djdarren

I’m a welder-turned-health and safety manager. What I’m learning from self-hosting I’m using to make our h&s reporting more efficient than it was before.

Not all advertising is made equal, but I do acknowledge that being in the UK, my relationship to it is probably different to someone in the US.

I mean, I’m not inherently against the idea of a company telling people that they offer a product or service. As people who buy things, it’s useful to us to be aware that such things exist, and while that’s the case, I have no issues with companies being inventive.

But what’s shitty is that the biggest, crappiest corporations naturally have the biggest budget to blanket their shitty ads all over the place.

There’s an independent burger joint in my town that’s pretty well regarded by local residents. It’s on the end of a row, and on its side wall is an advertising board over which they have no control. For years, that board was essentially permanently rented to McDonalds, whose nearest ‘restaurant’ to that board was several miles away. That kind of thing can and should fuck off. It’s just nasty bullying.

Advertising can be useful and relatively unobtrusive. I don’t use TikTok because I can’t be trusted with it, but my wife does, and they’ll AirPlay it to our TV to show me ones they’ve favourited. Every now and then I’ll see one that’s pretty much an advert for a product, but presented in a way that it’s actually interesting, useful information about a thing for which I could well be in the market. And to me, that’s fine.

As little as possible thank you very much. Outside has people!

shudder

Nah, Grogu is the result of focus grouping the shit out of what cute character could sell the most toys. Paddington was one man’s idea.

I’ve hit an age where I’ve gone from Dark Mode Is Life to switching between them depending on lighting levels and display quality. There are times when dark mode is almost painful.

The low effort, saturation advertising we get, yes. Advertising can be interesting or inventive, but not the way it’s done now.

I’d quite to see a return how it was 100+ years ago; an image of the product with several paragraphs extolling the virtues. Though perhaps not on billboards by roads.

There’s a game I played last year, the name of which I now completely forget, which I never actually finished because the final boss was such a bitch that I ended up rage quitting. Even set to easy. I’d never been so angry at a game.

Watched the ending on YouTube instead.

edit: I just remembered, it was Bramble. Beautiful game, absolutely bitch hard.

Now, a biryani wrap could be a goer. Though you would be wrapping starch in starch. But man, it’d be good.

As a Brit, Hershey chocolate is an abomination. I’m a fat fuck who looooooves chocolate, but even I couldn’t stomach a bag of Kisses that someone once brought back for me. Awful shit.

And now you fuckers have bought Cadbury, even that chocolate has become dog shit. Not as disgusting, but nowhere near as good as it was.

Can Americans please stop making food. Let the world bring it to you.

Being unaware of pinchflat, I kinda ended up making my own.

Started off with a little app, the entirety of which was a button that, when pressed, took the link om my clipboard and downloaded the video into my Jellyfin folder. Then I got tired of having to keep it all updated across several different computers I use, so I turned it into something that runs in a docker container on my home server, that I can access through anything in my tailnet. Works beautifully.

the PS3 is now 20 years old

OutRAGEOUS misinformation…