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heapy

@heapy@mendeddrum.org

I'm from the North West of England. My beard has started to go grey over the last couple of years.

I like messing about with #linux, #flightsim & #rpg gaming, #skiing, #paddleboarding, writing #bass heavy #electronicmusic and pick up other interests here and there. I spend a fair bit of time on the #isleofman visiting family.

To complete the Mastodon stereotype I work as a Sysadmin/DevOps guy in a mainly #debian #proxmox environment.

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DJDarren, to random
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Now playing Kyuss on , because I know what’s up.

heapy,
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@DJDarren Late to the party but listening on catch up - great show so far and I fucking love Kyuss too. If you're doing numbers next week there's always their track 100°

pwaring, to random
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Tried to find some vegetable stock for soup at the supermarket. 1g salt per portion. Well, tinned soup is >2g so I guess that’s an improvement. Oh wait, a single stock cube is 4 portions and therefore 4g of salt?! It’s worse than the tinned version! (I checked every single option on the shelves, the lowest was 0.6g per portion).

heapy,
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@pwaring Kallø do a good low salt stock cube, but I've not seen it in stock for a while near me

Whiskeyomega, to vinyl
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Maybe not so quiet after all.
Never actually listened to rhe album on this release only the extra tracks.

The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (25th Anniversary Edition)

heapy,
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@Whiskeyomega The Chems are at their best for me when they go hard and dark. It Doesn't Matter is a masterpiece.

DJDarren, to ADHD
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I think it very important to quietly highlight some things I do despite my stupid brain not wanting me to, as a kind reminder to myself that I’m not completely useless.

As a result, the single tiniest triumph in my day is when I take off my trainers by undoing the laces.

I didn’t do that for a couple of weeks, and noticed they were beginning to wear away at the heel. They cost me quite a lot, so I want them to last. So every day I put in a few seconds effort, and praise myself.

heapy,
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@DJDarren Good on yer. I struggle with this too, have already damaged my new-ish trainers by just forcing them off instead of undoing the laces.

In my mind, the porch is a place to hustle through as quickly as possible and holds no interest. I should try and be more mindful instead.

DJDarren, to random
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Grumpy this evening and not entirely sure why.

Don’t like it.

heapy,
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@DJDarren H U M I D I T Y

heapy,
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@DJDarren My car thermometer got 21°c in Lancaster earlier, overcast and sticky. Then a torrential downpour which cooled it off a little. But it's still sticky af and causing me to have a right cob on for no reason. So I'm probably projecting!

DJDarren, to random
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This week’s #PhotoChallenge word was ‘old’, so @Troggie and I visited the ruined palace at Bishops Waltham. It dates from the 1300s and is now a splendid ruin that you can visit for free.

Several floors inside a corner of the ruined palace. Three levels of windows and a basement can be seen, green moss staining the stonework.
Photo of a short, 90° stone stairway.
Ruins of the palace just visible through the branches of a large fir tree. In the foreground is another section of ruined stone wall, surrounded by a gentle grassy slope, studded with tiny flowers.

heapy,
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@DJDarren I'm getting similar vibes, but with Mulligan & O'Hare popping their heads up

DJDarren, to random
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Morning winners! How are we on this glorious day?

heapy,
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@DJDarren Current mood:

https://youtu.be/Tl7IUWywuEE?feature=shared

heapy, to random
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I've started reading Terry Pratchett's Truckers to my kids at bedtime. I've never read any of his Nome books before, but of course they're as much of a delight as the Discworld series.

Really looking forward to tonight's installment!

fanf, to random
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2021 retro-link! https://rclone.org/ - Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.

heapy,
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@fanf Encrypted rclone to Backblaze is rock solid, 10/10 would recommend

DJDarren, to random
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Someone at work said “c’est la vie” this morning, and as a result I’ve had the B*Witched song stuck in my head ever since.

Kill me.

heapy,
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@DJDarren "I fight like me da as well"

heapy, to bass
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Throwback to building big speakers in 2011-12 and hiring them out to bass nights... Sometimes I miss the way the serious bottom end would vibrate my entire body, but on the plus side I get a lot more sleep these days.

A man leans on a partially built speaker cabinet and smiles. The cabinet has a large subwoofer fitted into it
A large orange and black speaker stack in a dark room

DJDarren, to random
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Morning champions.

I’m grumpy today, because I don’t see any compelling reason not to be.

