Cheers fellas, all I needed to know really. Appreciate that. I certainly don't ever see me using much more tha I do.

@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:

@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:

I did not know this ...

I don't get the use of the word precise here. From the diagram it appears to indicate a speed range?

Yeah, well, pretty certain English is not his first language. I just took it as 'indicative'.

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@Smudge I genuinely fucking hate that song. Hate it.

I remembered seeing this Hacker News post at the time. Nice to get a follow up:

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Much better edited summary done/contracted by Cu'o'ng himself:

@Kirwan said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

Looks like fun

Probably the most expensive slides in the world haha

Hilarious, and should be completely illegal, that Spark in NZ is trying to rip off old people for NZ$6/month to maintain their basic email account. What a scumbag company, what a non-existent commerce commission and competition regulator NZ has.

Agreed. Having everything in menus looks fucked to deal with

@nzzp said in Tech Questions:

Comparison: Kobo are fine. They access libraries more (at least in Auckland), but harder to manage your own DRM-free ebooks - Calibre doesn't transfer, you have to export books and then copy them across manually.

Nah - I've had Kobos for years... and exclusively use Calibre. 99% of my ebooks are DRM-free, pulled out of the raging rivers of the WWW.
(Well - bit of a headache the first time setting it up - need to download the correct driver, and tweak some config - but not TOO much effort, and once it's running - it's all good.)
I've never tried a Kindle - I've got a perverse obsession with never supporting the biggest brands for any particular product. Cutting off my nose, in a lot of cases, I suspect.
But Kobo has always done the trick for me... I'm on about my third or fourth. Which suggests that yes, they do break down - but it's generally been after many years of heavy use and blatant abuse.
My current one is the (discontinued) LIbra H2O - waterproof, but I think they all are nowadays?... and all the other standard features one would expect. It's slightly too big to fit in some of my pockets - Swanndri inner chest pocket, and motorcycle jeans back-pocket... I'm kinda hoping I break it, so I can buy one of the new models - they've finally started producing smaller sizes again. But... it just takes all the abuse I throw at it.

@Tim said in Good podcasts:

If you want to get into laptop general mode, the War on the Rocks podcast is pretty interesting.

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Join Ryan Evans as he speaks with soldiers, spies, officials, and scholars on a range of issues related to strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. Often recorded at bars in Washington and other world capitals, the original War on the Rocks podcast is for people who want to stay informed, with a...

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This is excellent, just the free one on Apple.

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Enjoyed the more recent ones with the head or US Marines, US Air Force and US Deputy Secretary of Defense.

@MN5 said in Documentaries:

Lover, Stalker, Killer

Almost too fucked up to be believable.

Be careful who you hook up with online is all I can say.

Well made doco.

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@booboo said in Philosophy:

To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known

This line hits hard - we pursue so many pointless things like war, money, and prejudice, when we could be putting our collective intelligence toward so much more.

@bayimports definitely looks like the TVA

@MN5 said in WWE Network:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in WWE Network:

The Vince stuff is insane. Listened to Jim Cornette and he reckoned it was the drugs and all the other shit that eventually effed with Vince's mind. Not that the guy wasnt a very odd fish to begin with. Very sad that this will be his legacy because he built something pretty damn extraordinary

Yeah but have a look at any interview with pretty much any wrestler from the 80s. They either don’t mention Vince or they go on about what an arsehole he is. None of this is really too surprising.

Not sure about that. Plenty who hate him but still have (Or had) huge respect. There's a difference between being an arsehole to wrestlers and sex trafficking.

@barbarian yeah my wife stayed at home until #2 turned 3 s then started work, more for her sanity

I used Nord fulltime and it had a few issues. Like so slow I had to turn it off. And also, automatically selecting the wrong country (Vietnam. WTF). Where it was super slow

So gave Kaspersky a go. It's in a different league to Nord. Outstanding so far after using it for about a month. On both my phone and computer.

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