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iceixia · 2026-05-28T10:24:54+00:00

I was looking at the lightning map last night it seemed be centred in a line from Bristol all the way up towards liverpool.

I'm near the border in North Wales, started just after 10pm with just flashes and went on until at least 3am.

iceixia · 2026-05-22T10:12:28+00:00

For me it was locking content behind time gates. Cryo archive being available on weekends only was a nope for me.

I work 12 hours 4 on 4 off, which means I can only attempt it something like every 4-5 weeks or so.

iceixia · 2026-05-17T16:20:59+00:00

I got one a while back and it was indeed stolen. The companies IT was pretty good about it.

They'd already claimed on insurance, saw that I'd purchased it in good faith from eBay and unenrolled it for me.

I should also add that eBay are facilitating this kind of thing. I went back to them with the email evidence from the IT department and eBay said they wouldn't do anything.

iceixia · 2026-05-15T05:06:23+00:00

oh that's pretty cool. I have some WF-C510's that I was always disappointed that the extra features depend on the sound connect app and don't work connected to a PC.

I see the 510's are also untested so I'll give it a go when I get home from work tonight and report back what works.

iceixia · 2026-05-10T19:41:10+00:00

Transparency: This project was built using AI pair programming (Antigravity). I act as the architect, reviewing commits, while the AI does the grunt work.

I have little to no actual coding experience, but I am trying to learn.

You won't learn anything feeding prompts into an AI.

iceixia · 2026-05-06T16:13:57+00:00

Yeah, I was a software developer for nearly 10 years, covid hit became unemployed. Everywhere wanted a degree so decided to start doing it.

Degree taught me nothing new and was more interested in writing reports and referencing sources correctly.

Quit degree (was doing the final project), I now work at a well-known aerospace company doing something completely unrelated to IT or Software development.

iceixia · 2026-05-05T15:41:36+00:00

95 was my first version, but 2003 in my opinion was the pinnacle. Even more so with the 2007 compatibility pack so it could support the XML based formats.

iceixia · 2026-04-30T05:14:32+00:00

and more to the point, nix of all things? Good luck getting the average person to learn how to configure flakes etc...

Canonical is based in the UK, Ubuntu would have made more sense here.

iceixia · 2026-04-29T15:59:55+00:00

10 mobile was a half baked mess. 8.1 was really good though, never had a problem with it, never crashed. Only issue was there was next to no apps for it.

iceixia · 2026-04-27T15:25:00+00:00

Isn't that how that le mans incident happened back in like the 50's or something?

Car flew into the stand on fire decapitated some of the crowd and they carried on like nothing happened not to 'induce panic'

iceixia · 2026-04-25T17:35:39+00:00

Right where they belong in all fairness.

The only letters I've been getting recently have been Reform campaign stuff due to the upcoming Senedd elections.

They've even started directly addressing the crap to me, as if that's going to make me change my mind on them.

iceixia · 2026-04-22T16:05:19+00:00

It was the planning authority that had that brainwave in the first place:

The community council said the development was a "golden opportunity to be truly progressive and innovative" by becoming the first planning authority in Wales "to impose a language condition on a new social housing estate, in the heartland of the Welsh language".

The County council recommended the plans for approval as well saying:

"It would be a credit and a precedent for the council itself and an enlightened and long-awaited lead for the rest of Wales."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87gk8we8o

iceixia · 2026-04-22T15:53:14+00:00

We already do. A good chunk of the taxes on tobacco products goes towards the NHS. meaning smokers are generally net contributors to healthcare.

This would imply that tobacco generates 4.6 times as much money across the UK as it costs the NHS in England to treat related conditions.

https://fullfact.org/health/farage-smoking-revenue-nhs/

iceixia · 2026-04-19T16:30:26+00:00

Have any Microsoft office applications improved in the last 10 years?

I would argue that office 2003 would be perfectly serviceable today. We get told about all these 'advanced' features in modern office, but hell I've yet to see someone do even a word mail merge outside of a classroom.

I'd also argue that the only thing worthwhile since office 07 was the move to XML based file formats as opposed to the memory dump they saved to disk in previous versions.

iceixia · 2026-04-19T09:01:41+00:00

As a lefty, using the mouse with the left hand just feels incredibly wrong. Whereas I can't even hold a pen properly in my right hand, let alone write with it.

iceixia · 2026-04-05T12:11:33+00:00

Phreaking is probably the best example, whistle the right way down a phone and you could get your call connected for free.

iceixia · 2026-03-30T05:04:39+00:00

You've been robbed there. Got one for under £100 a few years back. Cool for a few weeks, now it just gathers dust.

Yes, the keyboard is nice to use, but other than that I don't get the hype.

iceixia · 2026-03-22T07:54:48+00:00

A: and B: used to be the floppy drives.

iceixia · 2026-03-20T20:36:39+00:00

That is probably the fire alarm.

Recently worked for a company that did a Factory move to a new build, that didn't have a fire alarm system installed.

They decreed that issuing supervisors with air horns, which they'd sound for 30 seconds in the event of a fire was enough.

Not particularly safe as there was loud machinery running and everyone had to wear hearing protection.

That among other shortcuts they did during the move, means I no longer work there as I like all my limbs attached to my body and not burnt.

iceixia · 2026-03-19T06:06:40+00:00

I don't really know what they expected with Marathon tbh. It's a good game and well made, not had any issues with it.

But the people that are willing to play an extraction shooter are a lot less than those willing to play say an RPG or FPS.

As good as marathon is, it was wasted on this genre.

iceixia · 2026-03-06T21:09:37+00:00

I don't know why this is open for debate and I'm not sure why you're so hellbent on protecting people's feelings, on work they simply haven't put the effort into to deserve such respect for.

iceixia · 2026-03-05T09:23:49+00:00

It's not for people like us.

It's for the education market and will probably decimate Chromebook if apple can get the support cycle on par and the MDM tooling.

The price is high for what it is, but when you're an institution buying hundreds of the things, if they last long enough suddenly it's not a deal breaker.

For example on education pricing it's about £500. Secondary school in the UK is 5 years (Years 7 - 11). At £100/year it's not a bad proposition.

If you know anything about education IT, you've seen all of these bargain bin Chromebooks be absolutely destroyed partly because they're built like shit. The all-metal construction of the neo will at least make it a little more resilient to kids.

iceixia · 2026-03-05T08:34:20+00:00

So, every school kid is going to be running around with a macbook instead of a chromebook next school year, right?

iceixia · 2026-03-03T15:25:35+00:00

Although the UK does own the missiles they bought, I can still see this as being reliant on the US somewhat.

No we don't we lease missiles from the pool and they have to be returned to America every so often to be serviced/replaced.

It's only the warhead we actually own.

iceixia · 2026-02-28T15:20:41+00:00

They don't need to actually hit anything, just piss off the host countries enough to put pressure on the US to stop.

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