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• Post #4442396

  While I was away for a couple of day, my wife deep cleaned my bedroom and put all the stuff I’d pulled out looking for something back in the eaves. Amazing! 3AM: miaow‽ … … … miaow‽ … … … miaow‽ Any guesses?

• Post #2464256

  As usual, my time calculator misfired. At 14:40, I figured I’d have a coffee before I loaded the car. I took the coffee outside to drink in between taking out the parcel shelf and seats and getting as many branches and twigs in bags as I could. Then daughter found out I was going. There was a rug and a treadmill to go. It’s about a 45 min drive. At 15:13, I noticed the time was 15:13. Loaded the bags and zoomed off.

• Post #2464255

  Been meaning to snap this for ages. No traffic today, so I could safely pull over and capture some vexing flagshagging idiocy.

• Post #2464254

  1,100 miles to the next odometer palindrome.

• Post #2464253

  Spurred on by @marcoarment urging folk to buy their tech sooner rather than later … an M4/15/256 MBA ordered for the missus to replace her smashed M1. Via Currys. With a work discount palaver, that’s £752. Not sure that the 6% saving is worth the stress of paying out to an e-card, going through the checkout process and not being entirely sure how to do it or if it’ll actually work, but it’s done. That’s £97 saved vs a refurb from Apple (Apple had none, but they were £849 a few days ago).

• Post #2464252

  Mildly interesting on EU regulation affecting tech. https://youtu.be/JH-DGYD-27A

• Post #2464250

  I should probably mention that Ebac fixed the washing machine under warrantee without any fuss or bother. They’re not cheap, but so far so good.

• Post #2464245

  The fun part with the new MacBook will be trying to get the old one to cooperate with a migration. I think all the documents will be fine in various cloud services. It has apps and settings that might be interesting though. Like Office. I cancelled our subscription, but it *should* be available from her work account.

• Post #2464244

  2hrs into a 12hr delivery window.

• Post #2464242

  Phoned the pharmacy about a repeat. The message says talk to pharmacy staff, press 1, talk to the prescriptions clerk, press 2. Trying to do the right thing, I press 2. They tell me to talk to the pharmacy. Ask if I want the number. I should’ve just said no, and thank you, and ended the conversation. But I waffled about it being a bit confusing and that I couldn’t know that I’d choose the wrong option because I felt guided that way. …

• Post #2464241

  12hr delivery got narrowed to 10m window. And it’s done.

• Post #2464240

  As the old laptop refuses to connect to a display, and its display is knackered, really hoping I can SSH in to enable some kind of screen sharing. That’s for later.

• Post #2464239

  I guess SSH is disabled on the Broken-Screen-Mac. A backup might’ve been useful, but my wife just can’t be arsed. Also, I’ve actually never had a Time Machine backup that was reliable or a Mac that didn’t complain about improperly ejected drives no matter that Finder removes them from the sidebar. What we do have is close-ish mirror of the account on my laptop, so I’m Migration Assistanting from that. Hopefully the apps won’t take up too much space.

• Post #2464238

  I have requested additional WFH days this week due to mild illness.

• Post #2218889

  Property browsing. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/166893173

• Post #2218887

  Enjoyed Arcadia well enough. Not quite enough to recommend it. It’s more Survivors level TV than Andor. Subtitled, so unless you speak Dutch, you have to put your distraction device out of reach. Great architecture. Noisy-le-Grand was the star of the show. Kind of annoyed I didn’t know about it when I weekly commuted to Paris a dozen years ago.

• Post #2218886

  I can imagine living here. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87780417 Plenty of toom for ground based solar or ground source heat. (Dunno how Eryri view that). My main question would be how the private drainage can get emptied when it’s cross country 4x4 access.

• Post #2218884

  Wife’s MacBook Air M1 display busted by a child in the classroom. Apple want over £400 to replace it. Plugged into my display via a USB-C multi-port thing that has HDMI, but it’s not showing up. Dunno if some other kind of adapter would work?

• Post #2218883

  I’ve had an Apple account longer than you’ve been alive, kid!

• Post #2218882

  Good results for the Liberal Democrats. I wonder if it’ll get reported much?

• Post #1810398

  Bara brith, coffi, a llyfr yn y sied wrth yr afon.

• Post #1213470

  Could be useful https://stopcitingai.com/