Nick
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Replacing Sky / Virgin media with a Freeview recorder. Looking good so far, it integrates well with all the catch-up setvices, and a software update just added YouTube. #manhattant4r #cordcutting #freeview
Our nice IT admins have fixed the Mastodon instance, thanks guys!
Mic check one two, is this thing on now?
Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!
The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.
#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python
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Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy
@gyptazy is this running on custom software?
@fox yes and no… it’s a personal customized fork of Aode
@gyptazy I'd count that as custom
@fox It got some further adjustment and also the template stuff got customized to match my #manpageblog layout (my own blog solution) of gyptazy.com
Thanks for this!
Some unsollicited UX feedback:
- "contribution" link leads to a broken page
- List of connected instances: linked text being either the domain name or the instance title is somehow hard to process, is that sorted by chronological order? That list could be tabulated and sortable (a common practice for any list bigger than the screen)
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screenshot of 404 page
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screenshot of navigation bar with "contributions" link highlighted
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A list of connected instances, each list item contains 2 to 4 informations:
title, domain name, instance type, optionnally country flags.
@tobozo thanks, I’m currently still in transition where I’m moving back to my self-written manpageblog. Things may take some time ;)
@gyptazy is it generating a lot of traffic?
@bogo it highly depends on the users, their posting frequencies and type of content. Mostly, it’s between 0,2 - 0,5Mbit, but of course it can also peak.
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Peak for a short period of time
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Daily average
Wow. Not sure what this is from, but QR codes are “fun”.
1. QR is URL that is an IP not a domain. Wow!
2. QR is not as compact as could be.
3, QR may not have required white space.
4. This is the biggie… How the fuck does anyone pick which QR they are scanning?! Most devices make that really hard.
Well done stating the crazy URLs in text though, even if text too small to read!
Have one (sane) URL and a select language option on that page.
This is special!
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A hand holding a printed instruction manual with QR codes for multiple languages. The manual includes warnings and disposal information, as well as website links for detailed manuals. The background shows a wooden floor and a small patterned rug.
@revk reminds me of barcode scanner programming books that were just page after page of barcodes you had to scan in order to configure the scanner lol.
@revk I have seen a lot of QR codes (and other 2d bar codes expected to be scanned with a phone) that are unnecessarily small, and have left wondering if anyone actually tested them with a variety of devices. To pair my phone with my car, I ended up using an SLR and macro lens to scan the code and then zoomed in so I could scan it with my phone!
@revk And for some reason, they have a Belgian version that looks identical to the Dutch one. What are the French-speaking Belgians supposed to do?
“We will always work to facilitate peaceful protest and protect the democratic right to assembly, however the actions of this group were unlawful.
“Our officers’ role is to prevent disorder, damage and disruption in the local community and they will use their powers to do this. Any breaches of the law will be dealt with.”
What damage, disorder and disruption? All I witnessed was a peaceful protest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/16/police-arrest-protesters-palestine-action-norwich
‘Police arrested 13 people at a protest in #Norfolk on Saturday on suspicion of showing support for the proscribed group Palestine Action.
A group assembled outside City Hall in St Peters Street, #Norwich, holding placards referencing the organisation, Norfolk police said. The force said they were arrested on suspicion of displaying an item in support of a proscribed organisation, contrary to section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.’
Where will this end?
I was curious to see what #BBC Look East had reported on the protest…as their studios are literally within spitting distance of City Hall and the last arrest which I must have witnessed was outside the Forum where they are based.
They have literally just cobbled together press releases from Norfolk police the Met.
They felt no need to view this peaceful protest happening on their own doorstep with their own eyes…
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: #Kent residents work for community cohesion | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/16/you-dont-see-many-locals-at-anti-migrant-protests-kent-residents-work-for-community-cohesion
@nick @Geri I used to live in SE London (was born in the area) and remember a lot of racial tension there.. I suspect half the folk at these protests are angry white people from that part of the capital who are still pissed off at the *legal* immigration that has occurred over the decades and made London a multicultural city (and the paranoia about a relatively miniscule number of refugees in a country with 60 million is a proxy for decades of prejudice/racism..)
I may have pigged 4 ice cream things today.
