Other What currently makes your life awesome?

I've been having awful trouble for the last few days, trying to install Windows back onto my gaming rig alongside Linux, because the Windows installer is a steaming sack of vomit.

My works BOFH has kindly offered to image Windows onto the empty SSD from my laptop dock, using WSD.
He also just told me that I'm getting a 49" ultra-super-duper-mega-wide monitor (Dell U4919W) tomorrow.

 

I've bought a stand mixer, in an attempt to perfect the well fired morning roll. First attempt is promising!

 

The chonky-boi monitor has arrived at work, and been installed (by me!).
Oh, my dog it's YUUUUUUGE!

 

The common license let me change my UK license to a German one before Brexit happened properly and now I don't have to do a stupid test that I would invariably fail.

I am a biiiiig fan of the common license malarkey, made my life much easier

I definitely haven't spent eleven hundred notes of the discount on the car on "totally legitimate replacement parts" for the RS. I definitely haven't considered getting one of the 3M Plastic Patch kits to look at repairing the worst damage in the bumper either. Not at all.

 

I meant the motorcycle parts specifically. Amongst other things, the tiered system is absolutely ridiculous. A 17-year old rider will have to take their test three times in the space of four years in order to go from A1, A2, and finally the full cat A. Or you ride around on L plates with minimal training for 7 years until you’re old enough to do cat A direct access. Technically there’s also cat AM for 16 year olds on mopeds.

 

Do you really think you will convince us with that? We're not as stupid as you think, or, err, have I got that that the wrong way round?

 

On the one hand, it seems like it would make sense to force bikers to be slightly less.. risky with their riding - most are, to be sure - but on the other hand it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference either way.

Well, there was mild front end damage so that definitely needs an uprated intercooler and neater pipework to go with it.. depending on who you ask.

The bumper part, well. I picked up a non damaged one but if I can make the existing one look not quite so shagged - there's only one big crack and it's not that big, then it should be alright in the spares/stuff I should sell really but never will pile

 

But you can't legislate for people being a knob (as much as people might try). A lot of bikers do really dumb stuff, sure, but most of the dumb stuff I see day to day comes from car drivers. A staggered license tier doesn't stop some knobber on the motorway from moving into my lane because he hasn't bothered to look out his window. What will stop that is the biker being aware that car drivers do this and not sitting alongside cars (or sitting in blind spots).

I had some absolutely excellent bike instructors, it was a far far higher standard than any other car lesson I've ever had.

 

See, I know you can't legislate people out of being dipshits but I know the harder something is to get the fewer completely braindead jackasses will do it.

To be fair, though, both my parents were (are?) Biker hooligans that got their licenses decades ago, so my opinion might be tainted.

As for car drivers doing dumb ****, come visit Germany I'll take you down a couple of roads and show you some really dumb ****. 200+ km/h, wafting in and out of lanes with no indication or indication of looking.. miracle German roads aren't mass graves

 

Only driven on speed limit free parts of the autobahn a few times.

Not sure exhilarating is the word, can't think of the right one.
Doing 200km/h+ checking the rearview all clear. Check speedo. Check rearview and it's getting full very quickly so pull back in from overtaking.

Mental. Expensive power cars whooshing past a meagre Audi at my speed. As you say, then see them bobbing in and out...

Yeah, what's another word for exhilarating?

 

Bowel evacuatingly unsettling?

 

Or, "Code Brown" for short.

 

Methinks, I can manage without driving on the autobahnen…

 

Yeah it's nothing like a nice country drive

 

There's always routes without the autobahn, but when you're doing ~500km in a round trip for a days work, the last thing I care about is how pretty the drive is

I should mention that that has to fit into the 10 hour working window - And customers tend to want the full eight hours out of you..

More, how quickly I can get home

 

500 a day? Bloody hell.

Traveling for work is the most annoying waste of time. Before I had a car way back when I'd be up at 430 for a walk, bus, train and a walk for a 730 start. Ugggh.

 

Using a a switchbot and a smartplug in tandem (along with a bit of Home Assistant magic) to make a device with an awkward soft toggle on/off button reliably turn on and off remotely. Only a little thing, but very satisfying to see it work.

 

If I can do a commute on a train, I'm not that fussed about it. Mostly because I can do almost anything else while on the train. ~500 was the most common round trip, but 2-300 wasn't uncommon either. Anything over that, though, was very much a case of staying in a hotel for however long was necessary.

 

you sir win at the internet today!