DJDarren

@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just finished playing the first Death Stranding. If I didn’t know it was by Hideo Kojima going in, I sure as hell knew by the end of the first hour.

  Incredible game, mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  SAULT, and Pepa

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My lad’s bike was nicked from a train station a few months back. He’d left it there, locked in the rack while he was at work. You know, pretty standard stuff.

  BTP told him they weren’t going to investigate it because it was left for longer than 2 hours.

  I’m still fucking angry about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d quite like to scrap Kemi Badenoch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're together now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lost count of the fines I’ve received for having my dick out for Harambe, but I refuse to not show respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I posted my comment using that very client 😀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The mobile app is basically a clone

  Amazing. Make loads of noise about snagging Christian from Apollo to be a part of the relaunch, then make an app that has nowhere near the charm of Apollo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Invest 🫘⤴️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “And now the news from Beans and AFC Wimbledon”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, all lies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played their version of The Trooper on my radio show last week. Seemed go down very well indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  D, because I’m British and can’t trust them forrins to not put too much spice like salt in my food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my Android phone

  Hard to do AirPlay from a Pixel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally the only reason my LG TV is hooked up to the wifi is so I can show my wife stuff from my Android phone. For everything else we have an Apple TV.

  I can’t see any good reason to allow a fridge access to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outsourcing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, as it happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outsourcing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gone one step further: my wife’s boyfriend fucks my wife for free, meaning it costs me nothing to keep working at my business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just avoiding the issue of having a short attention span.

  And how do you improve your attention span? By not having distractions available to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are dozens of us out here patiently awaiting a bunch of reasonably powerful new Linux machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a cat that trained me to sit down to pee.

  The only time I could ever get her to purr was when when I was sat on the toilet. So, of course, I began sitting down to pee in order to maximise her purring and fusses. And it kinda stuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once jokingly mentioned to my wife that leaving the seat up is just as convenient for me as leaving it down is for her. To which she pointed out that, of the four different permutations of toilet use between us, 3/4 require the seat to be down, so all in all, it makes sense to leave the seat down.

  And dammit, I had to marry a logical autistic, didn’t I?

  So now I always (try to remember to) leave the seat down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Year Selfhosting My Own Podcast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Castopod for when I’ve uploaded my radio show. At the moment it’s hosted on my site that’s on Hetzner. It only costs me a tenner a month, so I’m wondering whether it’s worth trying to work out how to host it all locally so I can have far more storage and it not cost me anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You donkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Geoffrey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important update: It's 10 poptarts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🎶Poptarts on a borzoi You know, you know This is serious 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do not. Yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really use Windows these days. Mostly in a VM to make sure something I’m fiddling with is compatible for the poor folks at work who have to use it. So I can’t say I have any real opinions on 11 one way or the other. I couldn’t really point to one thing that’s vastly different or improved.

  I guess, from that point of view, 11 feels mostly like it’s MS adjusting the OS to better suit their revenue stream, rather than improving workflows for the consumer. Which it is, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bullet engravings as per WSJ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheers for the heads up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bullet engravings as per WSJ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We use a Canon at work, behind a print server called UniPrint, or some shit. I figured out how to use it to print from a USB drive long before I finally caved and mailed the guy who maintains it to ask how to get my KDE Neom machine to successfully send a print job. I figured out how to see it, I could check the toner levels, but I could not send a print.

  Works now, because he changed a setting.

  Bastard printers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely couldn’t tell you what the current gen Xbox is named, though to be fair I don’t really pay that much attention these days.

  But yeah, Windows can’t really have much of a default theme update when there are a good four different window styles throughout the various settings panels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at it from a perspective other than “Windows shit, use Linux”, MS’ biggest issue here is that the vast majority have no compelling reason to upgrade. Currently.

  To the average punter, W11 offers nothing that W10 doesn’t already have. There’s no new technologies that they care about, no new tentpole software that they’re dying to try. Nothing. It has copilot running rampant through it, but most people don’t know what that is or don’t give a shit.

  Give Apple their due, when they announce an OS update, they focus hard on the ways it improves over the current offering. Ways it can interact with your other devices, for example. Or even just a whole new design.

  But MS advertise nothing beyond “This is new, come get it!”, then wonder why no one cares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who is actively moving away from Apple stuff, the hardest thing for me to give up has been Pages. The iPad version is fine, but the Mac version is the GOAT as far as I’m concerned.

  But it sucks balls for making anything that needs to be opened on any other editor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For how good and useful Excel is, it’s overbalanced by how utterly fucking dog shit Word is.

  Word is when you have a crap and can’t seem to wipe yourself fully clean. Word is making a morning coffee and finding the milk has gone bad. If it weren’t for the US deciding they’d rather invade the Netherlands than let a single Yank stand trial in the Hague, the entire executive suite of Microsoft would be up on war crimes charges because of Word.