Yet another lightning connector dies from
Electrolysis. Been cold plugging this one; it’s a lightning to USB C adaptor, and I’m working on the basis that cold plugging will extend the life.
But it still has a life expectancy of only a few months. My phone charges inductively but the iPad needs this fucking cursed connector.
I hate it with a passion. Useless piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddam thing it’s fucking supposed to.
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Human bodies:
Ethanol: wheeeeee!
Ethandiol: I … die
Propanol: wheeeeee!
Propantriol: Yeah, whatever
Fickle.
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Apparently Farage and Patel sang karaoke at the Tory conference.
Can’t get the image of them doing a duet of “Endless Love” out of my mind.
I BLOODY WARNED YOU IN THE ABSTRACT.
Just had some random pop up on Reddit, necroposting to reply to something I posted in 2022 saying, “you will never be a woman”
And, ok, whatever, but I replied asking if they’re able to explain what it is that doing this is doing for them.
And I hope they reply because I’m actually fascinated.
I get that they’re trying to offend me, but on the one hand, poor target selection because I’m years past that, and on the other, why not something contemporary? I mean, if they’re picking year old posts to reply to, their target might never even see it.
I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
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People think coeliac disease, or even non coeliac gluten intolerance, is like lactose intolerance: painful and annoying but ultimately a “choice”.
It isn’t. If you are sensitised to it in that way, gluten will make your immune system attack your own body. It’s not nice stuff.
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@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.
But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.
The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.
Households contain more than one person, quite often.
Wasn’t aware of exactly how bad it can get, but anyone talking about medical issues as a “choice” can fuck right off.
Also auto immune is really scary shit:( Few things can unravel your life and turn it into a living hell as your immune system turning on you.
@Breadbin The thing with coeliac is that the autoimmune target is your gut lining.
So you die slowly of malnutrition.
“HS2 on existing track” is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.
With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.
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!Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ AppleTV hardware now supports Tailscale, with exit nodes.
I am astonished that Apple allowed this blatant circumvention of region coding, but they did.
Get it while it’s hot, I guess.
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Há uma podcast que se chama “prova oral”, em português. O nível é difícil param mim, mas tenho ouvido no carro.
No episódio mais recente, houve uma conversa com uma psicóloga, e ela estava a falar sobre relacionamentos tóxicos e, também, sobre narcisistas.
E foi realmente, realmente interessante. Eu não entendi tudo, mas os partes que eu entendi, eu senti-os no meu coração.
Parece-me uma boa maneira para aprender uma língua.
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You, a TERF sitting there in your underwear with uncleaned teeth trying to convince the five Nazis left on Twitter that trans women are really men.
Me, a trans woman, spending her day SUP surfing at the beach followed by great food and sangria with family at a nice restaurant.
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On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I tried sup surfing.
Let it be known that I have neither concussion nor a broken metacarpal.
But I am still grateful for voltaren.
Also, you absolutely cannot take the Atlantic in a fight.
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Dear god, I just hit 50.
How the hell did that happen?
Just watched the “Death of Stalin” episode of The Spanish Princess.
Whoever wrote this clearly has OPINIONS about Margaret Beaufort.
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Watching The Spanish Princess on HBO Max.
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but they’re portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then she’d have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
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Rewatched Star Trek First Contact, of which I have fond memories, recently.
It's aged VERY badly.
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@Alexandra Lanes Can't set it as Siri's voice (yet?)
But a generative AI with my dead mum's voice? Maybe.
HomePod: "And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green?"
Me: "No"
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Apropos of conversation elsewhere, any other Gen X Brits remember CUB monitors?
“Let’s put an electron gun and high frequency electromagnets inside a steel box and then give it to 8 year olds because we hate kids and think electrocuting them is funny!”
It was a different time.
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It’s my former political party, the UK Liberal Democrats, conference starting in Bournemouth today.
This likely means the usual TERF suspects are planning to engage in stupid bullshit. Usually this takes the form of trying to submit wrecking amendments to any motion aimed at improving women’s position in society.
For some reason, the uk media insists on referring to these people as “feminists”.
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@Rachel Greenham @Sam Easterby-Smith That sounds distressingly familiar.
And you let the problem grow, and then it turns round and bites you in the arse.
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I kinda feel like the whole “middle aged women having a sense of humour based massively around filthy innuendo and scatology” is a thing. Am I wrong?
Like, I’m driving yesterday and there’s a bag of liquorice chews in my lap, and I offered one to @Zoe O'Connell and I’m like, “don’t worry, there’s no hole in the bottom”.
Peak fucking hilarity right there.
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05:00?!?!
