so you know the leaves are poisonous and you should only eat the stem? just checking…

As someone who has worked IT for 30years, yes I remember windows 3.1 and Novel Netware, there absolutely is an IT magic that surrounds certain professionals. Things just fix themselves after I’m literally standing by their desk. Problem occurs repeatedly for user. Disappears when I get there. I think some people are just incompatible with computers…

I started on this path a year ago. I homebrew beer and it’s pretty yummy. Years of drinking a couple of beers a night got me over 100kg. That was my trigger. 1x beer about same as a Mars bar in calories. Stopped drinking weekdays. Only vape weed as a wind down now. Switched to whisky ginger ale on weekends. Buy less snacks Drink more water and tea and stopped having sugar in tea.10x teas a day is a lot of unnecessary sugar. Stopped eating lunch, have miso soup sachets. Breakfast is toast and marmite Dinner is full normal meal My stomach stopped complaining it was hungry, though it helped to have awareness that the hungry feeling is a good feeling and to embrace it as a sign of success. I don’t beat myself up for a stumble. Sometimes I snack, sometimes I go out for midweek beers though rarely.

Over a year I dropped 25kg A quarter of my body mass I’m 52 It helps I’m adhd lol and eating has always been an afterthought But the main weight loss came from significantly reducing alcohol Unfortunately I’ve not made any beer for two years… so there is a downside lol Anyway… just my 2c Good luck 👍

um… it’s Thursday here on NZ… all hail Tūmatauenga!

any American chocolate tastes like vomit

In New Zealand the sun feels like it’s stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn’t take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere

there’s a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza…

Iran has never started a war

yup newpipe all the way adblocker by pihole no ads on my network 🤩

This article was all I needed to go install unbound and use that as my upstream server for pihole. Took me 20min and it’s been working for the past few hours. Easy and now all my dns are my own. You don’t even need a pihole, just point your router dns to the unbound server. It works out of the box with no configuration unless you want to configure it. Easy

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diagnosed in my 50’s

always known I’m different lol

coasted subjects I liked but failed subjects I hated.

I was disruptive and constantly outside the headmasters office. in those days I got the slipper and cane…

mum called me hyperactive and blamed tartrazine from orange cordial. looking back I was casebook ADHD.

now I have a diagnosis I’m able to get the support and connections to my kids that I never had myself. teaching techniques and understanding what’s going on for them when they have meltdowns.

to be fair they didn’t have ADHD diagnosis on the 70’s so I’m just happy I can support my kids knowing what I know and why

I’d go one further; strawberry chilli sorbet. sweet strawberry, hot and cold at the same time… perfection

write them an email https://royalsociety.org/about-us/contact-us/

looks like you guys just damaged yourselves by not taking disciplinary action against Musk. whilst I have nothing to do with you, you guys should know better than to sympathise with Nazis. It makes you the same as them. The US is broken and you have the chance to stand on the right side of history or the wrong side of history, and you will be judged by your actions. and science will suffer your actions/inaction. sort it out or are you just a bunch of Nazi cowards?

left the UK 13yrs ago and never regretted it

skills shortage list is how I got in, and being under 40 (at the time) gave me points in their system.

anyway just going to drop this here if YouTube is allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLlDIzi8SU

so honestly, who would you use now? I’d never buy HP, Acer, Lenovo. total crap machines. what other brands of laptop are any good going into 2025/2026? The XPS was always my go-to but now what options are remaining?

good answer it’s has always been about power

and being able to wield power without corruption is the human condition

I’m not certain we’re hardwired that way.

though I’m hopeful

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I’m sorry, but when there is so much at stake we have to lie. politicians have always lied. left and right. it’s in their nature. they can’t help it. if it’s politically expedient to lie, even by omission, so the enemy doesn’t use it against you and chips away at that majority, then I’m totally comfortable with that. of course, I’d much prefer that it was illegal for politicians to lie, like they are trialing in Wales, then we’d have a very different calibre of politics. I’m all for that. bring on enforced honesty in politics. but until that’s established and the enemy, and let me make this very clear, the US Nazis are very much the enemy, we have to temper our political persona a bit. once we win then we show how inclusive and caring we are. but if saying something what could be used in an attack against our valiant cause, it’s ok to hide it. for now. look at Walz, he’s an ally to the cause and we’re not hiding him. he’s in full view, heart on his sleeve, and from what I can tell, he’s a really good man. those are the qualities we need to show off. we’re not hiding those morals, we’re just not shouting loudly about some of the more progressive values we hold, so they can’t be twisted and used against us. we need to win this election. fairly and absolutely convincingly. and I’m talking as a Kiwi, a citizen of Earth, watching on in horror what could be coming and the pivot in geopolitical power that would inevitably occur. your election has way more reach than just your shores. the good guys need to win and kick the US Nazis so hard in the nuts they remember loosing forever. anyway. thanks for listening

jellyfin with sonarr and radarr and now jellyseerr make the whole process simple. usenet and nzb are the way now i just wait 10 min to get the film/series i want and then watch it. a minor delay I’m more than happy with. I’d be happy to pay if, and it’s a big if, the studios can catalogue all their shows in one place. i can watch without adverts. i can pay per episode if i want. I’d rather pay 50c an episode than pay for the whole service. let me curate what I want to watch on my terms. until then, the high seas win every time

i really hope the Dems have a plan to combat this nonsense