

Yeah, but the people in the Volvo get to walk away.


I’m on a variable rate electricity tariff and I use Home Assistant and iLO to power things on and off automatically, so most of the time it pulls 30-50W. At peak it pulls north of 1.5KW but that’s really rare.


Makes mine look boring.

In The Night Garden is designed specifically to get kids to chill the fuck out and it works so well. I remember having to babysit my nephew once and he was getting worked up by a show called Yo Gabba Gabba which seems to be specifically designed to cause seizures. The next day, oh, that’s weird, that channel is broken and, well, damn, I guess we’ll have to watch In The Night Garden on CBBC instead. It was like a totally different kid.


GIMP is an English acronym.


I just 100% all-the-time will always want someone to release a fork of GIMP that is totally identical in every way but has a different name. I can’t tell you the amount of time it was rejected by schools because of it.


Well a miscarriage is basically an abortion and an abortion is basically a murder.
/s, to be clear, but some people will say that sincerely and in some parts of the world they get to write the law.


That security guard has a tiny head.
Just stare unblinking at a clock. When it suddenly jumps forwards several hours subtract the difference. Easy.
Doesn’t work when crossing time zones or during daylight savings transitions.
Why was 7 afraid of 8? Because 7, 8, 9.
But why? Because you’re supposed to get 3² meals.


I have a 52" screen mounted to the tailgate connected to a laptop on the passenger seat with a bunch of PowerPoints queued up.
Sorry.pptx SorryNotSorry.pptx Thankyou.pptx NiceDrivingDipshit.pptx YouBlindMotherfucker.pptx Appreciated.pptx ILoveYourSprinterTruanoAE86ItsJustLikeTheOneFromInitialD.pptx
Not all of those get a lot of use. I’ve never used SorryNotSorry.pptx, for example
Okay, but that’s not what you found. What you have there is a cat, which is also very good! In fact, the excellent news is that you can keep the cat and continue searching for a Linux distro.


Vibe Coding is Killing
Open SourceSoftware
FTFY. The only difference is that with FOSS the slop is visible to all.


The thing I find particularly annoying about W is that they could have just forked BlueSky and set up the first serious AtProtocol federation.


Can we be like the Beneluxians or Scandinavians instead?


Imagine having one hundred million euros (dollars, pounds, whatever) and genuinely thinking that happiness is just another hundred million away. They are all broken, failed humans.
Yeah, that’s not a straw, though. It’s like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.
I’m from the North of England and we say “aye! t’was onna night most un’nartual, when good folk did pull down the shutters and bring their children reet close and 'uddle themselves away, for they couldn’t rightly say if they wus hearing the howling of t’wind, the shrieking orra newborn, or the wailin of the beast, in this very valley [x] years/moons ago” and I think that’s beautiful.
Jokes on you, I’m a toilet tester; taking a shit and work is all I do.