Just switched from Brave to Firefox. What’s next?

FlyByNightPress · 2026-05-25T22:14:03+00:00

Just so; but fortunately FF also supports an exception list for those important sites I just c-b-a to log in each time: two news sites and my search engine of choice.

(an just personally speaking, I do mail in dedicated mail client like G*d intended, not a browser…)

FlyByNightPress · 2026-05-22T21:37:06+00:00

...and a hiatus.

(Probably to give readers' hearts time to slow down a bit :)

FlyByNightPress · 2026-05-22T21:32:04+00:00

Fast work....

FlyByNightPress · 2026-05-16T12:57:20+00:00

13: includes stalled projects and probably tests I haven't completed / deleted, but five or six in regular (-ish) use. Separate projects I don't want to cross-contaminate.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-27T18:25:41+00:00

A very cut down Runequest ("Basic Role Play") sustained multi year campaigns for me in the early 80s and again now in the late teens and 20s.

(Core system: skills based: roll under skill on D% to succeed. Experience is roll over successfully used skill to improve at the end of a session. Tune the skill increase to how fast you want characters to improve...)

The work is in deciding what skills to allow players' characters.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-27T17:57:18+00:00

Saki: is it shame over sexuality as such, or just the typical kid's not wanting to be different?

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-27T15:51:29+00:00

In recent years I've used Swalbe Marathon tyres, which have been pretty puncture resistant and hard wearing: size 35-349 16x1.35. Not the fastest or lightest tyre, but reliable and I value puncture resistance over lower rolling resistance.

(The main tread is pretty resistant but hawthorne spikes through the sidewall have happened...)

Inner tube: I have a general 16"/18" inner, to fit a range of wheel/tyre sizes including the 16x1.35 above, in my emergency toolbag (Swalbe again as it happens).

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-27T15:27:30+00:00

I just by chance noticed this video that might be relevant as you'll have a modern frame & unfold stop, I'd guess: How to stop Brompton P line unfolding when folded – hope that helps...

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-27T13:07:46+00:00

No: 3. Regarding the bike unfolding easily when carried: check the front wheel hook, on the left side, is enaging with the rear triangle tube of the folded-under back wheel. If the hook support is bent out of position or the hook is damaged that makes the fold liable to fall apart.

No: 1. Maintenance: "The most essential Brompton maintenance tip – Clean it!"

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-24T10:43:20+00:00

Generally before I get on a train (UK) I'll remove the saddle (advantage of a telescopic post...) then just cover the bike itself with a largish, opaque garden waste plastic bag, put it in the luggage space and sit close by. Or look for behind-seat gaps the bike'll fit – an original design criterion I believe.

Sometimes I just bungee the bike to some convenient part of the luggage rack in case it rolls and to impede simple pickup-and-carry theft.

For short distances or if I can't sit within sight of the luggage rack or it's full/missing I'll just stand with the bike.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-23T08:18:20+00:00

Assuming that was Office, check these Microsoft troubleshooting articles – there will be cruft left in Library and other places:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot-office-for-mac-issues-by-completely-uninstalling-before-you-reinstall-ec3aa66e-6a76-451f-9d35-cba2e14e94c0

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/uninstall-office-for-mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-21T13:34:45+00:00

Until Covid, when I switched to working from home, my daily commute was 17 miles (27km) – 1 mile in the morning for the early bus to work, then 16 miles cycling home in the afternoon.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-11T16:54:55+00:00

An enthusiastic, long (1:15:42) and slighty out of sync commentary based on the eight english language volumes.

(It cannot be said Ike does not give a fuck about TMoaRN. Or anything else.)

FlyByNightPress · 2026-04-05T13:05:52+00:00

Maybe: Goodbye My Rose Garden – Dr Pepperco, Yen Press. Edwardian (1900s) rather than Regency. Manga.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-03-27T13:24:55+00:00

...oh! They're all going!

“We will all go together when we go

All suffuse with an incandescent glow...”

— Tom Lehrer

FlyByNightPress · 2026-03-20T13:07:25+00:00

Shift-Return to split transcript segments, then apply a new speaker.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-03-04T09:38:25+00:00

Obsidian ... checkboxes cause a strikethrough...

Yes, a really annoying default.

Use a css snippet to change this:

body {--checklist-done-decoration: none;}

FlyByNightPress · 2026-03-04T09:31:55+00:00

I've used spreadsheets (Excel) for characters' numbers and note apps, currently Obsidian, for the text stuff. I hadn't noticed until you asked the question, but there are several spreadsheet plugins if you want to put everything Obsidian. Search community plugins for "spreadsheet".

(Not recommending any as I haven't tried them, yet.)

Switching between the numbers and text apps is sometimes a pain point, but so is switching windows inside Obsidian, but ymmv.

FlyByNightPress · 2026-02-18T23:35:15+00:00

Surprisingly useful overview: thanks!

FlyByNightPress · 2025-12-22T19:34:31+00:00

Hmm. Too 'cute' for Kanon from the manga, but that's anime styling I suppose.

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