@sarahdal if you have a bunch of scripts, currently or potentially, the sbc option is less messy if you have a home router with an empty lan port and available usb socket for power. pi zero and usb/ethernet adaptor is pretty small, orangepi is another option which may have built-in ethernet
Expect to see many banking crisis jokes on here in the near future. Common examples include:
-Has the US tried turning the banking system off and on again?
-Maybe banks shouldn't have spent so much money on avocado toast.
-Why don't banks just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?
They will all be funny and you should boost all of them.
@Wildheart_Baby got three on my Flight'n'Tweetin' Protocol server right now
@theregister doesn't Germany have some pantograph lanes for semi-leccy lorries already?
@rozanski @codinghorror You may also like the barn.megaparsec measuring spoon. A barn is an area roughly covering a Uranium nucleus. A megaparsec is three and a bit million light years. Multiply them and you get a volume, about a third of a teaspoon. My spoon is within ~1%
@glynmoody hmm, BBC censors its non-polictical output because it might upset right-wing viewers.
who are the triggered leftwing liberal snowflakes meant to be again?
those ones causing "cancel-culture" according to those right-wing viewers?
it's Attenburgh, ffs. a nature program.
can those right-wing folks who complain about cancel-culture now actually say something please?
UK Politics, Wild Isles, RSPB, BBC
@Wildheart_Baby Everything driving me mad atm. I can't bear to read any more news today. I've been driven to drink.
Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar
Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong
Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more
Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That
Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you
(Oops:
- I did it again)
I occasionally still pop over to The Other Place.
On the whole it just reiterates why I moved - I have to focus on the few accounts I want to catch up on because the rest is *argh* - but sometimes there is something delightful.
I don't think Ben Cameron is over here, so I just want to point people at this amazing axolotl plushie.
It is SOOOO cute.
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.