Perhaps I wasn’t paying appropriate attention but it also seemed unexpected to me. Everywhere has a background level of “we want more mods and admins” so it gets easy to ignore, and it feels like we’ve gone straight from there to “right we’re shutting down now” without an intermediate “we’re really struggling here folk and may have to consider shutting down if it doesn’t improve”.

There’s only one person whose opinion on that matters, and she’s aged 30. And maybe your daughter too, but she set it up so that’s unlikely.

You can always find a bunch of weirdos on the internet who’ll be offended at you, no matter who you are or what you do, so it’s never a good idea to not do stuff just because of that.

If you’re worried if you ARE a creep then I’d suggest plugging “what it means to be a creep” or “what is a creep” into your favourite search engine and make sure your regular habits exclude whatever you find. Use several sources, not just the first you find, because not everything on the internet is true.

I created a script called GoUpALevel.

They’re comforted by the knowledge that at least they’re not the guy who installs indicators on BMWs.

I tried pocket a couple of times but couldn’t get past the “we think you’re on a phone so you’re only getting three items on the screen at once”. Well I’m not on a phone, I’m on a desktop with a 32" monitor and three T-Rex sized items on my screen is just terrible design.

This is the way

Not in technology, it’s a rapidly evolving field. Answers that might have been absolutely perfect five years ago can now be irrelevant archaic trivia.

The kernel source code.

Make sure your driving licence is valid for driving manual in Romania. Here in the UK if you pass your test on an automatic, you’re only licenced to drive automatic, and if you drive manual then you are breaking the law and your insurance is invalid.

Maybe there’s no issue but it’s worth checking.

I hate getting stuck behind the “I won’t move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet” drivers.

How are your pubes getting near your k–

wait, no I don’t want the answer to that question.

Make Apostleship Great Again

Depends how far you go back. The top half is pretty representative of the professional dev team I was in in 1992.

Same way you did it in 2024 but it’s easier because the springgirdles have been replaced with rotated manglebrackets.

I played Thing on a Spring a lot but never completed it.

The last three games I paid for were Minecraft, Factorio and Dwarf Fortress (pre-Kitfox).

I haven’t needed a new one since that.

With the amount of other metals in cars these days it’s more aluminiumy than irony. Or perhaps plasticy.

Oh no, how awful! Quick everyone, let’s all go out and buy a Tesla to make him feel better.

Ever? Too many times. When I think I’ve told Windows Update “yes, do all the shit, yes it’s fine, yes I’m sure, yes you can do it, yes I really want you to do it, yes I’m sure I really want you to, yes I’m sure I’m sure, yes for the umpteenth fucking time” and switched off my monitor to go home for the weekend, the number of times I’ve come in on a Monday morning just to find I have to click “yes” yet again then have to sit there watching it grind out its updates.

I just wish they’d add a checkbox, off by default, that says “yes you can do it all, just stop asking stupid fucking questions” that I can click and go home. But for some reason Microwank insist I have to sit there watching that fucking update percentage creep up then endlessly sit at “100% all is done, please wait” for no reason whatsoever.

Oh yeah and there always seem to be way more reboots needed when BitLocker is active. I’m sure 1 reboot is the norm with occasional 2’s. But with BL it’s usually 5-6 reboots.

I used to work at a place where MS would raise tickets with us and I always wanted to give them the WU treatment. But professionalism always got in the way of “This ticket is 100% complete, you must close and reopen it to continue”.

There’s quite a lot of information in those pixels. You can make out gaps between words, risers and descenders, two smileys in the first paragraph which I reckon are probably a smiley and a thumbs up which will further narrow down the possibilities for the words in their vicinity. Constrain that further with English language rules and I reckon that’d get you most of the way there.