About 20 years ago, there was an art/tech project for distributing Linux Source code by radio. Probably not very practical in reality, but a lovely concept.

Yeah, I’m invested in the answer now. Also what model of train was it? :D

The problem is, who’s going to register with twitter to find out?

I wonder what the coin was?

Maybe God is talking out of his arse?

They’re mixing up their metric and imperial sizes. These are from Forgefix, which are a British company. Many British people aged about 55 and over tend to still use imperial sizes for some things.

So it’s not 6-8mm, but "the size of wall plug for 6-8 gauge screws, which are 3.5mm - 4mm screws in metric.

Strangely, if you buy a multipack of masonry bits, they give you 3, 4, 6, 8, 10mm bits. Some brands of wall plugs tend to use 5.5mm, 6.5mm, 7mm. It is a conspiracy!

Your options are:

1. Use a smaller drill bit and wiggle it, just a little bit
2. Use a larger drill bit and pack it out with a shim/matchstick/chopped off half-a-wallplug
3. Individually buy the masonry bits which correspond to the plugs
4. Buy a different brand of wall plug, which uses 6mm or 8mm bits

Imagine how poor Jesus feels about all those crosses in churches and on people’s necklaces.

Yeah, but how happy would you be to suddenly receive a:

“Hi, apologies for the delayed reply, it turns out I’m really bad at replying to messages. Anyway, I would absolutely love to meet up whenever suits you best - although I do understand you sent that message in 2006, and circumstances have likely changed…”

?

All very fair points. The recent Observer sell-out raised a few alarms for me, though I’m still currently a subscriber, though looking at what my other options are.

The normal paid one (~£15 a month or £150 a year) is still fully ad-free, and can be (officially) shared with “a few friends and family”. This looks like a new “pay less but have adverts” subscription option, which is obviously a bit shitty and questionable.

It’s a bit pricey, but it’s one of the few British news sources without a right wing bias, and we need it to still exist.

It doesn’t excuse the privacy paywall though.

I’m speaking from a UK perspective - but yeah, very regional, even local - I have absolutely zero phone reception in the back half of my house, though full signal in the front bedroom next to the window. At least at home I can use the “WiFi assisted calling”.

Last week I was working away in a fairly nearby city and there wasn’t even enough signal for internet outside, right in the middle of the city centre, unless you walked down a side road, slightly uphill. It was bad enough that you couldn’t even get Internet signal in the train station, which I’ve never seen before.

I asked the people I was working with, and apparently it was already quite bad, but it was made even worse by right-wingers during Covid, cutting or burning down phone masts because “they had 5g mind control for your Covid chips” or whatever it was they believed that week. No idea why it’s not been repaired/replaced yet.

Whereas these days you ask for WiFi because there’s not enough phone reception from the inside of the building to get 4g/5g and therefore you can’t get any mobile Internet at all.

Revolution to mean revolving/rotating

For international readers, that’s a size 2 in UK/Australia, and approximately a size 33.5 - 34 European.

Apparently it’s also roughly a 210 - 215 mondopoint length.

Comment has a typo in it; it sholud be typo not typoo ☝️🤓

It looks like a slightly more grown-up version of the “Street Wolf”, which was a kids BMX with a pretend gps/map/computer console on it, and a real “plays annoying sounds” feature inside.

Of course, I’m only calling it annoying in retrospect. At the time I was envious of the cool kid down the road, whose computerised-scanner and siren sound machine was essential in defending our street from bad guys.