A friend of mine had to use Starlink when he lived out in the sticks, near farmland.

I do wireless designs and surveys for a living, and I still prefer my cables. Wireless internet for me is a last resort if you cannot get some form of cabled internet.

My friend told me about the jitter and the spikes in latency, but also if the weather was too bad or really cloudy then his connection would be too bad to even browse.

I’ll gladly sit on my VDSL line instead of Starlink and have a stable connection.

Also it means not funding Musk in anyway.

Classic Cisco design.

I dreaded seeing that Hermes was delivering my package when I ordered something, it was most likely going to get lost, delayed or damaged.

Changing the name to Evri changed nothing, still the worst delivery company I have come across.

A guy I worked with had a lot of orders delivered by Hermes and he said most of his deliveries arrived opened.

I’ve seen some level 3000+ players as far back as months ago, but I think they glitched/exploited that level.

The highest legit levels I have seen are about 500 - 650 or so, 500 is when their icon turns gold.

It’s a real slog at times, but I will sometimes just do the weekly challenges and stop. Timed challenges really make the game feel like a chore.

The game feels really unbalanced as well, so many rounds it’s one team completely stomping the other and it’s not even close. Often 900 tickets to 0.

My friends and I had an evening like that as well, 3 times our team won by holding all the objectives and the game ended early. That’s no fun.

Side note, games like BF6 that cannot run in Linux are also what keep me from migrating to a Linux distro. I’d be off Windows in a second if all games ran on it no issues.

This stuff was delicious.

My previous 2 flats were hotter inside versus outside during summer.

Everyone recommends keeping windows and curtains closed, but it made no difference for me.

I’d assume if my flat was hotter inside than outside, then having my windows open could not hurt. I could never figure out something that worked and my old London flat hit 37.5 Celsius once.

My new flat is on the ground floor at the back of the building in the shade all day and so much cooler. But I on,y have windows on kne side so getting a nice breeze going when I want might not work.

Hit a maximum of 25 in my flat this week thankfully, no fan or aircon.

I was doing a job at a client’s new site and this is what their carpets looked like throughout most of the office.

I stopped dead in my tracks when I walked in.

I just had a look and the channel I originally saw the video on has a Canadian flag on it.

So most likely a north American thing, but might show up in other places.

Oh, had a look online and it says it is somewhat common in Europe, like Northern Italy but originates from Eastern Europe and Russia.

Been a while since I saw the videos, but they do it the same way as with other jams.

Boil the cones or fruit in some water and sugar.

The cones become soft (they are the young and unopened cones) and I’m guessing the flavour is similar to the smell of pine tree sap.

Pine cone jam is a thing.

Saw a few YT videos on it a while back, looks pretty good to me.

I grew up on Larson comics, a friend had a copy of a Far Side Gallery book.

I blame him for a lot of my sense of humour.

The picture frame on the wall…

It protects from the bow string, I’ve gotten caught by it before… it’s not fun.

Did the front fall off?