baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)
- Comment on Greyhound racing to be banned in New Zealand 1 week ago:
And UK.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
Good point. Not everyone swears like a trooper. I’m ex British army so can live with it. But I wouldn’t swear in mixed company or in front of my daughter, even if they she is over 21.
- Comment on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X 5 weeks ago:
Overdue - more national media needs to take this step.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 1 month ago:
Well played. I’d forgotten all about that :-)
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 1 month ago:
They’re not even hiding are they?
They may as well just superimpose a swastika on their logo and have done with it.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 1 month ago:
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 1 month ago:
It’s disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.
- Comment on Trump Rally Opens With Insults Aimed at Latino, Black, Jewish and Arab American Voters 1 month ago:
Nearly all the boxes ticked there.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
You could just ask the mice.
- Comment on 'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe 1 month ago:
He’s correct though, they’re not trying. They’re doing.
- Comment on Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? 2 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Space debris: U.S. command chief says dialogue with China is too often a one-way street - "We all should operate with due regard and in a professional manner" 3 months ago:
China doesn’t give a flying friar about anyone else. The fact that this could make launches difficult for them is neither here nor there.
They really don’t care.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 3 months ago:
Same with the Hitchhikers stunt.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 3 months ago:
I can’t make the lyrics fit the tune ☹️
- Comment on Please stop making Alien movies 3 months ago:
And Avatar, we don’t need anymore thank you.
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Trump and Suspends His Independent Bid for President 3 months ago:
He’s a tool.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 months ago:
The ancient Greeks used Duck Duck Go.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 months ago:
photoshopped before computer in Darkrooms. >
I hope you mean edited. And I hope you realise the tools used in Photoshop are named after their original darkroom processes.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse 4 months ago:
Ah, right. Thanks.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse 4 months ago:
actually heard a story where someone made an allegation
Reposting things like this doesn’t help - people will pick up this as fact. Unless you can prove it, don’t post it.
- Comment on Who Are the Far-Right Groups Behind the U.K. Riots 4 months ago:
even if it was clearly manufactured disinformation causing those concerns.There you go. You answered your own question.
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 4 months ago:
There was a post on here recently that listed BBC presenters pay, and it mentioned him getting a pay rise.
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 4 months ago:
He just got a bloody pay rise as well!
- Comment on Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet 4 months ago:
I want to be able to print my calendar!
- Comment on Forum User Returns After 100,000 Hour Ban to Continue the Same Argument That Got Them Banned in 2013 5 months ago:
He just wouldn’t let it lie.
- Comment on "Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ 5 months ago:
Or Winnie The Pooh.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 5 months ago:
Obligatory eye-roll.
Do you use Arch by any chance?
PS. Two of my machines run Endeavour OS, the other MX XFCE ;-)
- Comment on Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction) 6 months ago:
In a word, no. They are focused on the Adobe name. A bit like Apple, lots of good alternatives but who wants to be seen with a ‘insert non fashionable name here’ phone. There was a time when Adobe was king, not anymore though.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
This. No amount of excuses or lengthy explanations. It’s childish and unprofessional.
- Comment on New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds 6 months ago:
So what are we looking at, the next 5 years?