twinnie

joined 1 year ago
[–] twinnie 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Haunted castle.

[–] twinnie 0 points 1 month ago (55 children)

Hezbollah have had this coming, they fired rockets at Israel on October 8th. So not because of what Israel was doing to the Palestinians, but in support of what Hamas did on October 7th.

[–] twinnie 0 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I eat meat but I still won’t buy factory farmed stuff. I went into the supermarket the other day and even the cheapest “value” eggs were free range.

[–] twinnie 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We had a really early one in the 90s, like way earlier than anyone else we knew, in a car we bought from some rich guy. We only used it once or twice as a novelty as my Dad always insisted he knew better. Plus it had its maps loaded up using some CD which was really out of date and it wasn’t like you could type in McDonalds and it would take you to the closest one, you had to put the whole address in and even then I think it wouldn’t find it half the time.

The first one I got was a gift in the 00s and it was bloody awful. Once I t turned me off a perfectly straight road to drive through a graveyard and then put me back on the road I had been on. Another time it turned me off and sent me down the only toll-road in the UK, then got me off at the first exit and put me back on the toll-road in the opposite direction to get me off at the place I’d got into it earlier. I had to pay twice to go nowhere and it added five minutes to my journey.

Just to add, when people came round our house in the late 90s my Dad would make me turn on the computer to show them MS Autoroute, which was an offline piece of software that was used to generate routes, basically what Google Maps does now with directions, but it would just give you something to print out. Really useful for the day and you could even get it to estimate how much the fuel would cost, etc.

[–] twinnie 0 points 1 month ago

I’m not interested in tobacco but I’ll always upvote stuff like this. It’s this kind of niche me content that Lemmy needs to help it grow.

[–] twinnie 15 points 1 month ago (16 children)

I used to be the same. I was actually okay when I was drunk so I used to be quite good and going to clubs and picking up women but in the normal grown-up world I was useless. I’m married now though, so there’s hope.

[–] twinnie 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we weren’t a bunch dickheads who love fiddling with things, and instead just wanted a sensible OS that worked, we’d all be using Debian on everything.

[–] twinnie 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always think that Vista was alright, it just took a bullet for every version of Windows that followed. It introduced overdue changes to many long-standing Windows conventions, changes that still stand now. If Windows 7 had been the next one after XP then everyone would have hated that instead.

[–] twinnie 70 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Do some people actually get these messages? It sounds almost illegal. I get emails from management moaning at me for not using my annual leave and reminding me to take them before they reset.

[–] twinnie 2 points 1 month ago

Same but tea.

[–] twinnie 1 points 2 months ago

Wherever a military coup overthrows a democratically elected government China and Russia are ready to step in and support them once the Western sanctions kick in.

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