Everything except that fucking stupid bullshit gondola thing in East London.

It varies, but so far this month (day 11) I’m at 80GB and 300GB a month isn’t unusual. At home and work I typically get 500+ Mbps download so I don’t tend to bother with WiFi. I’m currently paying £12/mo for a SIM-only service.

For the truly enlightened it allows you to piss into the shower while standing on the toilet.

I got an MSI Claw instead of the Steam Deck and I adore it, but the best decision I made was to get a USB-C docking station like the one in the photo. It turns it into a full desktop PC.

Even better is that eventually you can connect an eGPU to that dock to a massive boost when you’re at the desk. The Claw has replaced my desktop and laptop.

But you’re still coming in to work, right?

Ten years? Up until recently I had a Core2Duo with 1GB RAM running Qobus in as a jukebox in the bedroom. But now he’s gone, off to a better place, where he can finally rest. By which I mean I upgraded to 4GB and installed at a relative’s house running Home Assistant.

My neck: long, pale, displayed proudly Einstein’s neck: obscured by shadow, probably ashamed

Science!

The 3½" floppy disc icon means he has the most important thing, the thing women crave, the thing that drives all women crazy with lust: a vast and meticulously organised collection of fully working computers and consumer electronics from the 80s and 90s.

Can confirm. I’m currently at Tim Horton’s and there’s no rice growing.

A good start, but I think it should be more than just an eye test.

Here’s my opinion: everyone should have to take a refresher course and test every ten years, dropping to 5 years at 60.

Any IT department worth their salt will have solved this problem years ago. It’s hard to explain if you’ve never managed Windows in an enterprise setting but there’s a reason that profit-hungry corporations all use Windows. Here’s the full process for getting any Windows laptop to work perfectly:

• unbox the laptop and turn it on
• insert the USB key with the provisioning package
• wait about two seconds for Windows to tell you to remove the USB key.
• go to lunch

If they have a channel supplier that offers ‘white glove’ service they don’t even need to do that and they can even have brand new laptops drop-shipped to a user at home without ever needing to touch it. And if that laptop fucks up down the line it can just be wiped and as soon as Windows connects to the Internet it can automatically re-enrol itself into the organisation’s management system.

Depending on the store TGTT bags can be amazing or… not so much. One store near me will always include fresh fruit, veg, meats, rolls, cans… another will just hand over a bag with like ten kilos of sliced ham in it.

TGTT with a freezer is a game-changer, though.

Yeah, that’s not a straw, though. It’s like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.

Yeah, it’s kinda like how you can go years without hearing any stories about someone winning a medal at the Olympics then suddenly the news is full of stories about people winning Olympic medals. Clearly it’s a conspiracy.

I’ve used Hostpro in the past. The VPS I used was hosted in the Netherlands but they’re a Ukrainian company IIRC and they have Kyiv as an option. I recall them being fine, nothing special, and fairly cheap.

Do you mean that as in, within reasonable latency of Ukraine? Because if so, Hetzner have locations in Nuremberg and Helsinki which should be useful.

This guy reminds me of an asshole I used to work for. The company was called ABC, say, so he set everyone up with ABC-Alice@gmail.com, ABC-Bob@gmail.com, and so on. He got really, really pissed off when ABC-NewStarter wasn’t available to the extent that he wrote non-stop emails to the person who registered it, Google, his solicitor, even the police demanding it be relinquished and moaned non-stop that the world wasn’t bending to his whim.

I’m not supporting Google - it’s annoying that they’re revoking a feature - but this is a real XKCD 1150 situation.

Every day we stray further from God’s light.

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.