@CatherineFlick I’ve never heard “manel” before but I love it already.
@mayaisloading save money to buy a house by living with parents and renting out the apartment you bought with the money your parents gave you.
@mayaisloading if you simply move countries every [notice period] months then you never have to pay any rent to landlords.
@hugh oh amazing, I can help out my Ethiopian uncle as well. They’ll all be so happy.
@hugh do I have some good news for you. There’s a sheik I know who’s having some issues with his bank, if you just send them all to me then I can get the bank to transfer you his millions.
I hope this email finds you no matter where you're hiding.
@solderandchaos if you enjoyed that may I recommend My Perfect Console, a podcast in which long time games journalist Simon Parkin interviews people about their favourite games Desert Island Disks style?
@pikesley oh come on. Get that hooked up to a Markov chain immediately please.
@solderandchaos please can you bring some tiny robots to EMF? Maybe enough to overwhelm the tiny rabbits, but I’ll understand if that’s a little much.
@jonty in fairness you are a lunatic, it’s just that a great many people dearly love the path your lunacy has taken you down.
@pikesley I’ll put money on them wanting a subscription fee to use a mouse driver in the next six months, and this being the justification.
You can tell new hardware to test for work has arrived because suddenly my desk is a mess, and there's an extension cable running across the floor so I can flash the thing from one of the Linux boxes in my network cupboard.
@astrid allow me to introduce you to building management networks, where people do exactly that on the grounds of “security”, and then run both subnets on the same physical network without VLANs.
@patcharcana @gsuberland @saraislet @http_error_418 I believe the intent there is that each production module can be removed and rebuilt without having to refactor the entire base. I wouldn’t know because I don’t have the patience to get much beyond launching a rocket.
Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—
@dinn @gsuberland checks out. As we all know grub comes from Tesco.
In other news, my son is back on his wanting to mod Mario Odyssey bullshit.
Quite amused by the fact the whole Yuzu being shut down by Nintendo thing was quickly resolved with a different group forking as Suyu and self-hosting their source control.
@hugh I also work from home, I’m just generally out 6pm to 8pm, which happily coincides with high costs. I do know several people who aren’t and are still seeing a benefit though.
@hugh I think a big factor for me is that I’m almost always out for most of the evening peak, I’ll rarely start cooking until 7:30 or so.