Sorry to hear that, gramps!

(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)

Yeah, but Shrek’s Scottish accent is horrible.

Though probably not the most widely recognised as sexy 😁

It’s a place on Earth.

If the guitarist opened the account why is it you that has to manage it? Can’t they do it themself?

Just change it to We Wished You…

Heard of ST, but not Bureaucracy, will need to check that out, thanks! 👍

Every so often I’ll have another run at the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984.

You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can’t.

It is pitch black.

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Oh ok, that’s a shame. I’ve got to Level 32 on the YT one, can’t recall if there was an office level or not though. Weird that it’s not working for you 😞

If it helps, Hole is also playable on YouTube with no ads or transactions : https://youtube.com/playables/UgkxQ-N_EoDel6nf1kv88iwStYkdw2fqekH1

Assuming it’s the same game, of course.

As a counterpoint to that, after WW2 the UK created the National Health Service, comprehensive education and the rest of the welfare state, while nationalising many huge industries. For the UK that was pretty radical stuff, and it lasted until the 1980s when Thatcher and her mob started tearing it all apart.

Whether you’d call that modern I’m not sure, but it wasn’t traditional either.

I agree with this, and yet British politics currently feels a lot more fragmented now than it used to.

The Tories are likely looking at being reduced to a rump at the next GE, and Labour will probably get a kicking too, unless they smarten up their act toot sweet. Meanwhile Reform will likely gain a lot of seats (vomit) and the Greens may start to get towards double digits. And the Lib Dems will likely just keep on Lib Demming along.

I think there’s a very real chance of a proper hung parliament next time with no obvious stable majority coalition possible:

• Reform perhaps to win the most seats (although I am desperately hoping that their claimed support will not translate into as many seats as they think) and try to partner up with the Tories and maybe some of the Ulster Unionists
• Labour to probably lose half their seats, and be forced to look at possible LD, Green, maybe even SNP partnerships.

And possibly neither side able to put together a working coalition that would last for very long.

In which case, FPTP would have done the opposite of the two party system and led to even more divisions! Fun! 🤪

Any thread on any topic is a good place to discuss Linux

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Didn’t really mean to do this, but I ended up watching the entire Back to the Future trilogy the other night, not finishing until about 2am. That was fun, not seen those movies, especially 2 and 3, for ages.

I usually have 50-70 tabs open, spread across 6-8 windows.

Each window is for a particular client, usually with various pages from their website, plus the equivalent CMS editing page, their socials, etc. I’m regularly doing a small job for one client here, another there, and so on, so it’s easier to just leave them open.

I also usually have at least one or two windows with my own stuff - Lemmy, BlueSky, a football ⚽ forum I use, YouTube, BBC News, etc.

It’s messy, but it works on the whole. It’s a pain whenever I need to restart or run updates though, since I need to check every tab to make sure it’s safe to close! 😁

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No need, he was just fine after my version of TLJ 😁

The Last Jedi doesn’t happen the way it did. Instead, the moment on the island where Rey tries to hand Luke the lightsaber has him reject it in anger and anguish, afraid that the past he thought he had left far behind him has re-emerged. It does not get casually tossed off the cliff for a cheap giggle. The reasons for the rejection can be broadly the same, if necessary, but they can be shown in a less weird and melodramatic way.

In this new version, Finn gets something (anything) to do, ideally something that will bring he and Rey closer together by the end.

Poe does not play “Can you hear me now?” with Hux. There is no casino planet, no obvious double cross and no little moppets with magical broomsticks.

Luke does not die at the end. Leia dies at the 2/3s point, and it’s this that finally brings Luke back into the fold, perhaps to get revenge, perhaps to honour her dying wish, whatever.

Snoke is not discarded like a used tissue. Kylo and Rey still communicate psychically, but there’s no hint of romance. Instead he starts to tempt her towards the dark side, leveraging the pain she feels towards the parents who abandoned her.

I dunno, just something which follows on more naturally from TFA, which is darker, and which definitely is less silly than what we got.

The Rise of Skywalker is in many ways the same as in reality, but it’s Snoke and not the Emperor that’s the Big Bad (although maybe you get the Emperor involved as some sort of Force ghost mentor to Snoke, or whatever). It follows on much more naturally from TLJ, because it doesn’t have to spend the first 30 minutes doing major course corrections. Finn and Rey get together, only for one of them to be killed off… or were they?

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