Notices by Andy C (andyc)

@Luke Fair play. I'll get there. Eventually. I may have to ask @rpcutts but I'll get there.

@Luke Yeah - you just changed '30' to '27'. That doesn't really explain the joke.

@Luke Well the missus is taking me to Broadstairs in Kent. In the freezing cold. I think this is because we saw it on 'Landscape Artist of the Year' (Sky Arts) and thought it looked nice.

And I couldn't be arsed thinking of alternatives.

Plus I lurve the sea and cold, bleak, depressing settings.

@Luke Eh ?

Maybe I will just evaluate Linux Mint/Mate for 30 days.

Mind you it could be Arch (unlikely as it worked fine on Arch for 6 months).

And this 'wireless' Dell keyboard is still USB. I'm not even sure I own a keyboard with that purple keyboard connector any more.

And I'm not sure my Lenovo M900 has one to receive it either. I think it's called progress.

@rpcutts @johnnynull If only the keyboard was a sensitive as you.

@rpcutts @johnnynull That is the knub (knob) of the problem. I type FAST.

@stardot Bizarrely my (nice) brother-in-law (a mere 47 years young and a personal trainer gym bunny) applied to go on that SAS C4 program with Ant and Foxy.

He got rejected but this only spurred him on to embark on the Three Peaks challenge, the Winter Fan Dance (SAS training ordeal) followed by a trek to Everest base camp carrying 80 kilos on his back.

Or maybe he just wants more time away from my sister.

@rpcutts Yeah - I'm using Google Home to do my bidding from now on. Fuck this legacy technology.

The most irritating thing is it works perfectly for weeks, months on end without a glitch or a missed apostrophe, then spontaneously and very subtly degrades. I replace the batteries to no avail. At one point, I thought it was related to LAN traffic but no. It has a mind of its own and drives me fucking mad.

/me puts 'hands free, no wires, reliable, high quality keyboard' on Christmas list. Just missed my birthday, dammit.

@rpcutts Ant Middleton, Foxy and those fellas.

I have a 'wireless' keyboard. I don't know if it is actually 'wireless', Bluetooth or uses telepathy as it contains batteries which rather smacks of 'Legacy' technology.

What I do know is this stupid Lenovo keyboard should work reliably and if it can't transmit key-clicks (for any reason at all) to the computer, it should issue a warning - 'Battery level low - please replace' or 'Wireless signal sporadic - please type slower'

So I am typing this on a horrible Dell wired keyboard.

@mjd Ah yes. The delicious irony of it all.

@mjjzf @Luke @rpcutts @dick_turpin Well Luke wanted a Wee based solution but I am increasingly curious by NextCloud. But would it be too heavy to run on my FreeNAS ?

Default fonts look shite on Arch/Gnome. I have some notes on this but I can't understand them.

My 56th Birthday today. Daughter got me an SAS book. Lad got me Carrick and Peter Crouch's books. Wife got me a jacket (that didn't fit).

@rpcutts You are correct. Hurrah !

Reading Torygraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/11/19/uefa-nations-league-qa-next-england-does-topping-group-affect/