What's worse is they come in packs of 3.
Probably 10000% of my RDA of various things
So morish though they were fruit ones its like sorbet but in magnum form
This is not a joke... A press release from the UK government about a meeting of the "national drought group", in order to "save water at home", suggests to:
"Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems"
... while the government also pushes for full-blown investments in, and adoption of, "genAI" (e.g. here ) with absolutely no mention of the environmental costs.. which are surely orders of magnitude worse than whatever a server uses to store old pictures, and for what?! 🤦🤦🤦
This is, to put it mildly, utter bullshit.
You can store a decade of email for a million people—call it 10-20Gb each—in a 10-20Tb NAS box that costs about £2000 and sucks less electricity than a laptop.
The environment agency are gaslighting us. One wonders who put them up to it?
https://social.lol/@robb/115016579150112511
@cstross to put some numbers on it, one of our hosting VMs has ~1200 mailboxes using 1.5TB of SSD. Accounting for the CPU + RAM to allow the mail to be usable and searchable, you can get ~20 such servers on our standard 1U VM host, that uses ~250W. Approx 24k mailboxes on a server. A standard DC with adiabatic cooling would evaporate at most (likely much less) than 3500l of water per server per year or 145ml per account. We're in Telehouse South which uses 40x less water ~ 3ml/mailbox/year.
@cstross Lead story in Private Eye this week.
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Lead story in Private Eye No. 1656, 22nd Aug–4th Sept 2025, headlined Data Flow.
"As YEt another summer heatwave hit last week, the National Drought Group took a strikingly modern approach in its guidance to address England's significant water shortfall.
Alongside traditional exhortations to use a water butt and turn off taps, the group (which includes the government, water regulators and companies, the Met Office and other experts) urged people to "delete old emails and pictures, as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems".
While it's true data centres do devour water
- scientists at Oxford estimate a small data centre requires 26m litres per year to keep cool
- it's not the burden of a few old emails and jpegs driving the demand. Far more onerous is generative Al, the government's current obsession.
Keir Starmer's January blueprint to
"turbocharge Al" committed to speed up planning approvals "for the rapid build-out of data centres",
, designating them critical national
infrastructure. Planning documents indicate an estimated 100 more are due to be built in the next five years, including 28 in the area served by beleaguered Thames Water, adding an even greater burden on the country's increasingly ailing water networks. Better start deleting those photos!"
The new ChatGPT is apparently "PhD-level".
I submitted the standard question I have for every LLM chatbot.
As with every other LLM-based thing, the answer was wrong.
You do not need a PhD to answer it.
You need a web browser and an understanding of the logical implications of English words like "and" and "or", and phrases like "one or more of the following conditions".
It also subtly changed meanings of various things in the answer. Also, really financially inadvisable to follow the answer.
I must stress: the definitive answer to my test question is publicly available on a government website which is kept up-to-date and is ranked highly in search results.
This does not require delving through complex scientific articles that are only available as PDFs behind an institutional paywall and which require years of study to understand in context.
Every single LLM I've tried either returns out-of-date information, subtly makes it less accurate, or both.
This technology is dogshit.
@tommorris are you able to share your question?
Seems an unhappy time for pc/hobbyist components suppliers
https://coolcomponents.co.uk closing
https://eBuyer.com going under today
Also Pi supply and nebra gone !
https://overclock3d.net/news/misc/is-ebuyer-no-more-staff-told-to-go-home/
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08518826 @Ryanteck
This new technology fascinates me: E-ink displays are now coming as large posters, which means they do not require a wire, and you can change the poster picture 1000 times before recharging.
This is so much better for the climate than using a tv for art in the livingroom.
Today - 25 July - is the deadline for user-to-user services subject to the UK's Online Safety Act to have "highly effective age assurance" in place for UK users, if the site's content requires it. (Not all sites/content require age assurance.)
*Please* be careful, especially if you are in the UK.
Think before handing over ID documents, and be especially mindful of mistyped URLs and other scams, trying to obtain your personal data for phishing or blackmail purposes.
Hypothetical: you are a UK-based employee working for a UK company. They send you on a business trip to the US. You get the kind of welcome they currently give to visitors. What does the employer owe you? What if you had specifically objected on the basis of the current increased risk of travelling to the US?
