djdarren
@djdarren@piefed.social
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 4 days ago:
Do you mean other nations don’t chase their meal of boiled meat and root vegetables with a delicious bowl of quail custard?
Baffling.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 4 days ago:
Pudding is dessert.
So it’s what you posted, plus every other sweet treat you might have after your tea.
- Comment on Social events 5 days ago:
No you wouldn’t.
- Comment on What a night 6 days ago:
COMMIE BASTARD
- Comment on The horror! 1 week ago:
My Gamecube would love it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My partner had theirs replaced yesterday. It’s the second time I’ve sat by them while it was done, and my god, you uterus-owners pay the iron price for that shit. And we thank you all for it.
- Comment on I'm done with this garbage. It can't even run Monterey. 2 weeks ago:
I subbed to /r/hackintosh ages ago for some reason, and while I don’t go to Reddit very often these days, when I do I’d see a post in the feed saying “Success: Running macOS 26 on …blahblahblah”
And all I cold think was: How is that a success?
I have a MacBook that could have legitimately run Tahoe, but I kept it weeelll away. Sequoia 4 lyf.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
God. Yes.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Something that I get angry about occasionally is how so many people have had their hobbies stolen from them. Like people who’d tinker about in their spare time making music, now feeling like they have to monetise it, and feeling the stress of not being able to supplement their failing income because they’re just one artist in a sea of artists, someone without a major label giving them a push.
I don’t blame the people at all, we’re all just trying to get on in this increasingly shitty world.
I do a little radio show once a week. It’s reasonably popular, but not so much that I could ever think about giving up the day job, and my day job’s pay isn’t too bad in the grand scheme of things. But even I’m at a point where I’ve set up a Patreon where if anyone wants to kick in £3 a month, they can. Ultimately it just helps with the running costs of my VPS and domain renewal, and will hopefully give me enough to be able to pick up a new midi controller.
It’s fine, and people are happy to help out because they get to be a part of something they enjoy, but I hate that there’s been an increasingly vocal bit of my brane over the past year or so that’s been telling me that if everyone who listens paid £3 a month, I’d be ‘earning’ an extra £450 (give or take). According to my stats, the episode from a couple of weeks back is up to 250 listens on the podcast feed. That’s £750…
It’s my hobby. It’s a thing I enjoy doing. But if I’m not careful it’ll veer far too closely towards something I have to do, and that’ll kill it.
- Comment on YAS, Count! 3 weeks ago:
This is horrifying, and enlightening.
- Comment on first state btw 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Jazz lovers only 4 weeks ago:
No, that was a different guy.
- Comment on Dads be like 4 weeks ago:
WHAT IS THE CHARGE? BEING NAKED? DELICIOUSLY NAKED?
- Comment on It’s gonna run so good 4 weeks ago:
One nice thing about my rented house is that a previous owner (possibly my landlord) ran an ethernet from the lounge at the front right to the small bedroom at the back, upstairs. So, router > Deco node > ethernet > Deco node > 1gbps switch. Then I have three PCs upstairs wired to that switch, and they all get the full glory of our 1gbps fibre.
But, like, the rent is almost £1400 a month, so…
- Comment on Mom's phone has Twin Peaks in it 4 weeks ago:
Hey, don’t shit on the font size. Mine is getting alarmingly large, and I’m only 46.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is it a PC for playing 15 year old games? Because that’s still a gaming PC.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
ABC= Always Be Chompin’ (breakfast)
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 5 weeks ago:
Arthur has a bottle of horse reviver that would beg to differ.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You ever think about how fucked up it is that the question most kids get asked most is “What do you want to be when you grow up”?
We all end up internalising our value to society by how we’ll strive to sell our time once we’re old enough to take part.
And yeah, it’s kinda fucked up.
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 5 weeks ago:
“Chop chop!” said the guillotine, hungry for its next billionaire.
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 5 weeks ago:
There are a lot of hanging entries on the botched executions list, though in fairness, that’s because the list goes back several hundred years.
From what I can tell, you’ve got a 2/3 chance of a quick death by hanging. Rope too long, you’re getting decapitated. Rope long enough: quick neck break, goodnight sweetheart.
Rope too short you’re spending 20 minutes being strangled to death while people tug on your legs to try and break your neck.
Knowing my luck, I’d get the latter.
- Comment on Britain’s second richest person leaves UK for Monaco 5 weeks ago:
If they don’t want to pay higher (fairer) taxes, then it stands to reason that they almost certainly pay as little tax as they can. So what, exactly, will we miss when they leave?
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 5 weeks ago:
After reading the news about Christa Pike, I found an article on Wikipedia listing a bunch of botched executions.
Since 2000, 5% of lethal injections have gone wrong in one way or another. That’s 17 botched injections in 26 years. That’s an unreasonably high failure rate for something that they have no intention of stopping.
- Comment on Tin foil not needed 5 weeks ago:
As a radio nerd from the UK, my love of the BBC is rock solid. The radio, TV, and technology wings of the corporation are right up the with the NHS as something we should be rightly proud of.
But I get a few moments of genuine anxiety when I’m listening to 6Music while cooking dinner, and they go to the news. What will this bulletin’s headline be? Reform’s plans for if they ever get to form a government, or how many poor people landed on our shores in a small boat today? I get genuinely angry, to the point that I’m more like to roll the broadcast back by a few minutes so I can skip the news entirely. God bless BBC Sounds.
- Comment on Future is going swell... 5 weeks ago:
What can you personally do about what’s going on in Gaza? Can you personally assist the people who died in the flooding in Nepal?
If the answer to those questions is ’no’, then what value is there in actively sticking your face into the biting nest of news all day long?
We didn’t evolve to be able to tolerate that. At best, we’re able to comprehend the struggles of maybe 100 people around us. Not the entire planet’s worth of hardship.
- Comment on Future is going swell... 5 weeks ago:
I’ve decided to shake up my news gathering, and will now only take on board what my 75yo mother in law has read on Facebook.
What could go wrong?
- Comment on Is gud 5 weeks ago:
None now.
- Comment on Close ad button 1 month ago:
I will only ever make artisanal, handcrafted shitposts. And you can hold me to that, or my name isn’t Troy McLure.
- Comment on Is gud 1 month ago:
- Comment on Landlords quitting “in droves” since Renters’ Rights Act 1 month ago:
Lol. Fuck ‘em. Parasites.
