Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: OT - TV Date: 8 Oct 2026 03:00:55 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <118cshs$2v7m0$1@dont-email.me> <118du8n$3b2m6$1@dont-email.me> <118h414$fbrd$1@dont-email.me> <118k6e4$1ktct$1@dont-email.me> <119vjv4$mskl$1@dont-email.me> <119vm1m$mtek$8@dont-email.me> <11a0e8d$11vos$1@dont-email.me> <11a0g0l$11hcr$7@dont-email.me> <11a197j$1de5v$1@dont-email.me> <11a28fj$1n9ag$3@dont-email.me> <11a3bhl$25gti$1@dont-email.me> <11a3e0o$26jie$1@dont-email.me> <11a4qd8$2kfcs$1@dont-email.me> <11a6egd$391ua$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net OxL6eqZj2DHlToQ0SurFrAQgCdg/62a/AOCuJv2GKJS47BE1Pv Cancel-Lock: sha1:aUkvkwUrJQoofWB8DNKj/SpDKZM= sha256:k76buC8XRbgSumopHlhswT31IJ7v/D9WK8Py9bE9kow= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93158 alt.comp.os.windows-10:196728 On Wed, 7 Oct 2026 22:44:45 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > That reminds me of reports I read sometime in I think the last decade of > a village in the Alps - Austria or Switzerland I think; it was a > miserable cold village, because due to the particular orientation of the > village and the surrounding mountains, they got sun for a very short > time in summer: they got daylight, but little actual sunlight. So: they > erected some huge mirrors on the relevant mountains over the village. Hmmm, I could use that. There is a ridge directly to the south of me so sunset is noticeably earlier than out in the valley. That's not a bad feature in July but sucks in the winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtSLMGc4VSA "Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning And the sun goes down about three in the day And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking And you spend your life just thinking how to get away"