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Yes, sorry people in the USA.
I'm doing my best to avoid anything to do with it.
I don't even have a television either
One disadvantage of running a Friendica server on an old Laptop was that the contact discovery feature cooked the poor thing, so I turned it off.
Experimentally turned it back on on the new M2 Mac mini server. It appears to give no fucks.
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@Florida Ted Were it Google or similar, I would agree.
But Apple's business model with their cloud services is to sell their hardware, and to sell the service directly. I pay them for a big encrypted hard disk in the cloud, they provide.
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Ever had to turn round in the departure lounge after passing through passport control and reenter because you suddenly need to not take your flight?
I just did. The border guard smirked.
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Editing for the market?
The copy of Neverwhere I bought in the States had Richard falling on the sidewalk in the opening chapter. In Edinburgh, some publishers localise a bit too much at times
Started reading the Silo trilogy after seeing the first two episodes on ATV+ and can’t get over the world building being utterly ruined by the author’s complete inability to work out how long it would take averagely fit people in typical physical shape to walk down and then up 150 flights of stairs (4 hours, give or take, if you take it easy and stop for lunch; it’s like half the Llanberis path up Snowdon).
Book has it being a two day trip.
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Watched the first episode yesterday (didn't read the book so I don't know the plot). What amazes me is someone had the technology to build a seemingly self-sustaining world underground and didn't think about lifts. 😄
Also, not knowing the plot, I may be saying something silly, but I couldn't stop thinking “take of the helmet, you're being poisoned!" during the last part of the episode.
I may subscribe to watch this when all the episodes are released.
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I was initially looking at a NUC, but for about 1100 euros came to the conclusion that you couldn’t beat an M2 Mac Mini on performance.
I was surprised.
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Me, after phoning family to arrange meeting them at the airport tomorrow: It sounds like they’re on track.
@Sylvia Knight: so is America
Me, sighing: how many dead this time?
Sylvia: Eight, shopping mall because it’s the weekend and schools are closed.
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In Portuguese, object pronouns move from the end of the verb to the start if certain words precede the verb.
In English, object pronouns move from the end of the verb to the start because you're not my mum and you can't tell me what to do.
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Looking at upgrading my friendica server from the knackered old laptop it’s running on.
Was initially looking at an i7 NUC somewhere around the 1200€ mark.
But the more I looked, the more it made sense to spend the same money on an M2 Mac mini instead.
Which surprised me, but there we are.
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Some scientist on the net is VERY CONCERNED you guys that sand was found on cars five miles from the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy launch. Apparently there must be TERRIBLE FORCES OF DOOM involved because there is bi feasible way sand could travel that far through the air unless launched initially with TERRIFYING POWER.
Which gets me wondering what truly scary space programme Morocco must have because their shit from here keeps ending up on my windows.
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I have installed Windows 11 ARM64 in a virtual machine on my Mac to see if I can,
The scrolling is upside down.
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OK, and we will turn that off.
Will keep the VM around in case I need it, but ... urgh
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Women only tower block in London will include transgender women in allowed tennants.
Nobody tell Twitter. I’m not sure even their servers could take the resultant foaming.
Plans approved for Britain’s first women’s-only tower block
Exclusive: 15-storey tower in west London will offer homes to women who face inequality and abuseRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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Being disposed of a natural curiosity, I'm checking out Bluesky (I'm @goatsarah.sarahlizzy.org there).
So a lot of the people there are here too. Other than that, it seems to be a much smaller twitter without TERFs (yet?).
The inability to write long form posts is already frustrating me (and part of the reason why I use Friendica, not Mastodon)
Anyway, have seen various suggestions that it's full of crypto wankers and nazis. If it is, I haven't encountered them.
Just snuck a peek at the weird Cherry TERF’s Twitter and she’s like all, “wahhhh wahhhhhhhh wahhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Which is always a dignified way for an adult biological human to behave. tenor.com/bW9HH.gif
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Yesterday, at a cafe in Sagres. Asked the waitress for the bill:
"Queríamos a conta, se faz favor?" - could we have the bill please.
And she didn't understand a word.
And I'm thinking, "oh no! Is my accent really that bad?"
Turns out she was French and barely spoke any Portuguese herself.
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No cooling os a problem if I want to go more than 600km in a day, but that’s rare.
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Meaning of "National Express" by The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy's song "National Express" has a cheerful and lighthearted message that encourages a sense of exploration and adventure. The lyrics descri...www.songtell.com
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Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Cabaret
The patriotic song from Cabaret, in the Biergarten in pre-war Nazi Germany, sung by the Arian Hitler youth. You see many young and old people getting taken ...YouTube
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People in the local Facebook group are VERY ANGRY that the tide goes out.
Apparently it is shameful, and the council should do something.
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That's just weird
If you live by the sea you learn about tides, that's normal. Ah well
Helped marshall a sailing competition in Paignton once, had to go rescue some Italian boats because they didn't believe the tide could get as high as it did and hadn't dragged them far enough
@djm4 Oh absolutely, we understood why they were confused it's just
We tried and tried and tried to explain to them, even showed the high tide mark, but they couldn't get their heads around it as being actually true
Black Sea must be even weirder than med tide wise
I have just listened, for the first time in my half-century life, to a Grateful Dead track all the way through, and I can’t shake the following phrase from my mind:
“The Doors, but for chartered accountants”
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GP just called. They want to schedule my annual checkup. ECG, bloods, X-rays, dental. It’s gonna take most of the day.
Granted, this is nominally private healthcare, but I don’t have private health insurance, just a “care card”, which costs me 400 euros for 3 years and includes this, plus a 10% discount for GP appointments (which would normally cost 50 euros).
Compare to the UK NHS where I would get some of this (but not dental) without paying anything, but the level of detail would be … considerably less.
Anything serious and the state will treat it for free, but for just over 100 euros a year I honestly can’t complain about this level of detail.
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I would draw particular attention to the Soviet N1 programme, under Sergei Korolev, who is literally regarded as perhaps the greatest rocket engineer who ever lived.
And it took him 3 attempts to get an N1 not quite as far as SpaceX managed to get last week...
...the second of which also destroyed the launch pad, in what is still the largest rocket explosion of all time.
So they rebuilt the pad and launched a third one.
Then the Americans landed on the moon, and they gave up.
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