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Nowadays it’s the online account centric shite and all the privacy implications that come along with it. But even before that it was annoying to just try to do the thing

Doing the thing on linux: command that does the thing
Doing the thing on windows: click here, click there, click some more, second tab, submenu, click advanced, type in the info, save, ok, “yes I’m sure”, click ok, click apply, close 626254 windows, reboot

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Whenever I show up to a “mobilization project” which involves lifting and mounting shipping containers of machinery and IT equipment onboard ships, I check whether the containers have had their grounding wires attached, as well as checking if the deck welds have been spray painted with protective coating.
If not, I need to check if the cable runs are properly done, deck fiberoptics protected from crane operations, antenna mounted without obstructions, etc.

Checking random coax cable connections whether they’ve gotten a proper dose of molycote inside is also a pretty good indicator, but the tech department has gotten really attentive in regards to that. The grounding wire is really the only brown M&M I have left on them.

It’s hard to find more compact correctness than this comment right here.

I’ll probably kidnap some women, put them in a hole, and give them daily supplies of food and skincare products. It puts the lotion in its skin, or else it gets the hose again.

Morning: Check that it’s still there and keeping my body unified
Noon: Check that it’s still there and keeping my body unified
Afternoon: Check that it’s still there and keeping my body unified
Evening: Check that it’s still there and keeping my body unified. Sometimes I shower before bed.

In other words: I don’t really have one, and it seems to be working

It was mentioned on the Kill James Bond podcast; The James Bond character continuum.

The reason why James Bond looks different over the years is because James Bond is a position and not a person. Multiple agents have held this position. When one is killed or captured, another agent takes over.

So, where did the different agents end up?

Well, JB by Sean Connery was imprisoned in the US for his many crimes, rape included.

Lazenby quit after his wife was murdered.

Roger Moore, I don’t remember. Killed by Dolph Lundgren, probably.

Timothy Dalton, don’t remember.

Pierce Brosnan was captured by North Korea.

And here are the implications: Sean Connerys James Bond was imprisoned on Alcatraz, and his later life is depicted in the movie The Rock.

Pierce Brosnan is still in an NK cell, deprived of any social contact, tortured, 99% PTSD by what little remains of his body weight. As a coping strategy he has escaped into a fantasy world of his own making. And from this we get the movie Mamma Mia.

Currently using a Galaxy S21 FE. I’m honestly not rhat picky, as long as it’s not apple, and as long as it’s fast enough, as my employers have paid for them. I got this one after being on the wrong side of the country while my phone died, so I had the shop clerk phone up the guy at the head office to confirm that I could just pick one and send them the bill. The S21FE was what was in store at the time, and I was kind of in a hurry, as I was in the middle of a projectrelated field work.

I’ve mostly stuck to Samsung because that’s the (mangled) version of Android that I’m used to. It takes some tampering with adb to remove the bloat, but once done it works really well.

The “best” phone (quotes, because I think that’s highly subjective) I ever had was the Galaxy Note 2. I loved that phone. Great stylus, good OCR, and once it got used to my terrible handwriting, it was much better and less prone to error than typing on the softkeys. The Note 3 through 6 were not available in my country, so I know nothing. And it annoyed the fuck out of me that Note 7 was a safety hazard, because beyond that it seemed like a really good phone. Sadly the later iterations of the Note series seem too cheaply made. Plastic stylus, etc.

Honorable mention: Openmoko GTK 2. I loved it, but the concept of a linux smartphone (or smartphones in general) hadn’t matured completely in 2007, so it wasn’t at the stage where it could replace my dumb phone completely.

Today, as mentioned, I’m not that picky. I feel like most phones are the same, except the ones that are too cheap. There is only so much useful hardware that can be crammed into a phone, and beyond that there are mostly improvements on things such as the camera. The rest comes down to software.

Rain and thunder outside while inside in the evening.

Also, due to occupational damage, the sound of an offshore seismic source going off in the distance ever 10-12 seconds. The sound and the low frequency shake of the ship means everything is working as it should.

Unusable in our case

No. Beegfs.

Honestly, it’s been quite a few years s8nce the last project, so she doesn’t remember what it was.

I could provide some knitting pictures specially for you. But unfortunately I have no interest or skill when it comes to knitting so I bet it’s better if I don’t. Plus I don’t think my GF would like it if I started messing with her yarn.

I was surprised to stumble across a BIOS battery yesterday when I was taking out the drives to copy out some data, so I guess that aspect of it all is OK.

Fun fact: I work with both electrical systems and lithium batteries as part of my IT job. Yeah, it’s a weird combo, I know. And I’m certified in neither.

Also, I’ve blown up a lithium battery on purpose at work as part of a battery safetydemonstration.

Good idea. That is exactly what I’m gonna do if this works.

I live in the middle of nowhere, so getting a new one with the right specs could take ages, same goes for the tools needed, as all I have is a crude soldering iron.

What I do have, however, is a place where I can get an adjustable power supply with the right voltage. They had to ship one in with enough wattage from a nearby warehouse, though, so they said they’d have it for me on Monday.

What I also have is ability to get a new laptop if all this goes wrong s9mehow, so I’m not that concerned.

And because he’s such a great dad, Vanessa gave him a basket full of recreational self destruct buttons for fathers day.