Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

...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.

Freezing cold walk out at a local farm.

A quick jaunt over to birdsite and I saw a couple of high-profile accounts complaining about twitter.com/jack and his meditation retreat.

There are alternatives. You have choice.

One of those accounts has a .social presence that she never uses.

Some people just like to complain.

My sister makes this face.

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

"Is there some way of making it slower?" Gmail''s engineering team, probably.

https://flic.kr/p/PtVxJ4

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

I've been trying to shake off a persistent low-grade cold for over a week. Cardio training today was quite difficult for my target heart rate, so i'm weaker than I should be.

I think I just hate winter.

Pocket, you were doing so well. Sponsored links about engagement rings are naff as fuck.

Watched a bit of Charlie Brooker's 'Dead Set' again. It's aged very well and is still absolutely biting.

Downtown on a sunny Sunday afternoon, through my tinted sunglasses. #photography

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