Trouble is, all you’re doing by dumping a full trolley is inconveniencing someone who’s paid minimum wage.

Arthur has a bottle of horse reviver that would beg to differ.

You ever think about how fucked up it is that the question most kids get asked most is “What do you want to be when you grow up”?

We all end up internalising our value to society by how we’ll strive to sell our time once we’re old enough to take part.

And yeah, it’s kinda fucked up.

Me with a stack of DDR3 laptop ram I’ve somehow acquired over the past couple of years: nervouslol

“Chop chop!” said the guillotine, hungry for its next billionaire.

There are a lot of hanging entries on the botched executions list, though in fairness, that’s because the list goes back several hundred years.

From what I can tell, you’ve got a 2/3 chance of a quick death by hanging. Rope too long, you’re getting decapitated. Rope long enough: quick neck break, goodnight sweetheart.

Rope too short you’re spending 20 minutes being strangled to death while people tug on your legs to try and break your neck.

Knowing my luck, I’d get the latter.

Yeah, I need to get a meter so I can see what the power draw is on mine.

Hey, many of us in England enjoy its use too, not just our Cunty Cousins to the north.

Keep an eye out for any thin clients that can’t support Win11 that businesses are getting rid of. You might have some luck with them.

I’ve hit a goldmine with my work upgrading all of the PCs.

I now have two Dell Optiplex 7050 and a 3020 micro pcs, all with 8gb of replaceable RAM. Two of them came with 130gb M.2 SSDs, one with a 130gb SATA SSD. All told they cost me nothing, because the company can’t use them (they don’t support Win11), and there’s another 50 machines that can be sold if the boss can be arsed.

None of them will set the world alight, but they’re perfect for little things I want to do at home.

I spent yesterday setting up one of the 7050s with an M.2 NIC, then slapped Proxmox and OpenWRT on it and am now free of the shitty Linksys my ISP gave me.

Next up, I need to whip the two drives out of my 2014 Mac mini Debian server so I can replace it with something that can accept more RAM than the soldered 8gb I’m currently stuck with.

It’s fun!

After reading the news about Christa Pike, I found an article on Wikipedia listing a bunch of botched executions.

Since 2000, 5% of lethal injections have gone wrong in one way or another. That’s 17 botched injections in 26 years. That’s an unreasonably high failure rate for something that they have no intention of stopping.

As a radio nerd from the UK, my love of the BBC is rock solid. The radio, TV, and technology wings of the corporation are right up the with the NHS as something we should be rightly proud of.

But I get a few moments of genuine anxiety when I’m listening to 6Music while cooking dinner, and they go to the news. What will this bulletin’s headline be? Reform’s plans for if they ever get to form a government, or how many poor people landed on our shores in a small boat today? I get genuinely angry, to the point that I’m more like to roll the broadcast back by a few minutes so I can skip the news entirely. God bless BBC Sounds.

What can you personally do about what’s going on in Gaza? Can you personally assist the people who died in the flooding in Nepal?

If the answer to those questions is ‘no’, then what value is there in actively sticking your face into the biting nest of news all day long?

We didn’t evolve to be able to tolerate that. At best, we’re able to comprehend the struggles of maybe 100 people around us. Not the entire planet’s worth of hardship.

I’ve decided to shake up my news gathering, and will now only take on board what my 75yo mother in law has read on Facebook.

What could go wrong?

I have to use Windows at work now, which is ass.

Anyway, I had a question about how to achieve something in Powershell the other day, so I asked it on Mastodon. Got basically nothing in response.

Every time I ask how to do something in Linux I get swamped with responses.

Make of that what you will.

• aizakku

None now.

I will only ever make artisanal, handcrafted shitposts. And you can hold me to that, or my name isn’t Troy McLure.

I discovered fairly recently that Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) was originally recorded as the soundtrack to a movie called Against All Odds.

Until then, I had no idea that movie existed.

And it wasn’t even really in City of Angels. There was a part of an acoustic version over one brief scene, and that was it.

I know this, because I rewatched it a few months ago and was genuinely surprised at how tangential the song was the movie, but how inextricably linked the two are.