andyc

The ghost of Kurt Cobain.

Blog: https://www.yakshaving.co.uk

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2026-04-16 13:40:03 UTC

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What notifications does the Casio send? Or presumably that is the point (but you hinted that was a requirement). I also love Casio watches.

2026-04-15 14:41:16 UTC

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Sorry to hear you lost your Dad at such a young age. My Dad passed away in 2022 but he was 86 and in declining health. Still doesn't doesn't mean I miss him though.
Bizarrely, I was power washing the patio last week and spontaneously broke down in tears. My wife came out with a cup of tea and asked 'Hey, what's up ?'
So 'I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad' really struck home.

2026-04-08 10:17:44 UTC

Trying out Vivaldi browser
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vivaldi
For this, I mainly blame @npub1exv…3ch9 and his constant evangelism 🙂

2026-01-29 17:42:17 UTC

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Oh - so you're actually 159/160 ! We expected nothing else 🙂
PS. Kudos for returning to studying which is something I never, ever contemplated. Three years at university was enough for me.

2026-01-29 17:24:47 UTC

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Oh dear. Some of the content must have been more taxing than the Lab exercises :-) Good luck !

2025-11-19 11:51:15 UTC

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Used to deploy my SSG to GitHub/Netlify which is one-click and seamless.
Recently migrated to Codeberg for obvious reasons. While it's not self hosting but an improvement from my point of view as Codeberg have the right ethos IMHO.

2025-09-27 15:35:34 UTC

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Sorry you were disappointed and it didn't live up to your expectations. Maybe I won't bother after all.

2025-09-05 22:29:29 UTC

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She was quick enough to seek expert legal advice once the Torygraph broke the story. Pity she didn't do so before attempting to defraud the taxpayer of £40,000.

2025-07-02 15:28:21 UTC

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If Oracle invent a new Oracle-Sans font that I have to install locally, does this mean that readers of the resulting document need that same font installed ? Shurely not ?

2025-07-02 14:54:35 UTC

Weekend side project.
Inspired by @npub1huw…c5x7 successfully running a legal business (lots of documents) exclusively using Open Source software, I am going to convert Oracle Office 365 document template to LibreOffice Writer.
I am producing a *lot* of documents and O365 is doing my feckin' head in. Oracle's bloated templates aren't helping.
Weird stuff like paragraphs not wrapping correctly. Adding a column on to a table extends into infinity. And as for images, please don't ask.

2025-06-06 13:32:51 UTC

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Hang on a minute. Shouldn't Nazis be capitalised (without an apostrophe) ? This is a very important issue. Inquiring minds want to know.

2025-04-23 14:06:16 UTC

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Refreshed PaperMod theme. Normal service restored. Still going to resurrect my @npub1f8f…ed9x version and look at the orgmode support.

2025-04-23 13:58:14 UTC

Like [@jbaty](https://social.lol/@jbaty ) I am getting increasingly frustrated at the deluge of Hugo changes that break my blog.
Just 'upgraded' to 0.146.6 on Netlify and, inevitably, it fails to build. Works fine locally.

2024-12-18 14:42:19 UTC

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pods looks cool and appears to be a native Gnome application. Unlike podman-desktop, it doesn't use the bloatware known as Electron.
One of my favourite things about FOSS is choice. You don't like A. Fair enough. Feel free to choose to try B or C. Or even choose to write D.
#podman
https://github.com/marhkb/pods
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/674/345/032/317/232/original/8c27df29d5694023.png

2024-12-18 14:30:02 UTC

Inspired by @npub1m7m…2e7k I am re-visiting #podman I'm a casual user (idiot) so really need a management GUI
I didn't really warm to podman-desktop but pleased to see I can use Portainer (although it needs some root privs). Will look at 'pods' too.

2024-12-16 09:28:48 UTC

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Is the TL;DR version - 'The Pixel 8 is shit' :-)