Just using my insanely advanced technical skills to give family IT advice
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Edd Edmondson
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mastodon 4.6.8Physicist with alliterative name, waiting for the lab accident that will grant him his superpowers. (Actually no longer does physics. Does HPC IT)
Cat lover, he/him, 🏳️⚧️-ally
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Joined November 22, 2022
Dream logic can be so utterly weird. Like last night, I was trying to scan QR codes for some reason and it wasn't working. The dream logic was that I was trying to scan them with a sieve when I should have been using a colander.
@Tess@chatty.frogawampus.co.uk @Brynndylow@chatty.frogawampus.co.uk is this up your collective crafting street?
Look at this idiot
Just had an Amazon delivery taken care of by my neighbour. Excerpt from our chat.
Voters! Remember to bring photo ID!
Also as I discovered this morning it helps if the photo ID is yours...
Don't worry if you miss today's eclipse in the UK. There's another solar eclipse on August 2nd 2027. This one will be notable as the Moon will be lit up with a giant SpaceX logo, usually only visible at night.
Westminster 🏳️⚧️
Off to run some Blood on the Clocktower at an LGBTQ+ night.
@FrazzledBrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk ty for shipping 💜
Looking forward to https://londonboardgameshow.com/ in January!
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@FrazzledBrynn@glitterkitten.co.uk ahh screw it, let's make it two. Keep any p&p excess.
I am being driven up the wall by Outlook on Mac where I cannot get autocorrect to stop. Impossible to type systemd or other useful words. (systemd is a useful word to talk about systemd. I do not wish to imply systemd is a useful *thing*)
Cat has a new toy (alt text, snowshoe cat playing with a catnip squirrel toy)
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@JohnBarentine@scicomm.xyz but data centres in space are physically impossible. You can’t get the energy in, and you can’t dump the heat.
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I have sent @robinince@mastodon.social a message offering to buy a couple of tickets for neurodiverse or non-gender conforming people a ticket to this. Ask me. First come first served but nice if it goes to people who can't afford it otherwise. (I'll also buy you a drink)
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@statsguy@mas.to just booked one too, ahead of a number of weekends at cons (although I ended up emailing them separately to be sure they had a stock)
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@BethanyBlack@mastodon.social @PetraPhoenix@mendeddrum.org generally though, big yes to therapy. Passed a message indirectly to Shaparak for being a big proponent of it which helped me go for it.
I hope this pans out for us type 1s. Kids first please. I can wait and some damage is already done.
I'm signed up to steward Trans Pride in London and they need more! Join me! 🏳️⚧️
Thought about this issue of medication packaging that looks very similar to other different meds.
I've long thought that this sort of thing could be helped by using a visual hash/identicon of the generic name and dosage?
Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/precautionaryrecall-of-antidepressant-medication-due-to-manufacturing-error
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@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online @JohnBarentine@scicomm.xyz oh totally agree about him messing things up with starlink but at least there's a functioning business model for them. I just don't think he'll waste money launching huge non-functional satellites in this particular case.