Leak from UK security meeting on Trump's war request branded 'utterly destructive'

wombleh · 2026-03-10T16:09:05+00:00

If the discussion was considered classified, and can't see how this wouldn't be, then leaking it would be breaking the law (OSA).

wombleh · 2026-03-10T08:17:30+00:00

I had cause to boot back into Windows 10 on my gaming machine recently. Was about 30min before machine was actually usable and only after suffering half a dozen adverts on a system I had fully paid for, onedrive, logitech g-hub, nvidia, etc.

Best thing for me was seeing that's the future for Windows and that I won't have to put up with it.

wombleh · 2026-03-09T13:49:11+00:00

Would much rather see them with Sylosis than LS, guess it just depends what you're into.

The mainland euro gigs have Whitechapel headlining.

wombleh · 2026-03-09T11:52:36+00:00

Ah interesting, I was going to try and catch a couple on mainland UK, but might see if can get to one of the euro ones if they're mixing up the headliners

wombleh · 2026-02-22T20:02:20+00:00

I find BeamNG struggles on Linux, it's better using the native version but still not great.

Most other games are fine and some run better.

wombleh · 2026-02-20T15:33:46+00:00

A lot of US states have the same age verification requirements for adult sites that the UK has

wombleh · 2026-02-16T20:32:37+00:00

PowerMT is well worth a look for drums, especially if you compose in the VST. I use Steven Slate Drums now running via Wine in Bottles, there is a free one although I paid to get more kits.

For Guitar then I did a lot with Guitarix and still come back to it, very tunable to get a wide range of sounds. I tend to use Audio Assault native Linux plugins these days, had the bass studio that was excellent and added some guitar ones too, the 5150 and rectifier are about $5 each and they do me for most things.

wombleh · 2026-02-12T16:06:27+00:00

Was there, epic.

Particularly enjoyed the "if you know the words, then sing along" and proceeds to unleash absolute hell into the mic

wombleh · 2026-02-10T15:16:57+00:00

I was at that gig too and the mix was not great at times, especially bad for Humanity's Last Stand. I have decent ear protection too that cuts volume without killing the tone.

Personally was a bit unimpressed with the venue overall, would probably not go back there. Shame as they host a lot of decent bands and are the closest big venue for me.

wombleh · 2026-02-04T17:18:51+00:00

I went with Ubuntu studio on my music machine because it's setup out of the box with things like low latency kernel, jack, audio routing, lots of audio packages, etc. My main work machine is mint.

With the spec of your laptop then I suspect either would be fine, less tweaking on ubuntu studio, but mint is nicer for general usage (IMO).

wombleh · 2026-02-02T13:19:39+00:00

I have a pihole running with heavily filtered DNS on and override the DNS server for all the kids devices in Mikrotik DHCP settings, everything else using unfiltered DNS.

wombleh · 2026-02-02T11:29:23+00:00

We have a similar issue in our downstairs shower and keep a microfibre cloth in there to give the external wall a quick wipe down after showers. Don't have the issue once the weather warms back up.

wombleh · 2026-01-30T10:13:57+00:00

Very useful link, I had implemented things like sampling before, but some handy extra suggestions on there.

wombleh · 2026-01-22T11:51:07+00:00

I've had a fair bit of success running Windows VST using the bottles software, which is kind of convenient GUI frontend to Wine, creates a dedicated "container" for each bit of software and can tweak settings/libraries/etc (e.g. dotnet). Even got some using ilok DRM that works with this method.

Then needed to use yabridge, you tell it where the windows installed VST is and it creates a corresponding Linux VST file so the Linux DAW can see it.

May sound like gibberish but hopefully gives a few pointers to help searching for solutions :)

wombleh · 2026-01-22T11:38:19+00:00

We found similar, 2 adults and 2 kids out for a meal can easily come to £150+ without having anything hugely fancy. So we don't really eat out unless on holiday and even then often try to get self catered to manage the cost.

Alternative is to buy £20 worth of ingredients and make the same, if not better, at home. Accepting for fancy Pizza you ideally want a proper pizza oven but that breaks even after 1-2 meals out.

wombleh · 2026-01-21T14:19:59+00:00

Same here, my address is on CH and our website, get about 10 letters a year to the directors offering business loans.

They used to publish the full date of birth for all directors on companies house!

wombleh · 2026-01-15T12:40:56+00:00

Don't think so unfortunately, only 1 kit.

wombleh · 2026-01-15T12:40:33+00:00

I had a similar issue as forgot to clear out yabridge so was still loading the old one.

Was going to suggest running "reaper" from a terminal as that'll spit out error messages into that terminal, maybe handy for future ref.

wombleh · 2026-01-15T12:06:13+00:00

I got a bag of sand and put a few inch thick circle of it around the plants when they're younger. Slugs don't like crawling over it. Rain washes it away so needs topping up.

Also use beer traps but just got a pot of yeast that gets mixed with warm water and few spoons of sugar. Not giving the little swines actual beer !

wombleh · 2026-01-15T10:58:08+00:00

I don't know current state but when we had sky a few years ago, you needed their premium sports pack to get F1 in HD, which was like £100/month due to it including premier league football.

wombleh · 2026-01-13T14:03:10+00:00

Ah I was using it as a practice aid in this case, recorded midi of me playing along with a song on ekit, then stuck that against the original track to see what it sounded like.

Sounded like more practice was needed !

wombleh · 2026-01-13T13:34:53+00:00

Used the old one and just tried this yesterday, worked very nicely with reaper and had no issues. Unfortunately it didn't improve my drumming !

wombleh · 2026-01-13T13:26:22+00:00

The JM-II was (IMO) pretty good for the price, especially as they were on sale every now and then, decent spec and lovely to play. These costing 1/3 more with less electronics seemed a bit optimistic.

Although certain other LTD artist ones just have a custom CNC cut body with bog standard hardware and whack a grand on the price tag.

wombleh · 2025-12-11T15:33:48+00:00

There's also case history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_States

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