Property buying continues to crawl along, today after waiting weeks for a response to a query from my solicitors the other side inform me “the council require a fee for this information, which was paid yesterday”.
This is literally your whole job. How were you unaware there would be a fee that needed paying?
@sinvega I do so with noise cancelling headphones which support pass through so I get the noise from outside as well. Yes, I am aware how mad wearing headphones to hear outside noises is.
@britt I’d be open to helping with this. No experience running Mastodon specifically, but I have run Rails applications at scale for a decade or so.
@sinvega I do almost all my podcast listening while walking in woods. It’s the only time I can concentrate on them because not tripping over things is just enough other things for my brain to do while not being all consuming.
@kenshirriff @leeb computers should still have physical dials for settings. Give me a big old Dark Mode switch I can flick.
@fesshole maybe have a word with him about watching bellends on YouTube. I don’t for a minute doubt some Capital G Gamer Influencer has said people should do this.
Just been sent to bed by my flat because I stayed up too late watching YouTube. After ignoring the first change in lighting some time ago midnight came round and it turned off the TV.
@tef well shit. Guess I’ve been sleep deprived for the last 25 years.
Today’s Flight Sim bullshit was a flight cut short by an actual in-flight emergency, in the form of my joystick breaking and repeatedly getting stuck when banking. Just about landed the plane on the runway, with a lot of stall warnings, and a terrible approach.
And to think I typically make fun of the people who do the full pre-flight checklist including checking controls in a simulator.
@gsuberland Yakuza is making a run for the title at the rate they’re shipping new games.
@pikesley they appear to have extra goals. Is this an experimental multi ball match?
My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.
Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.
Specialises in debugging.
I would like a term for the eventual evolution of all YouTubers towards screaming into the camera about their latest slightly shady sounding charity. Like carcinisation, but instead of crabs it’s sob stories.
Starbucks eliminated plastic straws to help the environment BUT gives their CEO a private jet to commute WEEKLY to work between his California home and their Seattle headquarters.
It's funny how regular folks have to sacrifice while the rich can continue to live with no regard for the planet or anyone on it
Starbucks is giving its new CEO Brian Niccol a private jet to commute between his California home and Seattle office | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/business/starbucks-ceo-brian-niccol-private-jet/index.html
@wikihow good effort on the failed romance theme but those lyrics are never going to fit a blues rhythm.
@fesshole wasn’t there someone a while back complaining about a tradesman misspelling their name? Have we now had both sides of the fess and everyone thinks they’re up on the deal?
@tychotithonus @catsalad I was aware of ABU but maybe naively had assumed the issuers were also aware of it, and weren’t going to *send the new card details to exactly the same people who just fraudulently used the old ones*.
@q is this an exercise in malicious compliance because some security questionnaire said “are services behind a VPN”?
@hugh I did also see a hilariously expensive and absolutely huge force feedback yoke which looks amazing. Must not bankrupt myself buying controllers for a game I’ll probably lose interest in after a few weeks.
@hugh I could totally see myself becoming one of those people with a full physical sim cockpit one day. It seems you can get a plastic reproduction of just about everything for any given aircraft, but even just a few key controls would make a huge difference.
@hugh yeah, one the frequent complaints I hear from actual pilots is that trim is very counter intuitive in the sim because in a real plane you’d have physical feedback as you adjust it and the pressure on the yoke reduces. Hunting down controls with a mouse is a bit of a pain as well.
@scarlet @gsuberland they’ve all got a copy already, all you have to do is pay someone to suggest an internal multiplayer server.