Gethin76 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Food, drink, music, cycling, #IndyWales. incoherent drivel. Former owner "Grange Guesthouse, Cefn-Coed", now temporary gentleman of leisure.

Interested in *your* views. I unfollow/mute serial RT accounts

Long time no see 👋🏻

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.

https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive

#tech #transport #elonmusk #transportation #hyperloop #trains

Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive

After years of failed promises on transit, Silicon Valley is loading cars with new technologies to get a cut of the profits—and to collect data on us.

The New Republic
#xkcd is often spot on. It's particular spot on here about fireflies. https://xkcd.com/2802
Fireflies

xkcd
Human beings were never meant to be on a single social media platform for life. Archaeological evidence tells us our earliest ancestors hopped from platform to platform, following the migrations of the influencer herds, moving on when the soil was too depleted to grow new discourse

Anyone got any experience of using mesh wifi products?

Newly connected broadband & (as expected) the router only reaches the front half of the house, so need to get the connection to the back and preferably the garden.

Brands to look at and/or avoid?

1/10 was generous - think I sweated enough to fill a swimming pool today 🤦🏻‍♂️

Still, pretty much all done and are now home-owning residents of the people''s republic of Casnewydd. Onwards and upwards 🙂

Moving house in this weather.

1/10

Do not recommend 🤦🏻‍♂️

Definitely not getting bored with the view from going to refill my water bottle in the new job 🙂
Given the c*r it's first clean in about 6 months and I'm waiting for this to inevitably happen...