rmuk @ rmuk @feddit.uk

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It's a coup. They are currently rewriting willfully ignoring the rules of how things are done.

FTFY

Right, because if that's what they wanted to do this is how they'd go about doing it rather than, let's say, using any one of the dozen or so Google-controlled device administrator apps already on your phone.

I would sincerely financially support ZimoNitrome if they started makeing It Is Wednesday My Dude videos again.

When I get my own place there will be a urinal in the bathroom. Why wouldn't there be one? So efficient.

They are, but I feel like there are people who like to cause unnecessary confusion by making things out to be more complex than they are (not just limites to roundabouts, either).

"Dozens"? Like, what, thirty or so? At that point, just use the actual fucking number.

"I also pick this guy's dead wife."

Spectacular.

A bit of info for anyone who doesn't know how to use a roundabout: it's just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That's it.

Yes, it's a shame they didn't make a fifth one 😐.

Honestly in rare situations that a device like that needs to be accessible from the wild Internet I think it'd be mad to expose it directly, especially if it's not manageable as you suggest. At the very least, I'd be leaning on a reverse proxy.

Be sure to regularly defrag your C: drive or things might slow down.

"If there is an infinite number of buckets, there must be a bucket where the other buckets don't exist."

Put them next to chickens and take a photo that makes it look like you have enormous chickens.

No, but that's not to say I wouldn't be delighted to see Xitter and Meta burn. Ultimately, though, we need laws that require transparency and impartiality on the part of the owners, similar to the rules we have for television news outlets, and those rules need enforcing in no uncertain terms. It doesn't matter, then, if the service is native or foreign.

About twenty iPods.

Walkers, a snack company, was running a contest where you could enter a draw every ten minutes, 24 hours a day, to win an iPod. They also had a website where you could get an entry code without buying anything. I was one of the few people to have unlimited texts and a phone controllable by Bluetooth at the time, so I ran a script to just spam the free entry codes. Somehow they never cottoned on.

Yeah, I can only tut and shake my head when non-Brits complain about stepping on Lego.

The specific-plugs-for-lamps think is very rare these days. The reason for it is that it's not uncommon for our plugs to be on a high amperage circuit - sometimes 30A, occasionally higher - that can't be safely controlled with a light switch or similar, so the lamp-only circuit will be capped at, say, 3A with unusual plugs to avoid someone trying to connect a tumble dryer.

I just arrived in Norway and was about to search for a simple currency converter. Handy!

I've just arrived in Norway (literally waiting as passport control) at the start of a three-week hiking-heavy Interrailing trip around Scandinavia and Central Europe. You better believe that I've got all of Europe downloaded in Organic Maps. Also, Organic Maps is a client for OpenStreetMaps which, for detailed foot-level maps, beats Google/Apple hands down and is, of course, open source.

Borpborpborplorpborpnorpborpsorpborpsorpborp? Is it really you?