Anyone using Pop!_OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I looks like they've done a lot of dev work to it and it's improving all the time. Considering installing it again... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
A few of us were talking to one of the summer interns at work about age: Someone: How old do you think Kev is? Intern: [with all the confidence in the world] 50? I turn 42 in August. FML. 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
I went for an 8km (5 mile) run this evening. I'm working my way up to 10km, but I think this was a little too much, too soon. We'll see how my middle-aged joints are in the morning... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design so much I copied it (with his permission). His new design is so fun and it's making me want to make mine more fun (no copying this time though). I'm just not sure I have the time at the moment. 🤔 https://svbck.blog/ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial and a Seiko movement that will probably outlive me. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat. Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens, with a coffee and book. Perfect Sunday morning. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
I recently bought a new Peugeot and the experience of getting setup on their online platform has been painful to say the least. Yesterday I picked up my shiny new (to me) Peugeot E-3008 GT. It's a beautiful car with lots of bells, whistles, and toys. I had my little MG EV for around 2.5 years, and it served me well, but I wanted something bigger, with more range. So I opted for the Peugeot. Anyway, since this is a modern car, it no longer comes with an owner's manual. Instead you need to install an app and read the manual there. So I did that and duly signed up for a Peugeot Connect account - all standard procedure in this internet age we find ourselves in. That was until it came to generating a password. I did my usual and generated a 30 character, complicated password with Bitwarden , only to be greeted with this ridiculous password complexity error: So my 30 character , random string password is apparently weak and the only way to make it secure is reduce it's length (and complexity) by ~50%. Not only that, I had to abide by a slew of other arbitrary rules along the way. I tried to generate a 16 character PW with Bitwarden a couple times, but the error persisted. So I ended up jumping over to Gemini, pasting the requirements in, and asking it to give me a password. Being the sycophantic AI that it is, it spat out a password that conformed to Peugeot's ridiculous rules. Or so I thought... OK, so the password Gemini generated for me was . Let's see how it stacks up to the requirements: So why the fuck is the password still being rejected as too weak ? I assume it's poor wording on Peugeot's part, but I ended up just typing gobbledegook into the field until it passed. Interestingly, also passed and was reported as a "very strong" password: For the record, is NOT a very strong password. Don't use that. Ever. I'm astonished that this is still an issue in 2026. Why on earth can't manufacturers get this simple shit right? It's basic stuff. All you're doing here is forcing people to use shitty passwords. I finally got into my bloody Peugeot account and tried to enable to Connect features so I can do things like control air-con from the app, only to find that it costs £90 (~$120) per year! This isn't a piece of hardware that I'm paying for. It's literally £90/year for a switch to be flipped in some software. Utter. Fucking. Robbery. Peugeot, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Aside from this, the new car is lovely. 🙃 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment . 8-16 characters ✅ An uppercase letter ✅ A lowercase letter ✅ A special character from the list ✅ No sequential characters ✅
Author: RR Haywood Genre: Sci-fi Released: 2018 Rating: ★★★★☆ The end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas… While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn’t make sense. London in 2111 is on the brink of annihilation. What’s more, the timelines have been twisted. Folded in on each other. It’s hard to keep track of who is where. Or, more accurately, who is when. The clock is ticking for them all. With nothing left to lose but life itself, our heroes must stop Mother—or die trying. Learn more on Goodreads ➡ I've really enjoyed this series - I'm a big fan of Haywood's writing, as regular readers will already know, I've read a few of his books . This one took me a little while to get through though; not because it was bad, just because I've had a lot going on at home, so haven't had much time for reading recently. Haywood recently released book #4 in this series, Rebirth, which I've already bought. But I don't know if I should take a break from the series. I have the Red Rising books on my Kindle and everyone keeps telling me how good they are, so I may jump over and start those. Any recommendations? Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
I have just eaten a GIANT bowl of granola, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, and home grown honey (by one of our neighbours). I have zero regrets, but I may skip lunch today. 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster mums. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
We now have 3 chicks - two white and one black. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
First two chicks! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
Two of the eggs are starting to hatch and we can hear multiple chicks cheeping away. Exciting! 🐣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
