And that “plane windows distort the image”

So far, I’m only £150 down on cable and clips on my rennovation. And this is the decent stuff, AWG23, and double run.

It’ll probably go sideways when I spec up a switch with enough ports, mind…

I frequently confuse the two when I’m not thinking, or my browser has defaulted to the colonial spellchecker.

They can be shown on US television at least.

You are sheltering them under the floorboards, are you not?

“Open up, morailty police!”

“Sir, do you have more than 6 dildos on the property?”

Are we sure they weren’t Roman bankers?

imperial measurements have been legally defined in reference to SI units for decades

This is the important bit.
Effectively, we are metric, but display things using the old units sometimes.

And you sometimes get people ordering lumber for the first time giving bad reviews because they feel they’ve been cheated out of some wood.

I just assume I’ll do 45.45 MPG, then I’m pleasantly surprised when the fuel bill is lower than expected.

I end up doing a lot of lazy maths, and remembering rough numbers.

45MPG? That’s about 10 miles per litre.
8 inches? Eh, 20cm.

Anything remotely technical, I convert everything to metric (and actually take the time do accurately).
Having the inch-fractions to mm table on the back of a ruler is very useful when using old drill bits and spanners.

I still don’t get why my laptop shipped with BIOS raid enabled.
It only has one drive!

There is nothing wrong with using things that “just work” when you need them to.
Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.

It’s reminding me of the 3rd party utility apps on the Apple Store.

They seem to have ditched “limited features for free” in favour of “nothing at all until you subscribe, first 7 days free”

• Advertise job at 1/3 going rate
• Get no applicants
• Use this as justification to hire somebody from a cheaper country on a visa that you control
• Pay the somebody 1/3 going rate, knowing that they will probably do lots of free overtime because of the chilling effect of a visa

You take the green USB, it’s Ventoy.
You click the wrong option in the list, and suddenly it’s GParted.

I’m not sure if I want to put my hopes for affordable electronics in manufacturer’s accidentally oversupplying due to the US tariffs!

2 days later, squiddy will be buying the books. Ideal christmas gift for your parents!

A discussion on the other site claimed that the fuck-up was in the copy that Universal sent to Mattel.
And that wrong websites frequently end up on packaging in other industries.

Mattel seem to be doing the sorry-dance for it, so no idea if it’s true. Though I’m sure Universal would be very keen to not be involved.