TheMongoose

Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…

*gets asked for mobile number

Nope, don’t care that much.

Fugu. I’m far too much of a coward to try it normally.

I’d assume they were still called “Woody” and “Buzz”…

I’m in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it’ll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don’t want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that’s popular at the moment.

Hah. To swap eSIM on O2 in the UK, you have to order a physical pack that gets posted to you with the QR code in. There is no way to get the code to appear on a screen you can scan with your camera, or in an app on the phone you can transfer to the phone’s eSIM manager. It’s so dumb.

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The song goes “We wish you a merry Christmas”, so that’ll always be there for as long as the song is popular.

Plus (also because of the song, I assume), you say “merry Christmas and a happy new year”, not “happy Christmas and a happy new year”. Too much happy there.

It’s like they’re all reading the same copy of ‘how not to be a garbage human being’ and doing the exact opposite of each lesson…

Ah, but from where I sit (a long way from the US), it looks more like a pissing contest between the Republicans to see who can be the most terrible human being in government, than it does look like any sort of actual policy or principal.

It’s not about helping Ukraine, or avoiding the mistakes of Afghanistan - it’s about trying to make Biden (and/or ‘The Dems’ in general) look bad, even if that involves civilian deaths.

Are they evil, Russian agents or just absolute clowns? It doesn’t really matter, does it. The end result is the same.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

“Rent for £3.99”

But I already pay for Amazon Prime, wtf? Greedy bastards…

That was my first thought when I read this:

The Pin isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it in some way

So you’re saying… only a clanker can call another clanker ‘clanker’?

Christ, the Gammons would canonise Churchill if they could, and the man was a monster.

Prisoner Zero has escaped