A friend asked me if I was voting by post in the UK election. Nearly 7 years in to living in NZ, and it kinda feels wrong. It’s where I’m from, but it’ll never be ‘home’ again.
It's been more than 18 months since I ditched Twitter and I still can't decide if Mastodon or BlueSky is the best replacement. Each has pluses and minuses. Each has a different vibe and a (largely) different set of users. I guess I'll be using both in parallel for some time yet.
@billbennett I see it as a race between community schism/exhaustion (Mastodon) and enshittification (Blue Sky) and I can't face another around of the second, so I'm sticking here.
Our lawnmower's battery charger stopped working over the weekend. $200 for a new one, which is like 1/3 of a lawnmower. Ugh.
I ordered the weird screwdriver to open the case for $7, watched a 20 min YouTube with someone debugging a similar model. I was able to take it apart and solder back together a component that had come loose. 💅 It's been up and working for 20 minutes with no explosions or even bad smells.
Being willing to attempt to repair stuff is such a superpower. YouTube is amazing. ✌🏻
@PadraigOCinneide Let's not forget how great it is to be able to order parts!
I repaired my digital SLR with a part from Ebay (I was as surprised as anyone when it worked after I put it back together) and my dishwasher with a part from some random parts website.
In the pre-internet days I'd never have known what part I wanted, let alone been able to order them.
My local Kōtare/Kingfisher just surprised me. Flew at the window and heard it “hit” but then it went and landed on a post and had a praying mantis in its beak. And now it just flew through the top of a rose bush and came out with another bug. This is fun. Front row seat.
@sumisu3 I remember seeing a kōtare arrowing down into the long grass, flying back to its perch with a mouse in its beak, brutally beating the mouse against a branch to stun/kill it, and then swallowing it down. Efficient little predators!
Did you know if you're working in the #Windows command line you can use clip to pipe the output of your command to the clipboard? 👀
For example, you can do this in cmd if you want to copy and paste the info somewhere else (rather than manually having to select the output to copy it):
@craiggrannell Hmph, Elevator Action is at least a semi well-known classic... and I'm not just saying that because I have the marquee framed on my wall!