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I was considering a new Raspberry Pi to replace the 4GB 4b one I have running various things. And then I saw the price of the Raspi 5…#raspberrypi
I decided to play Space Marine 2 for the first time in a while and, before it would play, it wanted to download a 70gb update! So, I checked and – yes – the game is already installed on the Xbox's hard drive taking up 61.9gb already.Maybe I'm living in the past but updates of this size seem ridiculous. I don't think it's adding new content. Is 70gb now a normal size for an update?So I decided to read a book instead.#xbox
Thirteen years later… It's happening again!Very. Excited.https://youtu.be/o4sjDZ2sGwg#boc
Testing out a new ios app called Synctrain (though it might also call itself Sushitrain?) which is a Syncthing client. I've been using Moebius Sync – which is ok – and interested if Synctrain is better (especially faster) in any way. First impression is that the folder selection works REALLY well and there is the ability to perform selective file syncs. Just a shame that ios doesn't allow Syncthing to run in the background.https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain?tab=readme-ov-file#syncthing
Far from pleased with these Skaven rat ogors I'm painting but have learned by trial and error how to get effective oxidising copper and rust effects. I *believe* I'm getting a little faster painting, too.#warhammer #ageofsigmar #skaven
Richard Pini's newsletter about refusing to accept inauthentic adaptations of Elfquest is refreshing. https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?u=3897af0f31c7336e2713a33c6&id=b1ff4fcb4e#comics #elfquest
Storm Dave?
The new Mario movie is… ok. It doesn't have the charm of the first movie but is delightful enough. The animation is lovely. It's just the usual with these sorts of movies… plot. My kids thought much the same. Good to see a packed cinema though.The trailers for upcoming movies were on the contrary full of terrible-looking films that we definitely won't be going to see as a family. Hollywood is truly hard up for ideas.#mario
Somehow in my head animatronic Olaf falling over and being carried off is connected with Donald Trump disco dancing and waving a sword. Don't ask me why.
Gosh. This inspires confidence. The world is more than fucked.
YouFibre sent me a new router after I renewed my contract and insisted I use it. I lost a day there trying to convince the new router and all the connected devices that it was the old router. Why companies think that a fancy home screen on a router is better than a simple page where all the settings are easy to access is beyond me. Syncthing REALLY didn't like the changes and spent the evening dysregulating and hammering the drives.
Surely Liz Truss' comments about British people being able to carry guns is an April Fool's joke?The French took away British people's rights to bear arms, she claims. And:"‘When you see the state misusing its power and the way that citizens are being suppressed in Britain on issues like free speech, you can see the logic of the founding fathers in having the right to bear arms as a key part of the American constitution."April Fool's… or just a fool?#ukpolitics #tories #liztruss
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1976 = £3,700 (about £28,000 in 2026 terms)1986 = £8,500 (about £28,500 in 2026 terms) 1996 = £17,500 (about £34,000 in 2026 terms)2006 = £24,000 (about £38,000 in 2026 terms)2016 = £28,000 (about £34,000 in 2026 terms)2026 = £39,000Since about 2008 salaries have fallen so that people in the UK are considerably worse off. The Banking Crisis, followed by Tory/Lib-Dem Austerity policies, followed by 2016 events have made us all much poorer. #economy #uk #costOfLiving
Not sure whether this adds anything to the measure of the state of the UK economy but this is how the average salary has increased over the same period:1976 = £3,7001986 = £8,5001996 = £17,5002006 = 24,0002016 = £28,0002026 = £39,000#economy #uk #costOfLiving
Price of a 1st class stamp in the UK:1976 = 9p1986 = 18p1996 = 26p2006 = 32p2016 = 64p2026 = £1.80I wonder if the price of a postage stamp can be used to measure of the state of the economy? Even after the oil crisis of the 1970s, recession of the 1980s and the 2008 banking crisis there wasn't the same kind of inflationary leap as in the last 10 years. Remind me what things happened in 2016 that could have led to such an increase of inflationary pressures?#economy #uk #costOfLiving
Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can explain why non-petroleum global shipping needs to go near countries like Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, or Qatar? Containers heading from China or elsewhere to Europe via the Suez Canal shouldn't be caught up in the US attack on Iran. And yet we're being led to believe tha the Persian Gulf is somehow a through-route for all trade.
My favourite banners so far today.
We've just arrived (we thought early!) to an already-huge assembly at the stop the far right demo. Looks like it will be VERY big!
This morning it's the regular "War Is Coming!" propaganda on LBC radio.Completely absent are voices of peace and diplomacy. There is no alternative to the coming World War Three, we're being told. Why aren't we building bomb shelters ready for the incoming interballistic missiles, they ask? Why aren't our layabout youth being readied to fight?#warmongering #LBC
