baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
At 66, I'm a serious music (mainly prog rock) loving, geeky cat butler living in Ware UK. A lover of all things LOTR, since I first read it over 50 years ago, scifi and what have you. Ex soldier, and other trades ;-)
- Comment on How fake admiral Jonathan Carley was caught by sword and rare medals 4 days ago:
He might be.
- Comment on How fake admiral Jonathan Carley was caught by sword and rare medals 4 days ago:
Rear Admiral Walt.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
- Comment on Meta smart glasses pose a threat to women, campaigners say 1 week ago:
You’d be surprised. We (Driving Theory Test UK) do not allow them into our test lab. They either test without them (locked away) or do not test.
Across our network of test centres there are usually a couple of attempts at cheating each day.
Such as tech assisted, like Meta glasses, or fake licences, or even impersonation.
Some people think it’s beyond them to learn and insist on cheating.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 1 week ago:
I tried that and it was very good. Have been a bit of a hopper over the years and kept going back to Mint. It seemed a bit slow though and so I tried a few others and ran GeekBench 6 on them and for the last few months have been with Endeavour. It has two results as gusty result is last version.
Beeline Mini PC N100 CPU and 16GB RAM. Numbers are single core and multi core.
Apologies for formatting but it’s a table from Apple Notes 😉
Linux Mint Cinnamon 1077 1650 Cachy OS 1211 2756 Fedora Kinoite 1177 2643 Endeavour KDE 1278/1274 3292/3131 Endeavour Gnome 1135 2110 Manjaro KDE 1117 1848 Zorin 787 1134
Not the most scientific of tests but it might help someone. But for my purposes Endeavour is the one. Also the one I have least issues with.
- Comment on Britain to be blanketed with snow and ice for new year as Met Office issues warnings 1 week ago:
Blanketed?
I don’t think so.
- Comment on Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation 2 weeks ago:
Hybrid warfare. You may have already been affected by it in some small way.
- Comment on Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace? 2 weeks ago:
Not until we have dedicated cycle tracks separated from traffic as well as a change of mindset in our all too Americanised roads and town plans.
- Comment on UK government acknowledges it is investigating cyber incident linked to China 3 weeks ago:
Probably be better off saying when not investigating Chinese cyber attacks.
- Comment on UK must stop ‘dragging heels’ over China threat, intelligence watchdog warns 3 weeks ago:
There’s yet another article in the news today of a ‘group affiliated to China’ hacking a government department.
And they wonder why people are against digital ID?
- Comment on 3 Outdoor broadband hub UK 2 months ago:
Thanks for that - 5G signal here is pretty poor so probably not going to make a significant improvement. Still, I have about a year before Virgin contract ends so there maybe an improvement in the 5G network (it’s been promised for over a year) or BT may even get round to putting fibre into our estate. Not going to hold my breath there though.
Other wise I’ll have to settle for a paltry 30 mbps that I’ll get over the BT Network.
It really does piss me off to see all these claims of ‘up to’ this or that. If it’s on BT network - you can’t improve it. And I know the network here is naff :-(
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- Comment on Firm linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone breached £122m PPE contract, High Court rules 3 months ago:
Strip her, her mates that were in on it and her family of everything they possess, all rank and privileges. Ensure they never have more than a service job again.
- Comment on Know your place 3 months ago:
Thank you for reminding us of this. We need it more than ever at the moment.
- Comment on Know your place 3 months ago:
Yes, it’s the unfashionable western spiral arm. We get it.
- Comment on Know your place 3 months ago:
Zaphod’s just this guy, you know.
- Comment on Know your place 3 months ago:
Was hoping someone would do this.
- Comment on Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline 4 months ago:
It’s not a deadline then is it, TACO?
Thank you for you attention to this matter!
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 5 months ago:
Going by the thumbnail, it looks like an ad from MAD magazine for spy glasses.
Oh wait…
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
Yes, I read that. ‘Likely conclusion’ does not equal a ban though.
I’m just being a bit pedantic about the headline - this whole thing is crappy (and unworkable) enough as it is, without jumping to conclusions.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
I can’t see anywhere in the article that says they may be ‘banned’.
They can try though. They can also try and collect water in a sieve.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers 5 months ago:
Doesn’t Kagi use AI as well now though?
- Comment on ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’ in wake of deadly Israeli strike on Gaza church: Pope Leo 5 months ago:
The time to stop was years ago. For both sides.
Sadly I think Taco’s vision may come true.
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 5 months ago:
Yes. Next question.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 5 months ago:
I have brambles sprouting up all over the place from where they were left to spread by the previous occupant. And that sodding bindweed stuff.
If it wasn’t for my wife it’d be full of veg.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 6 months ago:
Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson charged with harassment 7 months ago:
I thought he was inside?
No doubt the suckers that support him will be bleating about the unfairness of it all.
Talk about snowflakes.
- Comment on UK | Commissioner calls for ban on apps that make deepfake nude images of children 8 months ago:
No, there isn’t.
- Comment on Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy 8 months ago:
At this point I’d just call him PINO.
- Comment on NATO believes Russia stockpiling missiles for new strike on Ukraine 9 months ago:
Not just Ukraine - all of Europe is in his sights. We should have dealt with this problem years ago. Now its going to cost more lives, pain and money.
We need to give Ukraine the right tools and with no restrictions. They are currently fighting with one hand tied behind their back.