No no, Miata is always the answer. Clearly, Miata is in that case answering the question “how do I look like a bellend without spending too much money, and clearly communicate that while I understand mechanics, I probably shouldn’t”.

Must ecstatic at the moment, it’s absolutely torrential here

Inspired by a true story? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY?!

Yeah, I can see the whole “bed not being the safe retreat from the horrors of the waking world” thing being traumatic, I reckon I’d probably just burn the whole lot and start again

No mention of the bastard Horse Fly that chewed me up while I was strimming yesterday. I reckon the only ones I like less than the Horse Fly are the flea and the tick, and the last only because they’re disease-ridden little nightmares. That said, I’ve never been bitten by a bedbug or stung by a scorpion, so they may well be bastards too

Vaguely, I think a lot of my outlook on life came from reading Terry Pratchett and Ian M Banks amongst others

Well colour me shocked

Mint, thank you! It stops doing it for a while, then decided it needs to warn you every time god a while, and so on. It’ll be great not to have that!

iPhones will do this even when you’re connected to an external device. Like I’m using you as a source, I want high signal-to-noise ratio, not constant nannying nonsense

Yeah, extracting an estimated 64 Trillion(!!!) in wealth from the subcontinent probably had little effect, nothing to see here

The Gameboy camera incident is wonderful

I have a chisel from 1910, and a vice from the 1890s, the barn doors I open to get at them are from the early 1800s, and the well that our water comes from is probably a hundred years older than that. Most of the doors in our house come from its first renovation, in about 1880.

There’s also the fact that we vote with our wallets - if green products become more profitable, companies will pivot toward them, and visa versa. However, I feel your original point holds water inasmuch as making these issues out personal responsibility remove the onus of responsibility, and often the spotlight, from companies whose practices cause pollution. The plastic industry is a case in point - the idea that us recycling will solve the issue was put forward by the industry so that they wouldn’t have to take responsibility for their shitty actions. Quite often individual responsibility is pushed where national/international legislation is needed

“I am a man that’s made of meat, While you’re on the internet, looking at feet”

Yeah, that’s pretty much my attitude. Why am I worrying about a watt here and a watt there when muppets are constantly asking LLMs inane questions and getting them to make dodgy hentai.

I have a whole bunch plugged in constantly for various synth nonsense. Running off solar, I thought it would be worth seeing how much of a difference it makes turning everything off at night, and basically it wasn’t worth the effort. It’s like a percentage point on top of the things like my fridge that run constantly, and is way less than using my toaster once a week. That said, if you’re on mains, it’s probably a worthy consideration if a lot of people were to do it, but it’s also probably comparable to using ChatGPT once a day or something

In fairness, my aesthetic of choice is brutalism, so if I became ungodlyly famous, my house would very much look like a bunker, which is proof you can have your cake and eat it

That’s an interesting build, thanks!

Fantastic, thanks, that’s a good resource even if they don’t have the specific ones I’m after

I should have specified, shouldn’t I? Auto/commercial/plant. I seem to only buy gear that doesn’t have readily-available workshop manuals