RIP Lefty, wherever you are. I know where it fell out, but after looking for the better part of an hour, it’s like it vapourised 🤷🏻♂️
RIP Lefty, wherever you are. I know where it fell out, but after looking for the better part of an hour, it’s like it vapourised 🤷🏻♂️
US$8 a month is 30% more than I pay for my annual Disney Plus subscription. It’s only slightly less than Disney Plus and Amazon Prime subscription combined. And for that, they provide ME with content.
If you drive a car, you should attend a defensive driving course. If you ride a bike, there should be offensive riding courses. Because holy crap car drivers.
It’s great when the rain can show you where a major fault line is.
Hey everyone. A PSA: there’s a major bug in OpenSSL. The details are being released tomorrow. Please make sure you have auto-update turned on, on all your things. It’s going to be a fun day for the infosec and system admin peeps.
Noticed a bright pixel on my iPhone screen and couldn’t get rid of it. That’s $1,200 down the drain (because it’ll drive me insane!). Luckily, although I couldn’t get rid of it with a fold of my T-shirt, I did manage to scratch it off. *phew*
Just watched [Moonfall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfall_(film) (sponsored by Kaspersky and Lexus). So stupid. So incredibly, incredibly stupid.
I’ve had a thorough search through a couple of search engines, but can’t find any mention of @manton talking about the Bluesky/AT Protocol. Seems very in line with the open web and mb. If it ever gets released of course…
Ha. Hahahaha. Ah hahahaha!
Nothing is sacred.
Doctor Who to get American makeover as Disney takes on British classic.
I’d like to apologise to everyone on the timeline here at micro.blog. I got sucked back in to Twitter with the extremely limited time I’ve had for social networks. But with a certain Space Karen about to burn Twitter to the ground, I’ll be here more. And very chatty when I am.
Just thinking about how back in the day on dial up, a 150 ms ping (or lag in games), was considered OK. That was on a 56,000 baud modem. Now with gigabit fibre, pings are around 20-40 ms. Because of the speed of light. And there’s no beating that.
I wish when iPhones were so old they were no longer receiving OS updates, that you could do something to turn on a mode where you could install a Linux distro or something similar so you could use them as very capable ARM servers. Like Raspberry Pis with built-in UPS.
I absolutely love my tiny iPhone 12 mini. However I’m hitting the battery limitations and running close to empty by ~7pm. I’m always on low battery mode. My solutions are buy a giant phone (which is, any other phone). Or buy a magnetic battery pack. Recommendations?
Bizarre language find of the day: one of my favourite words, overmorrow(the day after tomorrow), has no equivalent undermorrow (the day before yesterday).
Stupid computer geek brain: “I have a full terabyte of stuff I want to ensure I keep. Obviously that means I need hundreds of dollars worth of NAS equipment”
Galaxy computer geek brain: “Put it on a USB hard drive, unplug the drive, throw it in a drawer. Cold storage. Done.”
Has anyone out there changed their Apple ID email address? Is doing so a recipe for disaster?
Does anyone know if there’s an action camera out there, like a go pro, that just records straight to your phone? Rather than bothering with all the SD cards and tiny internal storage and what not?
I just noticed in the opening credits of Lower Decks, the battle the Serittos runs away from is against the Borg AND the Crystaline Entity. A hilarious deep cut.
Every time I think I’ve finally started to understand how git works, I realise I’m still nowhere near actually understanding what’s really happening.
I looked at getting an iPad Magic Keyboard to replace my broken Logitech keyboard and broken Magic Mouse. But they’re so ridiculously overpriced that I can buy a regular Magic Keyboard, a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse and be left with almost $100 spare. Utter rip off
If you’re learning French here’s a little tip to recognise words. If a vowel has a ^ (circumflex) over it, it’s a historical marker, saying it originally had an s after it, eg:
Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? Extremely entertaining. Even better curled up in a blanket at home instead of at the cinema. Sorry theatres, it’s time to join Internet cafes in the Universe of Not Quite as Good as Being at Home.
Have a distinct feeling I’ll be watching Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness tonight. Since it’s out on Disney+. Why would you ever go to the movies? Just wait six weeks and you get it at your house for no additional cost.
The geek’s dilemma. Do I rebuild my now broken raspberry pi setup (thanks lightning strike!), and maintain a small low power server doing what I need it to? OR, do I just get the services my raspberry pi runs going using Docker on my Mac, which is on most of the time anyway?