In our company I’m friends with one of the lead devs. He once told me “no matter what way you look at it, excel is never the answer” lol I’m sure he was a bit biased, but I’ve seen my fair share of macro-ridden abominations over the years

Can confirm, bought my son a FIFA game on pc that caused so much trouble and confusion on windows with their activation bullshit that I ended up buying him an xbox

You can either set a DHCP reservation in your router, or manually set the IP on the device.

When I say private IP, I’m referring to the internal IP e.g 192.168.1.X

Means internally I just go to the domain without having to remember the IP I set.

I don’t even bother with the internal DNS server. I just set my A records in Cloudflare to point to the private IPs

I used to ask customers to unplug their modem, tell me were the pins on the plug all brass or did it have black tips so I knew which model they had.

In reality I just wanted them to turn the damn thing off and on again

How come not proton? Did they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar traffic logs?

This shortcut works pretty well

https://www.removepaywall.com/blog/install-shortcut

Fascinating. I learned something new today! Thank you for taking the time to share :)

Here’s an interesting (although old) video

Could the Queen Get Away with Murder Legally? (youtube.com)

Who said it was better? It’s just my favourite.

Like my favourite shirt, it’s no better than the others, but it brings me a little joy :)

• on a serious note though, thank you for sharing your two examples - I didn’t know they existed.

Here’s something kinda cool about the Monarchy. The king can just decide that Musk’s interference is illegal and shut down Xitter in the UK would be kinda funny.

I’m not a fan of that approach, but at the same time you don’t ask cancer to leave your body, you cut that shit out!

Also my favourite way to push a core to 100% CPU

yes > /dev/null

I miss the days of just sticking it in /etc/rc.local

🎵with his song…

My money is on it being part of the ticketing computer’s programming.

That’s exactly what I want in a situation like that, the crew to respond like it’s any other Tuesday.

Leave discount Freddie Mercury alone!

You can spin the pinhole up in a docker image and have it run as a secondary DNS server. The rest of your network can use the existing DNS and only point the TV at the pi. If you sit down to watch something and it requires tweaking, just flick back to regular DNS :)

For those (like me) who bought a TCL tv at a stupidly cheap price on Black Friday, you have options.

• buy an AppleTV (even second hand) and don’t connect the tv to the internet. You won’t see any adverts on your Home Screen and be done with all this bullshit. What’s that? What’s the point in buying a £200 TV if you need to buy a £150 accessory? I hear you, read on…
• if you’re broke like me, you can disable the stock launcher with adb and install projectivy launcher. I needed to use some software called launcher manager from xdaforums to replace the stock launcher. I also used adb to uninstall the pre-installed apps I had no intention of using.

Hopefully there are enough key words in there for you to google / research what you need to get going. Good luck!

Listen, magazine sales are down, but I have an idea that’ll guarantee half of the US buy a copy!