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cda, 1 month ago to random

Okay. I understand how ORMs work now.

cda, 2 months ago to random

Oh hi, Tux. Didn’t expect to find you here.

cda, 3 months ago to random

Just added 22 mins 4 seconds to my life, apparently.

cda, 3 months ago to random

Oh hell yes. My local coffee shop has a cat.

cda, 3 months ago to random

My sister wanted to buy me an Audible subscription for my birthday, but I managed to reroute her money to @internetarchive instead. Much better.

cda, 3 months ago to random

I'm definitely not rediscovering piracy or finding more complete catalogues of content to purchase since moving away from streaming services, no siree bob. That is definitely not a thing that's happening.

cda, 3 months ago to random

I'm exiting my 20s in a week's time. Any advice for a new old-timer?

cda, 3 months ago to random

Just went to a tango class for the first time. Can confirm I cannot dance.

cda, 3 months ago to random

I broke Nextcloud. I don't know how I did it, but I did. Luckily, I was able to fix it by simply tweaking some database settings.

And now I have backups enabled.

cda, 3 months ago to random

I don't know why I stayed on Digital Ocean for so long. Hetzner is just miles better for the price.

cda, 4 months ago to random

I dunno it really doesn't feel like banning companies like Meta from operating in the EU would be that much of a problem given sufficient tools and time to extract historic data.

cda, 4 months ago to random

Migrating services is nice and easy. Unless that service is Wordpress. Then it's hell.

cda, 4 months ago to random

Trains are cool

cda, 4 months ago to random

Me, feeling my phone buzz more than twice in a minute: oh no. The take was too hot.

cda, 4 months ago to random

More hospitals should have a cat

cda, 4 months ago to random

Well. I guess I am going to FOSDEM, after all.

cda, 4 months ago to random

I was one of the early adopters of Chrome back in the day. It was full of so much promise (as were Google, once). I suppose disappointment comes with all things.

cda, 4 months ago to random

"We need to focus on efficiency!"

Me, having just gone through 3 weeks of back and forth with IT to have them push a single button: "You don't say?"

cda, 4 months ago to random

In a cash-first society like Germany, charging for cash withdrawals is unacceptable. In the UK (which really doesn't use cash much), banks aren't allowed to charge customers of other banks for using their ATMs. Why has Germany not followed this very sensible example?

cda, 4 months ago to random

As part of my "ditch Amazon" resolution this year, I just bought an ebook off of Thalia (it was the only place apart from Amazon that had it available in Germany).

What a palaver that was. Good lord.

cda, 5 months ago to random

Starting the new year off right by finally canceling my Amazon Prime subscription. Introducing ads was a good way to remind me that the service is, and always was, absolute trash.

Before anyone comes in with the "yeah, but the 1-day delivery, though," I'll just tell you now that rarely has anything marked as 1-day delivery ever made it to me in a day. It's just nonsense.

cda, 5 months ago to random

Honestly, streaming services can go straight to hell.

cda, 5 months ago to random

I'm beginning to wonder if all German systems just run on pre-UTF8 systems. My name causes them to go haywire, and my colleagues whose names contain umlauts have to use "oe"/"ue" etc. just to sign up for things.

The fada in my name is actually kind of important. If you remove it, it becomes a Scottish name rather than an Irish one. That wasn't my parents' intent.

cda, 5 months ago to random

Hearing more and more about bringing back imperial measures in the UK. I'm a British citizen and I have no clue how imperial measures are supposed to work. I never learned that in school because it was pointless.

Metric is how the world works, I'm afraid. I used to work on software targeting builders and tradespeople and they never once asked us to support imperial measures because they all worked in metric. It saves a lot of time and money as well as reducing confusion and mistakes.

cda, 5 months ago to random

Right. 2024 is the year I finally actually read Lord of the Rings. I'm going to make it happen. I've waded through the editor's notes and "Concerning Hobbits" and am nearly at the beginning of book 1.

I'm going to lose a lot of time to this, aren't I?