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Jon Wood

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Democracy Dies in Big Opportunities for Capitalists

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.

Edited 8d ago

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.

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I love having the world's information organized

@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.

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You ever seen something so painfully out of touch and oblivious it hurts?

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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.

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a most honourable game of skill, wisdom, and courage

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: youtu.be/C4BGlbNKNRM?si=4ZPM4U

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.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI9

Just bought the flat I’ve been renting since 2020, time for me to enter my DIY era.

Sinking deeper into the flight simulation rabbit hole I did my first flight with rudder pedals just now. That’s going to take getting used to, and I landed super hard because I had my feet on the brakes when I touched down.

No, Flight Simulator, I did not “crash the plane into the water”. I landed it in the water slightly fast.

The NTSB merely want to know why I deployed the water rudder at 70mph, and that was entirely because I had no idea what I was doing.

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From the makers of

"This meeting could have been an email"

We proudly present

"This app could have been a PDF"

@Tarah every time I’ve done this it would have been enough for me to hand over the phone to someone who sounds vaguely like a woman and have them say “yes, I’m X, he’s got my permission”.

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I think it's time for a reread of "I am not your supplier"

>What it means is that there is no supply chain here. Because there is no supplier. I am not providing you something that you bought from me. There is no relationship. I put something online because I wanted to. The fact you made your product depend on it is your responsibility. Not mine. Not the one of the providers. We provide libraries. We do not supply them. You cannot apply rules to me.
www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/no

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