@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley that’s the plot of a Bond film isn’t it?
A reminder that every major financial institution declared the Metaverse as real, in many cases a multi trillion dollar market. It was all total bullshit.
@dave what the hell. I’ve ordered one, hoping I can bypass the firmware and do something fun with it.
Today’s cursed Hacker News comment: “The fact the market hasn’t solved this problem suggests it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving”.
@simple_sabotage not convinced by this one. Measure once, cut twice, it’ll mean you take longer and use more material, a win-win.
Is This Seat Taken is deviant filth that should be banned. A game in which you’re expected to accommodate the whims of people who want to use their phones in a cinema rather than unceremoniously ejecting them.
(Other than that it’s a very charming logic puzzle game about allocated seating)
@yvan vaporub still exists, not sure I have encountered a vaporub delivery system though.
I really need to break my Hacker News habit. At one point it was a reliable source of interesting articles and commentary. Now it’s 90% LLM Snake Oil salesmen and people who think society could be fixed if we simply stuck a price tag on everything.
I made the terrible mistake of reading Hacker News comments about health care systems before bed and now I’m absolutely raging at the fact I share a career with some of the most entitled self satisfied pricks on the planet
I was bored so I updated my Home Screen full of mobile app icons which are just a stylised circle.
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda I’m particularly spicy about this because of the time I accidentally booked the wrong flight for a work trip and ended up swallowing the cost because I was too embarrassed to submit an expense claim labelled “non-refundable flight booked on the wrong day”. (Thankfully it was only European and so not hideously expensive)
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda oh 100 times this. These days they’re Executive Assistants instead, because the C-suite are too important to book their own flights and schedule their own meetings but everyone else should just suck it up.
@shinydan @cmconseils big same here. I was walking a mile and a half each way to school. My son started secondary a few months ago and still wants walking to the bus stop ten minutes away, across a single not very busy road.
@dramypsyd @AndyIncarnate and in penance for that awful pun, yes, ovens and all other kitchen bits have a wild price range. Unless you’re really into cooking you probably don’t need to spend more than a few hundred.
@dramypsyd @AndyIncarnate no, a range is the bit on top you out pans on to cook things. What you’re talking about is an oven, that’s the big box that gets hot.
Today’s nonsense: Filing an SAR with Microsoft in an attempt to recover a potentially corrupted Minecraft save from Xbox cloud storage. Because apparently this is the only way to extract save games from an Xbox.
@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley [pictured: a party popping off, everyone is having the best time ever]
@Thayer the Pimoroni Presto, a gorgeous little programmable display with a network connection. £69. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/presto
@SonnyBonds @vkc a few quick examples:
Alerting when power drops back to normal levels so I know when the oven has heated.
Lights coming on when I enter a room and off when I leave.
Remotely turning on my gaming computer so I can stream from it.
A clock on my bedside table showing the current weather.
Dimming the lights a while before I go to bed. (And eventually turning off the TV if I ignore that and still don’t go to bed)
@tommorris if only they employed a staff of people who are trained to summarise the events of the day in a digestible manner.
@catsalad it’s just bad distinction between lower case and upper case letters. The protector is specifically optimised for use in aluminium smelting plants, and the unique risks found therein.