The Flight Sim 2024 launch did not go well. 2 million user long queues just to get to the loading screen, and from what I’ve heard it’s flakey once in. The old folks who do nothing but fly their replica Airbus cockpits back and forth all day are taking it predictably well, and acting like it’s an actual airline that’s been grounded rather than their living room.
I’ve just learned that Deliveroo now offer two subscription tiers at which they will refund some (tier one) or all (tier two) of your order value if they arrive late.
A *food delivery company* has managed to make delivering your food before it goes cold an optional extra with a recurring subscription fee.
"EULAs of Despair"
https://www.pilotlab.org/eulas-of-despair
As an example, the first three tiers of the Amazon EULA terms total over 642,000 words of text, which translates into OVER 53 HOURS of reading at the rate of 200 words a minute.
I ordered a single top from an online store recently. Since then I’ve had an email from them at least every two days, does this shit work, or are people just guessing that it might?
The Comments Below, so called because they’re the gateway to Hell.
I decided to learn how to fly the A320. Very much a case of the I Have No Idea What I’m Doing dog, but flying a jetliner. Took me an hour to start the thing up, 30 minutes to fly to Manchester, and then I missed the approach and had to land it by hand because I couldn’t make the autopilot try again.
I am quite irritated because I am trying to write an email to someone in an American prison and not only do they charge you extra for every jpeg you want to attach, but the filesize limit is 1MB and they do absolutely nothing to resize images for you automatically nor offer any advice on how to do it yourself. The average phone-photo jpeg has been larger than 1MB for many years. Most nontechnical people would be utterly roadblocked by this
Got home from a Halloween party where I’d drunk half a bottle of wine and immediately sat down for a 400 mile flight through the Himalayas in Flight Sim. Take off was a bit hairy, the landing was one of the best I’ve done despite having to weave through some foothills to get to the runway. Turns out being slightly drunk is the secret to a smooth landing.
The CAA may disagree with this statement.
Not sure what I’ve interrupted here but I’m pretty sure it won’t be good for us.
I have completed my slow and meandering simulated flight from Lands End to John O’Groats. Six legs or so, gradually upgrading to faster planes as I went. Now I need to work out where I’m going next.
@TheBreadmonkey @jackeric I last watched it in 1999 (I know this because our secondary biology teacher got talked into showing it as the end of term film, she pressed play and then left, saying “I’m not watching it”). It still haunts me now.
I’d like to have words with whoever thought YAML was a reasonable programming language. This thought brought to you by a generated password containing a colon causing my Salt run to explode due to a YAML parse error.
Turns out autopilot approaches don’t work at some airports in Flight Sim 2020. That would have been fine if not for the thick rain clouds between me and the airport, I took several attempts at it, then diverted to an airport where I could see the ground.
I’d be annoyed by it but that was some of the tensest Flight Sim I’ve done and fantastic fun dealing with it.
You ever seen something so painfully out of touch and oblivious it hurts?
If any of you Linux users out there are getting bored, you may want to try one of the BSDs. BSD of course stands for Berkeley Software Distribution and all the information you need on running BSD can be found in the Berkeley Distribution Software Manuals, or BDSM for short. So Google BDSM to get started.
The YouTube meta continues to baffle me as the boy watches a video of a person watching a video of a person watching a video.
This video has made my day, please enjoy: https://youtu.be/C4BGlbNKNRM?si=4ZPM4UXjAandpLTm
So far I’ve received seven separate emails and a phone call about my Curry’s order placed yesterday, fully expect a barrage insisting I review the product, the delivery driver, and Curry’s in general as well.
Shout out to the Curry’s warranty sales person who hung up the moment the words “no thanks” came out of my mouth. Neither of us wanted to be on that call, and you respected that.
Upgraded the CPU and GPU in my gaming computer so now I’m not going to need to turn the heating on this winter.
“Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot”. Fuck you, buddy. I’m the human here, you’re a poorly trained model which can’t work out that I’m the same person I always am on this device.
I had a long list of plans for this evening. Instead I watched several hours of YouTube videos by a guy circumnavigating mainland Britain in a tiny speed boat. I regret nothing.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI9wxSG-v3nM5TN7llb19jNnh8JUpmRe4&si=LCk7QWSqAgI1GEL4