git moods gone. Oh and fucking around in a good way is way more on the cards!

  • How to fix this crack in the shower wall?

  • There was no mold - the crack wasn't there long and there was a relatively thick adhesive bed which stopped the water getting to the cement board.

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