Iggy Pop is looking well.

I acquired the new Ted Danson/Mike Schur show, A Man on the Inside a few days ago. Given that it's spy-coded I didn't think it unusual when the opening scene supposedly filmed in the early '80s was in a foreign language. Figured that maybe Danson's character is ex-KGB or some shit and that there were no subtitles because we're not really supposed to know what he's saying.

Yeah, no. I'd somehow managed to strip out all language files but Turkish when transcoding it from MKV to MP4.

Off the top of my head, What Dreams May Come and One Hour Photo are two wildly different types of movie, both kinda bleak in their own way, and neither what you'd turn to if you wanted a Robin Williams comedy. To some extent World's Greatest Dad as well, though that one actually is pretty funny.

Reaper is available for Linux. I can't vouch for it as I've not used it on there, but I've used it on Mac and it's great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.

Picture someone who'd hide behind his bigger mates if he was threatened and you'd be closer to the mark.

Was ever thus, init.

The options are 1) Charge less and sell more, or 2) Charge much more and sell less, but make up more than the difference in how much more they charge.

They always, always take option 2 because they’re shitheads who feel like they have a legal duty to put the shareholders above the customers.

I am so uninformed over the last year

Being uninformed is ok as long as you pair it with knowing you’re uninformed.

Our Stupid Monkey Branes aren’t designed to be filled with doom all day long, they’re designed to know a handful of people in our tribe. It’s not healthy the way we chase after trying to know everything about everything in order to satisfy ourselves that we’re informed.

If I didn’t already think that Musk is a fucking shithead, him stanning for Tommy fucking Robinson would have sealed it.

Tommy Fucking Robinson (or Stephen Yaxley-Fucking-Lennon to give him his actual name) is the worst. A racist thug through and through, who, by being banged up, is in the right place.

I had to put the Teams app on my phone a few weeks back for some bullshit meeting that, for some reason, wouldn’t work properly in my browser. Had the meeting, forgot about Teams.

Was in my car earlier and noticed a different app out of the corner of my eye on the CarPlay screen.

Fucking Teams.

What kind of prick is taking a Teams call while driving? And why have MS even made that possible?

The trouble is, people like my MD has an accountant, and accountants are really good at showing rich people how to save money. So my MD takes essentially no salary.

But he does take home in excess of £300k a year in dividends. As does his wife, who hasn’t worked for the firm for six years, but is still a director.

Then he gripes about pay rises for the 120 people who work for him.

“All the information is on the task”

I have an M2 Air, and all mine is missing from that is the SDXC slot, third TB4 and HDMI, and honestly, it's fine. A third TB4/USB would be nice for when I'm doing my radio show and have to plug in my controller and mic while also charing my phone, but I already have a hub so it doesn't bother me.

That said, the limited ports on my M1 mini are quite problematic. Two TB3/USB and two USB3, but one of them is lost to a DisplayPort cable for my second monitor. So I have a desktop computer that functionally has three USB sockets, which ain't great. But again, I have a hub, so it's not a huge problem.

“Oh, you want to install software from Github, do you? Well, unfortunately, fuck you”

• macOS Sequoia

I’ve heard she thinks he’s a big ugly goon and wants to squash his face.

Actually, it’s mostly GM.

You’re a hoopy guy.

This reminds me of a great documentary: Who Killed The Electric Car?

The sign for Shitterton had to be carved out of a big chunk of local stone, because the normal metal ones kept getting nicked. Obviously.

Isn’t he a governor in Texas? Works closely with the very Biggest of Big Oil.

I worked on Queen Mary 2 for a year, back in 2010/11. From my experience that ship was probably 25% working class 70% middle, and 5% rich folks.

The worst guests were almost always middle class. They were the ones who had to let everyone know how many voyages they’d taken with Cunard over the years, and they were the ones who expected the crew to bow to their requirements.

The working class folks were just happy to be there, and made sure they had a great time, while the upper classes were actually pretty chill.