...There is always *some* job it's running that absolutely saturates the I/O. It's infuriating. This used to annoy me enough with servers, but on a modest laptop with a 5200rpm spinner it's intolerable.
finally rescued an old T61 that I was using as a Windows box. The application my bike's fuel controller uses needs Windows. I don't foresee needing that anymore so I swapped the drive with the original Slackware install. It's working very nicely now.
Windows was becoming to all intents unusable due to the I/O thrashing (an almost constant disk queue).
This is something that never fails to amaze me about Windows, and it's been a thing since Vista and they *still* won't sort it.
Since battling various problems with my eyes since my retina decided to part ways with my left eye, I've made a lot of observations about accessibility. Masto does a good job, I find it very readable.
This is an excample of a colour scheme that absolutely doesn't work well for me:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-api-mysqlcursor-execute.html
I don't know why I find Dire Straits and Sting (looking like he just got out of bed) so amusing but I do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcqhvPNiJzo
Facebook a la Tolkien
In the old days, the Curly One, whose name shall not be mentioned, forged a Palantir for people to share their thoughts and lives with their friends. But secretly, he forged a spying device that allowed him to see it all and control it all.
The incantation started like this:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
This time last week I took a walk out on Las Vegas strip at 6am. I like cities at first light, there's always an interesting vibe. #photography
David O'Russell's 'Three KIngs' has become a historical curio, a Pre-9/11 heist movie set during Desert Storm. Fiction from a completely different world to now.
The message of the film is now completely redundant, so it's quite weird to watch again.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
An interesting sign of Twitter's decline in usefulness is following event hashtags. Tech events in particular have become completely corrupted by the commercial bent of the algorithm, so it's impossible to find anything useful.
In much the same way Google's search on certain topics has become broken as there's so many bullshit links now.
https://openauthentication.org/ Has en expired SSL cert lol
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.