SwizzleStick

…Goddamnit.

Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.

Why, I don’t know.

Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

• armadillo bug
• boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
• butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
• carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
• cheeselog (Reading, England)
• cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
• cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
• chiggy pig (Devon, England)
• chisel pig
• chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
• doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
• fat pig (Ireland)
• gramersow (Cornwall, England)
• hog-louse
• millipedus
• QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
• mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
• pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
• potato bug
• roll up bug
• roly-poly
• slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
• sow bug
• woodbunter
• wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)

Exactly - some are perfectly fine. The cheap ones are terrible, crossthread too easily, get up in your face, dribble, or all of the above.

Sports style bottles solved the problem long before standard caps got in the game. They get disposed of together here either way, even if the cap gets yanked off for being stupid.

I don’t understand how they end up separate in disposal in the first place. The whole point is that you can reseal the bottle and move/store it without leaking. If you’re not actively using the bottle, it gets resealed to move or store. When you finish the bottle, you probably have the cap still in hand or very close by.

Tangentially, I’d love to see a Pfand type system here.

It’s definitely puddle cat season now

Thanks for choosing us at .zip :)

We’ve opened a piefed instance too - early days yet though: piefed.zip

Whatever way you go for setting up the systems themselves, I’ve found dwservice.net to be perfect for accessing systems with only a browser.

The host component is Mac, Windows and Linux compatible. The clients need only an account at DW. Hosts tied to your own account can be shared with others.

Depending on host OS, you get screen, terminal and fire transfer access. Sessions are logged if you need to review who’s accessed what.

Free. Donation optional.

I condensed down from a power hungry tower server to a couple of thinkstations and a nas. Much nicer on the power.

I ended up being lazy and just running it as a Homeassistant add-on, but end result is the same.

Have you considered self hosting with vaultwarden?

At least then it’s very apparent when it is a you problem rather than a them problem 😅

As nearly always, there is a relevant xkcd.

Even more wonderful then hahaha.

Hopefully we’ll get dumps going one way or another. Last I looked there was some headway made into poking the console on release day but I’m not keeping up with it regular.

It’s a neat system. But without the connection and services to back them, they may as well be guaranteed eventual e-waste. Not a problem now, but will be much further down the line.

Decades after release, you can still blast the dust off an old NES and play old cartridges found at flea markets the same way you did with new carts on day 1. How true will this be for the current generation of hardware in the decades to come?

It’s just another aspect of forced obsolescence getting foundations put in. They are right to call these digital sales.

An old Buffalo NAS box made me learn vi. Because that’s all it had.

Yes, this comic speaks to me.

The cacophony of metal clanging, nades blowing and panicked dashing between levels.

Gibbed way too many times by that fucker.

It’s better to name known safe options rather than leave it up to user search. The entities that work against extensions like uBO are already well aware of their existence, so hiding their names has no benefit.

Case in point - uBlock and uBlock Origin are not the same, with the former being a bastardised version that does ‘acceptable ads’. There are plenty of other poor blocking options out there for the unsuspecting to stumble into besides that.

Personal setup is Librewolf/uBO on the client and pfBlockerNG/Snort for network level blocking/additional security layer.

And welcome to .zip :) Hope you enjoy the new home!

Thank you, what a gem.