Are people actually admitting to not being able to find their own house without outside lighting? You live there! Do you not get used to where it’s located?
We’re ****ed as a species aren’t we?
Even worse they buy pre mashed potatoes!
Are people actually admitting to not being able to find their own house without outside lighting?
Yeah, it's dark out here. Pretty much zero light pollution. Switch the lights off and you literally can't see your hand on front of your face unless the moon is out.
Visitors have it even worse, because they don't even know how many steps...
Eat more carrots. Not pre grated ones though. Still think down and up lights are utterly ridiculous.
The pre made-carrot and suede mashed potato is pretty good. Mix a bit of frozen mixed veg into it aswell and nuke it.
Dump some caramelised onions on top and a few bangers on the side!
Bish bash bosh, lovely! 😀
Yes, I’m contemptible having a few LED lights on sensors when I should be demanding the council install at least a dozen halogen streetlights burning from dawn to dusk! Original post may contain irony.
Yorkshire pudding mix.
It's a powder, to which you need to add an egg and a liquid (water)
As opposed to using flour to which you need to add an egg and a liquid (milk)
But three times the price.
I've racked my brains trying to think of a scenario where you have no access to milk, but still have an oven..
Yorkshire pudding mix.
It’s a powder, to which you need to add an egg and a liquid (water)
Do you have to add egg?
The US is the king of this. It's bleeding over here slowly now but I boggled the first time I saw pancake mix as a product. Its USP is that it's in a shaky bottle; add [water|milk]?, shake, pour. US recipes routinely include ingredients like "1 box of [brand] fudge brownie cake mix" which I find deeply weird, your published recipe is basically "follow the instructions on the packet and then pour sauce over the top." But then this is a country where "flour" and "sifted flour" are two different measurements so I can't say as I'm wholly surprised that baking from scratch is challenging.
The pre made-carrot and suede mashed potato is pretty good. Mix a bit of
Where's the gravy?
But then this is a country where “flour” and “sifted flour” are two different measurements
Well as they use volume as a measure, they are.
Long, narrow, dark drive (3 street lights for the entire cup de sac and I’m at the end) and I have to weave the wheelie bins up and back every week, without hitting the Mrs’s car. Downligters are essential to the longevity of my marriage.
What you need there is a head torch.
What you need there is a head torch.
Or I just press a handily placed switch, walk the bins down to the road without blinding anyone coming the other way and switch the lights off when I lock the door. Seems perfectly sensible to me.
Do you walk about inside your house at night with the lights off and a head torch, or do you just switch room lights on and off as you need them? FFS
Also, randomly generated passwords aren’t exactly the best choice for passwords. Computers are great at tumbling through letters and numbers. You’re better off with a pass phrase.
Hmm, clearly you've never heard of a dictionary attack. That's actually the quickest way to crack a password, random non sequential passwords with a wide range of character types are massively more secure (but come with their own baggage).
I actually have head torches, several of them.
Useful for when I get away from the house and the lights.
Funnily enough, random visitors to the house quite often don't.
I also don't use them while in the house, unless the power goes out, again. Or I've got my head stuffed into a hole somewhere.
Surely the most secure passwords are the ones that you can remember don't have to write down?
As we computerised in the NHS we ended up with 3 different logins al with different rules as to how they could be done and different timescales which they needed to be changed and different user name formats. As a result almost everyone had their passwords written down often on post it note stuffed inside the desk drawer
A classic case IMO of trying to make things more secure but failing on the interface between the computer and the people
Or I just press a handily placed switch, walk the bins down to the road without blinding anyone coming the other way and switch the lights off when I lock the door. Seems perfectly sensible to me.
That's exactly how head torches work.
Do you walk about inside your house at night with the lights off and a head torch, or do you just switch room lights on and off as you need them? FFS
A pocket torch but, if everyone else is in bed and I don't want to wake them then yes.
As we computerised in the NHS we ended up with 3 different logins al with different rules as to how they could be done and different timescales which they needed to be changed and different user name formats
I was - briefly - involved in trying to get SSO (single sign on) implemented in a chunk of the NHS. It was truly broken from beginning to end, anything that could have been wrong was. It was never, ever going to work in the manner it had been sold. In the end either we walked away or the trust pulled the plug, I don't remember now, but it was shitcanned and cost hundreds of thousands.
Do you have to add egg?
Surprisingly, yes. Looking at the ingredients, it's flour, skimmed milk powder and salt
We’ve had one for years, work great as a set of tongues for turning bacon in the pan, fishing poppadoms out of the fat etc. Don’t use it for tea bags though.
The pre made-carrot and suede mashed potato is pretty good.
Don't you find it a bit leathery?
I do. Made me feel particularly blue that day.
Re passwords. My passwords are just random strings of letters and characters. Actually they aren't, they're the first letters of lines from songs, films or phrases, etc where I've replaced some letters with numbers or characters and also I have some capitalisation strategies. Against brute force attacks I think they look like just 10+ character passwords and if three word combos like smalltattoomonkey are not recognised as words then I'm pretty sure mine won't be
I do need a list of them though but that is just the minimum which reminds me of the phrase. The capitalisation and characters you come to remember relatively easily
Example (not a live one, I'm not that confident)
w@1W4igaS? and reminder human
How crackable w/o the clue (usually it's longer) and does the clue help a computer?
Surprisingly, yes. Looking at the ingredients, it’s flour, skimmed milk powder and salt
That's lunacy.
Don’t you find it a bit leathery?
Well played. 👏
In the end either we walked away or the trust pulled the plug, I don’t remember now, but it was shitcanned and cost hundreds of thousands
'We' did a PACS job just like that with the same experience/results but £M's. Life in Consultancy... <sigh>
So it’s five sets of clothes for a total of about 10 nights sleep, before they are lobbed.
Put them on vinted
