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
@SecurityWriter I’ll see your 3M USB-C cable and raise you a neat little pack of USB-C to all the other USBs adapters to go with it. I can charge more or less everything from the comfort of my sofa.
@anon_opin yeah, it was a simpler time when you’d stumble upon photos of a man with a surprisingly elastic anus, and women who like to bathe in chocolate.
@q so what you’re saying is that if I put the bar on a train track I can run it unlicensed anywhere I like?
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.
@anon_opin woah there cowboy. It’s a good thing you’ve kept this incredibly controversial take anonymous otherwise you’d have Big Tube hunting you down.
@sinvega this is driving me slowly mad. Even more so because I don’t really know how to teach the vibes detection which allows me to skip over the bullshit to my ten year old son. Feels like we lived through the golden age of the web and it’s all downhill from here.
Not sure what I’ve interrupted here but I’m pretty sure it won’t be good for us.
@Quinnypig even if you do it sounds quite a bad idea to give a Markov chain direct control of your computer.
@tdp_org @paddyduke what about push notifications? Surely you want your day to be interrupted every time this site you’re visiting for a single purpose posts a new article.
@grajohnt @John @moraghickman Nice fabric for a phone case too! 
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.
@solderandchaos another vote for GitHub pages here, it can be a bit of a faff to set up (although they have decent guides) but once you’ve done that you can largely forget about it.
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?
@herdingdata that particular failure mode has killed so many potential hobbies for me. It’s compounded by my tendency to watch a ton of videos on how professionals do it, only to realise I am not, in fact, a professional.
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.
@q it’s like Scrabble, a blank destination board is valid for any destination.