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In IT, maker of electronics and 3d-Printed and Laser-fied things
My youngest got a radio soldering kit for his birthday - he is loving it!
A report from the under sea medical officer who is inside the capsule with the crew
My wife, children and the dog have all gone to the beach for the day. I, however, am fixing the downstairs toilet...

The mad lad Sam is going to represent the UK at the next Eurovision.

Wonder if he will be taking Kosmo and the Furby organ with him.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygz17y5kdo

#LookMumNoComputer #music #uk

Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna

Synth artist Look Mum No Computer is described as "a bold and brave choice" to represent the UK.

One thing I've missed over the last 6 or 7 years since moving to Linux has been the Epic games launcher - I had a bunch of games on there that I just... stopped playing, as Epic in bottles sort of worked, but not really. Today I discovered the Heroic games launcher. Holy crap it's as seamless as Steam is now. Wonderful!
Maybe I should have tried harder to find a better brand of caps with a more reliable 105°C temperature limit, though I'm pretty sure it doesn't go above that.
Just under an hour debugging an iffy network connection on the kitchen calendar this morning before realising it was the flipping TP-link powerline adaptor - busted it's power supply caps *again*. Still, at least it's an easy fix, and I bought a big bag of them when it happened last time a year or so ago!
TIL that even when a queue in PBS has a walltime limit, you can submit a job to that queue and then once it's running, alter the walltime afterwards, which can then go beyond that limit. Success!
This flipping Windows 10 machine does an awful lot of updates for something that isn't supposed to get updates any more