Badly-optimised primate

@matt burying the terminal is making it harder to get to something that's a lot of people's favourite app.

ifixit page for the battery replacement of a 2015 Macbook Pro, focused on step 74 - the step where you get to the battery removal stage.

I used to repair laptops for a living.
I remember my first. I had to remove the LCD in order to replace the drive. These are components in entirely different halves of the laptop. That was my first clue.

I was looking at replacing the battery for my 2015 MBP, and […]

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Gen x nerds do love the specific hardware they grew up with.

For me it was zx81, trs80 coco2, speccy.

I am aware of things like the c64 but completely uninterested.

I'm aware of the ST and amiga and couldn't afford either but know too much about their respective sound chips to say I'm […]

I'm thinking of absent friends tonight.

How we used to save wine bottles and put candles in them and they always made a mess but it never discouraged us.

Wholewheat Spaghetti bolognaise in a slow cooker with vin der plonk. A classic.

#tonightscookingtunes are from Jóhann Jóhannsson's euphoric "IBM 1401 A User's Manual"

Now we come to the power supply.

Remember, "free with ads" is an oxymoron.

Did anyone else know EMF still existed? Let alone covered Bauhaus? I mean, what??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0NyGTMXSYA

Subtoot.

Silly Puppy would be a great name for a tribute band unconcerned with verisimillitude or gravitas.

Kill II This - The Flood. Saw these guys twice back in the day. They also did a great cover of Two Tribes.

Chicken stew.

#tonightscookingtunes

Slinging my Framework laptop into the passenger seat of my Tesla and driving away, yelling out the window that we should all just "Keep politics out of this"

When we were kids we were taught not to walk onto the road between parked cars because drivers might not see us in time to stop. We were children, we were small.

I shouldn't feel the same way now just because vehicles have become so Americanised that everyone's driving a fucking tank.

I had to […]

If you used git (or some other vcs) for save states in games it'd be kinda cool.

Much easier to figure out how far back you need to go or whether two saves were on the same course.

Do you have a place on the wall in every room where you look when you want to know the time even though there's never been a clock there in all the years you've lived in the house?

" Hi Ben, your package is now with Other" is not the tracking information I hoped to be emailed by such a large, fell-funded business.

Inherited a codebase.

git log shows "update" for ~350 out of 420 commits.

wish me luck.

I saw a post go by on my feed by @longplay and was intrigued. I don't have anything particular to say about the software (I'm not the target audience) but I find it really strange that this is a problem that needs to be solved.

I mean, I believe them.

I just don't know how we got here.

Do […]

End all your passwords with "==" so when there's a data breach they don't work because the AI tries to decode them from base64.

#lifehack

#tonightscookingtunes from Apoptygma Berzerk. The cover of Fade To Black drowning out the noise of the washing machine in my kitchen.

Duuuuumpliiiings.

If all civilisations in the universe felt a moral imperative to map everything they could see, and then continuously broadcast that map data, the in time we'd all have... a really big map of things we could never have see.

#showerthoughts

A slow cooker with the lid off showing a delicious red green and brown splodge of foodstuffs, nary a one of which is identifyable

#tonightscookingtunes Derek Nicoletto's "Take Medicine" stuck in my head.

I know this looks like a splat but it's delicious.

What book tracker do you use if any? Any recommendations?

I want to be able to own my data, but would also like recommendations and maybe a community. I just want to track books I've started & finished.

Goodreads is Amazon so I'd rather avoid that, I think.

BookWyrm is cool but I don't see an […]

One of my cats eats cables, but his new favourite thing is the plastic antennae on my USB wifi dongle. I hear crunching every now and then and my internet connection drops and it's because he's crawled behind my PC and snacked down.

Holy hell tigertailz played at Bannerman's last year and I missed them.

I am gutted

Yello - oh yeah.

Ohhh yeeeaaaah.

Beautiful.
#tonightscookingtunes

At this point I'd not be surprised if they retconned T'Pain in as an auto-tuned Vulcan.

In every apple product, 80% of the hardware is better or at least as good as the competition.

10% is undefined as it has no equivalent.

10% is the equivalent of a 1980s Matsui boombox.

Got some random notification on my mac that it was too old and unsupported.

Guess I need to install a proper OS.

#tonightscookingtunes
Quiet Cancer by Cephas. Love this song.

It's collected on bandcamp in the Farnborough Groove albums which were a part of my youth.

https://farnboroughgroovemusic.bandcamp.com/track/cephas-quiet-cancer

Ah, caturday.

That one time of the week where a small portion of the posts I read aren't directly influenced by Geriatric Joffrey.

*breathe*

A pop-up reading, "Verify your birthday to continue. This page may contain mature content." The background of the page itself is obscured with a blur filter.

When you want to block someone who posts objectionable content on Reddit, you need to go to their profile, because of their weird UX choices.

Now, I can see a person's content in my feed, but when I go to block them, I get the OSA censorship wall.

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