Lord Alan of Chaol Ghleann (MOVED ACCOUNT TO @[email protected])

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I'VE MOVED MY ACCOUNT TO https://rear.train.cab/@alan!

Poster of random stuff.

Can be found driving commuter trains in the southeast UK, through London and up to Bedford. Follow @traindriver for train-related posts.

Officially a "lord', but only because I bought the rights to a minuscule plot in the castle grounds of a place called "Chaol Ghleann". I don't even know where it is.

Can be very sarcastic. Someone once told me that “sarcasm is the lowest form of wit” so I’m pleased that at least one person finds me funny.

I enjoy travelling, cycling (but only during warmer months) and playing around with Linux on a very basic level. I’ve managed to set up Pi Hole, send pager messages and host a private PBX using a Raspberry Pi. I also run an Akkoma fediverse instance.

All thoughts, comments and opinions are my own. I don’t do politics.

Feel free to follow or interact with any of my posts.

#TrainToot
#nobot

I have 3 hours to kill at London Bridge later and there’s so much I could do with my time.

But, I know that I’ll go for a brief wander which ends up near Tower Bridge, which then gives me a reason to go into Five Guys just for some fries, which means I’ll end up with a burger and shake too before scoffing it all like the fat pig that I am 😮

My wife found out about the Isle of Scilly today, which apparently is dubbed “the Seychelles of the UK”.

It piqued our interest so we started looking at how we could get there and what we could do there.

After looking at the prices for flights and ferry trips there, we have concluded that we won’t be visiting the UK Seychelles.

Sunburnt Feet

We returned home from camping yesterday and the day before, I’d fallen asleep in a chair which was in the shade. Unfortunately, as I slept, the shade disappeared and my feet were left out in the burning sun.

Plenty of moisturiser and paracetamol helps, but going back to work today and having to wear shoes for a whole 8 hours really wasn’t very comfortable 😮

I managed to keep the campfire burning for over 2 hours with just a bunch of dry wood I found in the bushes. It’s definitely keeping the chill off.

On a side note, there’s a stray cat here which is absolutely insistent upon trying to get into our tent to sleep 😮

My brother-in-law swore blind that he’d brought more beers camping than he’d drunk. He, my sister and their kids have packed up and gone home today leaving me and my wife here (in peace!) and I just found his beers in our camping fridge.

It’d be a shame to not drink them 🤫

We used to look closely at #whatsapp Usability/UX. Not anymore.

Meta is enshittifying WA to become a social media app, charging companies for access to followers, showing ads, and pushing AI slop down the throat of billions of people.

#deltachat remains all about pleasing private messaging UX. Resilient, secure and decentralized. Its trivial to get started as a family, group or little org. Its trivial to migrate between android, iphone, desktop, Ubuntu touch.

#Privacy and #RightToExit

I’ve got a T114 with #MeshCore up a tree so that we can message each other in the area at our campsite, where mobile phone signal isn’t great.

#LoRa #Meshtastic

Great, @Tutanota have now responded to my email and confirmed that a refund will be made 👍🏻

RE: https://blimey.social/objects/8a74a07e-f764-4b39-9bca-9b0a755d0e20
One of the reasons I left Tuta is that support is very tricky to get hold of when something goes wrong. Fortunately, if all else fails, I can contact my bank to raise a chargeback.

RE: https://blimey.social/objects/8a74a07e-f764-4b39-9bca-9b0a755d0e20