swizzlestick
@swizzlestick@lemmy.zip
- Comment on I can't believe it 2 days ago:
Nah - I just can’t address a question to the right user, you’re all good haha
- Comment on I can't believe it 2 days ago:
Was about to say, £s not pence :) 50s will also out you as a tourist, if nothing else does. Whereabouts are you planning to visit? Just London for the touristy stuff or going for more of an explore?
As mentioned above, electronic payments are now the norm here and have been for ages. Shouldn’t have any problems using a phone or contactless card to pay in most places. Chip/PIN covers most everything else & when you get prompted to insert the card as a security check after trying contactless.
Swipe & sign is possible last time I checked, but pretty much defunct with chip/PIN being readily available. Cash only places are rare and usually associated with food or drugs.
.zip isn’t blocking UK access via apps/api, but it is for browsers. I like VPNs and supporting my home instance, so here I am :)
- Comment on I can't believe it 3 days ago:
If you’re bringing cash, bring it in 20s and below. 50s aren’t used much at all as they arouse suspicion - many smaller places will flat out not accept them.
Hope you enjoy the trip :)
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 3 days ago:
Also good, thanks.
Not that there’s much to maintain, it’s a one-and-done thing. This would resolve the unsigned extension though :)
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 3 days ago:
Thanks for the hint on libredirect/redlib, that looks very serviceable.
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 4 days ago:
I’ve frankensteined a horrible unsigned extension that’s half bad human code and half AI garbage that autoredirects reddit links to their archive.org version.
Does the job, if a little slowly, without this little shit getting in the way:
- Comment on When IT upgrades your instrument computer to W11 1 week ago:
That’s even worse. A an almost literal in-house driveby. It’s not bloody hard to see potential problems.
This computer has a strange doo-hickey poking out of it that I know nothing about. Maybe I shouldn’t just slap a new OS on it. Nah fuck it. Need to meet planned quota. Send it and run lol.
There’s a reason our PCB pick’n’place machines run Windows XP. And why that ‘Y2K compliant’ lathe over there is rocking '98. And why that tyre balancing machine at the shop over the road is in the same boat.
- Comment on When IT upgrades your instrument computer to W11 1 week ago:
Bad IT.
I remain thankful that Win11 is fussy about what it will install on. It needs at least:
- UEFI boot mode & GPT partitioning of the disk
- TPM 2
- Secure Boot
Nixing any one of these will prevent an automatic upgrade, regardless of what group policy etc is in place. On a bunch of new Win10 builds from a while ago, I set them up as CSM/MBR and turned off the TPM in BIOS. Absolutely no chance of surprises there, even if I accidentally mark a machine for upgrade.
My network is small though, < 50 clients. When the bullet must be bit, I have the time to add the client to the ‘will upgrade’ AD group & go over things with the user(s). Then run through converting MBR to GPT, switching to UEFI and enabling the TPM again.
After that it takes care of itself and pulls down a load of QoL fixes post-upgrade.
I don’t think you’re the first nor will you be the last to be smacked with a driveby install that fucks up your equipment, sadly :(
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like capitalism at work, pricing to suit demand :( Not a great idea to let a domain fall out of grace if there’s ever a chance you’ll want it again.
In work we still maintain domains for arms of the parent company that are long defunct. Less for us and more to prevent others registering.
I’ve had one personal domain go out of grace, but the reactivation price wasn’t too bad. Cheeky, yes - but not bad enough to get something new.
Could be worse, could end up at auction like hexbear did…
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 4 weeks ago:
Welcome.
Wishing you well wherever you end up :)
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 4 weeks ago:
The private domain registration service Withheld for Privacy is available for almost all domains Namecheap offers. Due to registry restrictions, It cannot be used with .ca, .ch, .cn, .co.in, .co.uk, .com.au, .com.es, .com.sg, .de, .es, .eu, .fr, .gg, .id, .in, .is, .li, .me.uk, .net.au, .nl, .nom.es, .nu, .nyc, .org.es, .org.au, .org.uk, .paris, .sg, .to, .uk, .us, .vote, .voto, .xn–3ds443g domains.
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 4 weeks ago:
Thankfully I don’t deal with enough domains to need to wrangle them with an API.
Appreciate the warning for if I ever I do though - what’s so bad about it?
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 4 weeks ago:
Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 5 weeks ago:
That is a wonderful chart.
Congratulations. Great to see growth :)
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 5 weeks ago:
As for why, it’s probably due to the censorship screws getting tighter at Reddit. Luigi is a bad word. Eating the rich is verboten. Just 2 examples. Interacting/upvoting such content is now also an offense even if you didn’t write it yourself.
For many, it’s their stop to get off the train. Mine was the API boogaloo.
- Comment on Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP 1 month ago:
If your devices rely on a service that you do not control to work - then accept the fact that one day, suddenly, they will not work.
- Comment on A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole 1 month ago:
Feels like the dirt is butter and the drill is a blowtorch.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 2 months ago:
Years ago, I’d laugh at this.
Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.
On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 2 months ago:
I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 2 months ago:
Ahhh. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
- Comment on NPR Goatse 2 months ago:
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
The first BloodRayne game (after the intro level, which is plain bad and almost nazi-free) sees a lot of bitten, shot, dismembered, burned, possessed and exploded nazis.
Honestly the gameplay is a bit clunky even for its time, but if what you need is dead nazis then it very firmly ticks the box.
Also remastered: BloodRayne: Terminal Cut
- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 5 months ago:
Instagib <3
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 5 months ago:
Main topic aside, what are you doing putting bread and butter together with a fork?
All the small appliance suggestions so far are great - they remove a lot of the danger and give you an easy place to start. Same for the safety items. Even with no fear, it is sensible to have an extinguisher and fire blanket in the kitchen.
When you feel that you are ready to start picking up knives and working with flame, do it with a friend or family member that is suitably understanding & willing to teach. Simply watching it done is still familiarising yourself with the process and hopefully reducing your fears.
My sister is the same way - I am teaching her slowly. We started with baking, as all the prep work is done cold with only one heating process. Not exactly healthy, but it it gets the ball rolling on working with heat.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 5 months ago:
However, voters don’t listen to economists. If they’re not happy with the status quo, they vote for disrupting the status quo even if experts tell them that that’s a bad idea.
Also see: Brexit.
Sadly it does not stop them whining about the consequences of their poor decision-making.
- Comment on Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage 5 months ago:
Already is. See GeForce Now, which is already getting Grocery Shrink Ray’d come January…
- Comment on Sega are delisting over 60 'classic' games from Steam, including Crazy Taxi and Streets Of Rage 5 months ago:
They can keep it then.
The music really planted the game in its age and was half the bloody fun!
They did Vice City dirty this way too.
- Comment on Black Mesa has a new Beta with 'WAY better' support for Linux / Steam Deck 5 months ago:
A blast to play though. Old memories with new twists.
Expanded Xen and shortened On A Rail perfected it.
