My work laptop always complains that it can’t shut down the “Shutting down” app when it tries to shut down.
Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
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Chris@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something that's free that everyone should know about?English32·3 days agoYucata - online boardgames, take your turn when you can, no pressure.
Chris@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•In how many languages can you count to 10?English4·4 days agoThree: English, Welsh, German.
I used to be able to do French, Italian and Japanese, but I’ve managed to forget everything above about five.
Chris@feddit.ukto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•js is in the "pure embodiment of hell" category along with vb.net and phpEnglish11·8 days agoTo be fair I’d not heard of Malbolge so whatever.
Chris@feddit.ukto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•js is in the "pure embodiment of hell" category along with vb.net and phpEnglish6·8 days agoI would have put Perl as lawful evil, Brainfuck as Chaotic Evil and maybe ASM should have been Neutral Evil
Chris@feddit.ukto Europe@feddit.org•Europeans now need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) permit to visit the UK – here’s what to knowEnglish6·10 days agoI had a survey from my local (Tory) MP. On it were “on a scale of zero to ten, how important are these national issues to you?” Alongside obviously important stuff like the NHS, was “Immigration”. I rated it Zero.
Chris@feddit.ukto Europe@feddit.org•Poland pushes for EU to scrap daylight saving timeEnglish1·23 days agoThe issue is more with embedded systems which have been hard coded to European DST.
Most sane software will use the OS timezone and not care about DST. Most sane embedded systems will have some config for DST. I bet there are lots of cranky unsupported things which are horribly broken though.
Chris@feddit.ukto Europe@feddit.org•Poland pushes for EU to scrap daylight saving timeEnglish2·23 days agoI believe this was the original EU plan. Scrap it, countries decide which timezone they want to stick with.
Chris@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Besides a tourist trap, what would you do if you found yourself with a puzzle house surrounded by a maze?English5·26 days agoWe get Maize Mazes in the UK 🙂
Chris@feddit.ukto Trending Communities@feddit.nl•Trending Communities for Sunday 23rd March 2025English1·29 days agoI used to enjoy a Twitter account which was mirrors for sale! Subscribed. (Glad you mentioned it actually, as I missed it when I scanned through the list)
Chris@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative?English7·1 month agoMaybe Stract?
It’s open source and has its own search index.
You’ve sold me on Autumn. I was going to go for Spring.
Winter is next (cosy days indoors, potentially snow, and when it is sunny it’s lovely because it’s still cold)
Summer bottom of the heap. Can’t be doing with the heat.
I’ve been using Bookwyrm since I learnt about it - not long after I joined Mastodon. Migrated my GoodReads history over. @chris@wyrms.de if you want to follow!
Yes, that’s the one.
The three I listen to on a regular basis:
- Adrift - stories of introverts and social awkwardness
- The Cryptid Factor - sometimes about cryptids
- Three Bean Salad - a random topic which they eventually might touch on and know nothing about
Chris@feddit.ukto BuyFromEU@feddit.org•[Warn: Uses Gemini AI] Buy european App from EcoCheckEnglish2·1 month agoWhen it doesn’t just show ERROR (the last helpful error ever), I’m getting things like:
Made by European company: NO
Company: blah blah blah, United Kingdom
Last time I checked, the UK was part of Europe, despite desperately trying not to be.
Chris@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can we Google for Lemmy content instead of Reddit?English4·1 month agoThere was a Lemmy search engine but I don’t think it is up any more.
Stract has a Fediverse “optic” but it doesn’t appear to be working.
Probably if you tell Google to search site:lemmy.world that is likely to be good enough.
I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.