>>421984

Traktor Stems, m8. It's the flagship feature of the world's most popular DJ software.

>>421990
I guess my Google-fu isn't as good as I thought it was. Traktor is shite, anyway.

FRIDAY NIGHT BRITFA.GS

WAHEYYYYYYYYYYYY

LADS LADS LADS

>>422032
I wish I'd never been born.

>>422033

You can still right that wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg

Who the fuck is Steve Barclay?

>>84532
He runs a bank.

>>84533
I thought it was the Barclay Brothers who ran that.

>>84534

It is. They're known as the Super Barclay Brothers. Barclay Barclay and Steve Barclay.

https://soundcloud.com/unicornkid/unicorn-kid-tokyo-1999-mixtape

I come back to this mix a few times every year. Hits the spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jaYJx7yeI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-BnB3xxUoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HOb4VnkA7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpDmklLFXVc

>>26760

I have seen the FHD mod, though I've heard some people say that you can get flickering issues and such. I'm happy enough with the size it is, personally. I had planned to get a nice big monitor for my desk for working on bigger stuff, but honestly I've not felt the need yet.

Here's mine. 2.5" hard drive for scale.

Hello again lads. I still haven't bought a new bastard laptop and have been struggling along with the X100e. It's unusably slow.

At some point I intend to drop £300 - £400 on a decent one. The other ThinkPads looked great, but I've also been tempted away by the IdeaPad.

That aside, is there anything I can do to make the x100e perform better until I'm sure I can spunk the money? It's crippled with running a few tabs with Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 at the moment. Any recommendations?

>>26811
Install an SSD, if it doesn't already have one.
Install more RAM, if it's not already maxed out.
Install a lightweight Linux distribution if you swing that way, such as Xubuntu.

If you want to stick with Windows, try disabling all graphical effects and the like.

>>26811

As said, an SSD is a huge performance boost in older machines. You can also try to blast out any dust that might (definitely will) be caking the cooling fans and vents, as if it's running hot enough the CPU might be thermal throttling too, I've seen that happen a lot.

>>26812

It probably isn't worth upgrading. The x100e has a feeble single-core Athlon Neo processor with a PassMark score of 409. It was piss-poor in 2010 and it's utterly unusable today. By comparison, the slowest processor in Intel's current desktop lineup has a Passmark score of 3,269 and an i7-7700k scores over 12,000. No matter what you do, it's grossly bottlenecked by that dog of a processor.

You don't need to spend £300 to get something vastly quicker than your current machine. A Thinkpad X220 will set you back about £120; the default processor in that machine is an i5-2520M, which has a Passmark score of 3,588. The very cheapest Chromebook would be a significant upgrade, as would any old laptop with an Intel Core-series processor.

A lightweight Linux distribution might help a bit. If you're not using an adblocker, for the love of god install uBlock Origin - ads and ad trackers have a huge CPU load. Firefox Reader Mode is very useful on slow machines, because it strips out all of the CSS and Javascript.

I'm not here looking for buttsex, btw. Just wondering if things I find while walking the dog will make a nice omelette, or kill me.
Got lots of these, f'rinstance, but they're just nice to look at, not particularly interesting for food or recreation.

>>12735

The stipe is different in colouration, it has that giraffe pattern on a parasol even at the early stages of developement,where as OPs mushroom doesn't.

>>12690
If you cut the stipe on those ones and it stains reddish or rusty after a few minutes and eventually turns brown then they're great to eat. If its the kind with a greenish sport print then it awful and you'll get sick. The good kind used to be called Lepioda Rachodes, but mushroom taxonimists keep on changing it's official name so I don't know what its called these days, but its still edible regardless.

Is this good eating?
Web doesn't seem to say, one way or another.
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/dog-sick-slime-mould

>>12853
I'm no expert but have you considered setting up a GoFundMe instead?

>>61958
You don't have to live on the streets to be homeless.

>>61960

That statement is so boldly contradictory on the surface. It could come from an obnoxious Tumblr blog punctuated with clap emoji.

>>61961

Nah m8, think about it for a minute. There are thousands of people living in homeless hostels, sofa surfing, squatting, living in tents, cars and lock-ups etc. They might not be living on the streets, but they're homeless by any reasonable definition of the word.

