David Preston

Desktop is an HP Z400 with 6c/12t Xeon and 12gb RAM (weird triple channel workstation memory) from about 2010, although it now rocks an additional 2tb SSD and an AMD RX 6650 XT GPU. Bought a new laptop this year, all AMD, which, I think, came with Win 11 but not for long. Both on ZorinOS.

Gross over-simplification, but he could have called this "I Switched to Linux Intentionally on the Trickiest Hardware I could Think Of". I've been using Linux full time for years, but I take the opposite approach, sticking largely to AMD or with old hardware where support has been sorted long since.

Something to think about is maybe post-bite treatment, if you do get bitten, when an anti-histamine might be useful. (I am not a doctor, yadda yadda.)

sometimes midges get through insect screens if the holes are too big.

I'm speechless, quite honestly. The critters must have clogs on where you're going, to justify the sort of preparations you're talking about. One thing I will say is that you want to be sure that the mesh size of them suits is small enough to keep them out. Mozzies will probably be ok but

DEET - Wikipedia

It was a very long time ago - maybe 70s or 80s, on 'Nationwide' or perhaps 'That's Life'. I don't remember the exact details, but there's a bit of reading at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET

As far as I recall it's toxic to more than just bugs, dangerously so. There was a thing on telly donkey's years ago.

Sounds more like Gloria Jones' version of Tainted Love, but that's not a bad thing.

And then some!

172 suddenly looking like a competitive total

#ashes

OMG Aus 30-3

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868 m (2,848 ft) so by no means huge, but some of the best things come in small packages. 😀

No, not impossible. Just very unlikely.

And of course the album and song "Brothers in Arms".

When Mark Knopfler talks about 'Guitar George' in 'Sultans of Swing' not wanting to make his guitar 'cry or sing', I always felt there was a tacit implication that Mark could and does do both readily.

If it was, it would be way outside its usual range, here in the UK.

Wikipedia tells me that the name "Glenderamackin" is of Brythonic derivation and is cognate with the Welsh glyndwfr y mochyn. I know next to nothing about this kind of thing but I do find it fascinating.

You sent me down a proper rabbit hole there. I was pondering as I drove today - the village of Threlkeld, below Blencathra, sounds and indeed, is, Norse in origin. However, the nearby River Glenderamackin is perhaps of some interest.

YouTube video by Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Last Post by Dire Straits guitarist, Mark Knopfler | Commonwealth War Graves Commission | #CWGC

I realise it's a few days after Remembrance Day, but this only just surfaced on my feed, and it's never too late to remember.

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Must admit I didn't know that. TY 👍

Close up portrait of a male blackbird

Indeed they do.

Now you come to mention it, I don't think I ever have. Don't climb much of anything these days TBH.

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Username checks out. 👍

Canada goose on choppy lake water

Herring gull in the margin of a cold lake.

Canada goose and a herring gull, from my little trip up to Windermere today.

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Blencathra (also known as Saddleback),English Lake District with a light covering of early snow.

Blencathra (also known as Saddleback),English Lake District.

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Looking north on Lake Windermere from Bowness-on-Windermere.

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The male is unquestionably black.

Not in the UK, I don't think.

I think they fluff their feathers up when it's cold, for better insulation. Sometimes they look more streamlined.

Yes, it was very high up. Guessing, maybe 20-25 metres or more. The photo was taken with a very long lens. An old boy passing said that there were three up there the day before.