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geordie

@geordie@aus.social

Basketball statistician, scuba diver, amateur chef, motorcyclist, language nerd, computer toucher, happy snapper, pretengineer. I am like if James Bond was unattractive, uncharismatic and not misogynistic.

Catholic (religious), cataholic (really into my cat)

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When recipes call for a 4cm piece of ginger I feel like there was an agreement on uniformity in the two other dimensions that I missed.

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Advocating for the closure of internal email and force everyone to use Teams. Email is where your team's knowledge goes to die.

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@liamvhogan @ausfestivus using Teams. Email is dead.

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@jpm @liamvhogan @ausfestivus all MS PaaS services are just SharePoint, except for Azure Storage. Which is also just SharePoint.

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LBT: Apple very deliberately went with “your next computer isn’t a computer” as a strategy and now they sell a computer and a “not a computer” and everyone is scratching their heads.

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"What's this?"

"A laptop computer."

"Cool! What's this?"

"The exact same computer but we removed its keyboard and its understanding of what a file is."

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@elzbethmrgn Millennials also feel embarrassed when they are on their laptop on Mastodon and they take their phone out of their pocket absent-mindedly to check what the little Mastodon is doing.

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So we used to have a nanny. When the kid first went to school we had a new parent's information evening where they told us all sorts of boring stuff, some interesting stuff, and concluded with "and after school care is extremely limited so good luck with that goodbye" except said as one word over the space of about a second, the principal then decamped. When we rushed to book afterschool care they could accommodate him Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but not Tuesday or Thursday, so we paid a woman we'll call Jo (because that's her name) to pick him up from school two days a week, and look after him at our place until 6pm. As the years went on, he'd come to get public transport to her house, she'd look after him there while he did homework etc. and bring him home at 6pm. We no longer needed her as of this year, kid is old enough to look after himself.

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Last night I get a phone call from Jo, I answer with a quizzical "hello?" and she asks hurriedly if I'm at home. I say yes. She asks if I can help her and I of course tell her to name it, anything. She says to go downstairs and she'll call me back, so I do.

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There's a woman downstairs, she's roughly three hundred years old, in a brightly patterned and coloured jump suit. I have bought bottles of milk that weigh more than she looks like she weighs, and height-wise she comes up to roughly my stomach. Jo, who when not looking after kids works for a service that provides in-home care for folks who aren't quite bad enough to be in an old folks' home, got a call at work that one of their clients is locked out. Jo realised she lives in my building and there's a lock box hidden on the ground floor with a code that contains a spare building swipe and front door key.

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Jo gives me instructions on how to access the lock box, I retrieve the key and tell the woman "let's get you up to your home" She chatters the whole time, and she's the MOST INTERESTING PERSON EVER. She used to be a ballerina, but a severely curved spine put her out of that. She tells me she weighs 30 kilos (my twelve year old son is 32 kilos I think), and she explains how she smuggled her cat here from France. The cat is called Chatte, which is French for pussy, and she locked herself out looking for an Amazon parcel that had been delivered somewhere she couldn't find.

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I get her settled, make sure she knows where her actual key is and she asks, feebly, "would you mind awfully if I had your number?" Absolutely no problem at all, I wrote it down for her. Absolute dame.

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Addendum: it turns out this is the woman whose door was bashed down by the fire brigade last week. She rolled on an emergency button in her sleep and didn’t answer when the folks monitoring the button called. She woke up to the fire brigade at the end of her bed and her front door in several pieces. Well she’s got another set of eyes looking out for her now. I wonder if we should set up a phone tree or something.

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You know those 90s movies where a hacker in a hoodie told a computer "bypass security" and it worked?

https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112441889190313713

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By the way if you didn't know, "20/20" vision means that for each of your eyes you can see what you should be able to see 20 feet away, from 20 feet away. If you need to be 10 feet away to see something to see it the way someone with correct vision does at 20 feet, with both eyes, you have 10/10 vision.

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Not particularly technical friend had several drinks, changed their laptop password and set the password hint to "lol" so I'm dealing with that now.

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Ubuntu live CD, copying the contents of /dev/sda2/users/[friends_name] to an external drive

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@MattHatton look, a good friend helps out when you get trashed. Sometimes that means they're sitting next to you in custody going "that was fucking awesome", sometimes it's booting an Ubuntu live CD and copying your shit off to an external hard drive.

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So today I learned that there have been so many episodes of Law and Order, that with a comparatively capped pool of actors in New York, several actors have been in the show multiple times as different people.

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"Camryn Manheim appeared in three episodes of the original L&O in the first, third, and fourth seasons as three different characters before joining the main cast as Lieutenant Kate Dixon in the series' 21st season after being rebooted in 2022"

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Ok computer-touches of the fediverse, I’ve had enough of the Windows fucks and will be installing Debian <soon>. Maybe 20 years has been enough for a viable Linux on the desktop, who knows…

So what window manager are the cool kids using these days? Is Enlightenment still a thing? I want to not have fuck with things

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@decryption @jpm if you don't want to fuck with things can I suggest you stay on the other side of the planet to Enlightenment. It is whatever the opposite of "I don't want to fuck with things" is.

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@jpm @decryption oh it's certainly changed. It's got WAY more fiddly.

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@jpm @decryption and at every level of the tech stack including the meat one. Enjoy: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened

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@jpm @decryption wait 'till you learn that Samsung basically turned E into Tizen. That's a fun titbit. Enlightenment for your car's centre console!

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Wife got invited to a charity dinner where her ticket was covered but she had to make a personal donation to the salvos. She said she wasn’t going to do that because they discriminate about who they’ll support. The offer was rescinded. She’s made a donation to Twenty10.

Folks she’s the one.

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Richard Dawinks: answering questions nobody asked since 1941.

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