I use a pressure cooking when doing hard boiled eggs, I’ve found regardless of the egg age they are always easier to peel.

There are still excuses.

I love gaming on my Steam Deck, but I’m not ready to make that PC switch yet because I don’t have the time anymore to sit and fuck around trying to get a game to run.

I don’t see what the problem is.

Would that tinkering be patch Tuesdays once a month and having to click “not now” a few times? If so that is one of the reasons I want to get off the Windows ship!

I can’t stand having more “features” pushed on me that is very clearly not for my benefit.

I’m eager to move off Windows, I made a comment months ago saying I will switch when Linux is 100% compatible for gaming and got downvoted and told it’s ready, but checking the games I play on protondb they require tinkering. I have less time these days and don’t want to fuck around trying to get the games to run. The only tinkering I require in Windows at the moment is removing motion blur from games and increasing FoV, I don’t need to add command line arguments to get multiplayer in a game to partially function.

I got a Steam Deck 4 months ago in prep for having a child, and I’ve been really pleased with SteamOS. I feel Linux is so very close.

They made a new game, Aethermancer which is pretty good so far!

No idea why this post reminded me of him dancing in this music video

I previously complained to my local MP about the OSA implementation and their response was

“Online platforms must not collect or store personal data during age verification, and many third-party solutions verify age without accessing sensitive identity information. I support the Information Commissioner’s Office in enforcing these protections and ensuring that data collection is minimised.”

I look forward to using this news as an “I told you so” that they will now doubt ignore.

Not just the notes, but I feel like they put more effort into making sure the text doesn’t blend with what is on screen. Instances on Netflix of some shows where there will be white text with a white background, and the text has no drop shadow or black border.

Nigel?

I think there was a company (might have been Virgin?) that did unlimited holiday, but the issue was that people ended up feeling ashamed for taking holiday and so basically ended up taking less than if they were given 25 days holiday.

For me I pictured “master” as perfecting something. So when I asked someone as a noob why things were being switched from master to main I was surprised at the possibility that it could be related to master/slave, but completely understood why from that point.

Monster train 2 is even better!

If you haven’t tried it, it’s worth giving Monster Train 2 a go, it’s given me lots of playtime and they recently released an update.

I made bangers and mash this evening, and put it into a large Yorkshire pud.

I don’t know if it would be named differently.

Ah that’s fair!

I’m probably remembering wrong but The Longest Yard doesn’t have a love interest in it does it?

When I received a promotion in a previous job I accepted it on the condition that I’d have a pay review after 6 months because what they had offered me was a pittance over what I was earning, which was already well below industry average.

In those 6 months I put together figures and evidence that showed I was completing about 75% more work than a colleague who had left recently and was earning dramatically more than I was. I had a great rapport with our customers too. Obviously at that 6 month marker they said they can’t give me a pay increase. From that point I just started coasting while looking for another job.

I always have the mentality of giving your best until it’s not acknowledged. I’m also more open these days to telling my managers when I don’t feel acknowledged in what I’m doing. Sadly 99% of the time they are middle management that can’t actually do anything.

In the UK, the go to when speaking to the taxi driver used to be “So…been busy?” It was a really strange urge to ask every time.

I haven’t used a taxi in many years, so not sure if that’s changed.

It has a loose story to get to the center of the universe, but I can’t say I’ve ever made it there as I always end up doing other things