I do circus entertainment like unicycle, stilts and rope walking but my worst injury actually happened when I turned too fast on stage to talk to a volunteer. Twisted my ankle and couldn’t walk right for two weeks.

I also do electronics as a hobby and found out early on that teeth are not wire strippers. Still paying for that mistake.

We have a saying in my country: there’s no point in complaining because nobody listens. I mean we are all paying so what’s the point of moaning about it

I can’t say what it’s like now but a friend did the TEFL thing, spent a year in Taiwan and now he’s a business consultant for overseas companies. He did actually learn the language though… I guess I’m just saying that language is a worthwhile skill and travelling opens up opportunities.

This meme made me feel better about myself. Been copy pasting from Stack overflow for more than a decade, vibe coding was a real step up for me.

Not quite there yet, still waiting on the holographic AI hardware design. Coming soon I hear.

If you are worried about disk space don’t use backup on btrfs though it fills up yr drive I never encrypt my drive but maybe you should Manjaro is great though!

No it’s running Windows game on Linux so cracked versions work just as well. Don’t ask how I know that…

Theres a flatpak for that.

Picking stuff up with my toes. I use the two big ones like chopsticks or just scrunch something up with all of them together. My toes can spread out as wide as my fingers, so it’s easy to manipulate things with them. Also, I am very well balanced on one leg, probably because of doing this for so long.

This power is more and more useful as I get older and find it more of a chore to bend over, with my beer belly getting in the way (I’m almost 50, it’s a sign of success!). If it’s below my waist I’m going to pick it up with my foot 50% basically.

I live in a warm climate and hardly ever wear closed shoes luckily, I know some places it wouldn’t be practical…

Played with my kid yesterday - event is over just get the latest update and Sober is working again

Sober works by emulating android with a few hacks to make desktop use better. Actually great and up to date flatpak

My mum was a librarian for 20 years. Benefits include:

Getting to read all the books before anyone else. Nobody complains if you are reading at work. No library fines for overdue books and no limit on how many books you can take out. Quiet work environment.

I actually did an internship at the library - wonder how I manage to organise that - there is a large amount of repetitive manual labour involved as I recall it, mostly handled by the junior staff

Does anyone else feel ill when seeing some AI images? It’s like an out of tune piano for me

Unfortunately it’s not possible. There are hdmi hardware devices which are made to do this, or desktop apps like vokoscreen on Linux. Not sure about quality though for software video recording, I guess it depends on your pc capability.

Yeah I was 100% Opera on desktop and mobile until they switched to chromium and broke everything from before. Still pissed about that, lost all my bookmarks and notes at one point.

Libreelec on raspberry pi 4 (Kodi) works for me but it really needs a new YouTube app. That’s the only issue really

What like OpenAI?

Just checked, they said it’s done!

Deepseek api is down today - probably a result of their viral success recently…

I dropped out of the IT game before I even started (dropped out of an IT qualification 20yrs ago), and can honestly say it was totally worth it.

Now I spend some happy evenings working on IT side projects related to my main career (entertainment) and it’s fun. I even make extra cash doing freelance programming but because it’s not my main hustle I get to choose to say no.

What I’m saying is while you are at the hardware doing what you enjoy, there is nothing stopping you from doing freelance IT work on the side, just look for the projects that inspire you. It’s not all or nothing decision…

We had a new washing machine that for the first two washes smelled really bad and made a screeching noise as well. Just before sending it back I noticed that we forgot to remove the styrofoam around the drum…