sanguinepar

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Me too. I enjoyed it but reached a point where I just couldn't figure out how to proceed. Must go have and have another go sometime.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Is Aaron Rogers really worth $25m? That seems insane to me.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Love the sport, and ought to love the idea of it coming to the UK, but I really hate the international games. It's just wrong to play matches all over the world instead of at the stadium of one of the teams competing.

Would never want to see it become a regular thing in football ⚽ and don't want to see it in football 🏈 either.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

UK here - I can never quite believe that they make them play on Christmas Day. I mean FFS, if you can't have a day off on 25 December, when can you have one?

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not bad. How's yours?

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

I was saying the same thing just the other day, although in my case it was for something that was ”2 days ago" - totally unhelpful if you need to know the time it was posted! Just put an absolute date and time (and a timezone stamp if necessary).

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I was at World Bowl 1996 to see the Scottish Claymores beat Frankfurt Galaxy. 38,000 people turned up at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, which (according to Wikipedia) is the largest ever crowd for a game of football 🏈 in Scotland. Great day, and I wish the Claymores were still going.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, I would refer to a department as "it" rather than "they" 😁

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Aw man, I remember my kid having the Biff Chip and Kipper books, but we never got to the end of them as far as I know. That magic key bit was a real twist in what had thusfar been a pretty reality-grounded series. I need to go look up how that story progressed.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, love Experience too, except for I think it maybe lacks the best mixes IMO of Charly (Alley Cat) and Everybody in the Place (Fairground). Can't remember 100% off the top of my head, but I think it's those two.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Always good to see someone pick ...Jilted Generation over Fat of the Land. I do like the latter, but MFTJG is perfection.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Great thread idea - you might also enjoy !albumartporn@lemmy.world, which has some pretty out-there covers.

I'll nominate Abraxas by Santana which has a lot to take in!

 

Just upgraded, and now some things are huge, and other things are small, and it's a pain in the backside, frankly.

Also, wtf is with that battery icon? It's MASSIVE, and ugly, and the only way to make it smaller is to adjust text scaling, which then makes all other text much too small.

FFS Google.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
 

I'm currently trying to get in better shape and to that end have started dieting and cycling in my local area. For motivation, I've decided to try to 'virtually' cycle from John O'Groats (henceforth JOG) in the north of Scotland to Land's End (LE) in the south of England.

To do this, I measure how far I cycle each day (locally) and record my progress, which I then use to map where I would be on the route Google Maps recommends for cycling (I'm handwaving altitude comparisons because it's just for fun).

Ok, so - Maps says the recommended cycling route from JOG to LE is 965 miles. Fine. I've covered 21.1 miles so far (I've only just started and am not very fit).

Now, on the full 965 mile route, that 21.1 miles gets me to a small village called Haimer. However, if I ask Maps to plot me a route from JOG to Haimer, Maps says it's only 18.7 miles.

I've tried the same thing with other towns on the route, and the same is true there too - there's a roughly 10% disparity, even though the route being plotted is identical. A few yards here or there I could understand, but a 10% difference?? FFS.

 

So, even if you had been immune, through previous illness, vaccination or via maternal milk, you may not be anymore after having measles.

I had never heard this until today, and it's an absolutely horrifying thought.

You're welcome.

 

Per this thread, I'm wondering if it might be possible to create feeds of favourited people or communities.

I guess this would be similar to how multireddits worked and since that's not available on Lemmy, this might not be either. But maybe some smart person out there knows of a way.

It's not even me that wants to do it, but I'm invested in an answer now! :-)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

Love it when this happens to the clouds. Purple and red and yellow and on fire...

 

I've decided (after seeing the advice repeatedly!) to try and move away from Chrome and use FF instead. However I've immediately come across an issue which is a bit of a deal-breaker for me, and although I've looked into it, I haven't seen an answer anywhere.

One of the best features in Chrome is the abilty to create a shortcut for an individual URL. This shortcut can then be placed on the desktop, start menu or quicklaunch toolbar (Win 10) and opened as if it were a program in its own right - so, no URL bar, no tabs, no bookmarks, just the site content.

I use this method every day for a number of different sites - Outlook, Gmail, Calendar, Keep, Sheets, Docs, etc, and it's perfect. So much so that I usually forget that I'm technically opening all of these in Chrome at all, not least because the site favicon shows in the taskbar in place of the browser logo.

So, I assumed that FF would be able to do the same thing... but apparently not. Am I missing something? I've found people discussing old features like SSB (site-specific browsing) and PWA (progressive web apps), but as far as I can tell all work on this in FF has been discontinued.

I would maybe just put up with this, and use Chrome shortcuts for these sites, and FF for everything else, except that links clicked from within them will open in Chrome intead of FF, which makes for a confusing experience.

Anyone know of a good solution to this? Thanks in advance!

 

Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this?

Here's my use case in more detail

I have a laptop and a PC, with the laptop connecting to one of my 2 monitors via an HDMI splitter. This allows me to use my PC on both screens most of the time, but then quickly switch one monitor to show the laptop, when required.

Only thing is that doing that causes all PC windows* on Screen 2 to jump to Screen 1, while Screen 2 now shows the laptop's windows. That's fine, and I get why it does that (effectively the PC thinks I've disconnected Screen 2).

* (usually it's a bunch of Chrome windows, 5-7 of them - for work/multi-client reasons this works best for me and my PC handles it fine)

When I switch the HDMI splitter back, all PC windows remain on Screen 1, while Screen 2 is once again showing my PC desktop, but with no windows. Ideally all windows would flip back to where they were before, but I don't think there's a way to do this, and again, that's fine.

My next preferred option is to be able to able to move all Chrome windows over from Screen 1 to Screen 2 quickly - and this is what I'm looking for advice on. I can't seem to find a way to "select" all/multiple Chrome windows and shift them to Screen 2, but it feels like there must be a way?

Any help greatly appreciated :-)

 

Great timing. Unless they're thinking they might get a new manager bounce without actually appointing a new manager?

 

Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please... 🤞🤞🤞

 

FFS, not this bullshit again... Hopefully fan pressure can fight it off just like last time.

 

Example post: https://lemmy.world/post/14058825

I've no idea if this is technically possible at all, but on posts like the one above, where multiple images have been added, it would be really handy to be able to swipe between them as if they were in a gallery. At present it's a case of open one, close it, open the next, etc...

Same for comments, not sure if that would be different than posts.

Thanks :-)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

Since this seems to be the first post on Pics (I didn't create the community, but there's nobody here yet), I thought a bee would be quite a good first choice - feels like it fits the fediverse model quite well. Maybe not, who knows?

Anyway, here's a bee in my garden :-)

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