I agree. This website has been very useful and encouraging on my language learning journey.

Technically, no, as in the UK, you can’t steal electricity… you can only abstract electricity, which is an offence in its own right. (IANAL)

I’ll get my coat.

I was so annoyed to get that email. Never using them again. Going to install a non-smart wireless thermostat, or maybe a HA install if I’m feeling brave.

Thank you for letting me know! I didn’t realise that it had connectors at all. I’m looking forward to checking it out tomorrow :) Cheers!

That is good news. I have to draw a lot of diagrams and I find myself stuck between a few tools, none of which is perfect. Any one of those that improves is a great thing!

• Draw.io is brilliant for quickly creating stuff, but you can’t easily reshape shapes
• Visio is ok, but for software that aims to be diagram -focused, compared to draw.io, its connectors are appalling
• Affinity designer is good, and not too expensive, but the lack of (outline+text*) objects (compared to draw.io and visio) quickly becomes a pain with complex diagrams. Plus complete lack of support for variable fonts is a showstopper for me.
• I was really pleasantly surprised by inkscape when I tried it again the other year after many years of not using it. It’s really come along and improved. I know its not intended for diagrams, so dynamic connectors and (outline+text*) shapes aren’t there. If they were, it would be the perfect tool.

I’m looking forward to trying out the new features of this release.

*When I say (outline+text) I mean a shape with text in it that isn’t two separate objects I have to wrangle with careful alignment or grouping etc. If you don’t know what I mean, take a look at how easy it is to put text in shapes in draw.io compared to inkscape

It brings me a lot of joy to contribute to OSM. I haven’t written anything other than the occasional script for years, so it feels good to help the community in ways like this instead.

I’ve sunk so many hours into it. Either “armchair mapping” with OSM and the imagery overlays, or (more fun) wandering with the android Street Complete app to fill in gaps when I’m out and about.

We all try to forget!

That’s not quite true… just less than half of voting Conservative party members voted for him, preferring instead the steady hand of Liz Truss. Well done there guys.

*cries

I’m keen to learn what the other 20% are satisfactory about.

BTW, the duck logo is the duck from Sarah & Duck. It’s a brilliant show, and I think can be found on iPlayer.

We’ve named this duck Martin. Poor chap has a bad wing so we give him double feeding of duck kib when we visit.

Much of my work us collaborative document creation. I’d love to use LibreOffice but try as I might, I can’t work out how to connect it to corporate SharePoint sites etc.

Working with MS Word on anything but trivial documents is miserable. So many bugs and weirdnesses. How is it even possible for Word to let its documents become sour using its own file format!

I say “sour” because the documents are still accessible, so not fully corrupted… but over time, weirdnesses creep in such as tables losing their positioning data, cross-references breaking for no reason etc.

The trees are still plotting my demise.

Don’t know why I cancelled my subscription!

Oh that is interesting, thank you! Shall check it out!

You’re right of course :) I guess I spend so much time IRL with traffic, seeing the virtual equivalent doesn’t spark joy.

I’d love a car-free option. Mass transit, bicycles and foot travel only would be a great challenge.

I’ve spent many happy hours playing the original… My only gripe is that it always turned into a traffic management sim. Yes there were other challenges, but traffic was always front and centre. (At least for my cities)

Eeep! OK, we will send all the cold stares we give people who jump queues. Hope that helps!

Hello! Hope all is well over in .dk! Would you like some of our sunshine? We’ve got too much and will happily trade it for some ice, or a nice cup of tea.