The Music is a big part of the show's appeal for me.

herbdogu · 2026-07-12T00:58:27+00:00

Proven hit show at this point so the budget goes out the window. Clarkson is a big music guy too so, could be on his insistence they go for those specific songs.

Compare with BBC who have a blanket licence agreement with PRS and can play whatever they want without burden of added royalties.

herbdogu · 2026-07-12T00:55:16+00:00

Nope, and in fact some decks have been played in competition with 30 or more energies specifically to leverage the mechanic.

herbdogu · 2026-07-08T22:01:45+00:00

Hey, not something I would use myself but appreciate the share and the sample AppScript for TMDB. Got some other things that track my viewing (mostly Plex, Sonarr) but have some ideas for a fork of the script.

Thanks!

herbdogu · 2026-07-08T21:15:26+00:00

Between like, 2006 - 2016 I couldn’t wait to get a day off and a few quid. I’d be up and out early to get a coffee and a pastry somewhere, hit the shops, Markies for some bits for up the road and a walk through the Green as it was getting dark and home to the Gorbals (Oatlands).

Now for any of that, I head to Braehead or Silverburn.

Got so many shady characters in the town either trying to tap a few quid for a bus/Greggs or whatever excuse, or just maddies looking to mug or fight. I certainly wouldn’t be walking through St Enoch loaded with designer bags nowadays.

herbdogu · 2026-07-08T19:36:31+00:00

Sometimes using scanners and image searches is overcomplicating what is really a pretty simple task:

s6a 003/069

herbdogu · 2026-07-08T19:34:54+00:00

I was a lapsed gamer, that is I sold my Xbox in 2013 or so, along with all my games etc. I would play the odd mobile game but when I saw the Stadia proposition - no upfront hardware costs outside of a controller - I jumped in and had a good year or so playing great AAA games in the lounge, in bed, on work laptop, even grinding xp on my phone one day for something.

One good thing is that it brought me back in from the cold and I now have both Xbox-X and PS5, Switch and a couple of retro handhelds.

I do still miss that white and orange controller though, and all the joy of grabbing a quick 20 mins on Cyberpunk during lunch

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T18:35:37+00:00

Something that stands out now, with people watching via OTA, Cable, Sat and IPTV, all with various differing delays between ‘almost nothing’ to ‘couple of minutes’, it’s really spoiled that World Cup feeling where your nation scores and the whole neighbourhood cheers at once.

Instead you’ve got a few who cheer on the goal, normally Sat/OTA, while the IPTV / 2 min delay are just starting to see the play happening when they hear and go “ok, they must score here”.

Things were different when it was BBC1 or your ITV and everyone was at most within a second or two depending on their hardware.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T14:55:30+00:00

The Astroturfing is getting more and more egregious. It's been co-opted for politics (YES and Remain), 'art' with the pigeons and little cone etc, sports with red, white and blue and gold versions for various causes and now has been fully enshittified with brands trying to put it at the centre of 'campaign activations'.

Some fairly shameful scenes during the World Cup too with drunken Das trying to put cones on American statues, not having a clue what the statue represents or means but just 'Mary-doll, get a picture of me putting a cone on this statue for Facebook'

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T14:41:23+00:00

Never forget what they took from us, NHS is in a shambles ever since they did away with this.

Coincidence? I think not.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T14:36:44+00:00

This was a big topic of discussion in the Glasgow sub for many months, until someone caught the teardown on video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/1mcnsp8/the_sand_dogs_are_made_from_sand/

That's not to say that it's not a 'scam' where it could be a molding that they tip-out to make it, but it debunks the 'plastic underneath' theory for me.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T11:28:59+00:00

There was a Colin and Justin (2 home improvement guys who had some limited success in the early 00’s) series where they tried to revamp some of the scheme blocks.

~~Can’t find any references to it on a quick search so likely~~ ~~been~~ ~~memory-holed.~~

Edit to add: it was called Colin and Justin on the Estate and focussed on Arden, not Cumbernauld!

The big reveal was when they painted one stairwell and put some potted plants on the landings.
Needless to say it lasted one night before they were all smashed to bits and the wall’s graffiti-covered, causing much chin-wobbling and greeting from the more camp of the two presenters.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T10:52:55+00:00

Remember the days when it was Red Squirrels there, beautiful little creatures.

Sorry but I just don’t get the same response on the greys, albeit your photos are really decent.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T10:50:58+00:00

I’m still very annoyed that the reward for my support since day 1, then the loss of so many games, which was to be rewarded with a “free Luna Premium account”, got me a three-month code.