To whom do I complain about this bullshit? Stupid brain refusing to sleep.
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When I left Portugal for the summer I dared to hope I had eradicated my mealybug infestation on the balcony.
But I returned last week to find they had survived in the soil of my Lantana and had already started to spread to the neighbouring lime tree.
Not having it. If left unchecked, they will destroy EVERYTHING.
I sprayed them with a shedload of isopropyl alcohol, followed by double concentration deltamethrin, and then today, some systemic neonicotinoid spray (it’s ok, they aren’t flowering, it won’t hurt bees).
I aso removed ALL foliage from the Lantana, and threw it in the bin.
I am daring to hope t hat will be it, but I’m going to be utterly paranoid over the next 6 months, and at the first sign of ANYTHING, out comes the nuclear pesticide regime again.
They started this. I’m finishing it. At least they can’t fly, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Wow! Natalie the Bird is on r/compoface for being cancelled by TEH TRANZ in the Daily Mail.
According to a barely legible black smudge, she was a “would be MP” but the transes cancelled her. Shocking!
Except, and this is slightly inconvenient for her, I have some considerable familiarity with ol’ ms Bird here and the real reason she can’t be an MP is that she is the platonic reference Dunning Kruger effect. This is someone would would fail, by a long way, to meet the abysmally low bar set by Liz Truss and that Tory bloke who thinks women’s blood doesn’t clot when there’s a full moon.
r/compoface is the wrong community for her. R/StoriesAboutKevin, on the other hand, would be perfect.
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Apologies for the unorthodox communication style, but I’m trying to reach out to the TERFs in whose heads I live rent-free.
Anyway, this is a tenant query: I want to put up a big poster of Marsha Johnson throwing a brick. Am I allowed to use bluetac, or similar, on the inner surface of the bone?
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@Ted Stilton is flavoured by a member of the penicillin genus.
Amoxicillin is a penicillin derivative.
Apropos of the scary shit that’s going on for trans people around the world right now, the concept of “birth certificate laundering” seems to be becoming a thing.
It goes like this: you transition and go through gender recognition somewhere hostile, like the UK. You get a new birth certificate (for now?) but you are still “on the list”, and they know if they look hard enough; the original record is still there.
But then you naturalise or register as a citizen of another country (Ireland, for those able to via the grandparent route, for example, naturalisation through residence and assimilation in my case), and when you naturalise you give them the post gender recognition birth certificate.
That breaks the link. Your country of new citizenship registers your birth and, at as far as they are concerned, you are “legally cis”.
And if they start hunting us via gender recognition records, we can hopefully hide.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •So‑Called Vaughn
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Not just you: I’ve tried that same brand (and a few others); the premium-priced ones do seem to last a tad longer than the dirt-cheap ilk, but they all ‘fizzle out’ within weeks/months.
Never considered ‘cold plugging’ to rule out arcing/pitting but thanks to you I can see that’s extra effort that changes nothing.
Edited to include picture of my gently used adapter which isn’t working.
Sarah Brown
in reply to So‑Called Vaughn • •@So‑Called Vaughn The most premium one I ever bought lasted eight hours, because I used it to keep my phone charged when hiking in the damp,
Eight hours.
Came to the conclusion that spending extra money was a fool’s errand. Just buy what’s cheap and replace them when they die. Double the money does not get you double the life.
So‑Called Vaughn
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •A scant eight hours later, in the boonies?
Damn; I’d‘ve had an apoplectic conniption fit.
Gen X-Wing
Unknown parent • • •@rachel_norfolk Could it be climate related? Any other connectors do the same? Only lightning issues I’ve had are bends that crack the cable (which means it’s my wife’s cable. No shade or hate, I’m just unusually careful with stuff). Which is a pretty generic cable issue.
Must be horribly frustrating to have to switch out cables that often:(
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Miguel Arroz • •@Miguel Arroz Yes to Apple branded cables. They all do it. Without exception. Every lightning connector that provides power to the phone (peripherals last longer).
The connectors undergo corrosion/electrolysis and die. Doesn’t matter who makes them.
I’ve pretty much never had one where the connector failed structurally. They simply never last that long.
Miguel Arroz
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Gen X-Wing • •@Breadbin @Rachel Lawson I can’t find any consistent link to climate.
No other connector does this to me. It’s just lightning cables that provide power, and only lightning. USB C doesn’t do it. The old iPod dock cables didn’t do it. It’s just lightning, and they will always do it.
Gen X-Wing
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@rachel_norfolk Damn, that’s such a shame:(
Also odd that the iPad doesn’t have wireless charging. Hmm.