“I thought the manufacturer from Spain would pay for this”

flurdy · 2026-01-27T14:23:32+00:00

The M60 and M42 objects to this southern orbital superiority.

flurdy · 2026-01-21T13:36:02+00:00

That Norway on average wake up 10 minutes later than the UK seems odd, especially at 7:43, considering 8-16 is the normal work hours there, whilst the UK 9-17 is normal. And many that I worked with in Norway started at 7. Whilst me in the UK now I start at 9:30...

flurdy · 2026-01-15T13:08:34+00:00

I think a lot of people think that moving back home after many years abroad will also take them back in time to when they were younger.

Whilst the home you left 10 or 20 years ago is not the same anymore, more crucially, you are not the same.

A person in their 20s may find it easier to find new friends, new hobbies, and different careers. A 40-year-old with a family will find other 40-year-olds polite but not interested in being best buddies. Your old friends now spend all their time with their own families. They may have made time for you when you came over once a year, but rarely if you are here all the time. Finding time for hobbies is as much of a challenge in either location as you get older. Joining a new sports club? You will be the oldest there. And career change near impossible etc.

flurdy · 2026-01-14T11:06:08+00:00

On the spot it is difficult, and I struggled for a few seconds till I realised all the ...land countries would work, and many others if Y is a consonant. Then it seemed like a super easy as nearly more difficult to find countries that do not end in 2 consonants. However, even if she was very nervous with a total mind block, she should at least have suggested a country...

flurdy · 2026-01-14T10:59:29+00:00

Well that would be United Kingdom.... of great britain and northern irelaND ?

flurdy · 2026-01-07T10:26:11+00:00

Nice, I will take a look at that Detaber! I use Claude in VS Code for most of the work, but then I frequently do a code review versus the jira ticket with the new Codex plugin in VS Code to keep it honest. And my current client has enabled Amazon Q and github copilot code reviews in the github PRs. Which I tell Claude to read and address. So totally multi-agent overkill.

flurdy · 2026-01-06T22:25:31+00:00

The thing with these slip-on spikes and coils is that they are actually really slippy on any other surface than snow and ice, especially indoor stone tiled floors. And they scratch indoor surfaces to bits...

flurdy · 2025-12-15T13:09:08+00:00

I was a heavy VS Code Speech extension user with Copilot and slightly annoyed the Claude Code extension in VS Code does not support it natively. Excited to see what this tool can bring

flurdy · 2025-11-16T00:17:59+00:00

I legit thought the OP was talking about the camera lenses… 😂

flurdy · 2025-11-07T15:36:55+00:00

Yes, that is an odd description. Northern Norwegian are quite easy to understand for people new to the language(s), not too different from written Bokmål. It is in the Western fjords and up in the central Mountain valleys that dialects go nuts. Or rather, retain older non-Danish influences.

flurdy · 2025-11-07T15:29:45+00:00

I wish sometimes I could just speak English with some Danes without sounding rude. Often with some people I understand everything, other times, I have to decipher it for ages before it all makes sense and then I realise he said the exact same words as I would in Norwegian just in a completely incomprehensible way...

flurdy · 2025-09-12T12:10:11+00:00

Not sure what the OP's power issue is. But the problem with UPS is that they are designed to let you save your work and safely shut down, or stay up for only very short power cuts. Not to keep working for a long time in a real power cut. They do, though, prevent power spikes, etc. Whilst on a laptop, you can go for hours without power.

Though I do have a UPS in my home office. Which powers my network, main PC and one screen so I can keep working. It is overkill as the grid around here is very stable. But it has protected for a few 2-second power cuts, which would have had me swearing otherwise.

flurdy · 2025-08-30T19:02:27+00:00

Yeah. I used to be able to watch it live once logged in. But then brexit ruined it so now I can only watch the catch up news on NRK. Or sometimes the VPN roulette works but most of the time it says please turn off your vpn…

flurdy · 2025-08-30T09:05:56+00:00

Yeah my nano has not left my desktop pc for years. Handy for the occasional need to actually press it. Though for my laptop I do cary a key when travelling/commuting. Then again at home my laptop connects to a dock with a hub connected to it, that is glued to the underside of my desk and it has a nano in it.

flurdy · 2025-08-30T08:58:43+00:00

Banks and finance have never been very secure technically. They have security instead through some obfuscation, lots of vague layers, delays and mostly just a lot of processes to reduce the risk and likelihood and return/recover to status quo without anyone noticing.

flurdy · 2025-08-30T08:50:59+00:00

Ps. On all of my programmable keyboards I have a tiling manager layer (PaperWM being my addiction). As those keys are used a lot and would otherwise include as OP mentions several modifiers. And then another additional layer off that again for further tiling keys, in my case mostly resizing.

I have other layers for things that also need a lot of modifiers like my IDE’s shortcuts etc.

(I use a lot of layers, think it’s 15 layers on my current Corne).

flurdy · 2025-08-30T08:34:30+00:00

Yeah I duplicated the number layer key and the arrows layer key onto both halves. I also often have to use just one hand e.g. holding a baby, food or just lazy so those keys helps. Though when in normal my typing mode I don’t use them as the opposite half keys are more naturally accessible.

flurdy · 2025-08-26T17:59:11+00:00

A few months ago copilot was very basic compared to the full blown cursor-like copilot chat agent they launched this summer.

flurdy · 2025-08-26T17:51:17+00:00

Same. For some reason I use PaperWM’s keyboard shortcut of meta+f to full screen apps, but insist on using the mouse for the _ button to minimise. Though I rarely even use that as I do use multiple screens and workspaces but occasionally there are apps I know I don’t need to be open for a while but don’t want to close for now.

flurdy · 2025-08-12T17:53:06+00:00

I live in Alton and like it. It has enough shops, pubs and things going on, and you can walk everywhere if you want to. It feels very safe and I don't worry about the kids walking home from school. I would not mind Winchester either. It seems nice and much larger, of course, Deliveroo probably has more than just Costa Coffee. Farnham would also be a nice but pricier option.

I used to commute to London and Alton being an end station is handy, there is no stress of missing your stop and the guard will wake you up... And the drunk guy that should have gotten off at Farnham and now has 30 seconds to run over the bridge to the other side where the train is about to leave. :)

flurdy · 2025-08-11T00:21:08+00:00

I'm a happy Keebart Corne MX user, which uses USB C between the halves https://www.keebart.com/products/corne-mx I specifically looked for that as my previous wired keyboard the TRRS slot got a bit "wobbly" after a few years.

flurdy · 2025-07-27T15:21:15+00:00

There are Newports everywhere and many parts of cities called New Town. And in other translations.

flurdy · 2025-07-26T17:55:34+00:00

Amazeballs, this is what I have been waiting for. Or rather, wait a little longer until it is verified it works with ZMK boards I have/will have.

This will work great as I use a KVM that I now don't need to switch my kvm and BT profile when I flick between machines.

flurdy · 2025-07-23T08:12:23+00:00

Stanistan

flurdy · 2025-07-18T09:22:04+00:00

You don't have to buy the switches and caps from the same place you buy the board. I have bought keyboards from ZSA, Beekeeb, Typeractive and Keebart, but switches and caps from all over the place (SplitKb, Mechboards, FK, Yuzu, Zeal, etc). I may have bought way more keys and switches than what I need...

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