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Bought a backbone for my phone in the airport and it's ace. Very happy impulse purchase. Looking forward to trying out gamestream on it when I get home.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

First time in Helsinki airport, it's really nice, not sure about this hashtag though, "future of hel" 😂

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I say no to everything AI on my phone (and everywhere else) and yet "AI Core" is still my biggest app arghhhhh

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Where is the no, not ever button

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

GCP support is so funny at times. me: Raises ticket, vertex response times are 10x the norm for the past few hours, this causes customer impact on real-time systems. them (a week later): Suggest you implement retries. :|

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

As someone with a 4070ti, please listen to my advice. Ignore the 5070 marketing, 12gb vram truly sucks.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The way Google Cloud pushes dedicated commitments for individual services is to get remotely stable service, if you squint, is basically what we had on prem where we had to CapEx dedicated hardware for specific projects. Cloud is less appealing by the day.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

The new @prometheus.io v3 UI is _such_ an improvement. Kudos.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

My ff16 journey so far: This is dull Oh thats a cool skill, I'll play more Bored again Oh wow cool I can fight as ifrit, I'll play more Bored Oooo new eikons Bored of unnecessarily long eikon fights Start skipping cutscenes Bored/quit I've had 25 hours of of it though so can't complain. £2/hour.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Me: going to run slow today, nursing a bit of a hip injury Garmin: looool you're slow, old and unfit, I've reduced your vo2 max and fitness age just to shame you. Pathetic.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

People playing POE2, is it worth playing if you're burned out from d4, or more of the same?

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Linux gaming adventures continued. Quite a few games run without any issues using proton, and it's reasonably seamless. I look up the game on protondb.com first to check for settings. Others have about a 20% frame drop compared to windows. Game streaming (sunshine) is unplayable however.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Oooo I think I might have found a Linux distro that works well with Nvidia out the box and generally feels.... Good. Pop_os!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

This is why I don't use public transport in Manchester. Believe me, I don't like sitting in traffic, and driving in general, and contributing to congestion and pollution, but when my option is a public transport system where 1 in 10 gets cancelled - it somewhat forces the hand.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Probably spent about 3 months migrating all our apps to ESM. What an ecosystem mess that was. Today went to look at eslint 8 -> 9, dear god. Looks even worse. I've worked in so many different languages in my career but Javascript, as much as I love it, feels the most - broken.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK6... everything about this performance is perfect. It's, just so good.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Me: reads loads about how Linux gaming has improved in recent years, gets excited at the prospect of binning windows. Also me: loads up my Linux mint distro, updates the graphics card drivers and now it just black screens after login. Nothings. Changed.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Me: I'm going to dust off and restring my guitar and start playing again. Also me: traps his index finger under the Floyd rose bridge crushing the nail enough I now won't be able to play guitar for a few weeks 🤣

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Slept on capability of LLMs... In a code base coding style is important, and LLM's are all the rage, so have you considered having it refactor all your code infused with your favourite artist? Slipknot? Taylor Swift?

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

One of the world's most elusive mysteries is how Corey Taylor has any vocal chords left at all

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments