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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Native bluetooth trackpad would be nice too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All I will say is: wait till it encounters a Scottish accent. Sigh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'm gutted I won't be able to see the shiny film but full solidarity with the workers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

All the more reason for them to be transparent, name the problem, remove the affected stock from sale, set up some kind of recovery and/or compensation service, and write off the loss. Otherwise "SanDisk" will mean "you have shit on your shoe" forever. In the storage space a brand has to mean "safe" or its dead.

Maybe they are still finding the edges of the problem. Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Welcome to your self-wiping stock price WD.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surely they need to be completely transparent at this point to avoid the Ratners effect? I am certainly never buying SanDisk / Western Digital labelled storage ever again and I will be researching carefully next time I need storage to make sure I don't buy relabelled stuff.

I currently have SanDisk microSD cards in my DSLR so I will have to think about getting a different manufacturers card in there and saving to both in parallel just in case. I might just bin the sandisk card just to be sure, though. Their name is in the gutter already - do they realise that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some are just a long con.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really hope Elon starts complaining about his baby being deadnamed in the media.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only government department that actually listens to us when we pick up the phone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also don't feel like you have to tie yourself down to your family. My mum turned out to be an utter shit so I was delighted to be free of that surname choice anyway, and my dad had passed away years before I came out as trans and, while he had a kind heart, who knows how he would have reacted to the news? Don't be afraid to forge your own path. Don't feel like you have to associate your new name - first name or surname - with your assigned-at-birth names, even if your current relationship with your family is good.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, I knew from a story my mum told me ages ago my dad wanted us all to have biblical names, which is weird because he wasn't religious in the traditional sense at all. He must have just liked the idea? And sure enough my assigned-at-birth name as well as my sisters names were from the bible. I wrote a list of female names from the bible that I could remember as a way of honouring my dad's memory and one just popped out at me.

I had already picked my mums maiden name as my last name because I was changing that too, because my original last name had a glottal thing in it that always annoyed me and sort of tripped me up? And when I put them together it was so obviously ... me.

Speaking to other trans and non-binary people that seems to happen a fair amount, but don't worry if it doesn't. Names grow on you especially with use. As it happens I got married, changed my last name and added a middle name, and I prefer this version a lot more so who knows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear you all about having nice, starchy pasta water but it is important to have enough water that the pasta can move around freely or else it can end up being cooked unevenly. I think that's probably where the water ratio recommendation comes from.

 
 

Late last summer I saw this tiny weed in amongst some nettles and dandelions. It wasn't faring too well but it had a few beautiful, floppy white flowers so I took a photo and looked up what it was. Turns out it was a solitary Common Mallow that had somehow found its way to us. I certainly hadn't seen any around our place before so I decided to get the rest of the weeds out and nurse it through the winter.

One winter and one exuberant puppy later it had made it to the Summer. It is now just under a metre tall and has a huge number of flowers thar are just starting to bud. I'm going to let it go to seed and see if I can get it growing round the back, which is just loose stones on an unmarked farm road.

 

My neighbour is hosting a potluck shindig for her husband who passed away so I am making bolognaise.

I also have pizza dough that I made yesterday in the fridge and I'm roasting tomatoes right now to make a nice sauce to go on them.

Cooking makes me happy.

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