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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @cstross@wandering.shop Yup. If you feel a bit rough but are otherwise still a functioning human being, you have a cold. If you spend 2 days in bed looking at the ceiling without ever getting bored, you have the flu. Or indeed covid. Which was fun. Did I say fun? I meant the other thing. (And indeed the things are so culturally mixed up that it took me a second attempt to type "a cold".)

@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org In other words, if my workplace decides I need a laptop, they can buy me one, even if I already have my own. With tools that age relatively quickly (laptop) and/or are subject to wear and tear (van), it's nice to have this be Not My Problem. Specifically for laptops, I think it's advisable to keep business and pleasure firmly separated, for all kinds of reasons.

@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org It depends who's making the decision. On the one hand, yeah like you say owning your own tools gives you more control. On the other hand it's fashionable lately for companies to push the cost of the tools of the job onto their employees, ie delivery drivers being "contractors" and having to bring their own van. Depends on the size of the toolset I suppose. A van is a substantial investment, as is a laptop. Some hand tool vastly less to, but then again a whole tool set...

@eseilt @kamstrup awk-ward

@stefano Ugh, yes. Looking ahead for even a year or so thinking about the maintainability of some web code is apparently already hard enough. But alarm systems are _infrastructure_. Those go in decades. A decade is a _loooong_ time in cloud... I'll remember this story the next time I'll be "dialing in" to our current alarm system at 9600 baud or whatever it is.

@mattdm @kibcol1049 Or the very simple, if you don't trust it ask if the dog is ok if you know they don't have a dog. (Or cat, or whatever.) The response will tell you what's what.

@jschauma@mstdn.social What strikes me as funny is that trying to contact some company and having to argue your way through an obtuse chatbot has been one of the most hateful experiences of the modern world for a while.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de That little set looks like this nearly 25 years later. ;-)

@crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange Though, to be fair, the second one is also bum wiggle mode, which while lethal is at least terribly cute.

@TheStephy_Chi@universeodon.com Yeah, fair enough. The reasoning was more the other way around where people tend to say they have The Flu whenever they’re a bit sniffly.

@mattdm @kibcol1049 Yeah, the first thing is to get people aware of the possibility that this is dodgy. This is the hard part. These sorts of tricks are what comes after that.

@acb@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @davidgerard@circumstances.run @hlangeveld@hachyderm.io Oof. Reminds me of a previous workplace, where I had the proper sysadmin position of a basement office. Not as bad as it sounds as it did have a window that opened, except the bakery around the corner had a similar exhaust pointed straight at it. *Lovely* smell of fresh bread and apple pies, but distracting as hell and hungry all the time. ;-)

@stepheneb@ruby.social @SunnJax@tech.lgbt A trick I’ve taught myself after a few of those is to ride irregularly, ie weave about a bit, side to side. The one solitary headlight coming straight at you is hard to spot, if it’s moving it gets easier. If they wonder what the hell that idiot is doing they’ve at least seen you. 😁 Of course this does nothing if they’re not looking at all but there’s no helping that.

@CppGuy@infosec.space @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @Newde@todon.eu Yeah I’m getting there too. Despite the shutters the living room has warmed to over 26 degrees and it turns out that 25 degrees is the line where we go from somewhat functional to *flump* Ofcourse the bedroom is at 28+ now which is definitely too hot. Hoping the rain tonight brings joy and is more than just a sprinkle that makes things muggier.

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Achievement unlocked. I can touch the tum too. But I better wear motorcycle gloves. ;-)

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @Newde@todon.eu Some are, etc. If so, open the window because at least moving air is nicer than stale air. But as long as it's cooler inside, keep them shut. And if you can hang something over the outside of the windows, even better! Our house came with shutters on the ground floor and those things keep things a looot cooler than the upper floors.

@kirtai @alice The kitten we adopted late last year came with the moniker “Xanti”. Right. No way I’m calling _that_ out while banging a spoon against a bowl…

@jnfingerle Funny that. My 140W Anker charger came bundled with a USB-C cable that try as I might would do no more than 10W. (It is a really good charger. When used with another cable.)

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de Enshittification is everywhere... I wouldn't blame them either. I know a pro mechanic who has the Big Red Stack of Snap-On and is happy with the service because it's one fewer thing to worry about, but yeah that's a decades old established shop that's working with the stuff all day every day. You're not going to mess around with budget stuff at that level...

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de It is undeniably good stuff, and their service is apparently great too, but hel-loooo it costs the world. Great if you're an established pro and you just want the problem to go away, but for a beginner? Oof. There does seem to be a big urge to go for Snap-On, but that's an instant multiple thousands outlay before you even get to the more obscure tools. Yikes.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de Yeah, the advanced stuff might well be ok, but just like Lidl (also generally more decent than you'd expect) the brand on the box is an issue if you want to make a good impression.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange I'm a hobby mechanic, working on old motorcycles. That only has to stand up to the occasional weekend session and my livelihood doesn't depend on it so I could get away with quite a lot of Lidl's Aisle of Wat, but even then it probably comes to a couple hundred already all in all.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange A general automotive tool set is a pretty broad box of bits. If it's of any decentish quality that'll stand daily (ab)use it's likely to be more than just a few hundred quid, if it's not more like a few thousand. And then there's Snap-On, which is, yikes. But yes that's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of, yes it's an investment that might serve you well, but it's also a hell of an outlay for a starting mechanic.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de Yeah, exactly. And there's probably some peer pressure if you're a beginning mechanic to not turn up on the first day with a Halfords set, too... My first socket set was from the bargain bin, but trying to undo a brake caliper bolt on my first motorcycle turned my socket 12 into a socket 12.5. Didn't round off the bolt luckily... So I packed it all back up again and went to buy some proper tools. Good little basic set, that and a #24 socket for the axle went a loooong way on a Honda.

