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Recommendations for European tea? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My favourite is Betty’s Tea Room Blend https://www.bettys.co.uk/bettys-tea-room-blend-tea-80-tea-bags-1

Tech sovereignty is possible! in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If tech for you means software, then yes, you can decouple from global supply chains with relative ease.

If, however, you look into some other areas of tech a different picture emerges. Global dependencies especially in semiconductors are much deeper. Products built from such components are the same. Decoupling in those domains would be significantly more difficult.

Where to buy a mini pc in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

And just to be clear, I boot from the SSD and don’t use an SD card at all.

Where to buy a mini pc in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RaspberryPi + USB connected SSD would be my recommendation for HomeAssistant. Using an SSD reduces the risk of SD card flaking

Hiring is broken in c/memes@lemmy.world

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

One of the best ones I ever got was an ‘engineer’ who described driving around in his van ‘fixing things’ applying for a machine learning engineer position.