Berttheduck

Whistle with my fingers, took a good few weeks of practice over one summer blowing spit all over my fingers but eventually I learned. Still a really useful skill today.

Interestingly for me my hair is much better without that, my head is more greasy and itchy when I’m using head and shoulders than when I’m using something else. I’ve switched to bar shampoo recently and been getting on really well with faith in nature shampoo bars.

I enjoy both. I switch between fiction/fantasy heavy and science heavy. Sometimes I’ll do a run or a series of one and get a hankering for the other. Usually I prefer my sci-fi more science than fiction. I love the expanse and the martian for example. But I also enjoy the culture and the Polity books which are more fiction than hard sci-fi.

I’m pretty sure the anachronisms in a knights tale are deliberate to give modern audiences more appreciation for the feel of things for the locals of that time period. Great movie. Always forget it’s really long though.

Well shit, I was playing dying light 2 yesterday. It’s mildly better than the other game I’ve been playing Pathogenic which is a rogue lite where you play a pathogen trying to kill the scientist who made you in a lab.

Think I’m pretty screwed either way to be honest. At least I’m dying light 2 I get to be human and do parkour so that’s cool.

Steam OS? Or emulators? It’s not like an old laptop is going to be running modern games

Could you just put Linux on the old machine instead? I suspect that would be safer.

And party on dudes.

This looks fascinating. It also has a demo. I’ll be giving it a go. Thanks for sharing.

I can touch type pretty well. Dyslexia not withstanding. I learned during the MSN messenger years.

I can also blind swipe text on my phone with not totally atrocious accuracy. Still need to proof read them before sending though.

What system is that? That’s a lot of d10s.

Gotta love the shiny click clack rocks. Such an easy rabbit hole to fall into.

Just another chipping in on the Eufy solar. I’ve been pretty impressed so far with a few minor niggles.

Generally it works well, connects nicely to the repeater and rings ok. Solar works great no issues with battery power on our south facing front.

The main selling point for me was no subscription or remote server connection.

It’s annoying if it loses connection to the WiFi. I’ve actually turned the security mode (which makes it scream if taken off the wall without turning that off first in the app).

Thanks, damn autocorrect.

Drowning in a small space like underwater caving. I’m a bit catastrophic (claustrophobic). Normally no issues with water but the thought of being trapped somewhere small and watching it full up with water terrifies me. Safe to say I am never going caving or swimming in caves.

Oh and the apparently inexorable march towards fascism in the UK and the west is pretty bad too.

Is the twist that they are actually in hell? Cuz I guessed that about halfway through the first episode when every single character was an insufferable ass. Which coincidentally is also why I stopped watching. Very American humour I think, it felt similar to Parks and Rec, another one which everyone seems to love that I bounced off hard.

Seconding this with caveats.

Masturbation is normal, natural and healthy (reduces the risk of prostate cancer in men). Unless it isn’t, it’s not healthy when it is an addiction and masturbation is getting in the way of life. If you’re not seeing friends or missing work or school because you’d rather watch porn and jerk off then that’s a problem. A therapist would be the best person to talk to about that if you do have an addiction.

If you’re just masturbating a few times a week then carry on, enjoy yourself and don’t feel guilty.

Welcome to the super cheap shaving club!

I recommend the Leasureguys guide to gourmet shaving, it’s a real deep dive into shaving with a safety razor.

I’d recommend getting yourself a blade trial pack, a few places on the net do them, and try out a selection of blades to see what your preference turns out to. Different combos of blade and razor, skin and hair types will have quite different results

For wet shaving I do 3 passes for a really close shave, with the grain, across and finally against. If I’m short on time I only do the first two and it’s presentable.

I just rinse my blade after but I only typically keep a blade for 4 or 5 shaves.

I’d recommend getting a good quality brush and an alum block for after, it will help you improve your technique too as the stingy bits are more irritated so you can focus on that for next time.

I’m basically only on windows these days because I have a windows mixed reality vr headset and I don’t know how well that would play with Linux.

Everyone dies. Only certainty of life.

As part of my job in the hospital I often interact with dying people and their families. Palliative care - caring for people in the last period of their lives, in the UK focuses on patient experience and patient priorities. We generally aim for as pain free and as comfortable an end as possible and have medication which can usually make this a possibility.

The dying process for most people is a lot like falling asleep. They get more and more sleepy and spend less time awake. Eventually they go to sleep and the breathing starts changing with bigger gaps between breaths and eventually the breathing stops.

If it’s done well it’s a peaceful process with minimal pain and agitation.

If this is something you are concerned about it might be worth talking to your doctor about it. We have the RESPECT process in the UK which is a guided conversation about things important to the patient around the end of their life with medical recommendations for what is appropriate (not every treatment is appropriate for every patient).