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@tr00st.co.uk

Developer, re-enactor, probably other things too.

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Can't have user guides that only cover the basics if you don't have user guides...

29.11.2025 11:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very much on the list of "things I want for no good reason and absolutely cannot justify purchasing". (it's a long list)

20.08.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm beginning to lose count of the number of times I put a warning in place telling people to never to do something...

...and increasingly finding that I absolutely need to do exactly what I've told other people not to. I don't regret putting the warning up though. Still made me question myself.

15.08.2025 10:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Given the recent coffee supply crisis, I've probably picked the wrong time to double down on coffee... But I'm on the lookout for "reasonable" decaf beans - got a current favourite roaster, but not sure I can justify Β£0.80 per cup for *every* cup of the day...

11.03.2025 10:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Personally, I had a "I'm not like that!" moment, followed by a series of "Oh god, I'm just like that..." moments. I'm now back dabbling with RSS aggregators and the like, and trying to catch myself when I'm just scrolling for the sake of it.

04.03.2025 09:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's really nicely put together. Nice, simple and readable layout.
I've been loathe to push too much logic to the backend on my own projects, but you're making me rethink that...

25.02.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Still. Screw you people and your happiness. I'm looking forward to an evening on a couch watching TV with leftover pizza. And it will be glorious.

14.02.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't dwell on something, focus on it. There are some things in life that you may not do now, in the next decade, or ever. But if you dwell on the fact that you can't, rather than focusing on finding a way that you may have missed, you will waste your life.

14.02.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Life may be throwing shit at you right now, but that doesn't mean it'll keep going forever. And trust me, I know saying "be positive" doesn't help all that much. But... Be positive.

14.02.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

First posted this 8 years ago.

Valentine's/Singles Awareness Day sucks for some people. Today we'll all see lots of adages being thrown around: "better lonely than let down", "better to have loved and lost"... Screw that. I'd like to propose instead: "Whatever sucks now: Things change."

...

14.02.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Covox Speech Thing - Wikipedia

The Covox Speech Thing comes to mind - mildly interesting solution to an old problem.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_S...

26.01.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, that's an annoying typo.

23.01.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The smug sense of superiority I get to feel as I'm forced to spend hours resolving a dodgy kennel upgrade.

23.01.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My preference is a mixture personally - I'd prefer to see everything from my subs, but a smattering of new and interesting. I appreciate BlueSky's discover feed and the utterly unexpected stuff that can pop up some times.

23.01.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blunt sword on top of scabbard, laid on the ground

Blunt sword on top of scabbard, laid on the ground

I love the oxblood hilt, but I'm more of a fan of round pommels myself.

22.01.2025 11:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun side effects of a lighter touch algorithm, I guess - I for one enjoy the WTF factor of discovering something totally unexpected, but I get why others wouldn't...

22.01.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well now I want one to go alongside my printed headphone hook... Might wait until I replace the whole desk though.

(and here's assuming replies boost "trending" stats...)

20.01.2025 15:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had this with my work laptop - pretty sure it's mild overheating... Some i7s have *terrible* thermals.

15.01.2025 15:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TIL paid web browsers still exist.

www.aol.com/products/bro...

And AOL still exists as a way to access the web?

Kind of makes me want to revisit some old web browsers. IE4, pre-chrome Opera, Netscape Navigator, pre-Firefox Mozilla... There's some gold out there.

14.01.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I were made of money, I'd be tempted these days to look at monitors instead of TVs. Slap a smart switch on the side, and pair it with a dedicated device for media that you can actually power off. Probably janky as hell, but would be an interesting project.

14.01.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was about to criticize him for not recognizing the bin men, but last time I moved, I was stressed enough to tap out and have a friend take over telling me what I needed to do. So, on reflection, that's the kind of thing I could easily have messed up...

10.01.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I'm so tempted right now... Are you guys making this as a limited run, or longer term? Too much money going out at the moment, but I'm a couple of months once things have quietened down a little, I might swing back around...

10.01.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If it falls off your desk hard enough, you won't need to copy the files off it... No judgement here.

10.01.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remote access usually lasts ;)

But realistically, it depends on whether a new class of component appears - things line GPUs, AI coprocessors and the like would be the biggest blockers. It's when a fundamentally new function appears that you never realized it would. Beyond that, lots of cores & RAM.

07.01.2025 11:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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iFixit: The Free Repair Manual iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Let's fix the world, one device at a time. Troubleshoot with experts in the Answers forumβ€”and build your own how-to guides to s...

Obligatory ifixit mention for guides?
www.ifixit.com

07.01.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No Shadow the Hedgehog in a list of great 2005 releases? That's...

OK, yeah, that's fair.

06.01.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another reason I'll cite for using git hashes as build IDs. And for anyone who disagrees because they're not human-readable, I say:

13fbd79c3d390e5d6585a21e11ff5ec1970cff0c

03.01.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

During the week, I wrote software. At the weekend, I take part in medieval reenactment.

This gives me a very specific understanding of the tenuous place technology has in society.

The potato though - that's a winner.

03.01.2025 00:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't understand the concept of temperature, please express things as energy density (obviously not taking into account just capacity).

26.12.2024 12:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Some *really* nice socks...

25.12.2024 14:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0