@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL's top 10 offenses in 2025? Bills, Bucs, Ravens headline my projection; Broncos coming in HOT https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-top-10-offenses-in-2025-bills-bucs-ravens-headline-my-projection-broncos-coming-in-ho…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWe have a local power cut so no fans are running and it sounds like everyone (us included) is sitting outside where it's cooler. It went off about 6.45 pm - my son happened to see a telegraph pole arcing in the lane and called emergency services - and it's due to be back around 11pm. It's so light at 10pm! Thank god for mobile data and charged devices.
@outer@mas.toGreat quotes of the day:
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness -Eleanor Roosevelt
To light a candle is to cast a shadow -Ursula K. Le Guin
Listen to them squabble. Where's my food? -TskTsk, Ursula's Kitty
#Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlMy favourite hammock for on our balcony broke and landed me on my ass, last month. Just got around to fixing it with parts of a new lashing strap that's rated for much more weight than me. The hammock itself is still in good shape, so this should last me some more years, now.
(I got the hammock from Kickstarter years ago, in a time when I was still fascinated by that website...
@pre@boing.worldThe Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.
In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
#software #upgradeTredmil #python #microsoft