Great news that Japanese police have put together a free decryptor for the Phobos ransomware (helped no doubt by arrested of suspected members of the gang, and the seizure of its infrastructure)
https://www.fortra.com/blog/free-decryptor-victims-phobos-ransomware-released
New UK manufacturered Heat Pump 🙂
https://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/icax-a-new-uk-heat-pump-manufacturer/
@simonzerafa sadly nowhere near big enough, I think.
I would be careful about over-specifing the HP output as it's apparently common for that to occur, depending on property design etc 🙂
@simonzerafa This was a Heat Geek who specced the 16kW .. I trust them.
@nick @simonzerafa I think we are north of 20 rads
Do you have an EPC for your place?
Here's the relevant excerpt from mine :
"Heating this property
Estimated energy needed in this property is:
20,315 kWh per year for heating
3,038 kWh per year for hot water"
My property comes back as a 75 C rating with potential to be 79 (but still C).
@nick oil is expensive compared to mains gas though.
I’d love to get a heat pump to replace this boiler, but my only actual quote so far is £24k … and my other quote which was for £3800 to 4500 ish was withdrawn when they called up. A boiler will be £2500 to 2800 supplied and fitted.
@nick Yeah, but then even the surveys are chargeable. As it is, I had a plumber to the property doing other work, and he quoted (based on being there) for the boiler option.
IIRC both heatpump guys wanted paying for the survey (which is fine, and possibly refundable in some circumstances).
Intuitively I really would prefer, right-first-time fit a heatpump. With the sad reality of the situation, it's looking likely a boiler will be what we'll do.
@nick so quite a bit more than my place, theoretically .. huh
so a 16kW heat pump does seem excessive then
I probably have one somewhere but our house is non standard construction so a HP isn't going to work, without basically rebuilding it.
We've installed a efficient gas boiler, have log burners to make use of ash dieback sourced wood and an EV using off-peak charging.
Triple glazing is next before the autumn 🫤🤷♂️
Our boiler is dying. The heat exchanger has a very slow leak, slow enough that it dries up before leaving the case of the boiler. We had booked a boiler service, and the plumber was extremely decent, said he wouldn’t condemn it as it wasn’t a safety issue but that it would want changing ideally. New boiler £2500 - 2800 ish. Now our plan was to put in a heat pump and ditch the gas. 1/2
2/2 But I’ve approached 2 potential suppliers for heat pump, and one initially gave a price in the mid thousands, fair, I thought but then called me a couple of days later to say actually the only pump they install isn’t big enough so later in the year ask again as they’ll have a bigger one. The second potential supplier gave me a quote of £24000. Both these quotes take into account the 7500 BUS grant.
So um, looks like, sadly, I’m sticking with burning gas then?
Continuing… it is possible to DIY a heat pump in a way you cannot DIY a boiler, and I have found notionally large enough heat pumps for between £2000 and £4000. My sort of idea would be to throw one in, almost intending and expecting efficiency to be not great, then gradually replace pipework / rads etc to bring it up. I do have friendly plumbers etc. But the no brainer is “get a new gas boiler” which just feels sad.
@bloor Where are you based, eg in the UK? Have you tried (say) Octopus?
Also consider at least temporary electric boiler while waiting for a heat pump.
Also consider air-to-air unit(s) for main living areas, at least to tide you over but also to allow cooling.
Also: "hybrid" heat pumps (with gas) are a thing.
@EarthOrgUK yes in the UK and it was octopus who initially gave me an acceptable rough estimate but then called and withdrew it, sadly.
@bloor @EarthOrgUK Was going to suggest Octopus as a starting point price.
Re the hybrid heatpump, wouldn't that basically be the same as some A2A units dotted around and a boiler for when it gets real cold outside?
If I did do the DIY route, I could very accurately monitor the base efficiency with open heat pump monitor (same organisation as open energy monitor) so as I made improvements I could see this in SCOP value rise. But IDK…. It seems like a risk with a fairly important system
@bloor Is it an especially large or poorly insulated place?