>>61961
Imagine regarding the statutory definition enacted by Margaret Thatcher as radical left social justice fodder. Sort yourself out.

>>61960

but it helps!

>>11378

It could work, this is exactly what ContentID is for.

>>11379
That didn't help Shazam, did it?

>>11380

Nothing is more powerful than YouTube's passion for demonetising videos.

>>11381

Google claim to have spent over $100m on developing ContentID and I'm inclined to believe them. It's frighteningly good at identifying copyrighted content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpm1wAjqkY

First heard this on a Uncut some 18 years ago. Popped into my head today for some reason and had to do some discogs sleuthing to find it what it was called.

>>8023

I used to use a rather petite bamboo pipe I bought in amsterdam, but I found that if the hash was really, really good them I could basically smoke the fucker off the edge of a coin. Some friends used to use a pair of hot knives.

>>8024

Old thread but how do you use a pipe like that or this one, with darker sticky hash like the OP?

Light it from the top or underneath? A bit of tobacco?

>>8228

Never done it personally but I'm guessing either use a pipe that's already got a bit of resin on it or use a pipe filter?

>>8228

The pipe in 8024 you use like a normal pipe. You load things in the end and then you hold it to a flame at an angle ideally something like a candle as you pull (unless you like inhaling lighter gas and using shit loads of matches). The one in your picture looks like (it is hard to make out from this angle) a crack pipe you drop your drug into the lightbulb end, cook it with a flame underneath and then inhale.

>>8230
Nah that's a fairly normal pipe too. Needs a filter though. Crack pipes aren't that fancy.

>>22477

can't unionize if you don't have a job.

Nursing is also a much more niche skill, and the value dictated heavily by a nationalised industry, brain drain and retaining people trained specifically for that role. Where as care workers which are effectively unskilled nurses (so 'anyone can do it') frequently work absurd hours and get fuck all.

>>22477
>If they all unionise, companies have to recognise them; that's literally the point.
All the laws in the land won't save you from someone pointing a gun to your head.

>>22478
Care workers are unionised though, my mate is a support worker and he is in a union. He works mental shifts some weeks, granted.

The final episodes of TWD are being finished off by Skybound Games.

Proper dead and filing for Bankruptcy now.

>>27747
>I haven't had been in a relationship or had sex for over 2 and a half years.

Awww. Poor you. 2001 was the last time I had anything. You'll survive.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>27754

How old were you in 2001?

>>27754

I realise you might not be able to reply yet but I'll wait for an answer. What part of revealing in your misery do you think is positive? There is nothing to beneficial to being long suffering and it isn't a contest. Please don't take what I just said the wrong way. I want you to be happier and more satisfied with life, but you aren't doing yourself any favours by sneering at others, you can't get out of a hole by digging yourself deeper into it and trying to pull down others who are trying to get out. If you want help I'm sure we are happy to listen and be constructive, but don't just shit on others.

>>27756
It reads like complaining about only having a few million in the bank.

>>27757

Does it? Or are you irrationally embittered? If I brake my toe and fucking hurts the fact you lost your leg in a car accident years before doesn't mean I'm not allowed to be in pain and mention that I am. If i lose my child you shouldn't be telling me a hundred children starved to death in Bangladesh so i can't complain.

What you are doing is a form of narcissism. You are thinking only of how things apply directly to you. But paradoxically you You don't look to your achievements you look to how much you have suffered. No one is allowed to suffer unless they have it worse then you. You despise sympathy others receive because you are envious of it. You feel you deserve that sympathy but no one is giving it to you. None of this is constructive to helping you feel better. No one can actually help you if you wallow in your misery. At the moment you are just forcing yourself lower.

If you want help ask for it. Don't just be bitter because someone else did and they got it.

The administration team at work are petrified of thinking for themselves. I had one of them approach me yesterday because they'd noticed an issue with something submitted to them. It turned out there were five separate issues with it and they came over five different times because it didn't occur to them once to review the entire thing to see if there was anything else wrong with it; every time they spotted an issue they just rushed over. I tried asking them a few basic things about each one and it was clear they hadn't even thought of doing even a bit of rudimentary digging around to see if there was background information which would mean the things they'd raised weren't even a problem. They have to be spoonfed absolutely everything.

