djdarren
@djdarren@piefed.social
- Comment on Send HOAs To the Stone Age 4 hours ago:
It always amuses me that the US - the land of the free, the home of the brave - has a fair proportion of its people living in homes over which they have significantly less control than basically everyone else in the world has over theirs.
- Comment on Lung identification course 1 day ago:
the true lungs are the lungs we made along the way
- Comment on Lung identification course 1 day ago:
thank you 🙏🏿
- Comment on Lung identification course 1 day ago:
Is he limited to just those three types of lung, or are they just opening examples to prove his credentials?
- Comment on A new quest appears... 5 days ago:
Meanwhile, I just have a big button on my Home Assistant home screen on my phone that turns off all my lights. It’s great.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 6 days ago:
My bedside wireless charger has a piercing bright blue light on the front. That was covered by a small bit of black electrical tape on the first night.
Which sadist designs this shit?
- Comment on A new quest appears... 6 days ago:
I have a Zigbee controller coming at some point this week, so I can set up a bunch of Zigbee sensors and products that a friend of mine no longer needs. Proper looking forward to seeing what I can do with it all in Home Assistant.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 6 days ago:
There are people who walk among us, people who can vote, and procreate, who will willingly sit in a room with just The Big Light on. It chills my blood to think about.
- Comment on Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself? 6 days ago:
“A man of the cloth”, or “touching socks”
One is more disastrous than the other.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I believe he does it with the full consent of his boss.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps
I can heartily recommend Infuse for accessing both Plex and Jellyfin on Apple TV.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I’ve ditched all streaming services in favour of a friend’s 40tb Plex server, running from the server room of the university where he works. It’s rock solid and has everything I want to watch.
Anything he can’t find, or that I personally want my own access to goes in my own Jellyfin server.
It’s great. Better than spending £50 a month on a couple of services.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 week ago:
I’ve taken to using the same deodorant as my wife. It’s really lightly scented anyway, but most MAN deodorants are a sensory nightmare for her.
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
you fukkin wot m8?!
swear on me mum…
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
War Horse is all about war horse, like.
- Comment on The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on February 16th 3 weeks ago:
Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices, it couldn’t make users actually embrace them.
With the exception of Riley Testut, not a single iPhone user was clamouring to be able to install a third party app store on their phone. What they wanted then - and still want now - is the ability to install software in the same way they can on their computers (be that Mac or Windows).
Apple knowingly made the process as awkward and convoluted as possible and it’s worked out exactly as they wanted it to.
I have an iPad mini which I don’t really use for much these days, not since I tentatively walked away from Apple products into the world of Linux, and FOSS, and have subsequently discovered that, while my MacBook works pretty well with most of the things I have running on my Linux machine, my iPad does not. In fact, at this stage I can get more cross-platform utility from a ten year old Galaxay Tab running LineageOS. If I could install software from any location without having to fuck about with a third part app store (though I can’t even do that because I’m in the UK, not EU), then I’d have half a chance of finding other, more useful software.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I send that to my kid quite a lot.
- Comment on dating 3 weeks ago:
me_irl
- Comment on FFFFFUUUU 3 weeks ago:
This is art. Glorious, beautiful art.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 4 weeks ago:
People are dying
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
rights are being lost
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
the planet’s fucked
All I can do about this is be mindful of my own carbon footprint, and recycle as much as possible.
genocide is going on
There is literally nothing I can do about this.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 weeks ago:
I think I’ve gotten too old for a large. The spud, coupled with a beers leaves me feeling uncomfortably bloated.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 weeks ago:
Similarly, any chip shop in the UK outside of greater London. I’ve taken to ordering a medium chips for my wife and I, because a large is just Too Many Chips.
In London, however, they serve a tragically small amount of chips in many chippies. Fuck London.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 5 weeks ago:
Ultimately, I don’t really use my Mac for gaming these days because it’s a bit of a headache compared to just firing up my wife’s old PC that I’ve put Linux on. But I recognise I’m lucky enough to have that option.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 5 weeks ago:
As you already have a Mac, have you looked into Crossover?
So far as I understand, the work that CodeWeavers do with it is the basis for what Valve have done with Proton, so it’s the closest you’ll get to Proton on macOS. I’ve seen people running RDR2 on Macs with it. It’s a reasonable outlay, but it could be a useful tool for running a whole bunch of Windows-only titles via Steam.
There is also Whisky, which is to all intents and purposes, a free version of Crossover, albeit (intentionally) a couple of Wine versions behind so as to not detract from what Crossover does. I’ve used Whisky a bunch to play Windows games on my M2 Macbook, and while it’s not been perfect, and will likely struggle with brand new, AAA games, older titles should work nicely.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 5 weeks ago:
Fairly certain that Asahi doesn’t yet work with M4 chips, such as in the new mini. Or if it does, it’s not officially supported, so will be a generally poor experience. I mean, my M2 Macbook supports Asahi, and while it’s generally incredible what theyve been able to achieve, it’s still kinda stunted given how much software simply won’t run on that architecture.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 5 weeks ago:
All my apes… Gone…
- Comment on Please the Beans 5 weeks ago:
So the beans are segregationists?
/me Sadly boycotts beans
- Comment on 94.3° F 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tip yer driver! 1 month ago:
It’s a pizza, Harry.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 1 month ago:
45yo here, and yeah, kinda.
I’m happily married (for the second time), and have a decent job that no longer requires back breaking manual labour that enables me to clock off at 4pm and fuck off home where I don’t have to think about. I have a grown up kid who’s just graduated with a law degree and is forging his own path in life. All things considered, I’m pretty chill. I try to take a more adult, considered view on things that affect me.
I don’t own my home, because my wife isn’t able to earn as much, so we can’t get a mortgage, but I’ve kind of made peace with that.
And I’ve accrued some of the toys I couldn’t afford when I was younger. I have a collection of computers that I can tinker with, an an iPod that I love.