Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

• armadillo bug
• boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
• butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
• carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
• cheeselog (Reading, England)
• cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
• cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
• chiggy pig (Devon, England)
• chisel pig
• chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
• doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
• fat pig (Ireland)
• gramersow (Cornwall, England)
• hog-louse
• millipedus
• QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
• mochyn coed ('tree pig'), pryf lludw ('ash bug'), granny grey in Wales
• pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
• potato bug
• roll up bug
• roly-poly
• slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
• sow bug
• woodbunter
• wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)

Might well be what pushes me to give piefed.zip a go :)

It was arguably one of the best weather services available - the API was fantastic and many people built things around it.

The spiritual successor is Pirate Weather: https://pirateweather.net/en/latest/

Nice :)

appleptic (apoplectic), iscream, coretheapple, thatsfruity, applewhy...

crapple probably too far in the moaning direction, despite being a classic.

Either way, watching this space :)

Shoutout to @[email protected] then, what a trooper :)

Besides, it's not difficult to block users on Lemmy. Anyone who doesn't want to see what you have to say can just metaphorically plug their ears.

Poking tankies is getting to be a full time thing for you though 😅

I've begrudgingly accepted that the greater war in this regard is long since lost, but I'm happy to win the small battles today. Unfettered internet access. Ad free media. VPNs, adblockers etc etc

It helps that I'm a fairly dull person to begin with. I'll probably be dust by the time it gets too bad to tolerate.

You're early!

I'll actually read this now :)

Seeing those 5xx errors drop off is wonderful.

Enjoy the hols ☀️

The majority of people will sacrifice security for convenience, I guess we all know that's a given.

For 2 at least if enough users behave 'adversely' in the same way, they become less distinguishable from one another within that subset.

Interesting to see how such an arms race pans out.

To its credit (of which there is little), Windows can handle most things these days just fine without externally obtained drivers. Gradually improving since 7 onwards. The only sore spots really are proper gfx drivers and printers. 10 and beyond will also gracefully handle being drive-swapped into completely different hardware.

If it's a reinstall, activation is automatic for OEM licences.

Step 4, yes, what a shitshow. Way too many hoops and hurdles to go through just to get a functional OS without the bloat and guff.

1. Don't use shit that monitors in such a way.
2. Where you can't avoid it, do your work in a separate, trusted program and then copy paste it in.
3. Where you can't paste, I'm sure you could whip up an ahk script to 'type' for you from the clipboard.
4. If you're at this step, they've already won.

Exactly - some are perfectly fine. The cheap ones are terrible, crossthread too easily, get up in your face, dribble, or all of the above.

Sports style bottles solved the problem long before standard caps got in the game. They get disposed of together here either way, even if the cap gets yanked off for being stupid.

I don't understand how they end up separate in disposal in the first place. The whole point is that you can reseal the bottle and move/store it without leaking. If you're not actively using the bottle, it gets resealed to move or store. When you finish the bottle, you probably have the cap still in hand or very close by.

Tangentially, I'd love to see a Pfand type system here.

Loss.jpg has ruined me.

Awesome.

It also works very well from the share context in Android, once remotes are set up. Handy for when I just want to dump some photos on my desktop.

proper keyboard navigation

• Goes on shitty website that doesn't play nice with password managers
• Enters username
• Presses Tab
• Begins typing password in the now highlighted 'forgot username' element
• Unfathomable rage
• Tabs and types again
• Presses Enter
• Nothing happens
• Continues to mash Tab, trying to find when the submit button element will select
• Break, and click the button like an animal

Belt sander pillows for the people that design this shit, please.

For every person like you that won't take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.

If nobody accepted such bollocks, it would be more economical to actually investigate, provide service & improve processes - rather than trying to bin complaints at the first hurdle.

Prime (lol) example over here is with Amazon not making it easy to return shit after 30 days, by hiding all the easy return options at that point. You can still do it by contacting customer service and they will generally acquiesce, but just having the extra steps there is enough to save a ton of money by keeping the uninformed in the dark.

Fuck em. Make it difficult for them. Be the goddamn squeakiest wheel you can possibly be.

On and off over the last 15 years or so.

Only recently have I become much more comfortable & able to resolve things without resorting to search, stackoverflow etc.

The turnover point was the day I finally learned vi & cron so I could fiddle with an old Buffalo NAS, that was long out of support, riddled with security holes, and offered only very limited tooling.

Was a great learning experience, but it didn't pan out the way I wanted. So it runs Debian now, supports modern protocols, and continues to serve. Amazing what you can keep in service when you try.

Two strokes, trans, and yet still pushing forward against the shit shoveled your way. You are objectively kicking ass despite the hand dealt & that needs to be said.

Some great tips above that I won't try to clumsily add to, but you have my best wishes. I hope you get to where you want to be.