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Written by andyc on 2025-02-01 at 14:21

@luke Jesus wept. What is the Brighton keeper doing?

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Written by andyc on 2025-02-01 at 14:20

Going to be a long journey back for @luke and his lad. Still they saw plenty of goals I suppose.

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Written by andyc on 2025-01-23 at 15:48

My work environment is just perfect.

Arch Linux/Gnome works fine.

I have all my favourite applications working fine.

I am fully compliant with all work security/MFA/software requirements.

After much effort, I can seamlessly get remote access to all my customers.

Why do I feel a burning urge to reinstall Arch (to clear out any ancient clutter), experiment with Linux Mint as my daily driver or revert to Fedora ?

The spectre of @jbaty looms large :-)

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Written by andyc on 2025-01-15 at 15:06

My resolution to simplify my life isn't going that well.

• I am now using two Web browsers (Firefox, Chrome) caused by the new, exciting Oracle 'password-less' policy

• I am now using two editors (Emacs, VSCode),. The latter for the SQL integration.

• I am now using two mobile phones (Samsung S10, S24) to accommodate a customer who can't reset Microsoft MFA.

• I am now using two computers (ThinkCenter M900/Arch and MacBook Pro) because one customer prohibits Teams access from a Linux device.

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Written by andyc on 2025-01-14 at 12:37

Labour are trying hard to outdo the Tories.

Anti corruption minister under investigation for, err, corruption.

Minister named in Bangladesh corruption probe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3zqen209go

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Written by andyc on 2025-01-10 at 15:50

All these earnest, technical, neck beards urging everyone to move from WhatsApp to Signal are forgetting one important fact.

Their friends and family who use WhatsApp don't understand and hence don't give a fuck.

If they did, Twitter and Facebook would have died long ago.

Rinse and repeat.

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Written by andyc on 2025-01-08 at 13:07

I don't quite get the hype. It's yet another Teriminal app. You enter commands and look at the output. You can configure tabs and profiles.

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/ghostty_1/

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Written by andyc on 2025-01-03 at 13:31

My Project Manager is suddenly off until 15 January. Weird he never forewarned me of this as next week, I'll be chairing all the status meetings.

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-19 at 14:19

On holiday. Should be getting my wife's Xmas present but I'm profiling VMware workstation versus VirtualBox.

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-18 at 14:42

@jwildeboer pods looks cool and appears to be a native Gnome application. Unlike podman-desktop, it doesn't use the bloatware known as Electron.

One of my favourite things about FOSS is choice. You don't like A. Fair enough. Feel free to choose to try B or C. Or even choose to write D.

[#]podman

https://github.com/marhkb/pods

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-18 at 14:30

Inspired by @jwildeboer I am re-visiting #podman I'm a casual user (idiot) so really need a management GUI

I didn't really warm to podman-desktop but pleased to see I can use Portainer (although it needs some root privs). Will look at 'pods' too.

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-16 at 12:53

I use emacs and org but sometimes I just want to make one or more quick notes. Sometimes it's genuinely a disposable, transient thought so I viewed org-capture as overkill. Sometimes, I might want to remember what I jotted down and extend it the next day.

I tended to use the scratch buffer and then save (if necessary) to '~/tmp/xxx.txt'. This was clearly sub-optimal.

The built-in #Emacs remember package is much better. Can't believe I've only just discovered it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/remember.html

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-10 at 15:23

I'm old. I'm tired. This isn't my first rodeo. I've seen hundreds of bug reports from end users. Some made me laugh, some made me cry.

This one has just gone to the top of the all-time league table.

'Weekly rates - need more info'.

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-03 at 13:26

Starting to enjoy my own music collection again (Jellyfin) and watching my Listens accumulate in ListenBrainz.

https://listenbrainz.org

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-02 at 13:00

We have had many false dawns and emperor's new clothes but I like Amorim's interviews where he actually calls players out - even after a 4-0 victory.

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-02 at 12:58

4 points behind Citeh ! 🙂

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-02 at 10:11

Our actress friend who featured on Celebrity Masterchef didn't particularly like Greg Wallace - but only because he repeatedly called her 'Lynn' and roared with laughter (instead of by her real name).

She didn't much care for John Torode though.

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Written by andyc on 2024-12-01 at 17:48

Daughter's partner turned up unannounced on our doorstep at 09.30 Sunday morning to ask for our blessing to get married. Wasn't expecting that!

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Written by andyc on 2024-11-27 at 15:08

One for @dick_turpin

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Written by andyc on 2024-11-24 at 22:37

Thank , I am a 'working man' so the new Tory government wearing red ties are leaving me well alone while they go after pensioners, non working farmers, students, small businesses and young people struggling to find employment.

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