DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on Honda Zonda 1 day ago:
Does it belong to Bridget Fonda?
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 1 week ago:
No, they were invented by chickens.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 week ago:
Word is proof that there is no God and that we’re all alone in the cold vacuum of space. Word is every traffic light being red. Word is getting an itchy arsehole because you couldn’t quite wipe yourself properly.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 week ago:
I have a fan plugged into a smart switch that I’ve set to turn off when I fade up my mic while doing my radio show. It’s the most glorious use of throwing the internet at a home appliance I’ve yet come up with.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Eh, I dunno. The vast majority have no idea what a VPN is. If a VPN ban benefits Rupert fucking Murdoch then the tabloids will wang on about how they’re used by paedophiles and people smugglers and that’ll be that.
- Comment on The stairway to nope 1 week ago:
It’s a Thomasson!
There’s a great 99% Invisible episode about them.
- Comment on linus tech tip 2 weeks ago:
Delivering wholesome content, yet still somehow managing to fuck it up in some greedy way.
- Comment on Must be lvl 11 genius 2 weeks ago:
Ceci n’est pas un hippo.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 2 weeks ago:
English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
I was complaining to my wife yesterday that it’s not easy to find torrents for the Aus version of Taskmaster.
She told me to be patient, their internet is shit so it’ll take a while to get it off their servers.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 weeks ago:
God, I hate Kasabian. Shit thick music for drunks to yell along to after the football.
I saw them back before their first album came out, supporting the Von Bondies. They were fucking dreadful. A bunch of tracksuit wearing Ian Brown wannabies.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 weeks ago:
I have a space in my heart for their first four albums. They’re perfectly enjoyable slices of indie that somewhat stood above the landfill shit that was otherwise getting airplay (fuck you Razorlight. Fuck you Kasabian).
Its fair to say that they and I grew apart from then on, as Chris Martin became more about the celebrity than the honest music, but even then, I never had any real problem with them.
They headlined Glastonbury last year and were excellent. Made me go back and listen to some of the records I’d ignored, and found that they were still a perfectly fine band. Considerably more poppy than they were, but not cynically so, I didn’t think.
But I guess Martin comes across as a little too earnest, and his marriage to Paltrow a little too right-on, so the press kept digging in to them, as is their wont. That made people think it was popular to shit on them.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 weeks ago:
My Mum died recently and my step dad is shit with tech, so their password book was invaluable in helping us gain access to her Apple account and her phone. It meant we were able to get to her iCloud passwords, so now we have access to everything.
So yeah, password books are actually pretty handy.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 weeks ago:
On the phone itself? I don’t think it does. The Wallet app doesn’t work at all for NFC payments in GrapheneOS, because Google are shit heads.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 weeks ago:
There’s a road going out of Southampton that’s 40, and has a camera about 6m before the point where it becomes 50. The 50 signs seem more prominent than the camera. I’ve always thought that was a bit cunty.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 weeks ago:
I bought a Garmin to accompany my Graphene Pixel, only to discover that my bank doesn’t support Garmin Pay.
So, MagSafe wallet attached my phone it is then.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 3 weeks ago:
I do the same with yt-dlp, though mine is still a little more manual. I have my subscriptions in FreeTube, which I use to select what I want to watch. Copy the link, run my script, then trundle to the lounge where I can watch them on my big TV.
There’s a mindfulness to that process that’s helpful to me. A conscious decision, as opposed to mindlessly absorbing content.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot to be said for stepping back from online debates and asking whether your voice is actually valuable, or whether you’re just yelling into the void and getting yourself all pissy.
For me, I try to take the view that there’s already enough negativity, so I try to be as positive as I can in my online interactions. If someone gets needlessly arsey with me, I’ll try to sympathise with them. If they don’t react well to that, I’ll leave the thread. I’m not changing anyone’s mind, not even yours.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 3 weeks ago:
I don’t use iOS any more, but I found that a combination of Safari + adblocker + Vinegar was the golden setup. No ads, and you get to use the default iOS video player.
- Comment on Study shows a link between obesity and what’s on local restaurant menus 4 weeks ago:
I for one am shocked by this revelation. Shocked.
- Comment on thinkpad 4 weeks ago:
Duct tape the Thinkpad to the gennie and you’ve got a lovely, portable all-in-one.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s because I’m old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 4 weeks ago:
Yeah man, that shit can be hard and time consuming.
I used to do a podcast. Each episode was around 12 minutes. I’d spend a good eight hours a week on those 12 minutes, around my actual job, and would get about ten people listening. And you know that within half an hour of hearing it, they’ve forgotten it and moved on to the next thing in their queue. It’s hard to maintain enthusiasm for that.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 4 weeks ago:
You, The Master Driver, are amply equipped to decide what the true speed limit should be.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 4 weeks ago:
The beauty of this comment is that it could be in support of either position.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 5 weeks ago:
No no no, it’s pronounced “PNG”
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 5 weeks ago:
Thing is, afaik, the BBC has nothing to do with booking the artists. They just broadcast the sets and hold them on the iPlayer for a month after. Kneecap (and Bob Vylan) were booked by the Glastonbury organisers.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 5 weeks ago:
Someone uploaded it to WeTransfer if you’ve not found it elsewhere yet.
It’s a great set. Big Bob spitting facts from top to bottom.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know, but that doesn’t lend itself to comments that get upvotes, and I’m a slag for it.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 5 weeks ago:
I end up dribbling because the lid gets in my way, but it’s fine because I’m helping to offset the pollution caused by a billionaire’s private jet.