Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)D

Delascas

@ Delascas @feddit.uk

Posts
1
Comments
42
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Microsoft is killing another workaround to set up Windows 11 without a Microsoft account

    Jump

  • All the hardware in my life is Linux or FreeBSD . . . with one embarrassing exception. For years I've kept an Acer laptop on Win10 for a single task - running a windows application to update the firmware on a Garmin satellite SMS device (we do long distance hiking well off grid in Scotland). Micro$oft's ongoing bullshit shamed me into finally sorting out even that one edge use case. After several hours of playing . . I was able to overwrite Win10 with . . . ReactOS!

    If you've never heard of it . . and most people in the FOSS community never have . . it's an attempt at reverse engineering Windows NT, using a combination of WINE plus a written from scratch open source Windows like kernel. It will never be "done" and it's FAR from ready to be anyone's daily driver . . but still a fun project to follow.

    https://reactos.org/

    And yes, after hours more of tweaking, I was able to get the Garmin app to update on React!

  • What is Charlie Kirk's legacy

    Jump

  • This. Right here. This quote. I suggest his family make his tombstone out of stainless steel so they can easily pressure wash away the marker pens of people scrawling these words across it.

    Thoughts and prayers.

  • TIL about the Concorde aircraft that flew at twice the speed of sound, and thad passenger flights from NY to London in three hours (versus 7 hours)

    Jump

  • Never have I felt as old online.

    I flew on it . . twice. Round trip NYC - London and home a week later. BA obviously.

    At altitude (60,000 feet) the sky was black, not blue. And for any flat-earth'ers out there . . sorry, but from 60,000 feet you could see the curvature of the earth.

    The only interesting physical difference I remember was the difference in acceleration departing JFK vs. departing from Heathrow. Out of JFK you are instantly over the Atlantic, so it accelerated from 0 mph to Mach 2.0 in one continuous push. Whereas departing Heathrow, you are over land until the English channel. So it accelerated down the runway like any other plane, cruised until over water, then it felt like it was taking off a second time, with a much longer acceleration push.

  • What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?

    Jump

  • What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?

    Jump

  • Did I misspell all of them?

  • What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?

    Jump

  • Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

  • British brothers worth $9bn quit UK as wealth exodus grows

    Jump

  • Do not let the door hit your arse on the way out . . .

  • Russia not on Trump's tariff list

    Jump

  • Myanmar, Syria, Venezuela, Libya and Pakistan are all under one or more forms of US sanctions - yet are on the tariff list. Sorry . . until proven otherwise, there is no other logical explanation for the "friends of Vlad" being excluded except . . . the orange one is also a friend of Vlad.

  • YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube

    Jump

  • He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

    Jump

  • Then they came for the Socialists

    And I did not speak out

    Instead . . . I voted for them.

  • [Edit: actually, they use Brave] Good Search, German search engine independent from US Tech. Did anyone know them?

    Jump

  • There is only one search engine in Europe that ONLY serves results from their own crawlers: https://www.mojeek.com/

    All the others (qwant, startpage, swisscows . . ) merge results from Bing or Google or Brave.

    Be warned: you will NOT get the same search results with mojeek . .

  • What Linux software is good for managing a household budget?

    Jump

  • MoneyManager EX. It is the closest FOSS application I've seen to Quicken. Imports bank statements, catagorize different expenses, monthly budgets . .

    https://moneymanagerex.org/

    Linux, Windows, Android, iOS versions all available.

  • TIL when applying for a British passport online, your identity has to be confirmed by someone who is not a relative, knows you for two years, and has to be from a specific (weird) list of professions.

    Jump

  • The history is long and ugly, but here's the short version. The Home Office hates the BMA. UK doctors are frequent participants in judicial reviews, tribunal cases and applications for injunctions against the Home Office. Pesky cases like trying to prevent pregnant women being held in isolation at immigration removal centers or forcibly returning previously tortured refugees to the countries that . . . tortured them. The LAST thing the Home Office is going to encourage is more interaction with the BMA or the NHS.

    Just think about it . . the Home Office will take the word of your local publican over your GP. In what world is that normal???

  • Water firms ask for bill rises of between 24% and 91%

    Jump

  • What is something the world would be better without?

    Jump

  • Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

  • What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal?

    Jump

  • I will quote George Washington to explain the why: "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

    Alternatives:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition (we use this in 1/3 of our government today - juries)

  • What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal?

    Jump

  • Political parties and religions. All of them.

  • Britain developing new, sovereign nuclear warhead

    Jump

  • WTF?

    Things this castrofuck clown car of a government cannot pay for: junior doctors, nurses, school lunches for hungry children, council homes, roofs for schools, 40 new hospitals, keeping shite out of the rivers . . .

    Things it can pay for: 2 largely broken aircraft carriers (but not enough planes for them) . . and new, home built nuclear weapons.

    I, for one, am so proud our glorious MoD can defend our food banks with British made nuclear weapons! /s

  • Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents

    Jump

  • I cannot disagree about being wary of Tesla . . I certainly am. Here's an article about data from 6,300 EV's from 12 manufactures. Also includes a cool graphing tool . . . https://electrek.co/2019/12/14/8-lessons-about-ev-battery-health-from-6300-electric-cars/ Graphing the data: https://storage.googleapis.com/geotab-sandbox/ev-battery-degradation/index.html

    As for my own EV's . . I was an early adopter with the 24kWh Nissan Leaf - only had about 65 miles of "real world" range. Didn't keep that long and traded it for a VW eGolf . . . 125 "real world" miles. Had that for several years . . .but traded it early in 2023 for a VW ID4. With 300+ miles, I no longer think about range. None of them had/have more than 30,000 miles . . .and I never noticed any degradation at all. The impact of cold weather is a MUCH more more noticeable issue!!