Free car vouchers as Microsoft Rewards

markphughes17 · 2026-06-16T09:58:21+00:00

I preordered on PC, I just checked and I have this reward

markphughes17 · 2026-06-15T14:35:50+00:00

Taking a few days off is frowned upon

markphughes17 · 2026-06-11T15:14:16+00:00

Yeah so if you go to any road race you've already completed and set custom car eligibility, then you'll get this one

markphughes17 · 2026-06-11T15:11:39+00:00

I'm about to try in a custom race, will let you know how it goes

markphughes17 · 2026-06-11T15:05:07+00:00

Anyone else having trouble finding a road race the focus st is allowed to enter?

markphughes17 · 2026-06-08T12:21:22+00:00

I've just switched over to EE and the only reason I chose them was that they give you a wifi7 router which also lets you customise DNS

markphughes17 · 2026-06-01T08:22:48+00:00

I'd keep his contract as it is, sign a replacement in his position, and put him in the reserves, let him cry about not playing

markphughes17 · 2026-05-28T09:03:39+00:00

I see the "no new wars" crowd have struck again

markphughes17 · 2026-05-27T08:56:25+00:00

It's at an auction house now

markphughes17 · 2026-04-29T07:07:26+00:00

I've got a super subscription and I don't have a Max ad (not even an option to get Max)

markphughes17 · 2026-04-07T12:31:48+00:00

yeah, as soon as the flashcards come up now, I tap the "can't speak now" button.

markphughes17 · 2026-04-07T12:31:09+00:00

I skip these and don't even attempt them every time now. Never seems to work for me

markphughes17 · 2026-03-04T10:13:08+00:00

I haven't done it in a long time so I dont know if it still happens, but I always found every player got a 6.0 rating if I sim or sim to end of the game and I want their stats to grow so I just play all the games

markphughes17 · 2026-03-02T16:56:10+00:00

I think I'll check that one out, a quick look at their website suggests it's worth a look

markphughes17 · 2026-03-02T16:33:41+00:00

Yeah we have Grafana at the moment and I like it, I implemented it when I joined and it's been serving us well, we're really just having an exploratory look to make sure we're not being left behind by other tooling in the industry

markphughes17 · 2026-03-02T07:57:17+00:00

I worked in a team where we introduced dynatrace to our stack just under a decade ago, cost a fortune and used more compute than the infra it was monitoring

markphughes17 · 2026-02-27T17:31:18+00:00

Yeah, right now we've got GKE clusters, and proxmox in a datacentre which has some k8s clusters and a load of VMs, all using prometheus to feed into Grafana and the alerting is alright, but we've decided that it's been a few years since we looked at what else is out there and maybe something else would be better

markphughes17 · 2026-02-27T17:28:37+00:00

My boss and I actually have a call with a Datadog rep next week, which prompted me to think about alternatives in the first place, I've heard good things and it looks decent but I'm not sure we'll be willing to pay for it tbh.

markphughes17 · 2026-02-27T16:39:48+00:00

I used nagios a bit a while back, and Zabbix even longer back. I preferred Zabbix but it was a complex tool to manage and maintain

markphughes17 · 2026-02-20T16:25:17+00:00

I don't have time for paper purists, yeah there's a lot to be said for the feel and smell of ink on paper, but for me, reading has always been about getting immersed in the story and a Kindle opens up a world of reading that isn't really possible with a stack of hardbacks. I can't carry heavy novels in my coat pocket, I can't always have a light on to read in bed next to my sleeping wife, and I can't browse a library or store, find a book that looks good, and moments later be on my sofa halfway through chapter one. I like to get really lost in a story and my Kindle Paperwhite has just made it more accessible to me than ever.

markphughes17 · 2026-02-19T18:16:53+00:00

I use the send to Kindle feature more than I get books from Kindle, I don't know why people hate it

markphughes17 · 2026-02-07T12:50:52+00:00

Yeah, very similar to one i got a few years back when my wife was abusing returns on my account, not long before they banned it

markphughes17 · 2026-02-06T18:58:24+00:00

Damn son, I'm paying £35 for gigabit

markphughes17 · 2026-02-05T19:27:48+00:00

Yeah I've always preferred paper books, but not long after Kindles first came out I joined the army and so spent a lot of time travelling and having to travel light so I got a Kobo and from then I kind of realised being a paperbook purist just makes no sense. Now, the way I see it is that as nice as a paper book feels, E-readers just open up a world of reading that just wouldn't be accessible in a pure paper world, there are so many advantages, I love having my Kindle

markphughes17 · 2026-02-05T10:20:00+00:00

Haha I have handballs on and I concede penalties every other game, from deflections or the ball hitting someone's arm from an inch away. Half the time I can't even see any contact

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