duncan_bayne
@duncan_bayne@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐚 Tuesday 27 January 2026 4 hours ago:
Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I’m feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐚 Tuesday 27 January 2026 8 hours ago:
Work done, drinking a cold cider and playing JSAB with the teenage offspring, then off to the pool.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤓 Friday 23 January 2026 4 days ago:
Already planning Australia Day. Think I’ll celebrate with a pint of VB (not my usual tipple) and a read of The Lucky Country.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Wednesday 21 January 2026 6 days ago:
Considering starting a local computer club. Had a really good experience running a one-off installfest and thinking there should be IRL options for like-minded geeks to meet up on the regular.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
You’d want a stronger girder than they used.
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 weeks ago:
Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 weeks ago:
The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 weeks ago:
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 month ago:
Your suffering is not a KPI
Some days I doubt that.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕ Tuesday 16 December 2025 1 month ago:
I did this some time ago - I have a very heavily filtered Mastodon feed, and a carefully curated RSS feed - both mostly around tech news, and as little to do with LLMs as possible.
Don’t regret this for a minute from a mental health perspective, especially when something happens like this.
- Comment on too soon? 1 month ago:
Australian here - we have this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_of_the_Year
Sincerely hope he’s awarded the next one.
- Comment on Closest my wardrobe allows 1 month ago:
Just on the laptop.
- Comment on Closest my wardrobe allows 1 month ago:
Born in London, grew up in New Zealand, living in Melbourne. The socks were a gift :)
- Comment on Closest my wardrobe allows 1 month ago:
Thanks 💖 The X200 was a gift from a colleague back in the late 2010s, when it was already very old. But it runs Plan 9 beautifully :) I’ve been tinkering with it with the vague idea of switching to it from FreeBSD as a daily driver. I think maybe I could do without Emacs but I just need a “real” Web browser too much to make the switch.
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