Darren

I just finished playing the first Death Stranding. If I didn’t know it was by Hideo Kojima going in, I sure as hell knew by the end of the first hour.

Incredible game, mind.

These days, if you say you are English, you can be thrown in jail.

:edit: For the benefit of the downvoters.

SAULT, and Pepa

I use Castopod for when I’ve uploaded my radio show. At the moment it’s hosted on my site that’s on Hetzner. It only costs me a tenner a month, so I’m wondering whether it’s worth trying to work out how to host it all locally so I can have far more storage and it not cost me anything.

When Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister I searched him up to see where in Southampton he grew up. Because I grew up just outside Southampton.

Anyway, that was when I discovered that I was only 6 months younger than the Prime Minister. And I did not like that at all.

When did you last see a queue for a new phone?

Yeah, GOS updates itself. I quite often wake up to a notification asking me to restart my phone.

While you’re not wrong there for the best part: Safari does allow extensions, and has done for a few years now. Functionally, I’ve not noticed much of a difference between Safari and IronFox on my GOS phone.

Even with Graphene, it’s increasingly likely that it’ll be dead to new Pixels in the coming years. And I say that as someone posting this from a Pixel 9 running Graphene.

Every operating system has steep learning curves and you will struggle with how it does things when first starting out.

I’ve been using Linux seriously for almost a year now. I felt the same way as OP back in the beginning. It took me a couple of weeks to realise that it’s not so much that the OS is tricksier than macOS, it’s that I did all my stumbling around OS X when I got my first Mac back in 07, and now I know it pretty well. Sure, macOS has better guardrails, but it’s still worlds away from Windows.

Does it count that I have four computers running Linux because I can’t help myself?

I’m also in England, though in the South, where we’re all soft fairies.

And yeah, the response can be annoying, but the way I see it, I’m a gobby, fat, mostly-straight cis guy who’s married to a woman, so the abuse I might receive is nothing compared to some others. So if I can go any way at all towards helping to normalise something as benign as painted nails on a straight man, then I will.

Did you have a riot? Did you throw back a bottle of beer?

I - a bloke - sometimes paint my nails. If they’re still painted when I go to work you can guarantee I’ll get a few comments from guys questioning whether they “should be worried” around me*. Meanwhile, the few women who work there think it’s wonderful and have offered to do them properly for me. _ *they needn’t be worried. My standards aren’t that low

Fair play, this is top quality confidently incorrect material.

Yeah, my mum bought a laptop that only had 512mb RAM and that ran like shiiiiiit. Trying to troubleshoot for her left absolutely certain that Vista was a dog.