In other news, my upstairs neighbour has escalated from loudly listening to the same album on repeat with intermittent interruptions from the Samsung notification noise to listening to a single track on repeat.
Today I installed a new radiator to replace the terrible storage heater, it has both remained attached to the wall and made my flat warmer via its intended function rather than electrical fire. Taking this one as a win as I go to meet the boy from the bus and leave dealing with the general mess and incredibly heavy metal box full of bricks on my living room floor for later.
@jarkman I’ve had similar advice from some other folk. They reckon it’s probably not asbestos but to wear a respirator anyway because it’s probably not good for me. Regrettably step one is turning the whole thing over to access the front panel.
There’s some careful legal positioning going on in all the Uber app’s messaging saying things like “The driver has agreed to provide the service to you” because no one who isn’t a lawyer trying to establish everyone involved is an independent contractor would choose to phrase “your taxi is on the way” like that.
Via the strategic application of a hammer I have managed to drag it somewhat out of the way on top of a towel. I will now continue with putting the new heater in and leave the problem of getting rid of the old one to Later Today Jon.
So, just hypothetically, if someone had detached a storage heater from the wall to discover it’s even heavier than they thought it would be, and they now had a storage heater propped up halfway to the floor blocking the path through their flat, what would the next play be?
“God I wish my neighbour would stop loudly playing the same EP” he says to himself as he cranks the volume and puts on one of three albums currently in rotation to drown it out.
@rachel I really like Phoenix, and would seriously consider building on top of it if I were starting something new that required the complexity of a full blown framework.
I feel I deserve a small prize for seeing DoshDoshingtom has 90+ minutes on climbing games and not immediately watching it because I need to sleep.
@eloy whenever something like this gets posted it should include some companies that do actual real things like Walmart or Ford just so we can see how deranged this all is.
@q I bought a Peak Design backpack a month or two ago and while I was dubious about spending that much on a bag I couldn’t be happier with it.
I got annoyed enough to Google it. This goes much quicker when I tell Steam to use all 12 CPU cores instead of just the one.
I’m glad I decided to listen to a podcast while playing this game because at this rate I’ll have done most of the episode by the time Steam is done processing Vulkan shaders.
@gsuberland @mcc the feature literally doesn’t exist on ipadOS unless you’ve got MDM and a custom line of business app on the thing.
Three hours ago I thought I’d finish implementing this feature in some software I’m writing. No progress has happened at all but I’ve done a lot of fucking about with audio interfaces.
So far down this rabbit hole I was just passed by a fella in a big hat saying something about tea parties.
@grajohnt were these people friends or were they in fact people who were desperate for twenty bucks?
I decided to try and climb the tree in my parent’s garden after a couple of glasses of wine. It is in retrospect a terrible tree for climbing, I’ve got a small cut on the palm of my hand now, but my niece and nephew think I’m the cool uncle so who’s to say whether it was good idea or not.
@crashtestdev I attempted to read that once, for some reason I decided the weeks after my son was born was the time for business process fiction. I was very wrong. It’s never time for business process fiction, and even less so when you’re catastrophically sleep deprived.
@hughrawlinson what the fuck‽ How is that not just straight up illegal computer misuse and theft of data?
@bloor depending on the age of the kid I have sympathy for the parents, I definitely did some stupid shit as a teenager, but it never got that stupid because me and my friends were all brought up to have at least some respect for things that could kill us.
@bloor amongst the many things that should be taught at a national scale is simple risk assessments and how just because a thing has happened once it doesn’t suddenly make it a thing that should have the most extreme mitigation measures applied.
@an0key Alternate Reality Game - they often kick off with some TV show or game social media account posting a blurry photo of a thing where given enough effort people can work out the location and go find the next clue.
@an0key it’s an ARG, they’re just trying to give you a bit of entertainment with your parcel.