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Troggie

@Troggie@mendeddrum.org

Xennial piano teacher and educational odd jobber. Married to @DJDarren
Autistic, gender clueless, fat positive, anti-Tory, pro-choice and anti-fascist.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights are human rights.
Into music, gaming and Discworld.
Shouts into the void a lot.
Mostly Harmless.

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DJDarren, to random
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Been playing The Talos Principle II on my Mac for the past couple of days. It's a great game, but it's Windows only.

Thing is, using Whisky on my Mac means that the game is perfectly playable. The graphics aren't great, but I don't really know how they're supposed to be, so they're fine for me. And bear in mind my MacBook has a base M2 and no fan, so it'll never offer amazing graphics with that setup.

But the fact that it plays at all keeps blowing my mind. A Windows game, playing on a Mac.

Troggie,
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@DJDarren you could stream it from Holly without issue. Though not this morning obviously.

Troggie, to random
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If it weren’t for the machines and people trying to kill me, I’d almost feel like I’m on my holidays.

Screenshot from Horizon Forbidden West showing main character Aloy reclining on a sandy beach looking at the sky

Troggie, to random
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For the last week or so I’ve been keeping a close eye on our garden cam to see if our little hedgehog friend had woken up yet.

Absolutely delighted to wake up to this footage this morning. #HedgehogsOfMastodon #Hedgehogs

Black and white footage of a little hedgehog in our garden

Troggie, to random
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My PC is doing a weird thing.
The same weird thing it did less than a year ago before I replaced my hard drive and reinstalled the OS.

  1. It’s not showing file changes in explorer. As in I can create a new folder and nothing happens. Go out of where I’m at and go back in and there’s the folder. Same with pasting files.

  2. It’s not shutting down. It gets to the point of the monitors going to sleep then just doesn’t turn off.

DJDarren, to random
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Personally, I’m all for Threads federation. I think it’ll be really good for Mastodon.

Troggie,
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@DJDarren stop that.

Troggie,
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@DJDarren NO.

Troggie, to random
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I have spent a very happy few hours back in the world of Aloy.

I’ve been waiting a long while for this to come to PC and so far it’s definitely worth it. It is stunningly pretty.

I don’t want to go to bed or do work tomorrow.

Screenshot of Horizon Forbidden West showing the interior of a building that nature has completely taken over with sunlight coming from a space above

Troggie,
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I am blown away by the mocap.
Also, I am obsessed with this guy’s chest. Hair and realistic nipples!
How far we’ve come.

Troggie,
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@DJDarren they were excellent nipples.

Troggie, to animals
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Often I’ll convince myself that this cat only sits on my lap because he’s cold and I’m warm.

Then I’ll finish a lesson and turn around to see him curled up on a chair he would never normally sleep on, just because it’s close to me. 🥺

DJDarren, to random
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Having a Light Mode kinda day, like some kind of animal/Boomer.

Troggie,
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@DJDarren

Disgusted Steve Carell GIF

Troggie, to random
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D’s paycheck covers most of our outgoings. He gets paid on the last Friday of the month, which usually just about also covers 4 weekly shops.

A few times a year we have “5 week months” where due to the maddeningly uneven calendar, there are 5 whole weeks between paydays. Things get a bit tight but it doesn’t happen too often.

Because the last Friday this month happens to be Good Friday, his employer is paying a week early, making April and May both 5 week months.

Bollocks.

Troggie,
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Does anyone need any odd jobs doing?

  • I love boring data entry.
  • I’m an ok copy writer.
  • I know my way around a piano and some other instruments.
  • I own a decent microphone and don’t mind talking at it.

I only have evidence of some of these but I’m also reasonably priced.

Boosts appreciated. Also if anyone knows any appropriate tags. Thanks!

Troggie, to random
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“Give them my love”

My mum says this a fair bit.

I think it’s an older generation thing to say when you’re not close enough with the intended target of the love but you’re talking to someone who is.
But I’ve never been sure what the goal is.

“This person who you are aware of but don’t know well / doesn’t feel comfortable contacting you right now (ie you’re in hospital)
wants you to know they’re thinking of you” is the closest I can fathom.

Troggie,
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@purplepadma so is it just a thing you say? Or do you expect the person you’re saying it to to actually pass on the message? And how do you expect the end recipient to react?

Troggie,
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@purplepadma ohh ok, so it’s like a conversation starter that you’re giving someone else? Or that you’d like them to be thinking of you in return?

Troggie, to random
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Hursley church, Hampshire

Troggie, to animals
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Molly says I can have my chair back when I finish tidying because sunbeam.

Troggie, to books
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Another book finished and very much enjoyed - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.
Brilliant. Thank you to everyone who recommended it!

Next up (not actually following a theme, honest) - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin.

Troggie, to photography
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I really like this photo I took of the full moon last night.
Taken through a rainy windscreen while stopped at traffic lights on the way home (I was a passenger).

Troggie, to random
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Do you have a work nemesis?

Please tell me why they’re awful and have a vent in the comments.

DJDarren, to random
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Can anyone suggest a plausible reason why the web version of Numbers doesn’t have a Sort option, while the desktop version does?

Screenshot of the macOS version of Numbers. There are three tabs available, ‘Categories’, ‘Sort’, and ‘Filter’. ‘Sort’ is selected.

Troggie,
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@DJDarren is it…
“Just buy a Mac and stop using the web app, povvo”?

Troggie, to Taskmaster
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I got to do my best impression this morning during an exam.

Learner: Yes but [explains why they think the question is stupid and don’t understand how to answer]

“All the information is on the task”

Troggie, to random
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Troggie, to random
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I would like to tell you a story in screenshots.

This morning while sipping my coffee in bed on a lazy Sunday, I saw a person on TikTok talking enthusiastically about a show that has good autistic / neurodiverse representation.

I google it. It has good reviews.
Ok, where could I watch it? 🧵

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