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Funny how the news media hasn't reported the significant drop in prices at the petrol stations!?
At one point, I was paying £1.98 for Supreme Diesel. Yesterday I paid £1.67. While that is still high, a drop of over 30p a litre is not to be sniffed at. This is why I wouldn't say I like news outlets; they only want to get you angry all the time.
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'The news media' is not one thing theguardian.com/business/2023/…
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It is. It is TV, Radio, Papers and Social media. I do not have the time, patience or inclination to list each and every outlet. I'm fairly confident if I was so determined to prove someone wrong I, too could have found a news story in the Islington Gazette stating how fuel prices have come down. The vast majority of us only have time for what Naga Munchetty tells us what we should think and rarely what's actually going on.


Open Source ERP Application Server powered by Epesi running on a Pi Zero
github.com/jtylek/RasPiEsi

I've used Epesi a number of times in the past and blogged about it. Epesi is an excellent CRM package that can be deployed cheaply (Raspberry Pi) anywhere.

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So I've had a play with Fedora SilverBlue in a VM, and I like the concept. I downloaded the iso and burnt it to the Fedora USB I got from #fosdem; however, my X270 refuses to boot the USB; a spare DELL Laptop I have lying around did show me GRUB and looked like it was booting the "Try" option, but the screen just stayed black. This is 2023, not 2003, people! Get a grip for the love of The Pond Gods.



𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗟𝗬?
Given everyone is struggling to pay for heating, food and especially their mortgages and rent, my bank thinks that now is an excellent time to send me an excited email about making over-payments on my mortgage!


Ooh! My Cross-post from Friendica to Twitter still works! See, this is what happens when you don't write shitty messages about him. 😃


I wonder if my cross-post link to Twitter still works?


I really need to get back into Podcasting because my predictions keep coming true!

I was talking about this potentially happening to a few people at #fosdem

𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁:
You're sending too many Tweets for the Freebie account. I'm convinced Elon is about to implement accounts for $5 a month with unlimited Tweets & enhanced character limits, plus a few other benefits.

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You can only answer and quote with comments to the ones in your level.
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LOL. That's a good way to make to pay. "Wanna talk to your mates? PAY ME!"



For crying out loud. How hard was that?

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗚𝘂𝘆: "So the customer's hard drive has failed, and he says there's important data on it, and the base unit has an asset number. Do you know where the records for asset numbers are kept?

𝗠𝗲: "Hmm? Well, they should be in the contract, but I bet they aren't. TBH, it is unimportant. Basically, we need to swap the drive out, re-install and take the machine back; we can worry about files on dead drives later."

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗚𝘂𝘆: "But I wanted to see what size the drive is."

𝗠𝗲: "You'll see that when we get the machine back here? Give the ticket to me; I'll sort it out [It'll be quicker if I do it by the looks of it!]." 🤦‍♂️

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he has probably come from somewhere with that kind of paperwork culture.
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Probably. Thing is, we carry stock of a range of SSD's which is what we will put in as a replacement, so "Needing to know" the HDD size is kinda irellivant.


Dear Mastodon

Please allow the exporting of followers. I really can't see the point of not allowing this because all I have to do is select all of my followers under my profile, copy them, and then paste them into a spreadsheet. The ballache is having to manually edit the content of the cells so that they can be imported into A-another instance.

Regards
Mr Fedup of Hersham.



𝗜 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗡𝗢𝗧!
I've seen my wife for a total of roughly 50 minutes since last Friday. Five minutes here, ten minutes there.


I shit you not

Me: "So I've done another cracking deal. We'll go and collect a new laptop from the customer, bring it back here and set up the new user, put all the required programs, VPN etc. on via intune, take the laptop back, and I'm charging £95 per user."

NewGuy: "They buy their stuff from Dell, don't they? Why don't they give Dell their AZURE keys, and Dell will put the programs on for them?"

Me: "GREAT! You've just stopped our company from earning around £6K a year for very little work."




cast.garden is becoming insanely popular on #Hive. Get your creativity in front of people's faces and in their ears. Can't afford to host your own show? Speak to @Agorise_world; he may have some free space, or @Hacker Public Radio and stream through #RSS to start earning!

