Phone right front. Wallet right back.

Keys left front. You can't keep a phone and keys in the same pocket. Especially not with the size of modern phones.

Consistency means I always know if I've forgotten my phone keys/wallet. There's never searching or wondering where they've gone.

Yep,

I've got a part of the house which needs new render and new capping on a pallisade wall. Cannot for the life of me find anyone that wants to do it. Whole house render, no problem. Turn up and just render every wall in site, no problem.

I had a long discussion with a builder who suggested I remove any lead flashing from the pallisade wall so he could render that. After going and investigating what I could, the lead is what's keeping water out of the house. No, no thankyou do I want to remove that.

As it goes, I might just have to learn how to render myself as it might be easier than learning how to find a reasonable handyman.

I wonder if all the bot activity on reddit makes it look so busy that people are confused when they come somewhere with far fewer bots around?

I notice significantly more positive interaction with (at least what I believe to be) real humans here than I did on reddit in my last couple of years there.

Sorry to break it to you ... waay to many europeans are turning to SUVs. Turds of things that are bigger on the outside and smaller on the inside than our old estates (wagons) and hatchbacks.

At this point ... what stops the CVE foundation moving on as a foundation and working to find an alternative funding model?

Yep... And damn I put so much effort into working that out and still got it wrong

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

If you like more light in the evening morning go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning evening, go to bed early and wake up early.

Stop fucking with the clocks and making nonsensible decisions

So... Let me check I get this right on the timeline.

America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.

Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.

Next steps boys

Something I noticed recently

The same people who quickly bemoan "everyone wants a label now" seen to be the same people who say "all kids do this like that".

That was my initial thought.

But also, he was resisting the coup. You can't have Marshall law with military leaders willing to resist you.

This could well be the point that we (globally) lose the "nobody would be insane enough to allow him to push the button" mindset

I guess I don't see the need to os switch on the steam deck. Unless playing and switching is what you want to do.

If what you want is gnome, there are easier ways than a whole new OS.

Steam Deck with the ability to run Fedora workstation (I love Gnome)

Don't be too focussed on needing to run Fedora for access to Gnome. The OS on the deck (Arch in this case) has the ability to run Gnome. It'll just be getting it working "right" that'll be a pain. I would have thought some people are already on it (even if just for a laugh). A cursory web search says it does work with some odd input issues.

That is the beauty of (and often the complexity of) the Linux ecosphere. You can change one thing, Fedora to Arch, and the other things "should" still work.

Who's to bet a load of shares get bought up, then suddenly this announcement is rescinded?

minus anything obvious

Honestly, not even that.

I've been on a hiring panel (for want of a better term) where we interviewed on the ground floor. We all worked up in the building. Post-interview we wouldn't say anything, we'd just write "yes" or "no" on a piece of paper. In the elevator going back up we'd turn our cards around. It gave a simple litmus test, if we all agreed then we can go to the pub. If we disagree then we find a meeting room and discuss.

To my point. One hire, technically brilliant. They were technically, absolutely the best candidate we'd had for that role. It was clear. We got into the elevator, and all turned around "no". The candidate was an absolute arse of a person. Clearly the best person for the job. Clearly the last person I wanted to spend 8 hours a day sitting next to. They knew they were fucking good, and they spoke like it.

I wouldn't be surprised if that person, knowing they were good, still goes home and rants about DEI hires or similar. But entirely misses the point on why they were not hired for that role.

"almost"

If only DEI was that literal. Instead, it allowed companies to discriminate based on race, but to those with left-leaning beliefs, that’s okay as long as it only negatively affects white people, because they deserve it!

That's a lot of talking with very little to back it up.

I'd like some actual instances of companies that have specifically not hired a qualified candidate because they were white.

And "those with left-leaning beliefs". That's me, hand in the air and proud of it. "as it only negatively affects white people, because they deserve it" You're chatting shit mate. That's not what I or any of my "left leaning" friends believe.

Because they already believe that you are better because you are white. So two people with equal qualifications, the white is more qualified in their eyes.

The party that wants to ban abortion to "save the children" has just condemned, quite literally millions of, children around the world to slow and agonising deaths from entirely treatable illnesses.

When America gets sick, the whole world coughs.

Sadly we're all in the inside of this one

Emotionally pressuring you to step back from education.

There are plenty of people outside looking in, that would call this abuse.