Suddenly, at 0 notice, we must choose a thermostat. And this being 2024, one does not simply choose a thermostat. Anyone have a recommendation for one that has reasonable programmability, but does not use "the cloud", require internet, etc.? (UK/Europe)
I've seen several orders of magnitude more posts accusing Linux users of being smug and supercilious than I have of Linux users actually being smug and supercilious. But this is the internet, where "making up a guy to get angry at" is a popular pastime, so carry on.
Google translate between Icelandic and English has gone from 75% useful, 25% laughable nonsense to mostly unusable in the space of a year. You used to be able to use it effectively as a dictionary. Enter a single word and you'd get the most common dictionary translation
@baldur There are some weird lacunae in Google's dictionaries of less-common languages. For example, the Google Android keyboard doesn't recognise the word "siad" in Irish. It means "they" and is about as common a word as you can find! Welsh is missing "ble" ("where")! Entering Gaelic is similarly frustrating.
@tosbourn I feel like "404s" needs some explanation. If someone goes to your-website.example.com/where-to-buy-illegal-drugs or /hire-a-hitman, you probably don't want to serve a 200, do you?
Ban emoji. I've had enough of them. Does 🫣 mean "I'm embarrassed that I can't remember" or "we have made a bad mistake"? Why the fuck should I have to wonder? Words are already unclear enough without adding silly pictures. We invented writing for a good reason and you people are taking us backwards by millennia.
sigh I have an American client who is having trouble, they say, being able to convert to £ (their end) for paying me. I have business bank account for my LTD that only accepts £ or €, apparently.
Anyone know of a way around this? A service either they or I could use? I would really prefer not to change bank accounts. Wish I'd know Starling was this limited at the outset.
@heydon I had lined up Wise (ex Transferwise) for this purpose - they offer business accounts - but haven't needed to use it as my US client was able to figure out GBP transfers to my Starling account.
@johnlogic
That's a cultural thing, because "mil" is very much slang for millimetre in the UK, and is widely used in building and related trades. 1/1000 of an inch would be "thou", although it's not needed so much these days. @Binder
My son wants to make his own electric guitar as a long term project. I think this might be too big a project to jump into. He's not even particularly keen on the idea of starting with a kit.. Any passing luthiers have advice about an easier step into this world?
@chrislowis@yaxu I'd suggest starting off by buying an unfinished body blank, a neck, and electronics, and getting practice in finishing, wiring, and final fretwork, then move on to making his own parts. If he has access to the kind of heavy-duty woodworking tools needed for a body, he could make his own body, too.
@chrislowis@yaxu There's a lot of special (and expensive) tools needed for working on a neck – fret files, nut files, levelling tools etc. – so it might be worth trying to find a friendly luthier who might be able to give him some guidance and access to tools there.
Do you use #FreeAgent? Do you have a business savings account with #Aldermore? Are you inconvenienced by the complete lack of statement downloads in their redesigned site?
@Edent Is it a bank? It must be a bank, right? They're forever reinventing login "security" in weird and counterproductive ways. One of my banks insists on a "memorable word" that must contain a digit. I can't remember any English words with digits in them.
Typing an arrow (→) the way I always do: ctrl-space into Japanese IME, type "yajirusi" (= arrow), select the direction I want.
I wish we had input methods for alphabetical languages that filled this gap between glyphs common enough to warrant their own key or Vulcan nerve pinch, and those that are used so seldom it's not onerous to look them up in a table. It would be handy for things like currency symbols and mathematical operators.
🆕 blog! “Restaurant Review: No Catch - Vegan Fish and Chips”
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There's nothing finer to do in Brighton than walk along the promenade eating a wodge of chips the size of your face. But it was raining, so we sat inside and ate all the chips instead. This is Brighton's 100% vegan chippie. As well as big fluffy chips, battered (veggie) sausage, and al…
After 22 years of faithful service, my Kensington Expert trackball has thrown off its mortal chains and ascended to the great e-waste pile in the sky. RIP to a real one, F in the chat, etc.
@Edent I have both the skills and equipment, but unfortunately I don't think I can actually do it any time soon as our house is going to be in renovation chaos for months.
It disappoints me when I see a good piece of writing with a piece of zero-effort generative visual filler image tacked on. You don't need it! Let your writing stand on its own! Adding art-by-the-yard only undermines the authenticity of the written piece.
Welp, woke up this morning, went downstairs, and suddenly my lower back is in agony! Guess I shouldn't have gone foodshopping and filled a backpack on two consecutive days.
@timgatewood It's a normal way to respond to someone, and it's exactly how people talk to each other in the real world. Anyone who gets upset about that has lost all sense of perspective.
@johnl@wj for what it's worth, I showed the original thread to my partner, who is neither a guy, nor a reply guy, nor extremely online, and she thought the "this worked for me" response was perfectly reasonable and the head-biting-off reply a bit much.
But in terms of how did I change my behaviour? Well, having observed the extreme response, I blocked the person I thought was being unreasonable, so that I wouldn't accidentally draw their fire myself. It's worked great!
