Other What currently makes your life awesome?

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I'll be very surprised if we get a fast internet connection before 2030...

The village where I grew-up, Priddy, on The Mendips, has fast FTTP.

 

Don't wish for the joys of a VoIP phone too soon.
Ours has been an absolute nightmare and BT don't seem to understand what the problem is.
We're not alone, a few people I've spoken to aren't getting on with it.

If you have a router you can run existing DECT handsets from, it's fine.

We wanted 4 handsets to cover a large house, and it needs 2 hubs and 4 licences.

Each handset behaves like a separate line, so you have to transfer calls between them.
My 80 something old parents are finding it hard to operate and I put a LOT of time getting it set up as BT screwwd it up multiple times

 

Are you using the right thing? I just run VOIP through normal Gigaset DECT phones we have 5 across three floors and one in the garage at the back of the house 10m down the bottom of the garden, all runs off of one base station, I did buy a repeater but never used it as the newer handsets have far better range.

 

As of 11:54 today, I've had settled status for one year

 

My hand tattoo is healing well. I went to work on Tuesday and nobody even noticed it. After breaking the news to my tattoo-hating mother, it was actually really nice and made me feel grateful to work in such an accepting environment. I’m still undecided whether people noticed it as a change at all.

On day two, someone said, “Is that new?” which briefly caught the attention of a few colleagues, but within three minutes it was just, “Oh, cool, looks like it hurt,” and everyone was back to work. It was never mentioned again.

The simple fact that nobody gave a **** or made it into a big deal was the best part of my week.

 

I absolutely detest cardio but I’ve set my sights on running as many marathons as possible this year…

First training session I did a 5k

second…

 

All I see is a picture of a shoe?

 

Oh it was transparent



definitely sore today

 

Forgot to mention. Yesterday marked one year post op, go time was 1339 with the dreaded "grab a pillow and lets go" spiel. That walk to the euthanasia room (I know, I know, morbid humour lmao) was strangely long

No regrets

 

It's about time I excised Win11 from my PC, this is long... long... overdue.

 

I've just done the same with my PC. Well, I went OpenSUSE but otherwise exactly the same! I finally got fed up after Jedi Survivor randomly stopped working. Works flawlessly on OpenSUSE.

 

Small (but noticeable) pay rise incoming. Falls at the same time I clear my student loan which was taking a good £180 off me monthly so makes it even sweeter!

 

I nearly went with something I know extremely well, like an Ubuntu-/Debian-based distro with Gnome or Mate.

I played around with Arch a very long time ago, but very quickly got into a big mess with it. RedHat was the first distro I ever used back in the late 90s. I’m pretty sure I tried Suse early on, too.

But I’ve been pretty impressed by CachyOS so far. Bit of getting used to, I keep reaching for “sudo apt install packagename” instead of “pacman -S packagename”, and now there’s the AUR and the “paru” AUR helper as well. Very snappy, very responsive, resource usage seems quite low, and stuff like Steam & Heroic Games Launcher are installable directly from the “welcome” menu (aka CachyOS Hello).

 

Ubuntu/Debian was my wheelhouse too! Luckily I just need to remember "zypper" instead of "apt" (for the most part). Arch has always seemed just a little too tricky to be my daily driver, so I've always shied away from its child distros as well. CachyOS does look nice though and probably more gaming focused than OpenSUSE.
For full clarity I went OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead of Leap since Leap has gone down a route which makes Steam installation not quite as easy. Plus I wanted "bleeding edge" updates because gaming performance

 

Bank error in your favour: Collect £200 One Pro-Ject Tube box S3B



Picked up my bits from Sevenoaks yesterday... it's a hover-on-double-yellows-while-they-cart-it-out affair so it all went straight in the back without any inspection.
Started on the turntable when I got home, spent longer than it probably should have taken setting it all up because I have no idea what I'm doing. Once I was confident all was well it was time for the payoff.
Initial total disappointment ("oh no, this is the wrong thing I can't even use it") faded until I looked it up.

Being the honest person I am I let them know of the mistake this morning of course, and they're going to figure out the chain of events that led to me having this and not the Phono box S3B before they get back to me because that figures into the plan of what's next.
Also being the honest person I am I told them they're not getting it back, so need to figure that into the plan too. I probably won't be able to make it back in to the stop for a couple of weeks and do they really want a used phono preamp anyway?

Tubes and vinyl just seems right though.

 

Switched from Ubuntu to CachyOS last year. Not looked back yet.

Meanwhile, Corporate Overlord has decreed that five weeks cash will appear in this month's pay. (smol bonus time)

 

That was surprisingly quick for a gubmint thing. Finally got started sorting out my details for EUSS, change request confirmation email arrived at 1136 yesterday, confirmation of changes today at 0805... That quick how?

My deadname is now gone, new name is everywhere. Forever