It's an open plan office and some of the inane things they come out with are absolutely shocking. Several of them couldn't name where Sydney is and actually thought Australia was a state in the USA. I just can't comprehend what it would be like to be in my twenties and have no ambition to do anything more than administration, having the same mindless conversations every weekday for the next forty years or so.

>>12717
These are the people who watch Love Island.

>>12718
I don't know if it's because I was too young to be fully aware of this beforehand, but it seems that ever since Jade Goody went on Big Brother people revel in their ignorance and boast about how they don't know things as if it's something to be proud of.

>>12668

Funny how far not being a knob will get you in the workplace.

We've one woman at our place who insists that when she leaves she doesn't want a collection or a do. She says she doesn't want a fuss. The reality of it is she knows no fucker would come out for it because she's a horrible cunt, and doesn't want the embarrassment.

>>12717
Every supervisor in retail is the same.
Whenever they go for their training they get a lobotomy and lose their common sense.

>>421937

A most magnificent hound.

>>421937
>I always keep mine in the sheath,

I bet you do.

I am in the early stages of a cold, from what it looks like. My throat is killing me, I've got a persistent dry cough, and my nose is beginning to feel a bit stuffy.

So I just went home from work to spend the rest of the day on my couch watching all manner of silly dolescum daytime TV.

Just tried on a casual collared shirt that I last wore about ten years ago.

It's too tight both around my shoulders and upper back and my stomach. Owed to the fact that I have been working out the last couple of years at a gym regularly, but also been putting on a few pounds around my waist.

So weirdly, I am both more in shape and more out of shape than ten years ago.

>>422030

For the most part, strength is mass. Outside of athletes and people taking exogenous hormones, I think it's underestimated how much effort, care, planning and consistency it takes to be both big and lean.

At least, I'd consider myself into weight training and even though I'm a very practical eater, I find it hard to do anything but seesaw between big, strong and fluffy and leaner but flatter.

>>422021

Do androids dream of electric sheep though?

>>422021

I do dream but I'm starting to worry about how much I struggle with captchas.

>>422026

You have to solve captchas in your dreams?

>>422025
I know paranoid androids dream of electric sheeple.

>>422028

When I am king, you will be first against the wall.

>>22493
Not him, but I could call you filthy het scum if you want.

There are basically two ways this can go depending on how the original pitch was done.

1) Netflix phones up Matt and says "hey we've got a few million bucks hanging around doing nothing, want to cook us up a pilot series for a new show?" The result will be an obvious load of total bollocks (actually what we've seen so far in season one)

2) Matt has a fantastic idea with a layered and self-referencing plot, a la Futurama, and has convinced Netflix to back this new vision. Hopefully, the result of this will be a fantastic show.

Tl;dr - the future of this show was decided when it was pitched, by who pitched it to whom.

>>22495
I admittedly didn't watch much of Futurama past the first season but I got the impression that was a load of bollocks too. Cardboard cutout characters in a setting where literally anything can and does happen.

>>22493
You said as much yourself in the post though. You didn't leave me anything to disagree with you selfish cunt.

>>22496

I don't want to drop spoilers here but there are plot points way down in season five and six and if you zoom back to s1e1 and check for.... things.... it was all pre-planned from the start, which was pretty impressive for an animated show that most people just wrote off as "Simpsons In Space" when it first came out.

>>61954

She can't talk like that at home.

>>61955

She swears like a flipping docker, most probably.

>>422017
Usually each flat has its own meter, though depending on the development there may be a shared meter room with all the meters in.

>>422017

Depends. In addition to the things you've mentioned you also get councils operating as utility resellers who have to follow statutory and ombudsmen guidelines as to what they charge.

Set monthly payment for utilities to the landlord is what I've come to expect if you're renting something small for graduates. Sounds naff but it works out as a little cheaper in my experience. Be sure to check if the internet is included as that will mean you're locked into BT shite.

Bigger flats sort out their own utilities or if it's somewhere grubby you may even find one of those coin-slot things. This is a question for the agent/landlord.

