djdarren

@djdarren@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Democracy'? UK blocks access to Iranian media⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, works fine for me too, on the south coast of England.

  Has anyone checked the author’s wifi connection?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m choosing to interpret this as the regular people’s kids have armed up and are hunting down Trump and Netanyahu’s kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not Microsoft’s problem.

  (I agree with you)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a thread the other day, something like “What low-level conspiracies do you genuinely believe”; to which someone replied that they believe that OpenAI is being speedrun to bankruptcy in order for Microsoft to buy their data centres for pennies on the dollar.

  And yeah, it all kinda seems that could be a credible outcome, at which point MS will have a huge amount of equipment all ready to serve game streaming to people who can no longer afford to buy a home computer to do the same.

  Is it going to happen? shrug

  Could it? Absolutely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South of Midnight won Best Character Animation at the 53rd Annie Awards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed it enormously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post would have singlehandedly won him the 2024 election⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone post a link to the material being referenced here, so I can decide whether to warn my church group about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, that's the plural⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m glad I attended this Breaking Bad convention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just getting into a little bit of Troubles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer it when it’s sung by an Alan Partridge impersonator on the BBC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia investigating Carnival luxury cruise line following allegations workers live in overcrowded conditions with no water, earning as little as $2.50 an hour.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carnival also own Cunard (sadly), and Cunard are a luxury line.

  Well, they were back when I worked for them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a cricket ground near me called the Hampshire Rosebowl. At least, that’s what it was called when it was built.

  Since then it’s been sponsored by a series of insurance or finance firms, so has officially been known as The <FIRM_NAME> Bowl.

  But not to me. Nope. It’ll always be the Rosebowl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send HOAs To the Stone Age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the true lungs are the lungs we made along the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lung identification course⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you 🙏🏿

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lung identification course⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “A man of the cloth”, or “touching socks”

  One is more disastrous than the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe he does it with the full consent of his boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you fukkin wot m8?!

  swear on me mum…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  War Horse is all about war horse, like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on February 16th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I send that to my kid quite a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  me_irl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFFFFUUUU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is art. Glorious, beautiful art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.