Can’t remember where I saw this, but it's a cool visualisation of the biomass and human-made mass on earth and how it has changed.
Also kinda scary.
2025-01-17 22:58:06
Today I was reminded of this old Eliza-like “AI" psychotherapist guy that you could get on a disk with your SoundBlaster Pro back in the day.
Who else remembers…
"Hello Ross.
My name is doctorsbaitso”
2025-01-16 23:17:55
Just paid my bill for healthcare, roads, emergency services, social care, education, public transport, public utilities, overseas aid for those in need and business investment.
I really don't mind. I can afford it anparthelpmpy to pay my parthelpm kinda glad I get to do it because it makes society better and help others as much as it helps me.
2025-01-15 23:00:40
The birds were singing loudly in my garden today.
When discussing this with my wife I realised that I’d not put any seed in the feeder for a few days.
Perhaps they were being noisy because they were…
Hangry Birds!
(Someone has made this game, right?)
2025-01-15 09:21:02
Can we just rename “mid life crisis” as “perfectly reasonable attempts to escape from peak life responsibility”?
2025-01-14 12:33:28
This trend for angular car fronts that will really frickin hurt any pedestrians they hit needs to stop.
2025-01-12 23:18:06
Do I follow someone that was looking for a fitness tracker + watch that was simple and just looked like a watch.
If that's you, does the leather version of this with the analogue face count?
https://us.amazfit.com/products/active-2-round?variant=46799536521468
2025-01-11 23:41:02
Just finished our rewatch of Severance season 1 in preparation for season 2. What extraordinarily good TV. Can’t wait for the new episodes.
2025-01-09 19:22:48
We have been on a repairing spree!! Yay!
I bought and installed a new battery for the iPod I use for music in the office.
I bought new feet for our kitchen mixer.
And I have a speaker that blew a diode in for repair too.
Fixing things is GOOD!!!
2025-01-06 21:26:27
I saw people saying lots of good things about the local multiplayer game goodness that is Towerfall. How have I never heard of this? It’s EXCELLENT!!!
2025-01-06 21:16:30
Chatting with friends about productivity and managing work and tasks and I’m realising that I’ve settled on a really good system (for me).
Must write about that.
It involves Rocketbooks. Which I was initially very skeptical of.
2025-01-02 10:40:54
Back to work… might take a while to get warmed up!!
(Seems I didn’t shut down properly!!)
2024-12-30 23:48:00
Related to All The Other Thoughts I’m having, I’m loving having unconnected devices again.
I have an Analogue Pocket and an Anbernic retro game handheld. I can play complete games with no monetisation, leaderboards or upgrades.
I’m listening to MY music on an iPod. Just mine. Anywhere I like. No interruptions.
My Kobo IS connected, but I just read books on it. That’s all!
I’m longing to get a BluRay player (we’re still on DVD!) and buy some actual movies.
I’ll be buying a road atlas next! 😃
2024-12-30 21:45:01
I can't stop thinking about this… I want… I NEED… a simple, succinct version of some of it to send to people to TELL THEM that this is what's happening.
https://fosstodon.org/@ross/113736031375268562
2024-12-30 21:32:18
🤔 I struggle to get started sometimes. I don't think it's perfectionism. Bit I've realised it may be what I've decided to call "craftsmanship". Here's my thinking…
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/12/craftsmanship-vs-perfectionism/
2024-12-30 16:58:09
Plugging this indie iOS browser because it’s the business in terms of privacy and customising the UI. And because it’s astonishing that only 100 people are paying $2/month for it.
Try it. And if you like it, support it!
(It became my default browser after about 24 hours of use. And that’s not something I change easily)
https://mastodon.social/@quicheindustries/113742767489954653
2024-12-30 09:28:06
And this one was, of course…
“A dark room with strange blue and orange lighting and what looks like torture equipment. A man reaches up to a metal bar attached to the ceiling. It must be my new gym.
Oh. Wait. No. This is Captain Picard in the torture room of an alien species from Star Trek: The Next Generation's Chain of Command episodes.”
2024-12-30 09:27:35
Because I took time to write the Alt texts and you may not see them. This was:
"A dark room with angular green neon lighting. There is a plinth at the front where the king of the robots stands, illuminated by spotlight. Robot underlings bow down before it in worship.
Oh no. Wait. It's a bunch of static exercise bikes. This is the spinning class at my new gym.
Looks horrid.”
2024-12-30 09:19:19
My gym closed for a month to do a big revamp, and – while I'm sure many will like the new style – I find it REALLY oppressive-looking. I just can help but compare it to the torture room in STTNG's "Chain of Command”
2024-12-30 08:37:07
I had not come across https://iotools.cloud/ before.
Loads of online tools, generators, encoders/decoders.
Nice!