penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

I wish 'lock' wasn't part of 'block' and 'clock.

Power saving: Something needs to talk between the screen power management and audio; it shouldn't put the monitor in powersave when you're actively listening to audio via it's HDMI/DP; it makes falling asleep in front of your music difficult.

Blech, OK, SATA drives moved back to old machine, which gets me access to critical stuff; still not got anything to read my NVMe drives on; I guess I could stuff them in a laptop but hmm don't want to screw said laptops up. Time to order some bits.

hmm this desktop is unstable; only 9 month old 😠 Damn; solid lockups; did see a PCIe fall to bits on one case (dmesg -w showed all devices erroring); damn; might have to get a spare CPU/RAM/etc to debug

Hmm this ~9month old PC died a couple of hours ago and it's taken until now to get it back; I've moved DIMMs to the other 2 slots (that aren't supposed to be used by themselves) hmm. Hmm; I dunno.

'Over 40s will have their second jabs accelerated, he says.' OK..come on, where when ( 3 weeks left until my 2nd; none of the popup walk-in vaccination centres seem to have the hand crafted Swiss moderna I got to let me get it early)

Right; got to a function in a codebase I'm trying to understand that has a comment from 2012 'TODO: Provide documentation' and one of the parameters has a ???? in it's function comment.

A damselfly, I think a 'Banded Demoiselle' - when I took the picture I didn't realise! I just saw this odd apparently black fly, and took this at full zoom.

#wildlife #photography

My scaleway backup VM isn't exactly reliable; it needs a reboot every few months after apparently just dieing. Hmm.

I wish the Gov just said 'It's grim up north':
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do#if-youre-in-an-area-where-the-new-covid-19-variant-is-spreading

NVMe now supports hard disks; bizarre.

https://nvmexpress.org/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nvme-2-0-specifications-and-new-technical-proposals/

Adding a ginger biscuit in the mix for the crumbs of a cheesecake makes a nice extra tang.

Upgraded desktop switch to Gigabit! (It's amazon's fault, I was under £20 on a toilet roll order...) - still, it only uses 1.5W vs 4W the old one used; it should pay itself back in about 17 years, which is about how long I've been using this 100Mbps switch.

Apparently the UK recorded no COVID deaths yesterday; well of course not, it's a bank-holiday - you're not allowed to die on a bank holiday!

We've finally got rid of pacer trains!
(Sigh, I'll be glad when I can ride a train again)
For those outside the UK; 'pacers' were a UK produced train that were the result of asking basically a bus manufacturer to make trains; they still felt like buses on rails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoCROPHjORw

Weird Google visual similarity search result -> Flower picture->Dracula - wtf? Bing got it as a Euphoriba characias 'Black Pearl'.

The underside of a 'painted lady' #butterfy (I think). I got lucky this was just in a normal suburban road and I happened to look down.
#wildlife #photography