Brian Handscomb

I am old enough to think that a "firmware update" for a monitor should not be a thing... Also old enough to think that plugging a laptop into a monitor should never cause the laptop to flat out crash and die... The continued joys of USB-C...

OSA neither makes it harder or easier to distribute revenge porn because it can be shared on pretty much EVERY SINGLE WEB SITE that allows any form of social interaction... and even sites that are not even social sites, just file transfer sites... OSA "doesn't work"...

So they've moved on from the Jimmy Saville references to defend it then...

By many accounts the act is actually exposing children to more and worse content. It is training EVERYONE that the first thing to do to access Internet content is connect to VPN... Somehow I've ended up in China without travelling anywhere.

I think the government are doing that without any help from Nigel.

KWS is horribly broken. You need a different system.

When age verification is this reliable country hopping with VPN becomes attractive... Now... I "get" why posts with a more adult theme may be behind verification but the chat/DM feature? No gold stars for KWS (Epic) or Bluesky.

KWS point blank refuses to work at all for me - Bluesky sends an email, I click the link, KWS says "either the page you're looking for does not exist or we're having some technical difficulties getting the information you need". Totally broken.

I don't know if I wish I had one, or glad that I don't. I do miss fanfold printouts for some things (e.g. code listings), but I think these days the dot matrix noise would drive me crazy.

and a load of other can't get the thing to work at all or have and countless other problems...

Not me.

For me I clicked on the link sent via email and it just showed an error.

What if someone doesn't have a passport? I don't...

Yeah link in email just errors for me too so not even seen options available on this system.

So basically because KWS is "broken" that means for me and apparently a bunch of other people @bsky.app is now broken too. To date my sole use of NordVPN is to get a more reliable World of Warcraft (I VPN from UK to UK). I'm going to have to start using it to country hop at this rate...

So @bsky.app now needs verification for certain features? Clicked link to verify, received email, clicked link and...

Pretty sure credit score isn't as much about you it's about them... Person A. No debt, secure income, low credit score... Person B. Fair amount of debt, but secure income and has hope of clearing their bill in a year: "Congratulations we are extending your credit card limit"... "Huh? I didn't ask!"

When I got my first mobile phone (many years ago now) I had to go through hoops because I had absolutely zero debt - no credit card, no loans, no mortage. Bizarre fact of finance, if you can be proven you owe money people are more willing to lend you more money than if you don't. Crazy world.

Maybe should've tagged @frame.work in that last post. Nevermind. TL;DR: Replaced screen I somehow damaged a while ago, new SSD, Artix Cinnamon OpenRC ISO on USB stick, Install, Reboot, Join Wi-Fi. Easy peasy. Fave laptop again.

While ago I somehow managed to damage screen of Framework laptop but wasn't 100% that was the problem. Just popped in new screen and new SSD and voila! Working! Grabbed Artix Cinnamon OpenRC ISO, installed and after reboot joined WiFi no fuss. It's my fave laptop again!

Looking good to me!

And yet it always seems to be the USB-C ports that wear out, the parts on the expensive half of the equation. Lighting? That'll keep going for 7/8 years easy. USB-C? 1 year it'll be sensitive to being knocked, 2 years you almost have to hold it in yourself. Personal experience...

Last few weekends have been mostly filled with a mix of programming MainStage patches that I think I'll use in June and Amiga 68000 coding. I can see this continuing for the next three weekends. Then I'll be going over to Wales to play a gig the weekend after. But now there's a Friday to deal with.

The techie in me can hardly wait for the next release of macOS for one simple reason. I want a fighting chance to be able to spell the name of it easily. Please Apple no more than two vowels together please! 😀

Took just one day back "at work" and suddenly afterwards I feel the need to get the MainStage laptop out after a month being untouched in the flight case just to feel like I'm a musician rather than a tech person. Applied update to Sonoma and bunch of virtual instruments and damn I'm techie again!

Maybe they heard there was gingery nonsense going on here.

Or maybe singing to someone still asleep?

Is FIRE an acronym for whatever the latin for "may cause cancer in rats" is?

Production efficiency manager: Who made the cup twice as big as it needs to be.

Office worker: Who drank half my coffee?

At the weekend caught up to end of Citadel DLC - looking forward to your finale. I've played through the first two games probably five times? Not counted. ME3 played only twice. Once when it was new and Origin only, once on Legendary Edition (Steam) - my only play through on LE so far.