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by petepete 2y ago
I still remember seeing the three legged race for the first time and my brother and I were in hysterics. Still one of my favourite ever music videos. Roots Manuva never really got the credit he deserved.
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by petepete 2y ago
Peep Show started in 2003! Now I feel old.
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by petepete 2y ago
Flebag, Toast, This Country, Detectorists, People Just Do Nothing, After Life. Maybe four.
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by petepete 2y ago
I tried Jellyfin for music but couldn't make it work with Sonos so just ended up using Sonos' local music library via SMB, with Symfonium on my phone. It works well but it's something I'll revisit at some point as I do l
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by petepete 2y ago
After a day of staring at a screen being able to listen with my eyes closed is nice. I don't mind reading either, it's not like one is better than the other.
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by petepete 2y ago
Yeah I thought it was just a slang term. It's not a common word in Britain at all.
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by petepete 2y ago
I'd agree. I got stuck after getting SYRUP because I just assumed YACK wasn't a word.
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by petepete 2y ago
It was on Channel 4 not BBC. Brookers' earlier and finest work (Screenwipe) was on BBC4 though.
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by petepete 2y ago
I'm so glad you found it useful. Thanks for letting me know.
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by petepete 2y ago
Obviously niche, but the GOV.UK Design System is very well supported in Rails. There's a form builder and library of components (built and maintained by me) which, between them, provide full coverage. Most new Rails services use them.
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by petepete 2y ago
Not in the last couple of months but they made a big deal about refusing to comply when it was raised in 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/09/whatsapp-...
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by petepete 2y ago
I don't think it's fair to tar Meta with that brush. WhatApp have said repeatedly they'll leave the UK before disabling E2EE.
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by petepete 2y ago
This is why iPlayer is worth its weight in gold in the UK.
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by petepete 2y ago
Lindows made a splash in 2001-2002 and its purpose was to bridge the gap and offer proper support for Windows applications on Linux via a 'click and run' service. After Microsoft sued them and they changed their name, the bubble w
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by petepete 2y ago
Sounds like someone wants Lindows/Linspire. https://www.linspirelinux.com/
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by petepete 2y ago
I use fish with one plugin - fzf.fish. It's invaluable to me and the shortcuts are second nature now. It prefixes each line with a timestamp rather than a number, which makes most sense to me. https://github.com/Patrick
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by petepete 2y ago
I used find frequently for more than a decade and it just never felt natural to me. I get there in the end but have to stop and think. With fd, a modern 'equivalent', I barely think just type. Same for grep.
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by petepete 2y ago
> namely professionals of any kind I don't agree with this. Most professions are more than well served by any moderately specced computer, laptop or otherwise. If you're not crunching big numbers, rendering, or need speciality
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by petepete 2y ago
> I think, roughly, Tracker was a ticketing tool for developers, whereas the others are for project managers. This is why I like GitHub Projects. Devs can create and interact with issues and PRs in the normal fashion while project folk d
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by petepete 2y ago
It's like lighting one cigarette with another.
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by petepete 2y ago
It's beyond shit. The viewer actually has 'presentation mode' which opens in full screen, but if you rotate your phone 90° it just closes after a second (Chrome on Android). I honestly don't think I could write something
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by petepete 2y ago
In the UK the only supermarket I can find that sells powder (after trying lots) is Sainsbury's. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-conce... I asked in Tesco and the young lad who worked th
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by petepete 2y ago
Give Cities Skylines 2 a try.
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by petepete 2y ago
Teams has more users but most of those users didn't choose Teams - it was thrust upon them. When it's bundled with O365 and shares admin tools, accounts etc, there's no wonder companies pick it. I don't know anyone who u
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by petepete 2y ago
So the things I thought I was referring to were pneumatic tubes for the sending and receiving of small things. But yeah, I'd hope vacuum tubes are there too!
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by petepete 2y ago
I hope vacuum tubes are involved somewhere.
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by petepete 2y ago
I think general burglary is heading in that direction across the country. The things people used to pinch like VCRs, stereos, TVs, laptops just aren't as expensive or sellable now.
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by petepete 2y ago
On public transport I can tap in and tap out with the wallet on phone or any bank card. Car parks could work in exactly the same way, but instead there are 15 apps.
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by petepete 2y ago
> the three horizontal line 'hamburger' for menu On modern Android menus are (more) often I under a button with 3 dots. Occasionally horizontal, usually vertical.
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by petepete 2y ago
Equally having to jump through extra hoops to prevent autocomplete where you don't want it is frustrating, like in admin interfaces where you might be updating someone else's name. It's an arms race of stupidity.

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