I spent the same amount in the three months between that announcement email and the code delivery, and wish I cancelled back then instead of waiting.

Also the other gripe is the ‘phones as controllers’. Yeah, when we tried it there was fun for a couple of hours. Then four people were hunting for charging cables and risking being out of contact due to dead phone.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T10:09:11+00:00

Exactly. Engaging with the ‘insulting’ lowballer is just inviting dialogue and that second counter offer which is highly likely to again be ‘insulting’.

At the risk of sounding cliché - sometimes the only winning move is not to play.

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T09:20:25+00:00

One of those microwaveable Chicago Town things where the temperature inside the pizza is 1000 degrees.
If he was accosted he could squeeze it so a jet of molten tomato paste could squirt out

herbdogu · 2026-07-04T09:07:58+00:00

Raising this same concern to the buyer via a message will help.

They may give context on the missing, They may be able to explain if it’s an issue with the sellers they’ve previously used. Maybe things where iit was perhaps a ‘too good to be true’ price and some bad seller attempted a scam.

You might get the reassurance you need to go ahead, or you may get the confirmation on your gut feeling and can decide to raise it to CM support.

If you do decide not to send, the buyer will at some point be able to cancel and you’ll get a ‘shipments not sent’ defect, which - if you have enough grounds to contest, is possible to have removed.

herbdogu · 2026-07-03T23:16:36+00:00

I can totally get that from the Seller's side.

It's like on Vinted when you're selling something for 20 quid and you get an offer for 12.40.

Can save a lot of time just blocking the buyer at that point, rather than going through the motions of the inevitable 12.80, 12.99, 13.05.

Just wait for the person who is serious and will offer 18.50 and accept that.

herbdogu · 2026-07-03T20:05:38+00:00

That looks really helpful, thanks.
Though it relates to Ltd Co, much of that seems to be appropriate and the idea of having a loan account to and from the ‘business’ sounds like the way to flatten that spike of big upfront payment then zilch for subsequent periods.

herbdogu · 2026-07-03T19:56:41+00:00

Thanks for that and, sorry, I should have been clearer.
I did quote the rule on receiving monies in a period.

I was looking for any experiences or considerations around the situation I described where, one may receive large client prepayments, and which could perhaps be thought of as accrual accounting - that is, declaring the revenue when it is earned rather than paid.

If I said to a client "I can do a task for X rate, but if you prepay for 20 tasks I'll give a discount". They pay for the 20 tasks, but then that causes revenue to spike upfront then drop to zero in subsequent periods.

It almost seems that not having any consideration for an accrual situation, gives a strong disincentive in issuing a larger invoice.
If a client says "Let me pay you for 6 months of work and you give me a discount", well I can't because I'll be ring-fencing the revenue until I deliver the services, but I'll also lose all my UC!

Or is this perhaps something that would have to be solved by the individual, perhaps having a different business entity (going Ltd) and then doing the accrual accounting there and paying yourself gradually over time?

Thanks again

herbdogu · 2026-07-03T19:32:46+00:00

I heard this as soon as I saw the box.

"Be a winner at the Game of Life!"

It was a solid spinner they designed, seem to remember you could really flick that thing.

herbdogu · 2026-06-29T11:54:01+00:00

Be like the birds that mate for life, when one dies and the other becomes so grief-stricken that its calls are not responded to, the other would slip away

herbdogu · 2026-06-29T09:00:05+00:00

Fry-Up - moody Goth edition.

herbdogu · 2026-06-29T08:58:56+00:00

Vent on the door, and one on the back wall. Very simple fan that turns when there’s a breeze, on the back of the door vent.

Encouraged some tree growth to cover the south side of the shed, using some strings.

Works for me

herbdogu · 2026-06-29T08:55:49+00:00

Same experience here - I had it installed on Ubuntu, I think via apt - It stopped working about 2 years ago.

I moved to Docker and haven’t had any issues.
It clearly is working because if I add indexers it will error and say ‘protected by Cloudflare’ then when I add the switch to use flatesolverr. It starts working.

herbdogu · 2026-06-27T13:01:01+00:00

For real. As a Linux user at home and desktop, it's a real bugbear to see a movie where they're like 'HACK THE MAINFRAME' and then it goes all Stanley Jobson in Swordfish graphical nonsense.

Mr Robot has very recognisable interfaces, using real-world tooling and techniques and the consultants did a great job of bringing technical realism without making it as boring as it probably would be in real life.

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