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- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 week ago:
I use these from IKEA:
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 week ago:
A stand for my phone, a stand for my ereader, and two buttons for my smart home setup: one turns everything in the house off, the other toggles the reading lamp.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 2 weeks ago:
They’re scanned by the sorting equipment. When a stamp is issued with a particular number that number can then be used exactly once, at least in theory.
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 2 weeks ago:
Closest thing I can think of is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstem.
And now the only thing I can think of is youtu.be/snO68aJTOpM
- Comment on How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math 2 weeks ago:
Kashmir Hill sounds like the name of a newly-built neighbourhood of McMansions.
I have nothing more to add.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 4 weeks ago:
Did you know there is an industry-standard mounting system for strap-on dildos? Just saying.
- Comment on German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, it would be great for everyone including Windows users if Microsoft was made aware that they have viable competition.
- Comment on chai tea 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I need the cash to buy more DDR RAM Memory.
- Comment on Rats and cockroaches among thousands of pests found at English hospitals 5 weeks ago:
I worked in schools until last year, so this doesn’t surprise me. A huge number of schools and hospitals were built in the 1960s and 70s during the baby boom, but the were built on the cheap with an expected lifetime of about thirty years. Most of those schools are still standing. There was a program of rebuilding from 2000 to 2012 but it got cancelled. Why spend £10m on a new school building, when you can spend £2m/year patching up the old one?
- Comment on mice 1 month ago:
Ideally the wheel should be big enough for a single human but not so big that it can fit multiple humans.
Source: I was once a child on a wheel big enough for multiple humans.
- Comment on She did her best ok? 1 month ago:
“Sire! The Theiyr"reian hoards have attacked the village of Peasantry. The Peasants, they fight back, Sire, but they will surely be overwhelmed. We expect a death toll in the millions, Sire.”
“Dispatch ten knights to se- wait, ‘millions’? There’s only a few thousand people in that village.”
“Yes, Sire, we included the Theiyr"reians in our estimates… there’s a lot of them but they fight with wooden swords, Sire.”
“…”
“They are an inefficient peoples, Sire.”
- Comment on She did her best ok? 1 month ago:
Theiy"re
- Comment on She did her best ok? 1 month ago:
In my secondary school we were expected to address all the teachers by name so I tended to use “Er…”.
- Comment on Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023 2 months ago:
Amen. Monitors, digital signage and, as you said, business projectors are the way. CEC, auto input switching and ARC are all the smarts I want in a TV.
- Comment on Driver deliberately crashed into cars he thought were being badly driven 2 months ago:
Mirror; Signal; Pit manoeuvre.
- Comment on Media center under 100€ capable of 4k video 2 months ago:
I used Kodi with a Jellyfin plugin for media center duties.
- Comment on Media center under 100€ capable of 4k video 2 months ago:
Consider a refurbished USFF business PC.
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=usff+pc
A unit from any major brand will be good and there are i5/8gb units available for well under £100 that will happily shunt 4K video about. Plus they have the advantage of coming in a nice case, lots of ports, included storage, etc…
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 2 months ago:
Honestly any parts you buy today probably won’t be much good in 30 years.
- Comment on Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private 2 months ago:
Depends. How smart is Leo?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
Not only is HMD Global not Chinese, they’re actually the same Finnish company that people think of as “Nokia”. Nokia do a lot more than just phones and they sold their mobile phone arm to Microsoft, who then spun it off as it’s own company called HMD who licensed the Nokia name.
If you want to buy from a European brand, HMD/Nokia are worth considering.
- Comment on Altered Carbon 2 months ago:
I have no idea of the context or even if there is any, but this kind of utterly directionless chirping and unwarranted shittalking is the reason I love the Internet.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 2 months ago:
and love by yourself
I know that’s a typo, but making it easier to bring home hookups was, like, 80% of the reason for me.
- Comment on Major western news outlets continue to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide 2 months ago:
Also it was the leading story on their TV channel where they made it very very clear that both she and the paramedics trying to get to her were killed by fire from Iranian tanks.
- Comment on Your meal has been delivered 2 months ago:
Biblically accurate gig worker.
- Comment on Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... 3 months ago:
I’d like to fine you at least €20/day for typing with your fucking toes.
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 3 months ago:
Three HP ProLiant servers running ProxMox cluster. Each box has a VM for Portaiber, as well as mismatch of VMs running Home Assistant OS, OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Windows and Debian, along with a Windows file server that connectes to four cheap NAS running Ubuntu LTS with a combined 20 mismatched hard drives by iSCSI and borgs them together with Storage Spaces.
It’s a fucking mess, if I’m honest.
- Comment on How is it possible for this track to have so few plays on Spotify? 3 months ago:
So I’m not a programmer but I work with a few and they told me that due to the way that certain processor architectures store integers as floating-point numbers, this can happen when a track is listened to exactly 5,815 times.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 3 months ago:
I’ve heard people say “the BBC”.
I’ve heard people say “BBC News”.
Ive never heard anyone say “the BBC News”.
::: spoiler I’m not that bothered about big black cocks though. :::
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
I buy from Bezoco maybe once or twice a year, if I really can’t find something anywhere else, and they always, always offer a free Prime trial.
If you don’t know this already: you can cancel the Prime trial immediately and still get the full 30 days (or week or whatever) out of it.
- Comment on xkcd #221: Random Number (9 Nov 2007) 3 months ago:
I think what they’re referring to is a company - I think it’s CloudFlare - who use a bunch of physical randomness generators to seed their commercial random number generator. One of those seeds is a webcam pointed at a load of lava lamps.