by Amit Gawande Amit talks about what motivated him to build his custom blogging platform, Jot. It's an interesting read that resonated with me as it aligns with why I created Pure Blog. Read post ➡ A month ago, this website moved to a custom engine that I built myself, one I call Jot. Why did I create it? Because I got tired of almost. Almost the right editor. Almost the right publishing flow. Almost the right feature set. -- Amit Gawande This is exactly why I started building Pure Blog , but the difference here is that I decided to publish it for everyone to use. Before doing so, I considered many of the same questions that Amit talks about in his post - I was concerned that the project would morph into a product for everyone , not just me. Ironically, it's been exactly 5 months since I introduced Pure Blog and since then I've done a shit tonne of work to it. But that wasn't driven by the people who use it. It was driven, almost exclusively, by me. Lots of people have contributed to Pure Blog, but there's hasn't been a single feature I've added that I won't get use from. Actually, that's a lie. The only feature I've added that I wouldn't have if I'd kept Pure Blog private is translations . But I think that's fine, as it's the community who contribute those translations. Anyway, I digress. I'm happy to see other bloggers forging their own path - I'd love to get a look at Jot to see what it does differently to Pure Blog, and if there's anything I could copy improve upon. Maybe one day Amit will release the source code for us to look at, but if he doesn't, I don't blame him. As for my use of Pure Blog - it's by far the best thing I ever did from a blogging perspective. Everything is just how I want it, and in a place that makes sense to me. If others get use from it too ( and they do ) then all the better. But I'll keep developing Pure Blog in a way that makes sense to me. Congrats, Amit. Welcome to the club. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
by Terence Eden Terrence talks about some of the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the British language and that, no, he won't be making his writing more global. Read post ➡ I really enjoyed this post and like that Terrance could have said "year sure, I'll try and be more inclusive for you non-Brits" , but he didn't. Instead he said: Here's the thing. No. [...] There's a reason for that. It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use. Love this, and I appreciate Terrance holding firm on our wonderful British culture - just like everyone should do on their blog. That's part of the fun - to learn about the idiosyncrasies of difference languages and cultures. It still surprises me that someone had the gall to leave a comment effectively saying "can you change the way you write to be more inclusive, because I don't understand some of the references, and I can't be bothered to learn." Some people... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them. The chicken eggs we have in the incubator won't be ready for another week or so. Excited to see how many of them we get. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
by Ibrahim Diallo Ibrahim talks about house prices in the US, how it's only getting worse, and the perception from previous generations that kids today are somehow lazy because they can't afford a house before the age of 40. Read post ➡ Being the father of 2 young people, this worries me too. Despite this post being US-centric, the script is the same here in the UK. Unless my kids generation come out of school on a 6 figure salary, they don't have a hope in hell of buying a decent house. To put that in context, here in the UK a £100,000 salary puts you in the top 3% of earners . In the late 90's a house would cost around 4x a person's salary on average. Today it's 8x . So most can forget about saving for a deposit. Instead younger generations will have to rely on inheritance, which will only exacerbate the late stages of life in which people are buying houses. Something has to give. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
I recently started getting into 3D printing , but so far I've spent most of my time getting setup and learning the ropes. I've now completed my first little project with the 3D printers and I'm really happy with the result. As a biker of many years I have a number of helmets lying around. This is because you're supposed to replace a helmet every 5 years, because the protective foam inside degrades over time. So I have a small collection of lids and nothing to really do with them. So, I decided to print myself some helmet stands and mount them in my office. There were 3 helmets I wanted to display. A reasonably well rated helmet stand on Amazon costs around £11 . So for the 3 lids, I'd be looking at £33 (~$45). Instead of handing over 33 of my finest pounds to Jeff Bezos, I decided to have a nose on Maker World and found this helmet stand that was very well rated. So I downloaded the files and set my printers to work, and a day or so later I had these little beauties: They feel really solid and have no problem holding a helmet on the wall. Better yet, they only cost me around £2.50 ($3.30) each in filament (~750g of filament in total), so way cheaper than the Amazon option. Today I finally had time to mount the lids to the wall, and I think they look great! Sure, I could have pissed about making toy dragons or whatever, but I think these are a far better use of my 3D printers, and really why I bought them. I'm so glad that the printed results are good enough to be useable. I already have some ideas of things I want to create next, but I'm going to have to start familiarising myself with FreeCAD for that project. We'll see how that goes... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
My first rather large #3DPrinting project. Can anyone work out what they are? (No they're not abstract Starship Enterprises) Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment .
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