Gadgetoid

I fear this would be the networking equivalent of pouring petrol onto an already blazing fire.

I'm pretty confident there's nothing wrong with the hardware but rather a mix of my configuration and attempts to fix it.

It's weird that it's intermittent, though.

The corner of a free-standing bathtub very artfully placed on a raised platform a few inches tall. Somehow an unsightly drainage pipe still sticks out of the side. Very much a metaphor for Apple products.

Uh… ok then?

Hmm my janky contrivance of Mikrotik routers is still periodically failing to renew DHCP leases 😭

Underrated toot

Order info for a 512GB MicroSD card, marked as delivered on the 23rd November. The card cost £35.99.

The current price of the same memory card- £32.95 for 128GB, £36.99 for 256GB… or £80 for 512.

😭

Peanuts are healthy right…. RIGHT?

You could try crispy kale. Done right it’s a delicate balance of crunch and just evaporating in your mouth.

Mood. Closest I got to going out was hosting LAN parties at the local Cyber Cafe 🤣

Still have no fucking clue why they let me do that.

Music is such a low, low bar to clear too. Fucking birds can do it. Are you that much dumber than a bird that you need a fucking computer to do it for you 🤦

A barely decipherable blur vaguely in the shape of a human who appears to be wearing a balaclava and holding up their hand in a futile gesture to stop this endless tide of fucking bullshit. Even the fake people in fake videos for fake bands have had enough of this shit.

With ya mate I wish it would all stop too

A “live” concert video with absolutely no discernible stage and a crowd that looks about as convincing as the background of Wii fucking sports, set in a severely red hued smokey miasma of visual nothing. There is no depth of field despite significant haze. The whole video is this bullshit.

Is this a concert or the great fire of fucking London?

Anthropic can get fucked tbh

And let’s not get into the “bands” that have put out ten albums in 2025 and have the weirdest fucking “live” performance videos you will ever see. This timeline is absolutely fucking cracked.

The Witch of Hollow Pine Road YouTube video by Dark Country Rock - Topic

I feel like I’m being gas lit but this shit is so full of tells music.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaqb...

And don’t get me started on “Eli Creed.”

Did dark country with a bit of a rock leaning just not exist?

Damn this infernal timeline.

Tfw an entire genre of music exists entirely within the last year and is entirely AI generated 😭

With wireless cheaper and more reliable than ever and all the streaming music compressed to shit anyway I can’t fathom why anyone would want to bother with wires 🤣

And I thought relying on screens leftover in the corner of a warehouse was a rocky foundation for an electronics project.

How do you acquire these?

I dread to think how many homes could have had significant battery solar installs using the funds allocated just to building a park and ride carpark to ferry workers into Sizewell.

Experiencing the scale of construction around Sizewell - affecting miles out from the site - I agree that distributed, smaller scale storage would be far, far less disruptive.

And I was definitely all for new nuclear, but until you’ve driven the A12 near Yoxford the scale doesn’t hit. It’s bonkers.

I guess it could fire shredded bits of teeshirt 🤣

It sadly looks rather less like a gun with the full length blower attachment… still good fun though!

And way safer- since the fan is a solid chunk of metal that also shreds leaves.

An email reading: “You know in another life I'd have said the last thing I'd want was for lawn mowers to achieve sentience... but at this point I think we deserve what's coming.”

The main body of a yellow and grey STIGA leaf blower. It looks like a big gun from Quake and you can bet I weilded it like one.

So on Wednesday I sent a reply to a PR contact implying we all deserve to be run over by AI powered lawn mowers…

By Friday I had a new leaf blower/vacuum to test and review from them 🤣

The used SMEG kettle I bought in July 2021 has given up the ghost. The reason? A complex plastic switch mechanism has basically disintegrated.

Back to the ol chipped and paint splattered Russel Hobbs of unknown provenance that will probably outlive me.

A website embed from a toy shop depicting a road themed playmat. The title is “Pardon Our Interruption.”

The internet is now so dumb that website embeds capture the cookie popups 💀

I’ve been on the fence about RC for ages- wanted to get something really good but maybe cheap and cheerful is a good way to start.

I had Ricochet as a kid and that thing was hilariously good fun 🤣

Halo 2 finished! What a great game. That ending tho.

Judging by the track record of humanity I’m sure we’d find a way to pivot that into having an order of magnitude more assholes around 😭

Not me eating cheese today 💀

I can eat it, in the same way as I could jump off a cliff. Exciting for the first five seconds and all downhill from there.

The MODX is a beast but understanding FM synthesis is a pipe dream 😭

I had this urge except without the almost 💀

Absolutely no regrets fucking love it.

Oh cool you can still buy a teal and pink shell suit …

Wait

What

COSTUME!??!?