@robinwhittleton @jonty this has reminded me of an early job which involved training people who barely knew what a computer was how to do the basics. I was once asked why the mouse wasn’t working right. I rotated it 180 degrees so the cable was coming from the top rather than the bottom and all was well after that.
@an0key 180 in the oven, temperature probe it frequently, pull it out at 65 and it should coast up to a proper temperature while resting.
There's always chefs on telly around this time giving their top tips on making Christmas dinner. Here's mine.... don't worry about it. Do your prep. Listen to some banging tunes, dance and sing. Make a list. Check it twice. Do your timings. They'll all be wrong. You'll probably forget something. At least one thing will go wrong. Noone will notice or care so don't mention it. Get your potatoes right. They're all anyone cares about. You could serve a bunch of rubbish but the whole thing hinges on your potatoes. Love your potatoes. Make sure at least one is really terrific then take a photo of it and send it to your family and friends as a power play. If anyone responds with a better potato, ghost that person forever. You are the superior potato person now.
Reminder to open and setup any gift gaming consoles before Christmas morning. Switch2 took 23 agonizing minutes to transfer data over from the first switch and several hours to download and install old games. #gaming #switch #christmas
I have to go get a blood pressure test tomorrow (nothing to worry about, I’m fine) and it’s dawning on me now that Christmas week was maybe a bad time to schedule that.
Tesco, good, occasionally busy later. Sainsbury’s, moderate to good, rough in toilet roll aisle.
Asda, light to moderate, heavy crowds by evening.
M&S and Co-Op, fair.
Waitrose, fair to moderate.
Lidl, rough at first, easing later.
And that’s the end of the Shopping Forecast.
@benc it was designed to be persistent between events without things breaking, build away!
@0xabad1dea additionally, do not reply “thanks” when someone in a support team replies “that’s all sorted”. They’re just going to have to close the ticket a second time.
@andrew just watched the ATC recording, as ever I am in awe of those guys. Barely seemed to be breaking a sweat at the prospect of a plane without a concious pilot landing in the wrong direction on his runway.
@andrew truly amazing stuff, although I feel for any air traffic controller who hears the automated message coming in. I’m still unclear if it can handle ATC comms or if it just screams over the relevant frequencies that it’s landing on 27L and everyone should get out of the way.
I’ve worked out what’s been going on with all these Cloudflare outages lately.
https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/115759707567428478
@gsuberland “all I have to do is watch every film and TV show set in [town] and eventually it will be revealed”
@jackeric China is without a doubt the most foreign place I’ve ever visited. Went out there for a week with work and we weren’t even able to buy coffee without help from our hosts because at the time you couldn’t get a WeChat payment account without a Chinese bank card.
@fesshole don’t be. This is how we learn. Nobody was born intrinsically knowing how to spell I, or elephant, or anything in between.
I’ve realised why CEOs are all so into LLMs - it’s because they all have the same energy as a CEO, spouting complete bullshit based on half remembered think pieces, but in a way that comes across like they know what they’re talking about.
The boy’s gaming laptop has decided the week before Christmas is the time to self-destruct. Mostly it does nothing but turn the power LED on. Occasionally it’ll crank all the fans to full power while doing so.
I hadn’t really planned on tomorrow’s holiday activity being to remove every part from a laptop one by one, but here we are.
@jarkman I’ve got all the necessary bits to do a walk in the rain, just not at all enthusiastic about doing so, exercising for an hour or two, then turning around and doing it again.
It’s usually fine but days like today I wish I had a car. I’d like to go climb but the gym is a 25 minute walk away and it’s pissing down with rain and will be for some time.
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I’ve ever made)!
https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
[And If you've enjoyed this piece of seasonal silliness (and, critically, have a few quid to spare) I'd be grateful if you popped them in the hat:
https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure
(Support for the blog is a big part of how I fund my PhD expenses!)]
@tony @nonfedimemes surely that’s more than 100kg of peanut butter. Rough guess I’d say each of those pallets is a 100kg each.
@nonfedimemes in fairness that is a lot of peanut butter for $600.