vext01

vext01 , 18 hours ago to Asklemmy in What is the right way to have your toilet paper?

I don't care as long as there is bogroll available.

vext01 , 4 days ago to Asklemmy in Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

París was ok when I went, but I do really remember there being loads of dogshit everywhere.

vext01 , 4 days ago to Asklemmy in Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

What a trope

vext01 , 8 days ago to Science Fiction in 'Carbon Based Lifeform' 70x100 cm Sci Fi inspired linoprint

Still good. One day...

vext01 , 9 days ago to retrocomputing in The short, happy reign of CD-ROM

Minimum 4x cdrom drive required

vext01 , 9 days ago to Selfhosted in immich: Does a SSD/HDD make a noticable difference?

Unless somethkng changed in the last few years, SSDs are much much faster.

vext01 , 9 days ago to retrocomputing in The short, happy reign of CD-ROM

I have good memories of the cdrom era.

Shame about the undismissable AI video overlaid on the page...

So tired of AI. Can we just not?

vext01 , 14 days ago to Asklemmy in Is everything the worst?

I find it easy to have this mindset too. Sometimes it's outright depressing.

But I think a lot of this is a result of the media having given up on reporting good news.

Try ignoring the news for a while and you may feel better.

vext01 , 14 days ago to Asklemmy in Were zx spectrum +2 keyboards disgusting to type on?

I had a +3. At the time it was much better than rubber 48K keys.

If you are expecting cherry mx switches, you will be disappointed.

vext01 , 15 days ago to Selfhosted in Simple mail server

That's true. I did learn a lot, but the idea of setting it all up again gives me anxiety.

vext01 , 15 days ago to Selfhosted in Simple mail server

I self host my email. I was hard work to set up. 0/10. Would not come again.

vext01 , 16 days ago to Asklemmy in What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution?

If you could call it an OS, ZX spectrum basic was my first. My first Linux was Slackware 6 or 7 installed from a string of floppies. Good times.

vext01 , 26 days ago to Science Fiction in Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

Good to see a list not containing just the obvious stuff.

I've read about a third of this list, and the others sound good.

The only one I'm not sure about is flatland.

vext01 , 30 days ago to Funny in Reinventing the wheel

Ah, a zoom emulator. Why didn't you say?

vext01 OP , 1 month ago to DIY in EDPM vs Fibreglass for a flat roof

Every builder I got a quote from recommended fibreglass over EDPM since we are going to have a roof lantern.

The builder I'm going to uses this system:
https://www.tuffstuff.co.uk/