Recent content by charltjr

Yeah…. Longer than I thought…. Had the keyboard for six years now, first clean 😂

Might have left it a bit too long to clean my keyboard 🤮

Yeah, until you’ve been the on call contact on the weekend for a “cannot fail” system and that issue comes in you can’t appreciate the true horror. It’s not that we have to do it, it’s that we do it and have been forever. But now, under the genius new model, the team has been split and there...

I think I'm broken. I can't believe what a s**t show work has been this last month. For context, I look after a pretty complex fintech application. It's a bit of a monolith, and is very extensible with bolt-in pieces of code that we can write per-customer to cover bespoke needs. Customers or...

Yeah half decent CRTs are expensive now, 'cos of old farts like us wanting to play their retro consoles :)

That looks cool, much more focused on the arcades than the retro collective, which does have a decent amount of arcade games but I think it's the old micros and handhelds where they are more focused. It's been a while since I've been there now though, not for any negative reason, volunteering...

Sounds like a smoke test would be a good idea for the breather system and a pressure test for the coolant system. You’ve got leaks somewhere, even if it’s only vapour.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/a-single-point-of-failure-triggered-the-amazon-outage-affecting-millions It’s always DNS

YT seems to have chosen the perfect thumbnail for the video 😂

The MoT history is a thing of beauty too. Most recent test failure list: All of the advisories where still there when it then got a pass, obviously. https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/results?registration=Yt04ryj&checkRecalls=true

They definitely work better on some cars than others. Couldn’t fault them on my M3 with the six pot caliper upgrade.

What they said. Ds2500 likes relatively hard, short brake applications otherwise they do leave deposits. Easy enough to clean up, just give them death a few times.

Ahhh fax machines. Not as clumsy or random as an email. An elegant means of communication for a more civilised age.

I'm moving away from Windows. I've been piloting using Linux on a mini-PC I bought a while back and I can't fault it. I might miss out on a few AAA games, but with the Steam Deck out there compatibility is gettting surprisingly good now. Think I'll buy a new SSD, keep the old Windows one to one...