Use Smidge. It’s the best repellant.

Also, get some citronella. You can get it as oil (for burning), as tealights, as rope (also for burning), as incense… It does the trick in Northumberland, though I’m not so sure about Loch Latrine. Those midges might be a bit tougher.

goddamn…

I like it!

If I’m skipping any, it’ll just be Love & Monsters (a bit rubbish), The Angels Take Manhattan (too sad; can’t watch that one again), and a few (but certainly not all) of Chris Chibnall’s episodes (e.g. The Tsuranga Conundrum; I didn’t enjoy them that much).

Other than that, I’ll take the lot. I might even throw in the Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, Class, the BBV Productions movies, and those spin-off movies starring Peter Cushing, for good measure.

Where would The Runaway Bride go? It’s set in 2006, but they also travel to shortly before Earth is formed.

Also, what about episodes that are set outside of time or entirely within the TARDIS (e.g. Time Crash)? Or when all of time sort of happens at once (e.g. The Big Bang, The Wedding of River Song)?

What about false realities (e.g. Amy’s Choice, Extremis)? Bubble universes (e.g. The Doctor’s Wife, Hide)?

And then there’s the matter of the Doctor and River. Do we go in the Doctor’s order, or in River’s order?

What about cliffhangers and cyclic stories?

Absolutely I’d do this, but I’d need a very large corkboard and about a mile of red yarn to figure out the order.

Looks like the RPi 5 I got a month ago will be my last…

I really needed to here this. Thank you.

I can’t decide if I want to die or emigrate.

Alternative Nitter link for people who want to see the fascist tweet, but don’t want to do so on a fascist website: https://nitter.poast.org/ukhomeoffice/status/1785635671316537510

(Yes, I know Nitter is dead. No, I don’t know why this instance is still working.)

Just for non-car stuff. I *would * use hood for everything, but the people I would talk to about cars would get pissy for using the wrong car words.

I make an effort to speak British English, and not let any American into my vocabulary. Not really sure what the point is, but I’m sure I had a reason at some point.

However, I do like saying “hood” instead of “bonnet”, mainly because it’s easier to say “under the hood” than “under the bonnet” when talking tech.

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Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

I live in Northumberland, so I visit Newcastle often. It’s honestly not that bad, and there are some cool shops about.

Yay!

My brother is a few years below me. The point I was trying to make was that behaviour has gone downhill. The badly-behaved students in my year were generally only nasty to staff, and still manageable; but just two years below and they’re the worst people you could meet, who will pick a fight with anyone and anything and won’t stop until you are out of the picture, one way or another.

That’s not at all what I said.

It definitely is, and quickly. My year wasn’t exactly well-behaved, but as we grew up and in comparison to older and younger years, we got better. Besides, the badly-behaved students in my year generally only nasty to staff, and can be pretty friendly once you get to know them.

Meanwhile, my brother and several of his friends have effectively been bullied out of school, and the culprits let off with a detention.

It’s okay. I’ll probably end up switching to Arch, though.

It works, but there are a couple of issues:

• HiDPI is not supported by cwm, so I’ve had to do “duct tape” fixes on everything (changing .Xresources, changing GTK conf files, increasing the font size in polybar). Qt apps aren’t playing ball.
• The WiFi card isn’t supported by any BSD, so I’m using a dongle.
• The fan doesn’t come on as often as it does on macOS, so the MacBook can get rather hot.
• The headphone jack supports optical jacks as well as standard 3.5mm ones. Under OpenBSD, however, the LED inside is constantly on. This isn’t a problem, but it’s not normal.
• Polybar can’t seem to access any system information (e.g. disk usage), but I suspect that has nothing to do with the hardware.

I’ve already gone and installed macOS 11 alongside OpenBSD (although I’m going to distrohop until I can find something that “sticks”). I might have a look at patching Monterey, though.

As for those specific versions, High Sierra was the oldest version with decent software support, and Mavericks has those lovely skeuomorphic icons. I know it’s old, but I was using OSX Snow Leopard (alongside crunchbang++ i386) until I got this MacBook Pro.