One journalist writing a book doesn’t make something true. Chav is not a slur for the working class.

I’m a working class man from a working class area in the UK, and the vast majority of people here have never been described as chavs and never would.

I’m using Mint with a 3060 on my PC, and my wife has Mint installed with one of the very old low powered cards, a gt 710 I think. Neither of us have had problems with them 🤷🏻‍♂️

This could work really well for me too. My favourite sci fi series, Spinward Fringe, has a character who loves ‘ancient’ media, and who is one of the heroes of the story, so has access to all sorts of technology. As it’s set around a thousand years in the future, he should like at least some of the media I already own.

I’ve got an older laptop that I can take with me to give him a way to make our technologies compatible, then, for a few hundred pounds, I can buy some massive hard drives and fill them with whatever media he wants, assuming that he hasn’t given me a super powerful computing device yet. After a few decent trades, I should hopefully either be able to build highly advanced tech, or have enough information to trade on this side and pay to get things built.

I wonder if I could use a loophole too. They have sentient AIs that develop after they’re turned on for the first time. If I’m remembering it correctly, they’re not sentient beforehand. I could have one built with the knowledge of how to build their technology from scratch, and only turn it on once I’m back here.

Their medical technology is also super advanced, so bringing some of that back would be amazing. That would have its own set of questions though, like do you reveal it to the world and try to help as many people as possible straight away, possibly risking your safety, or do you keep it quiet until you can keep control of it and stop it from being taken by people who would hoard it. That’s a separate post though.

No worries 🙂

I’ve just tried again on mobile data, and it’s working properly. The weather here has been a bit shit, so it might just have been that earlier 🤷🏻‍♂️

Working for me in South Wales on Plusnet, but not on mobile data from Smarty.

I got banned from a local music night.

Apparently ‘Come On Eileen’ was a song request…

No, they weren’t quite that bad 😂

The older one passed away as a child, so they named the younger one after him, about a year later. I’m thinking that the name might be unlucky though, the younger one died in the first world war, not long after having two children. Neither of his kids were named John, and they both lived long, happy lives…

As I understand it, they’re next to the muscles, and are alive alive - oh

These people annoy me!

I’ve been doing my family tree, and part of my family is from West Wales. There’s a Thomas Thomas, named after his grandfather, and his father is Philip Thomas, who was named after his grandfather. They’ve also sprinkled a handful of boys named John Thomas through the later generations, with one being named after his own brother! 😫

To make things worse, there’s another family who are around the same age as Thomas Thomas, and the two Thomas (Thomases?) married women with the same first name, and gave their daughters the same first name too! They even live in the same small town! 😳😅

That’s how I’ve currently got my phone and Fire tablet working, KOReader to Calibre over wifi, it’s the initial setup that I couldn’t remember.

I meant to check last night, but didn’t get a chance. More playing and tweaking needed tonight 😁

I’ll have a look at that, thanks :)

I’ll have a look at Calibre Web Automated, thanks :)

I’ve set up wireless access to my Windows Calibre library but I thought the device needed to be physically connected first? I’m realising that I might be thinking of a different program though.

Not much with the server, as I’m finally finishing my switch to Mint on my main PC, now that I’ve finished the things I was stuck with Windows for.

I’m debating whether to put Calibre Web on my PC or media server, as the PC is easier to access, but the server is always on.

I’m also trying to figure out the best way to host a family Minecraft server. I’ve currently got two running at home and one remotely, but have managed to get a decent free tier Oracle server running too.

One of the Minecraft servers is staying local, as it’s just for the immediate family for our gaming sessions, but the other is for the kid’s cousins to join in too. Typically though, they haven’t wanted to play since I got the servers running, so I can’t tell which is best for them 🙈

I’ve been using Immich, but with my photos as external media. That lets me keep my directory structure too, but with the Immich features 🙂

Possibly, I honestly can’t remember. The only emails I tend to get are either only for me, or the sort of spam where I’m in the cc field, but there are loads of problems with the email anyway.

(Personally I put the addresses in the Bcc field, you might want to fix that too if you use it)

I can’t speak for the EU, but in the UK some parliament members will ignore emails that are not addressed specifically and only to them. They claim that it’s a precaution against spam 🙄

If you haven’t already, give RawTherapee a try. I can’t compare it to Lightroom, but I find it a lot easier to use than Darktable.

Just in case you’ve ruled it out because of cost, you can get into digital drawing cheaply too, if you have a computer or laptop. You can pick up Wacom drawing tablets for less than £40 in the UK and install something like Krita on Windows and Linux for free.

That’s about all the help I can give though, I’m particularly bad at it, even worse than with paper and a pencil 😅

My orbital maths is a bit rusty, but I don’t think so? I mean, I am quite close to the top of the planet, and the battery did go pretty quickly, but, uh, I don’t think so… 🫣

It’s safely in my garage for now and isn’t being touched until I hear from my local fire station about the best way to dispose of it here 🙂