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The local electricity substation is being replaced. That means shortly the whole island is meant to be without power (and broadband) for a couple of hours. Feel like I should be taking bets on how long it's *actually* going to take ๐Ÿ˜œ
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I didnโ€™t grow up in Orkney. I grew up in a place with less wind and more trees.

One of the things they taught us in school was that if you donโ€™t have a compass, you can generally work out direction by the moss on trees. Wind usually comes from the west, so moss is usually thinnest on the west side of a tree.

Similar thing here. The wind usually comes from the west, so any dry rain shadow will be on the eastern side of an object ๐Ÿ’

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With Amazon killing off all the old kindles, theyโ€™re super-cheap right now. And it turns out that jailbreaking is a minor faff, but not too difficult, really. This one was ยฃ10 and is going to somebody who was pondering getting an expensive eink ebook reader just a couple of weeks ago. :D
#permacomputing

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@nprofile1q... Now that looks particularly cursed... is it like one of those cd-to-cassette adapter thing for cars, except memorystick-to-floppy? Now I'm having terrible thoughts of what other terrible things to floppy that one could concoct :S
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Had a dream last night where I was on a train and didnโ€™t have a chance to get a ticket beforehand. It was one of those trains where first class is the same as cattle class, just with sign that says first. It was the morning rush and even though we were heading away from town, the only place to sit was in first. We went through East Croydon even though Iโ€™m pretty sure it was a southwestern service, but whโ€™evz. Shortly after there, the ticket inspector started walking through. ๐Ÿงต