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  • Yeah, Season 3 of Lost in Space wasn't great overall (there are a few gems, but it's a real step down from Seasons 1-2) and that episode takes the cake for most cringe-worthy.

  • Ouch. Glad I don't run Windows 11...

  • Plenty of dogs I know would happily chase and harass a cat, so I'm inclined to think that it's more likely that the dog deserved it than not...

  • Not sure this is oniony? Delulu was popularised by our PM and both tradwife and broligarchy have definitely made it into the political and social commentary lexicon.

  • That is deeply disturbing.

  • I avoided overtime like the plague since my employer didn't like to deal with it (so if circumstances required me to work overtime my supervisor was pretty good about allowing me to take it as time in lieu the following week), but unfortunately there were definitely times where I had to log in on the weekend (the challenge of having customers that require support 7 days a week).

  • Apparently I'm off the end of the chart. My last workplace set up had:

    • primary 15" laptop with two external monitors (so 3 screens in use simultaneously)
    • secondary 15" laptop with external monitor (so another 2 screens) when the primary one was tied up doing heavy processing (I was lucky and managed to hold onto my previous laptop when we did the usual rounds of device upgrades whereas most people just returned them to IT to be retired, so I had a spare that I could readily take home for WFH days without messing with my main office setup)
    • a standalone PC monitor (for automation stuff, so the screen was there just for monitoring as needed)
  • In the undertaking, Google commits to removing certain pre-installation and default search engine restrictions from its contracts with Android phone manufacturers and telcos.

    This ought to be interesting. At least it will hopefully mean one less bit of bloatware on Android phones.

  • I fully expect tomorrow's update to include a sixth and possibly seventh cat.

  • I use Pi-hole, except that I originally retrofitted after setting up DNScrypt years ago to connect to Cisco OpenDNS. That's not the only DNS server you can use with it, though, and it's added more features since.

    To use DNScrypt with Pi-hole on the same device, set DNScrypt to listen on 127.0.0.1:54 and point Pi-hole to that as the DNS server.

    The only time I have ever had any trouble with this setup and DNS resolution is when the network is recovering from a power outage; there's a race condition somewhere between the Pi and my modem/router that I've never found the time to pin down (given outages are so infrequent I just haven't gotten around to it) and it's easily resolved by rebooting the Pi.

  • Frustratingly I have just a few applications that are Windows-only and don't work under WINE. I've filed bug reports but haven't had the time to learn how to debug it myself, so am somewhat stuck dual-booting on one device for the near future (everything else is now Linux).

  • I know, but that year will be valuable for a certain family member who is stubborn and needs time to be eased into a new system. The problem is that now I have to set up a MS account for them just to get the extension!

  • Yes, I am likely to shift them to that as well.

  • shakes fist

    Family members have PCs that can't support Windows 11 (not that I'd want them to get it anyway) and I'm not yet in the position to migrate them to Linux.

    This type of behaviour makes me glad I'm most of the way to ditching MS entirely on my own systems.

  • Hmm, could use some more variety. When will the calico or gingers be back in stock?

  • They're probably trying to stop low-income people from having some means of learning about the world (at least until the Trump Administration manages to control their part of the Internet like China does) and reducing their ability to organise en masse.