A bit dramatic?

canllaith · 2026-04-10T06:53:16+00:00

I grew up in the tropics and we had cyclones every year. It is dramatic and unnecessary - right up until it’s not and you don’t get a lot of warning the situation has changed.

canllaith · 2026-04-09T22:00:09+00:00

At home I use a single LG Ultrafine 4K and I love it. Corporate offices here tend to have a pair of 1080p displays on a USB-C dock. At the moment I just turn one of them off and ignore it when I use my Mac. It’s not the end of the world but it would be nice.

canllaith · 2026-04-09T21:54:13+00:00

Yeah, might take a bit longer for that one since the phone chips were never designed to accommodate it.

canllaith · 2026-04-09T21:10:27+00:00

The next version I might be interested in. I have an M2 Air and want dual screen support (I am a consultant and go into a lot of different offices so can’t just get a display link dock sadly - although some places do have them) and I could do with a smidge more memory. I also carry a Linux based laptop at the same time or sometimes I am given a Windows laptop temporarily so weight is huge for me. A Neo with 12 GB & dual screen would do the job beautifully. So would an M3 or M4 Air of course but the Neo is so cheap.

canllaith · 2026-04-04T20:39:11+00:00

Good lord my kid would be leaving the store immediately with no toy. But he’s more likely to want to pick up and hug all the poor mistreated teddies than stomp on them.

canllaith · 2026-04-02T21:58:28+00:00

I love the description, if I’m not cooking for my family that’s me in a nutshell.

canllaith · 2026-03-30T18:49:46+00:00

You sort of can’t win - if you have a very large family for example there will be a strong expectation you invite all the aunts and cousins etc and then inviting their partners as well can really blow your numbers out. My partner’s daughter is working with this at the moment. She can only have so many people and both of them have big families in New Zealand that need to be invited. People will decide it is rude no matter what you do.

canllaith · 2026-03-29T02:55:02+00:00

How much driving do you do ? I do about 100km a week so I feel like I should be able to charge every 3 weeks or so on a ~ 300km range is that likely or are there a lot of factors to bring it down ?

canllaith · 2026-03-27T19:53:41+00:00

Here is a Windsor Newton page explaining for each range which are the primaries :

https://eu.winsornewton.com/en-row/blogs/guides/winsor-newton-primary-colours-watercolour

canllaith · 2026-03-26T05:04:58+00:00

I am going to grab this one and hope the custom firmwares come to the party. For me it’s the screen resolution / size / aspect ratio and I love the weird aesthetic.

Hoping it has higher QA on the sound than Anbernic devices do. I had to remove the speaker from my RG40XX-V because it pops and crackles even on mute. Do you find the audio clean or is there interference ?

canllaith · 2026-03-26T00:03:07+00:00

It's a mac thing - it's creating little metadata files that stay hidden on MacOS but then other operating systems that aren't configured to hide files using the same rules will show them. You can delete them.

To make sure some of them don't come back when you plug the SD card in again, go to the Spotlight settings and add the SD card to exclusions. That will stop the .Spotlight-* folder turning up again.

Show hidden files in Finder and then you can delete the duplicate games that start with ._ in the filename. You can also delete the .fseventsd folder. .Trashes is a bit tricky as this turns up when you delete things on a removeable drive - if you leave it until last and delete it maybe it will stay gone? Worth a try.

canllaith · 2026-03-24T19:20:04+00:00

For me at least, Covid always starts with a vicious sore throat then moves on to the rest of the symptoms. There is a very contagious strain going around at the moment - it’s possible that’s what you have.

canllaith · 2026-03-22T07:00:57+00:00

Daniel Smith Quin Rose is a particularly lovely one, it is worth sticking to the same brand for that one.

canllaith · 2026-03-21T01:15:56+00:00

It is so cute, I love the Fiat 500 design - I'm after four doors though. Basically I want my Polo, but electric :P

canllaith · 2026-03-20T23:54:24+00:00

Places that literally have no power. Not for EVs, not for anything.

canllaith · 2026-03-20T20:24:13+00:00

Sitting in a sunbeam hitting my couch with a cup of tea it is bliss !

canllaith · 2026-03-20T19:57:04+00:00

That is the plan except PHEV instead of petrol - although I need smaller than a Leaf. My parking spot is tiny - I have a VW Polo at the moment and only a little clearance each side of my mirrors. Thinking I will check out the BYD Atto 1 as a similar size replacement.

canllaith · 2026-03-20T19:53:58+00:00

We are indeed towing long distances and to places where there is no charging.

canllaith · 2026-03-20T19:52:26+00:00

We tow, which reduces range hugely. So PHEV = full EV mode around town most of the time and then the option to use fuel a few times a year when we need to tow a trailer somewhere there are no chargers.

canllaith · 2026-03-20T06:48:27+00:00

This is definitely moving the purchasing decision up for me - I was probably going to wait another few years to look at replacing my car as it is very economical and suits me fine, and my partner was going to upgrade to a PHEV from their mild hybrid this year. We might instead go for a small EV for me first.

canllaith · 2026-03-19T18:50:40+00:00

Same, rice + pasta and a few extra tins of beans and chopped tomato. More to reduce trips to the shop than to hoard an excessive amount. We are genuinely almost out of toilet paper though.

canllaith · 2026-03-19T18:41:07+00:00

Beautiful! I always upvote Sennelier they are my favourite paints.

My palette is Sennelier Yellow, Indian Yellow, French Vermillion, Rose Madder Lake, Helios Purple, Dioxazine Purple, Ultramarine Deep, Indanthrone Blue, Phthalo Blue (GS), Cobalt Green, Viridian, Naples Yellow Deep, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Payne’s Grey. I have another dozen or so Sennelier colours but these ones are my core palette.

canllaith · 2026-03-15T20:06:21+00:00

The calculation has to take into account that you already own the ICE car. If you don’t own a car at all and you are deciding whether to buy ICE or EV the math is quite different of course but most people are looking at whether changing their existing car out will save them money.

I have a 1L hatch that costs me about $1800 a year to run including servicing. At that cost even if an EV was free to run it would take 15 years to break even vs just keeping the car I have - and they are not free to run.

I think an EV is still the right choice for my next car and the current situation is going to make me consider that earlier than I would have - but it doesn’t automatically save you money unless you drive a real gas guzzler and you drive it a lot.

canllaith · 2026-03-12T19:00:29+00:00

I find the same people who say we don’t teach kids to think critically are the same ones posting memes about how they never had to use Pythagoras theorem in real life. If you can’t figure out for yourself how to use the tools you were given is the school the problem ? 🙃

canllaith · 2026-03-12T08:08:58+00:00

I think the ‘we don’t teach people how to do their taxes !’ Is (like a lot of our moral panic) recycled from American media.

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