mortimer

joined 5 months ago
[–] mortimer 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have my own website account for personal stuff, and all the other stuff that was going to my Gmail account is being redirected now to Disroot.org where I'm slowly changing the address over for each mail that comes in. I know Disroot is probably not the best, but it was free, had POP3 and IMAP support (I use IMAP on my phone and POP3 on my desktop) and it's not used for anything too important.

[–] mortimer 3 points 2 days ago

Like moronic millenial knuckle-dragger JD Vance.

[–] mortimer 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used Organic Maps on my CalyxOS phone a few days ago to navigate a 200 mile car drive home to the Scottish Highlands, and it worked flawlessly. The first 50 miles were through parts of Fife that I was not familiar with. I left it on for the rest of the journey just to track my progress and test it out. Very impressed with it. Maps are detailed and downloaded to the device for offline use. I've finally managed to deGoogle my life completely and will never use another Google product or service again.

[–] mortimer 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's news to me. Spent a lot of time in the pagan community when I was young and stupid. Never heard it ever being regarded as a derogatory term. Most pagans I knew wore it as a badge of honour.

Being in the UK, I associate Celtic culture as being primarily Scottish, Irish or Welsh. Although the term "Celt" does date much further back than modern Celtic traditions.

[–] mortimer 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Wrong.

And I know what year it is, thank you.

 

The animated clock app icon is exactly 2 minutes behind the actual time.

[–] mortimer 185 points 3 days ago (9 children)

It's like F-Droid, but for Pagans.

[–] mortimer 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Use SmartTube if it's a Firestick or Android TV.

FreeTube if it's a PC or Android mobile.

No ads.

[–] mortimer 1 points 1 week ago

I do the same over here in the UK with Nigel Farage:

"You've made a right fucking Farage of that!"

[–] mortimer 3 points 1 week ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. Yes, it is liberating, isn't it?

I found keeping Windows on a dual boot system when I first migrated to Mint was enough to make me never want to use Windows again. It kept fucking things up and I wiped it off my system shortly thereafter.

Rather than add a secondary drive, why not run a Windows virtual machine? I created a Win7 VM just for those two pieces of software that Linux doesn't have. I have blocked it from internet access and so it does everything I need on the rare occasions that I require it.

[–] mortimer 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I thought that too for a while, but over the last 5 or 6 years I'm sticking with my initial gut feeling on the matter.

[–] mortimer 2 points 1 week ago

Some people function fine with it and others don't. Just like some people get aggressive with alcohol and others become funny or idiotic. I used to smoke weed in my 20s and early 30s but then it started to make me paranoid so I quit. I know people that have smoked it all their life and are fine other than being a bit lazy or boring. It's a good tool if you play an instrument and write music. Some of the strains that are available these days are more akin to taking a psychedelic than smoking the weed I remember.

[–] mortimer 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I met Rogan briefly back in 2003 when Stanhope invited me out to his desert party. They were both working on The Man Show at the time and we went out to the studio cos Doug had a couple of things to wrap up before we took off to Panamint Springs. Rogan was sitting at a computer that he barely looked up from. I took an instant dislike to his dismissiveness. I don't get starstruck easily and back then he was hardly the celebrity he is now (me being from Scotland I only knew him as some half-rate comedian that I never found that funny). Something about his demeanour pissed me right off. I've always been the kind of person that goes with gut instinct when I meet someone for the first time (it's served me well over the years) and my gut told me this guy was a prick. He seemed to come across as having a sense of entitlement. It was a very brief encounter and introduction, but I never forgot it and haven't been too surprised by the level of fame he has achieved. He came across as someone very focussed and driven on making it big at any cost. I guess we now all see the cost. There was a sweet spot a few years ago when his interviews were good and entertaining but now it's just him repeating himself all the time and getting the same guests on like his CIA handler Mike Baker. There's clearly a political agenda to his show and Rogan has been bought and paid for many times over.

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Chinese Keyboards (self.nostupidquestions)
 

So, if the Chinese don't have an alphabet and use only pictograms comprising of over 6500 characters, how do they type on a keyboard? Do they have really large keyboards with over 6500 keys or do they just say "Screw Mandarin" and type in English (which can't be true because I've seen Chinese characters on webpages/spam emails)? Is there some kind of algorithmic key pressing magic that goes on in order to produce said characters?

 

At least 17 people have been reported killed in Israeli attacks since dawn across the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian news organisations.

Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel carried out “horrific crimes” over the previous 24 hours with 34 air strikes that killed 71 civilians across the Palestinian enclave.

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Morning Loaf (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by mortimer to c/sourdough
 
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Orac-ify (self.nostupidquestions)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by mortimer to c/nostupidquestions
 

Do you think it's possible to make one of those virtual personal assistants (Alexa for example) speak like Orac from Blake's 7?

I will only ever use one if I can get it to sound like Orac.

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LibreSpeed - Speed Test (librespeed.org)
 

Free and Open Source Speed Test. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

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OverTheWire - Wargames (overthewire.org)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by mortimer to c/linux
 

Having recently returned to Linux after a twenty year hiatus, I'm currently enjoying OverTheWire as a good terminal refresher.

OverTheWire offers various wargames that let you practice and test your skills in security concepts. You can join the chat, visit the game pages, and connect to each game using SSH on different ports.

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