The weather is shit, I’m tired, and one of the cats has just yoinked my lunch off the side and has eaten half of it. The prick.

heapy,
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@DJDarren "If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are."

~ Terry Pratchett

Whiskeyomega, to photography
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A Summers Evening

heapy,
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@Whiskeyomega Gorgeous - I've never gone up beyond the Pike, were you visiting the TV mast?

DJDarren, to random
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Just realised, I only have a week to figure out whether I can turn the concept of Eid Sheeran into a joke that’ll do .

heapy,
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@DJDarren Something something in love with the Sheikh of you?

DJDarren, to random
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Absolutely terrible scenes earlier, as it transpired that they ordered an adequate amount of Easter chocolate this year, meaning there’ll be fuck all in the reduced bin on Monday.

heapy,
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@DJDarren I foolishly left it til last minute and struggled to get anything for the kids today. No Cadburys left anywhere - ended up finding some bare-minimum-that-will-have-to-do eggs at a Morrisons Daily (fifth shop visited!).

Monday will indeed be Slim Pickens (pictured).

DJDarren, to random
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Very much looking forward to an evening with Mark & Lard tonight.

Living in the modern world means being able to see a live show from Manchester from the comfort of my sofa in Southampton.

heapy,
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@DJDarren Love them so much. They saved my sanity with their Radio 1 show when I had an unbearably tedious job where I spent all day entering stacks of invoices into a computer.

Didn't see this coming though, and sadly won't have time to watch tonight now - but guaranteed it will be great! Enjoy!

DJDarren, to random
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Steam's library sharing is bollocks, init.

With Apple's family sharing, if I buy an app, people in my family can also download that app. Simple.

With Steam, I have a couple of games from @Troggie's library that I'd like to play that they currently are not. But because they're currently using their Steam library to play Horizon 2, I can't play an entirely different game.

Why do people pirate shit? It's a mystery.

heapy,
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@DJDarren Looks like Steam are going to stop locking shared libraries as long as you're not trying to play the same game.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/steam-families-announced-with-parental-controls-no-more-library-locking/

heapy,
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@DJDarren They were waiting until you got to the end of your tether!

heapy, to techno
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Is hard coming back? Have been hearing it a lot recently, coming out of other people's phones (insta reels, tiktok etc)

DJDarren, to random
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Making a curry for dinner tonight, to a recipe in a book that I’ve been meaning to try for a while.

Trouble is, I didn’t do the thing where you actually look at how long things are supposed to take.

1.5 hours for step one, then add other ingredients and simmer for an hour. Then blend up and simmer for another hour.

I started it at 7pm. Fuck that.

So we’ll see how it goes…

heapy,
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@DJDarren Is it the kind of base gravy that's basically a spiced onion/veg smoothie?

heapy,
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@DJDarren Lovely stuff, enjoy!

I've got it down to half an hour now for making small amounts - 2 chopped onions, half a grated carrot and half a pepper into a frying pan and then fry on low until softened. Chuck the spices in with just enough oil to stop them burning for the last 10 mins and then blitz. Feels like cheating but works great when I'm short on time after work.

DJDarren, to music
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Listening to the radio while I’m cooking dinner, Placebo’s ‘Nancy Boy’ has come on, and fuck me I’d forgotten what an utter stomper it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxuq_eWW94

heapy,
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@DJDarren As well as being a belter of a song, always enjoyed the sound of this in rock nightclubs - stood out as crisper, deeper and clearer than the other songs, with almost dance music style production. Lovely stuff.

ChrisMayLA6, to london
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Its great for that TFL has again frozen fares for , but this is in stark contrast to the rest of & where Govt. 'intervention' has limited rises just under 5%.

What is needed is a range of bodies across the regions with similar powers to TFL & a similar outlook about the social worth of .

To adapt the old saying of socialism for the rich & capitalism for the rest of us... its a public transport for London & cars for the rest of us.

heapy,
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@lewiscowles1986 @peterbrown @ChrisMayLA6 This looks like it's per head/capita so population size already taken into account

DJDarren, to random
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Man, this article screams to me.

Vox - ‘Everyone’s a sellout now’

https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

heapy,
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@DJDarren I stopped putting music out for the same reason - I'm very introverted/socially anxious and prefer to be left alone, and having to continually care about reactions, traction and numbers was exhausting to me. So I just stopped putting it out.

Now I make music when I feel like it, and enjoy the creative process without worrying about whether it's ok to spaff the links all over everyone else's feed. Much happier!

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