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Here's a thought. All these tanks that are being sent to Ukraine, are they really of much use or will they actually turn out to be a nightmare? They're all different, have different systems and, for all I know, different ammunition.

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Yes, it would be so much easier to send just one type of tanks. One spare part for the entire fleet instead of five different parts and five different trainings and five different maintenance manuals and ...

But how?

Each nation helps with what is in stock. Would it be better to say "we supply only tank XYZ in sufficient quantities"? Yes. Is it realistic? No!

It is what it is.

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And as this twitter.com/ghostDancer_tt/sta…
Militarily it's probably more harm than good although it will boost moral for a very short time.


bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada…
My first thought was: "But it'll take weeks to ship those from the states?" (According to Google, it'll take 28 days) then I realised, The US is likely to strip its defences of tanks already deployed in Europe.


Ooh, here we go! AI is the new 'Thing' you were warned when automated chatbox responses was a 'thing'.
gizmodo.com/shutterstock-ai-ar…


I've been watching Represent on Netflix. It's slightly crap and yet funny all at the same time.
netflix.com/gb/title/81520506


Any predictions of when ChatGPT will become self-aware?



Dear Whoever
If you are going to issue codes, don't use i or L because how the fooking hell am I supposed to know which one when the code is: DDII75U
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The problem is the code is on a document and needs to be put in the website portal.
sorted it now. Bunch of cretins.


Oops!
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-6439…


Just bought this from Amazon for £35 to play some cassettes I have from forty-five to fifty years ago! 🤣



Dungeons & Dragons move to a Creative Commons license.

games.slashdot.org/story/23/01…

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After the debacle they created for themselves, it is gonna take a lot to get the community to trust them at all again.


ROTFLMAO

Twitter- Read Elon Musk- has sold off over 600 items, including the kitchen sink, in a bid to scrape together enough money to pay the first instalment of his loan, potentially $300M, next week.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…




This is so unfair! What on earth will Linux Podcasts have to talk about now? We need the SCO bunfight to start up again.
theregister.com/2023/01/19/hpe…


For the love of The Pond Gods
I've started using Markdown. And I always moaned about Markdown. #LeSigh


Oh crap, I've eaten my lunch. There's only an apple left. 😟


Note to self:
DO NOT! Watch any of @geerlingguy's latest videos, or you will end up buying kit you do not need!
twitter.com/geerlingguy/status…


And then suddenly Nicola Sturgeon realised she doesn't actually run her own country.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-sco…


Talking to the missus on how part of the NHS problem is that we are able to keep more and more people alive these days, she retorted: "Oh, well. We'll all live to be 200 years old then!"

It would seem, she may have to eat those words because some folk are already trying.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64…



Thank The Pond Gods for that. You can't get the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for the minute, so that means it's pointless buying any of the Argon Pod modules.



Oh, for the love of The Pond Gods!
I'm a sucker for @argon_forty stuff. I already have the ONE, the NEO and the EON.
TBH, it would just be an "Ooh! Shiny!" purchase I have no real use-case for the Pod System. Really tempted, though.
thepihut.com/collections/lates…
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Really beautiful cases. And I don't have use-cases either 😂 nor money 🙄


People should be discouraged from using Social Media on their mobile phones because too many people use a mobile app to fire off a quick Tweet/Toot/Post without bothering to engage with their audience. If you sit at your computer or tablet, you're already in the zone for communicating.
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You're absolutely right!

Sent from my Android phone



A few years ago, on Google search results, you'd get two, maybe three "Paid For" results.

𝗔𝗱 ·https://SomeURL/
SomeResult

These days there's half a page of "Paid For" results.
Next time someone says: "Can I do your SEO? We'll get you first rankings!" ask them: "Are you paying Google for Ad placement then?" you can't get 1st place for free anymore.


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I know someone on one of those 'Tradesman' websites who not only writes his own reviews but gets friends and family to write fake ones too!



Reliving old memories: cast.garden/c/tdtrs/videos
I've yet to start uploading the episodes, and who knows, maybe I might pick up the microphone again? (Although not as TDTRS)
#hive #tdtrs

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
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I've messed about with it for a few years. Went to the developer's talk at #FOSDEM in 2020


Bought a copy of Private Eye, which I would read more regularly if it weren't so sparse in its stories about Labour.
#PrivateEye