DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on Anti-asylum protesters march on after targeting student flats by mistake 6 days ago:
Jesus these cunts are fucking stupid.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
My kid went through the same phase all kids do of refusing to go to bed.
So one night he’s grabbing on to the baby gate at the top of the stairs like a con in a prison movie, screaming and yelling. I’m at the bottom of the stairs trying to ignore him.
He fixed a stare directly at me, stopped screaming, and shit in his pants.
So yeah, 100% of parents have arsehole kids.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 week ago:
installing anything
I’ve been using Mint and KDE Neon on two of my machines for the past year, and I still have to search for how to install an app image properly.
Its one of those things that isn’t the end of the world, and I guess there are increasing numbers of Snap/Flatpak packages. And, of course apt. And whatever application manager your distro comes with.
But some software is available either to be compiled by the user, or as an app image. And I don’t understand why that image can’t just be dropped in an application folder and run, the same way it works in macOS.
But I’m a relative noob. I assume there’s a historical reason.
- Comment on Shook 2 weeks ago:
Surely not Elton?!
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 2 weeks ago:
It pains me to say, but the stock Google camera app is by far and away the best option I’ve yet found on Graphene. Which has to pair with the Photos app, or you can’t actually do anything with the photos it takes.
However, you don’t have to sync either with Google (though you do have to sign in), you can set Graphene to only allow them access to the folder they need (while they think they have wider access), and you can turn off network permission.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 2 weeks ago:
I looked into Ubuntu Touch last week as a potential alternative to Graphene on my Pixel 9.
The most recent Pixel it supports is the 3.
So Graphene it is then…
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 2 weeks ago:
My bank app doesn’t work with Graphene, which is a pain in the arse, but not the end of the world. I mean, they still have a website I can log into.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be keeping the fuck away from books then!
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and it’s ad-riddled nonsense.
The BBC runs no adverts, save for trailers of its own stuff.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 weeks ago:
Brit here. I can see the uncensored image through a VPN. For which I have a licence, obviously.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 weeks ago:
You got a loicence for that capitulation, m8?!
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 3 weeks ago:
I adore Viz.
They once printed the finest letter ever penned.
Also, this advert for flat roof pubs will never not make me hoot.
- Comment on Anon watches youtube 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the vast, vast majority of entertainment media is an act. Do you watch Top Gear and assume that everything they did happened organically?
- Comment on White Maleman, cooking YouTuber, loves to tell you what to do 3 weeks ago:
This is Patrick
- Comment on Honda Zonda 4 weeks ago:
Does it belong to Bridget Fonda?
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 5 weeks ago:
No, they were invented by chickens.
- Comment on The stairway to nope 5 weeks ago:
It’s a Thomasson!
There’s a great 99% Invisible episode about them.
- Comment on linus tech tip 1 month ago:
Delivering wholesome content, yet still somehow managing to fuck it up in some greedy way.
- Comment on Must be lvl 11 genius 1 month ago:
Ceci n’est pas un hippo.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 month ago:
English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 month ago:
God, I hate Kasabian. Shit thick music for drunks to yell along to after the football.
I saw them back before their first album came out, supporting the Von Bondies. They were fucking dreadful. A bunch of tracksuit wearing Ian Brown wannabies.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 month ago:
I have a space in my heart for their first four albums. They’re perfectly enjoyable slices of indie that somewhat stood above the landfill shit that was otherwise getting airplay (fuck you Razorlight. Fuck you Kasabian).
Its fair to say that they and I grew apart from then on, as Chris Martin became more about the celebrity than the honest music, but even then, I never had any real problem with them.
They headlined Glastonbury last year and were excellent. Made me go back and listen to some of the records I’d ignored, and found that they were still a perfectly fine band. Considerably more poppy than they were, but not cynically so, I didn’t think.
But I guess Martin comes across as a little too earnest, and his marriage to Paltrow a little too right-on, so the press kept digging in to them, as is their wont. That made people think it was popular to shit on them.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
There’s a road going out of Southampton that’s 40, and has a camera about 6m before the point where it becomes 50. The 50 signs seem more prominent than the camera. I’ve always thought that was a bit cunty.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 1 month ago:
Perhaps most women wouldn’t, but Bill Cosby might.
- Comment on thinkpad 1 month ago:
Duct tape the Thinkpad to the gennie and you’ve got a lovely, portable all-in-one.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 1 month ago:
You, The Master Driver, are amply equipped to decide what the true speed limit should be.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 1 month ago:
The beauty of this comment is that it could be in support of either position.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 month ago:
Do you win or lose if you get to eat the biscuit, or is it just a matter of perspective?
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 2 months ago:
Yeah, I know, but that doesn’t lend itself to comments that get upvotes, and I’m a slag for it.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 2 months ago:
I end up dribbling because the lid gets in my way, but it’s fine because I’m helping to offset the pollution caused by a billionaire’s private jet.
