TheBiscuitLout

joined 2 years ago
[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m so used to everything we do being another stride into a dystopian hellscape that it took me a moment to realise that this wasn’t (in any immediately obvious way) the government helping the fuel industry. This treaty is absolute nonsense, and should never have been ratified in the first place, so this is actually good news, unless they’ve somehow thought of something worse to replace it with

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it by smashing stuff together until they break something fundamental, and the universe goes dark?

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Angle grinder and an axe, that man has balls of steel. Fair play to him!

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How about drone strikes then? Like big undeclared man made sources of methane get a drone up the corn hole.

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No worries, there’s going to be a wealth of stuff I have to request myself with, it’s just another thing on the list. Thanks for pointing it out!

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nice one. It’s been a hot minute (or a warm couple of decades at least) since I’ve used Linux, but I had a play a short while back, and remembered more than I expected, so I’m going to turn an old Mac mini that I have spare into a media server

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So it’ll go into suspension if I don’t deal with that at install, and I can’t turn it off later easily? That’s a dick, thanks for the warning

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Can you recommend a distro for being a media server? I too have been complacent about my media habits, and the time has come to sort it out.

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That would correlate to when I saw it. It’s actually pretty hard to photograph when the ground is frosty, as there’s so little contrast

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for posting this! I saw several examples of this during the recent freezing weather in the UK, and was confused as to what it was. I don’t recall having seen it before, but then I haven’t lived in a wooded valley during prolonged double-digit negative temperatures before either.

[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can this not be a criminal offence, let alone not require her immediate dismissal and repayment of salary?

 

I have a feeling I know the answer, but thought it worth an ask, so here goes - I’ve not used FB in years, and generally try to keep fairly private online (Mullvad, librefox, etc) but I’ve found I’m missing out by not being able to use FB marketplace. If I set up a fresh account, and don’t use the social side of it at all, is there a fairly safe way to use Facebook? In a container, or in Mullvad browser with nothing else open? Or an an extreme, in a VM?

 

We’ve recently got a decent fibre gigabit connection, so after a lot of reading I bought a gl.i ax1800 Flint router to run Mullvad on, rather than having it on every device individually. The setup was simple, and while I know that it will impact speed to an extent, it seems to be really limiting the connection. Like to about 13mbps, which is slower than my almost non-existent 4g connection. From what I’ve read, I should expect the flint to be capable of giving me about 4/5ths of my connection speed, so on ours I’d been expecting something in the mid-hundreds, as I’m seeing 800mbps or so just on the cat 7 from the modem. It’s almost certainly my fault, or something I’ve overlooked in the setup, so any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

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