I've not had a coin meter since 1999. I've lived here ten years and it's a credit meter. In-between it was always prepayment meters with a paypoint card. With prepayment, they always lie to you and say you owe them money too. They send you a red letter after you move out. Last time I gave them my final meter reading over the phone they said 'whoops, we accidentally switched the rate 1 and rate 2 (12pm-7am) reading and you don't owe us anything.' They used the exact same excuse with my mate too.

I've known lots of people with prepayment meter who get periodic letters saying they owe money (How? It's prepayment.) and it's not an issue because they've not moved house or switched providers. In fast, they might do it to deter people from switching providers.

The question I would ask, before a pair of inexplicably qualified coffee expert arrive here, is that are you sure your dad will enjoy the faff, fiddling, and 'experience' of being a home barista, or would he actually just want to press a button and get coffee? Be honest.

Why not just get a Moka pot?

>>12847
He might. He did all that jazz on his previous job. As far as I can judge it wasn't too much nuisance for him, perhaps even some sort of a rather pleasant ritual.
>>12848
He has one, I think. It's a good little thing but the coffee it makes is of different kind, despite being brewed by pressure too.

>>12847

The middle ground option would be a semi-automatic machine with a capsule-compatible portafilter. That gives you the choice between doing everything yourself, or just dropping in a capsule if you can't be arsed with grinding and tamping.

As regards the original question, I think that entry-level machines have improved greatly in recent years. Cheap fully-automatic capsule machines make a perfectly decent espresso, they just lack the level of control that hobbyists want.

Sorted.

>>12681
> Generally I've found inbound (tech support, customer service, etc) is always more pleasant than outbound
Also agreed, my experience as well.

>>12710
>the thickest of the cunts who couldn't even pretend not to be a brain-dead sausage material calling at 04:00 in the morning to yell shit at you.
I worked for an insurance middleman who were not Gocompare and had someone call us, evidently pissed out of his head, whining at us about the Gocompare man. I didn't get to hear the call but apparently it was hilarious. The best part is that even though the handler could tell it was a joke, because he mentioned blowing up the office we had to refer it to the police, so he almost certainly got a visit.

>>12713
Oi, oi, oi. Had that stuff happen to me too, some tryhards threatening to blow up everything.
The funniest part was when one of our engineers did actually visit the wannabe terrоrist. Turned out to be some kind of fat neck-beard poor sod in his early thirties, living with his ma. You couldn't make up this shit.

>>12714

>Turned out to be some kind of fat neck-beard poor sod in his early thirties, living with his ma.

You say that as if that's not a perfect description of a potential domestic terrorist.

>>12714
>Turned out to be some kind of fat neck-beard poor sod in his early thirties, living with his ma.

You say that as if that's not a perfect description of any .gs regular.

>>27896

>>27895
Fuck off.

>>27896
Please highlight to me where I said that. While of course a great deal of art is created with the aim of making money, these are explicitly for the purpose of making you spend money elsewhere, without any real motivation behind the 'message'.

>>27898
It has as much 'motivation behind the message' as anything else. The main purpose is to make you spend money, and it can do other things as well. People who are looking forward to the John Lewis ad are excited about the story or the aesthetics, and what's wrong with that exactly just because it's also selling stuff at the same time? It can be good at both.

>>27893

There's really not a better word for them. And if you think failing to capitalise a brand name constitutes poor grammar, you're just as much a cog in the machine.

Virgin are using their 36-month headline price for comparison even though other providers don't offer 36-month contracts and no smartphone these days is going to last anywhere near that long anyway.

>>16479
Would pollinate the nurse. The fancy dress one rather than the actual nurse.

>>16479

He looks a bit shit even for an Alice Cooper double.

>>16481

Have you seen Alice Cooper these days? The bald patch and drooping haggard old man jowls are spot on.

Gloucester town crier injured as 'yobs on bikes' try to steal his hat and wig

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/gloucester-town-crier-injured-yobs-2216953

>>16482

>The bald patch and drooping haggard old man jowls are spot on.

Not really, no. The real Alice Cooper still today looks a lot better in his old age than that lad from the tribute band.