A colleague has a million pound house in bagshot and was quoted less than £24k
@wishy yah very similar situation
@bloor Have you had a winter in the place yet? Maybe you can use the gas consumption data to work out your thermal losses more accurately?
What size HP are they proposing?
@wishy yeah had one winter so far.
@wishy the proposal from the “really good” firm was for a 16kW pump I think. Or perhaps 18kW.
@bloor @ahnlak So ~200kWh on a peak day in december, which is 8.33kW average in a fairly (but not exceptionally) cold winter.
That's a lot of thermal losses TBH, obviously doing what you can to insulate would be hugely helpful.
That said, 8.33kW isn't 16kW. Some element of over-sizing is to be expected, but this seems exceptional.
Also don't see a good reason your A2As couldn't be considered in the calculation. How much heating capacity will they have?
@bloor @ahnlak Maybe look at how much extra is costs for bigger A2A units which can help meet heat demand in the winter? Also if your losses are high in the winter, they'll also be high in the summer, so a larger unit might make sense..
Use the more efficient A2W from Autumn to spring, use the slightly less efficient A2A in colder periods?
As to if you can make MCS accept multiple sources? Dunno
Also a pellet boiler might not be utterly insane... And CHP
@bloor
"In theory" it should be possible to rig a system so the gas boiler 'tops up' the output of a heat pump, but whether it's actually possible to find installation engineers prepared to do that I have no idea. I'd definitely be tempted by the idea of maybe DIYing a heat pump only for certain rooms, or something - I don't know if aircon units with a heating mode are an option there?
@bloor Why do heat pumps need special pipes?
@mansr In order to run most efficiently, you want a low flow temperature and to run the system near constantly. A boiler runs the circuit very hot, and either on or off (oversimplification). A heatpump runs the circuit at a few lower temperature, and continually. As a result of the lower temperature, you need higher flow. So rads connected with 10mm may need higher bore pipework. For instance. It isn't per se that heatpumps need fatter pipes, it's that maximum efficiency can be achieved this way
@bloor How much power does the circulation pump use compared to the heater? If memory serves, the pumps where I've lived have been marked 50–100 W or so. If the heater is delivering a few kW, doubling the pump power shouldn't make the efficiency dramatically worse. Enough to be worthwhile optimising in a new build, sure, but how long will it take to recover the cost of replacing all the pipework?
@bloor ZAR 24 000 would be a reasonable quote here. but £24000 is over ZAR 500 000
@mensrea for what it’s worth I’m sure it’s not a rip off; this particular installer is amazing. I’m not saying it’s not a fair quote. It probably is. But it is still high for me.
@bloor i'm sure, i also don't understand the ridiculous price difference. my father had a system installed end of last year (i think) for a large open plan house. primarily for cooling, but i think the total installed cost was under ZAR 50 000
@bloor Blimey. I had an ASHP installed two years ago. Daikin 9kW, 6 rads, bit of pipework tweaking, by Octopus, 11k all in. 5k off that for the BUS which went up to 7.5k three months later 😶
No real op cost saving but using approx 1/3 the energy overall. Three adults in the house most of the time, four when eldest is home from uni. They'll both be gone from late September so we can turn rooms down too then.
@greem we have a comparatively big house just for two people, so I suppose some stuff may be higher pro rata
@nick yep, their HP is too small unfortunately, and they only offer the one model - a new one maybe out later in the year but I think the boiler might be fully dead by then sadly
@bloor our current plan is to let our very old and inefficient (but reliable) oil boiler limp along for as long as possible to allow the heat pump industry to level up a bit more. Hoping it'll last! Shame yours isn't doing :(
@bloor I got a quote for a heat pump install.
Even when we've finished uber-insulating everything, we would need 2, and if you don't remove your old gas boiler, you aren't eligible for the grant.
I really wanted a ground-source heat pump, but even though we have a decent-sized garden, it apparently still wouldn't be big enough for one of those :(
@bloor Just get the heat exchange replaced for now, if it's a condensing boiler. I've done several but it depends on the age and make of boiler as to how feasable it is. If there are working isolators then it might only take a couple of hours.
You'll also have a backup if the heat pump fails in winter.
