(He / Him) 'The Fixer of things'
Gen-X IT Nerd, who likes tinkering with small computers, regular-sized bicycles, playing video (and latterly tabletop) games and learning interesting things. What is 'interesting' changes on a daily basis. macOS and Linux user but tries not to be an insufferable c-word about it. Showing me Windows might make me grumpy though.
Took it to heart when someone told me "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional".
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I can predict a few things about the current state of UK politics...
Some folks will grandstand.
Some folks will lose their jobs.
F* all will change.
I really don't see the point in ousting Starmer, it's not like the rest of them have their shit together either. And there's no point in an election... as I think the electorate are, by and large, fed up with the lot of them and would rather watch some crap on the telly than walk down to a voting centre and put faith in any of them.
As you were.
Current Apple software quality in a nutshell.
Airplane mode enabled, WiFi and Bluetooth still active. Unable to switch it in the detailed control panel section.
Fantastic.
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…
Really coming to the conclusion that influencers are a plague and should be ignored.
Considering the shit-storm that Framework went through in defence of providing a couple of evaluation computers to the Omarchy project* it must feel like an almightly slap in the face to see DHH throw himself at the feet of Michael Dell.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/
Presenting Fedora Linux 44!
This release brings @gnome 50, @kde Plasma 6.6, tweaks to the Anaconda installer, and more!
Thank you to all of the contributors for another successful release. We hope you enjoy it!
Looking into recipe management apps on linux...
As usual, Gnome have something... so let's take a look at... ... ...
What in the holy f*&k are they doing??
Just taxed my van...
Entered payment via a debit card.
Got warned I'd need to approve via the app.
Approved by the app.
App shows the payment.
Website stalls...
I notice that my browser has blocked a pop-up window.
Allow the pop-up.
Pop-up fails to load.
Website tells me that NO payment was taken and my vehicle is NOT taxed.
I click continue, it tells me no data was saved and I need to start again.
Meanwhile, I receive an email from the DVLA telling me that payment WAS taken and my vehicle IS taxed.
Am now confused.
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Jim Killock
Fedora Project