Notices by 🆎 (bloor@bloor.tw), page 3

Ok, so they need me to fill in a ~40 page form, mostly with info they already hold correctly.

Fuck that johnny.

Whilst putting my phone, watch, tablet and powerbank on charge yesterday evening, I glanced outside at my car, still charging, having been slowly pulling 8A for ~14 hours.

Between 150 and 20 years ago, there was some amazing future-looking fiction written, accurately predicting all sorts of stuff; handheld computers, smart watches, the Internet, satellites, electric cars even.

But I never read anything about how much of our lives would revolve around charging batteries in almost every device.

Normalise pronunciation of DNS as "Dennis".

Now I see. #cybertruck

Q: Why does the UK’s prime minister have a strong handshake?

A: Because he is Rishi SYN-ACK.

I feel there is more to this than meets the eye…

What kind of FUCKING STUPID desktop environment allows you to drag a window so its top bar is off the screen, meaning you can't access the buttons you need to move or resize it. So you end up killing the process and reloading it.

I have bought a new cheapo home server (mini pc thing, 16G RAM, Alder Lake CPU) and I'm going to have another stab at HomeAssistant.

I just utterly hate myself don't I?

Not content with wasting my time last night re authenticating an account I have contractual and moral right to use, this morning Netflix forced me to “find out more” about how I could share the account with someone outside the household “for just £20.98 a month”. As in, before I could proceed to Netflix I had to go through this shit. Once again, fuck you Netflix. Piracy is a better experience than this.

Took a picture of a kite in flight. Not the best (heavily cropped) but the face and the apparent stare in my direction down the lens are nice.

Fuji X-H2S , Fuji 200mm f/2 + 1.4X TC = 280mm@f/2.8. Capture one tweaked + cropped.