@geoffl I would absolutely get the boiler fixed if it could be. But parts unavailable.
@bloor Shame. I've still got some reliable contacts for old spares. I could ask around. Many boilers used common parts and it might be available as a different make/part number.
Once I was looking for spares for an obscure and obsolete combi boiler and on about the fourth call I found someone with a "display" version. All identical genuine parts but mounted in a custom transparent case as a sales/demo piece. Full set of spares. Those were the only two examples of that boiler I ever saw.
@geoffl oh well I mean that’d be awesome let me see if I can find the specific model #
@geoffl actually you know oddly I googled “baxi Barcelona parts” and it does seem like the heat exchanger exists as a spare… hmmmm
@bloor AFAIK That was also sold as a Potterton Promax SL and Main HE. Baxi, Potterton and Main had all merged at that point and shared parts. Often just the externals were different.
@bloor Early versions of that boiler did have issues with corrosion in the heat exchanger, especially if systems weren't properly flushed before installation and the correct corrosion inhibitor wasn't used. The older type inhibitor commonly used in systems with cast iron heat exchangers weren't compatible with aluminium alloy heat exchangers. Given the price of a new old stock heat exchanger on e-bay it's not worth taking a risk on a "reconditioned" one.
@bloor I'm curious what life you got out of the boiler. Our previos one just about managed to survive 12 years but had been touchy for ages. Is the cost of replacing the heat exchanger not worth it?
@penguin42 Well we have only had the house 1 year. But anecdotally the boiler is 15-20 years old.
@bloor Ah ok, so yeh probably not a terrible life for a modern boiler.
@penguin42 yeah it's just the timing; i had/have good intentions to do a HP replacement... but it feels like this has happened just a bit too early
boostedBanks are shit, part a million.
Email from a bank that is not the actual bank I bank with, asking me to fill out something for something called FATCA. Sounds like a scam. The email name starts with a dollar sign. The email address left part is all in caps and contains the year.
The email looks sussy, at the end of the email, a phone number. I dial the number. It doesn't connect.
1/fuckloads
2/fuckloads
I find another number. It does connect. Horrible IVR. (Eventually) the man at the end says it's odd that it was emailed as normally this is posted. Implies I should be sceptical. I relay the oddities with the email; non working phone number, dollar sign in the from name. etc. He effectively says I should probably not interact with it. I persist, saying that if it is genuine, there are some warnings about non compliance. He looks further. Oh, apparently it was genuine.
3/fuckloads
It's genuine even though the email name starts with a dollar, is from a bank I don't have an account with [part of same group though], it has no person's name on it, is asking for personal details, and has a non working phone number at the bottom... It is genuine.
I look at the PDF attachments. There are two. The attachments are logoed with the bank I do actually have an account with.
4/fuckloads
However, the writing in the PDFs (even on a 32" screen) is miniscule, and is blue on a blue background. I struggle to read it until I've magnified it up 2X+. I tell him this is also suboptimal and ask if I can make a complaint.
Apparently I'll be transferred to a "business advisor". After quite a long hold, I get through to an advisor. I cannot hear him well at all. It sounds like he's in a wind tunnel. I mention this. He said "oh yeah I've got a fan on". He doesn't switch it off.
5/fuckloads
Now I have assured myself that the scammy-looking-but-actually-genuine email is genuine, and zoomed in enough to read it, I find it asking a whole lot of questions about US entities, US persons, FFIs, GIINs, NFFEs, as distinct from NFEs, etc.
This is all to do what I've been doing with this bank for probably approaching 20 years. Either this is a SHIT implementation of law, or it's a SHIT law, or both.
Either way the bank is fucking bollocks.
6/fuckloads
I mean... because I do want to play ball, I've attempted to fill this heap of shit in. In one of the questions it lists a load of things that I am not NFFE etc etc. I say "none of the above". Next question offers me the option to say I am, after all, an NFFE. What the fuck.
So I call them back. Asking for clarification. Firstly they say "it's not the bank's question, it's HMRC" ... no, it has a bank logo on the top. So that's bogus.
