CrabAndBroom

joined 2 years ago
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 45 minutes ago

Presumably his companies must just run themselves, because we seem to be expected to believe that he's running a rocket ship company, an electric car company, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, moon-lighting as the de facto President of the United States, while also dicking around on Twitter all day long and being one of the world's #1 gamers and parenting like 15 children or whatever it's supposed to be now. (Or at least, the ones that are still talking to him I guess.)

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It just seemed less pleasant lol.

Also I guess you could interpret it two ways - one bare foot and one wet sock, or one dry sock and wet one. Neither is ideal IMO

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I think Eccleston is the best place to start personally, that's the beginning of the revival and they kind of 'reset' a lot of stuff and gradually reintroduce the key ideas of the show from there.

It's a bit cheese in places and some parts haven't aged well at all (some of it looked shit even in 2005 lol) but also that's just part of the show. It's a bonkers mess that sometimes doesn't work at all and sometimes is the best thing ever.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

TBH I don't think there's ever really been a time when Doctor Who has been running on smooth rails lol, or at least not since the 80s. The Baker and McCoy eras sounded like chaos by all accounts, the first RTD era was rough enough that Christopher Eccleston left and is still a bit spicy about it, and The Writer's Tale makes the Tennant era sound a bit better but still pretty messy.

Moffat's run seemed to run a bit smoother, but you still hear stories like the writing and production of the 50th anniversary and season 7, so maybe he just managed it a bit better and we didn't hear about it as much.

Chibnall's era was a mess off and on screen, some episodes are barely even coherent IMO. Even if you don't factor in COVID disrupting production.

And then back to RTD2, which seems to be proving that you can't fix things by just throwing money at them. But maybe that's just part of the DNA of the show now, it's just a chaotic mess run by a series of mad people that sometimes manages to be brilliant for reasons nobody fully understands lol.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

How Space Babies made it all the way from conception to broadcast, especially as the first episode of the season that's supposed to get everyone on board, without anyone intervening will forever be a mystery to me.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I had a teacher who claimed that dinosaurs weren't real. She said that people just naturally love patterns so when we find random bones we arrange them into shapes we like. Someone in the class said what about skulls that are just one bone and she ignored it lol.

That was many years ago and it's still stuck in my memory as one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it does work, does that then mean they've effectively declared torrenting to be legal? Or at least as long as you claim not to have seeded?

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Can confirm! I also have AdGuard & BPC and I can browse around it with no trouble.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Canadian stores have been owned by Sobeys since 2013!

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Safeway had them on sale for like $3.50 so we loaded up lol

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Not sure yet, I'm looking into it! I'll report back if I find a good one though

 

This is swiped from reddit but I thought it was really helpful so please don't judge me too harshly lol.

So it turns out that some Linux distros don't enable this by default for whatever reason but if you have an Intel wifi card that uses the iwlwifi driver (you can check this with lspci -k and look for a section that says Network controller: Intel Corporation and Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi under it), you can add a simple line to a config file that might make a huge difference to your wifi speeds.

Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf (if it doesn't exist just create it) and add the line: options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8 then reboot. I ran Speedtest before and after trying this on my laptop and it seems to have increased it by about 20% or so.

Your mileage may vary of course, but hopefully this helps someone!

 

Altered the title to avoid spoilers - hopefully that's okay! But for those who don't want to click - Miriam Margolyes is voicing Beep The Meep.

On joining Doctor Who, Miriam Margolyes says: “I’m relieved I got to work on Doctor Who before I died."

lol

 

Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.

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