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Jon Wood

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@scarlet @gsuberland they’ve all got a copy already, all you have to do is pay someone to suggest an internal multiplayer server.

Computers. Generally a bad idea. Doubly so when you’re fighting the UI while trying to ensure you don’t crash into the ground and die.

Today in Flight Sim: I upgraded to a plane with an autopilot, and then proceeded to spend an hour trying to make it fly the plane. Eventually got it to go somewhere near the airport and then flew the approach manually.

Me: “No, a film is a bit long for this evening”
Also me: Proceeds to watch two and a bit hours of YouTube video on the Garmin G1000 instrument panel for planes.

@gsuberland also my credit card company, which makes my balance statement emails which come with a subject of “Jonathan, your latest balance is available” sound like they’re passive aggressively judging me.

@gsuberland I this anytime someone calls me Jonathan, which while technically my name no one but very old friends of my parent’s have used since I was about 5.

Minecraft YouTubers balance your audio so you don’t have to shout over the backing music challenge. Difficulty level: Impossible

@pikesley the sad thing is that’s probably been AB tested to destruction. (In this literally to the point of the caption being destroyed)

@JackEric @sinvega congrats on having a non-terrible landlord. I ended up buying a new washing machine myself because I needed a working one within the week and knew my landlord would never pull that off.

@pash it might be the GUI isn’t great and you’ve dismissed this but NetworkManager likely has a plugin for whatever VPN Azure use, they usually include GUI within the network settings panel.

@JackEric I am indeed trimming a lot, although haven’t quite got a feel for it yet. Feels like I’m always over one way of the other, which from what I’ve seen is inherent to flying a simulator, while in a real plane you can feel it through the yoke.

Feels like I’m improving at Flight Sim now 4 take offs, 4 landings today, only 1 go round. I need to print a checklist I can see because I keep doing things like going to increase flaps for landing only to find I never brought them up after take off.

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Monday - Ian

Tuesday - Greg

Wednesday - Ian

Thursday - Greg

Friday - Ian

Saturday - Greg

Sunday - Ian

The Gregorian Calendar

@vncresolver tall boi.

Also several go rounds, including one in which I very nearly stalled because I forgot I was trimmed for landing and then overcompensated.

Landed twice this evening in my Flight Sim adventures. Neither was tidy, and in one I nearly ran out of runway, but its progress. Also getting gradually better at flying straight and level.

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If I was anonymously holding a government to ransom and a judge ruled that I must reveal my identity and give everything back, I would simply not do that

@pikesley it’s fine, no one understands IAM. I’m convinced even the people who implemented it for Google/AWS write their policies by endlessly updating policies until something works.

Today in my current fascination with Flight Simulator I successfully took off, flew around a bit, found the airport I’d left from again, and landed the plane at it.

I then entirely missed the taxiway because I was a little eager to get off the runway before slowing down enough but I’m taking this as a win.

@clown @pascoda nope. Mostly because I would be revealed to be a monster with no patience at all.

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i think you all might not understand what graffiti is

@tdp_org government rate seems fair, that double room is going to need a hell of a lot of cleaning after an entire government has stayed in it.

@Apiary @saraislet if you’re expected to work during vacation, quit.

@fesshole have you considered making a cafetière for three, then you could both have good coffee.