EE/Money Saving Expert sales once again knocking my door, apparently BT are doing “the internet updates” in the coming weeks. I almost admire the bullshit they feed their door to door sales people to do market research on who’s with which ISP.
@an0key I’d take the piss out of someone buying one of those as well.
@an0key I love that the only commentary I’ve seen on this thing has been “wtf? Who’s spending £420 on a toothbrush?”
SaaS based building energy analysis, one of the few jobs in which you occasionally have to interact with Kubernetes and Windows XP in the same day. (I hasten to note the Windows XP machine had no Internet connection)
Possibly the biggest benefit of moving from a Ruby shop to a Python one a few years ago is that I don’t have to keep up with what DHH is up to.
If you’re not playing Denshattack I’d like to know why. It’s an incredibly stylish game set in a future Japan where everyone has taken shelter in domes from the apocalyptic climate except for a few brave… train drivers? Doing tricks off abandoned tracks‽
Just imagine Tony Hawk’s and Katamari had a wonderful love child.
@tthbaltazar @gsuberland so, I once got hit with a Trustpilot request from my ISP at exactly the wrong moment and posted a review which was broadly “Why are you so needy? You’re an ISP, if I notice you you’ve failed.” and then they *emailed me asking how they could make things better*.
They’ve at least claimed I’m now on the list of people who will never get any comms other than receipts and critical information.
@an0key let me guess, someone set a KPI for calls being answered within 33 minutes and didn’t explicitly state “and you can’t just disconnect them”.
Would it be weird to go upstairs and tell my neighbour I really don’t mind the loud music but for the love of God can they set their phone to keep notification noises on the phone instead of ducking the music?
@farah I think it’s region specific, which doesn’t make it much better but at least they’re not imposing this madness on the entire world.
Just going to drop this here like some sort of specialised grenade designed to destroy the Fediverse’s productivity: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/The_Message_from_Deep_Space/
@noodles tbh those requirements do scream Debian to me but I’d feel remiss if I didn’t proselytise for NixOS briefly. The stable channels are six monthly releases which get security and bug fix updates but no big changes.
It’s a huge change in mindset adopting Nix but I know of very few people who’ve gone back afterwards because it’s just so nice to work with once you’ve picked up the language.
@gsuberland I did consider it but I was on a very locked down Windows machine (rightfully so, I was working in a hospital on patient data).
@gsuberland I did a bit of data entry as a temp in my early twenties and I can confirm it can be very therapeutic, especially with a stock of podcasts to churn through while you do so (this was in the days of them being in an actual iPod). I was doing it for some medical research and the person supervising was astonished at how quickly I got through it all, just locked in and tapped in those bone measurements.
@grajohnt counterpoint: the law of pun names means that you have to buy a hotel now.
@an0key @futuresprog @gsuberland ESPHome can be persuaded to do normal MQTT or whatever other exotic protocol is needed. Also ESPHome support implies being a reflashable device so just fling whatever on it.
Just put this jacket on for the first time since getting back from EMF, you’ll never guess what was in the pocket.
Just once I’d like to realise I’m coming down with something before I’ve spent several days wondering why I feel grumpy, physically weak, and unable to think straight. It wouldn’t make those things any more fun but at least I’d get why rather than beating myself up.
@pikesley I look forward to the answer not being “maybe we should hire some more people to work on these waiting lists” or “we could set standardised pricing like we do in other fields”.
@mjg59 I’ve been idly browsing documentation for atproto lately and really like what I see, especially with the incoming work to allow private data stores, which seems the big missing piece so far.
@pikesley but would you recommend waiting for a while and then being stabbed with a needle so your blood can be taken away to friends and family? We must know.
@NanoRaptor I kind of love that anyone would walk up to a Windows XP machine in 2026 and decide all that’s needed is updating to SP3 for it to be fine.
@w I find it very funny seeing DHH, the man who made a generation of developers buy MacBooks (yes, me included), discover that Linux is quite good these days. And then of course write some confguration files and shell scripts before declaring he’s invented something.
@solderandchaos you should give new paper a chance to settle into its home before asking it to do anything.
Apparently the owner follows me here because it turned off as soon as I posted some mild snark about it.