@dandrumheller@mstdn.social @stepheneb@ruby.social @SunnJax@tech.lgbt Indeed. It works, and it makes sense why too.

@fartnuggets@jorts.horse @malcircuit@thingy.social @tezoatlipoca@mas.to Love the aesthetic of those, but they are work.

@TYB@mstdn.social @crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange Eyes open, check. Non murder mode is zzz mode.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Babysitting a bunch of so-called-intelligences trying to make cool shit for you... Sounds like a product manager.

@gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I thought for a second there that it was short for "Lousy with names" ;-)

@AvonVilla Oh there are certainly more problems than fit in a 500 char post. ;-) I filed him away years ago as not necessarily wrong as such but a tedious arsehole about it. And basically a bit of a red flag if people like the guy. Guess I'll have to revisit the former part. ;-)

@AvonVilla @inthehands You can never be 100% certain without proof. Luckily for the average atheist the standard isn't that high. I don't _have_ to prove a negative, in fact it's impossible. We've been banging on about this in very specific ways for millennia and so far I'm not seeing any evidence, thus comfortably consider the hypothesis not proven. ;-) The thing with him is that he was loudly and agressively certain, and a dick about it, which made him the annoying kind of religious person.

@PlukkiePanda@mastodon.nl @sellathechemist@mastodon.social Saw this link the other day. Local prices can still be massively different ofcourse but as an indication... https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

@Doomstrike@metalhead.club @sellathechemist@mastodon.social Americans. Theirs has to be the biggest. ;-)

@PlukkiePanda@mastodon.nl @sellathechemist@mastodon.social Ithink your math is off a bit, we’re closer to $10 a gallon if not over it. $6.548 is below $1.75 per liter. Been a looong time since we’ve seen that

@Lana Ayup. The rule of thumb to treat any insult as a confession seems to hold.

@davidbcohen @miffyhelen Hah, yes, BTDT. That's the one I'm hoping to avoid.

@davidbcohen @miffyhelen Yeah. And in the year 2026, what do we know about things that have been designed to do one thing? ;-) (Snark aside, in this case it's an elderly and somewhat shitty fridge. I'd replace it, but it's built into an elderly and somewhat shitty kitchen where all the appliances kinda suck. At that point, you're looking at doing a kitchen, which is a vastly bigger job, and hasn't happened yet.)

@miffyhelen The only thing I can think of that I’d use it for is monitoring the temperature from home assistant, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the feature set of an average “smart” fridge doesn’t actually allow that. So instead I stuck a cheap zigbee temp sensor in my dumbass fridge and called it good enough. (Not great because the battery runs down a bit quickly in the cold.)

@xankarn@mastodon.online It has been so very obvious for the past decade that he is a weak man’s idea of a strong man.

@renardboy@mastodon.social @quinn@social.circl.lu I have been thinking about the Democratic People's Republic of America, in fact. ;-)

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here." Quite

@zwils@mastodon.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Or very simply, turn on a fan and get the plant mister out. A little mist of water on your bare legs or down the back of your neck will do wonders. Or a splash of water in your neck where the big arteries are.

@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net @AvonVilla@aus.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io Yeah that's what I said. You can't prove the counter hypothesis, because that would be proving that something doesn't exist, which, well good luck with that. ;-) There is just the base assumption that things in general don't exist unless there is some sort of evidence to the contrary.

@frog_reborn @AvonVilla The thing is, it's not up to me to find evidence or to disprove it. I'm not the one claiming it's real. (Ofcourse, "evidence" is fairly explicitly not the point of the game here, which is where this chafes with nonbelievers.)

@inthehands@hachyderm.io and then you get a push message about some sports person doing a sports thing, which is _very_ decidedly neither of those things.

@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net It's not my first language either. :) Technically they're both assumptions, but they are not assumptions on the same level. Assuming something isn't a thing when there's no evidence that it is a thing is a pretty safe, sane, scientific thing to do. It's the default, in a way. Whereas assuming something IS a thing despite there being no evidence whatsoever for it... ;-) When it's about self-propelled flying pigs, the answer is kinda obvious. When it's religion, things get weird...

@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net I know I used the word assumption and that was perhaps a bit careless. "Assumptions" has that air of "let's just assume something exists without evidence", and that's in fact exactly what I'm not doing.

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange Yeah, in this case I chose to use my own tools because carrying two phones is a chore. So I use a dual sim phone. That way I can still turn one line off if I feel the need.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Yeah, I didn’t have “devs voluntarily and aggressively going for project management roles” on my bingo card either but here we are. It’s a strange world.