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Their next advice is "ask your accountant or lawyer". I point out that this is a fee-incurring exercise, and, anyway, all this terminology NFFE, GIIN, NFE, FI etc are all US lingo (I think, anyway) not UK specific lingo. So I would anticipate my accountant will say "not a CPA" and my lawyer ... wait, i don't have a lawyer.
This is fucking ridiculous.
8/fuckloads
My company is :
*registered in UK
*reg office UK
*2 directors, both British, both UK addresses
*never buys or sells from USA
*25 years old
*banked with this bank for ~20 years
*1 shareholder, British, UK resident
WHY THE FUCK IS ALL THIS FUCKING SHIT NECESSARY AT ALL FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
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MOREOVER
Virtually every single thing that I say above, is either verifiable on the public record, or KNOWN TO THE FUCKING BANK ALREADY. No need for me to fill anything in.
10/fuckloads
2x formal complaints raised.
1x about them TRAINING THEIR CUSTOMERS TO BELIEVE SCAM EMAILS
and
1x about them asking customers to incur professional fees to fill in forms they shouldn't (probably) even need to fill in.
@bloor As a US person (currently outside the country), and have dealt with this overseas, I can give some insight
Individuals and corporations have setup entities for tax evasion purposes and UK is a popular spot. Due to "reasons" there's added pressure on UK banks courtesy of the new US government. Your bank seems to see you as a target for scrutiny (probably due to a garbage filter or faulty AI rollout or similar)
Deny. Refuse. Escalate. You're dealing with simpletons with enormous power
@cypnk @bloor Yeah you shouldn't really have any obligation other than to tell your bank that you're not a US person, and that should be the end of it.
If you are a US person, they then have to collect a ton of information so they can properly report income, balances, etc to the US IRS (or in the case of one of my financial institutions, decide that's too much work and send anyone who answers "yes" a "get your shit and get out" letter).
But if you're not, nah.
Am I going crazy?
On windows, you can have your display set to a non native resolution for your panel, and that will result in bigger text etc. BUT a better way to do it is have your display set to native res, and then change A N other setting that makes text physically bigger.
As far as I can see on the Mac, you have 2 choices : run display at a worse resolution than your panel can do === bigger text. OR run the panel at native res, and have shit useless tiny text? Yes/no?
My windows machine runs the displays (really) at 3840x2160. But then it uses more pixels to display the text on window titles etc.
I literally cannot find a way of doing this on the Mac.
I thought this was meant to be for graphics people? Are they all running their displays at a far-lower-than-panel-res? That presumably would mean their panels doing the scaling.... What the fuck, if so?
@bloor AFAIK, macOS always renders at native resolution, scaled to your chosen resolution. It has done for perhaps a decade, I’m not sure.
@bloor I was looking at this only the other day, check accessibility settings for larger fonts I think, and larger icons and larger icon text and so on.
@revk @bloor System Settings / Display / choose display / Advanced / Show resolutions as list ? I recently got a new 4k monitor and MacOS by default didn't show the full list of resolutions. You can then set Text Size separately - Search for "Text size (Display) in System Settings.
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Show resolutions as list
@bloor not totally sure cos I don't have the mac anymore but I think it has a scaling option. Cos I have monitors I can't read at native res/teeny text.
@bloor Having just played with this, when I change the resolution the screen isn't re-syncing, so I think the mac is actually doing the scaling rather than the display.
However, it is scaling everything not just the text.
This is the same behaviour as the slightly different UI given for native displays.
Accessibility settings gives you text size for supported apps - which is much the same as windows, it will work if the app/programme has used that option in its code.
today’s meeting: what am I going to do with a pile of cables, but no hardware to configure? if I wanted emotional support cables I have those at home
Minor annoyance of the day...
I have a Coventry postcode. Thunderbird keeps asking me if I'm sure I want to send the e-mail because I haven't added an attachment.
Finally got around to working out how to remove that from the list of keywords. Shouldn't bother me again.
We have just published all the videos and slide deck PDFs from the Prague 2025 #Mikrotik Professionals Conference. See them all here https://mtpc.world/agenda/ Preparations for the 2026 edition are already well underway! #MTPC
Wired 👍 - New induction hob fitted today as part of our move away from gas
Expired 👎 - Found out that absolutely none of our cookware works with Induction hobs
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