Hywel
daycoder@toot.wales
<p>Star sign: Cantankerous. Imperfectoinist. Incapable to spot obvious grammatical errors before posting.<br />Trying not to be a reply guy.</p><p>If you want more detail in alt-text, please ask & sorry I did a poor job.</p>
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Not bad at all! 🌎 Sep 21, 2026 🌍 🔥 29 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9 🟧🟥🟥🟩 = 4 https://globle-game.com #globle
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Acceptable. Pretty close first guess, which I think sometimes made it harder. Went in all the other directions before getting close again. 🌎 Sep 20, 2026 🌍 🔥 28 | Avg. Guesses: 6.97 🟥🟧🟧🟧🟥🟩 = 6 https://globle-game.com #globle
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One tricky one. One slightly tricky one. 🗺️ 19 September 2026 5/5 countries in 5/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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The local joiner has been to poke and measure our rotten triangular window. And also to discuss works needed for sorting out a new kitchen.
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Thought I was going to fail today. Rusty on this area it seems! Kind of filled in around it until it popped into my head. 🗺️ 16 September 2026 5/5 countries in 12/13 guesses 🟢🟡🟢🟢🟣 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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🌎 Sep 15, 2026 🌍 🔥 23 | Avg. Guesses: 7.24 🟧🟥🟥🟥🟩 = 5 https://globle-game.com #globle
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@iandunt.bsky.social this is a good observation. Another example is a couple/family not being able to pool their tax free allowance. 1 earner on £50k pays quite a lot more tax than 2 on £25k each. But lines must be drawn somewhere
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🌎 Sep 10, 2026 🌍 🔥 18 | Avg. Guesses: 7.5 🟨🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩 = 7 https://globle-game.com #globle
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🎉 Got a little lucky there. 8/13 would be very respectable. 🗺️ 9 September 2026 5/5 countries in 5/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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Not terrible. Note to self: don’t pick a country with over a dozen borders. 🌎 Sep 7, 2026 🌍 🔥 15 | Avg. Guesses: 7.56 🟧🟨🟥🟥🟧🟥🟥🟩 = 8 https://globle-game.com #globle
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If the WiFi is good enough, we can sign her up to Disney and watch animated films all day long. DVDs might seem like a better alternative, but despite not leaving her room, she’ll manage to lose them so that she can get new copies ordered. It’ll be like opening a present.
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Cost of a new kitchen, when the entire room needs attention, is quite frightening. The cost of a car. And not what my brain thinks a car should cost.
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Intermittent power cut. Third time I attended to the trip switch, it stayed off. Which is quite a 🤯 after I wired up a socket this afternoon.
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I think I learned more from the wrong guess than I would have by getting 5/5. 🗺️ 23 August 2026 5/5 countries in 6/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟡🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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The afternoon has been spent fixing the mower’s border wire again. There were two cuts and two faults. I have a new technique. A spare length of wire connected to a break with wago blocks. If green, join to the loop, split the loop halfway through what’s left and repeat. A binary search, basically. Only use a gel filled waterproof one-use connector when that part of the loop is known good.
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Juliette Lewis mysteriously singing The Butthole Surfers in Cape Fear. 👍 Then poking around in Callsheet, discover that she played the daughter in the 1991 version.
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Doh! Tricky one. I’m still kind of amazed that I can be just one off (bordering) on the first guess most of the time. 🗺️ 25 August 2026 5/5 countries in 7/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟠🟢🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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Is there a setting to stop Safari changing its colour based on whatever the website is doing?
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Apple Pay not working from my laptop. It may have never worked from this laptop. Just never completes. I get the dialog with a spinner that disappears, but never asks for Touch ID. Phone works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Not the hardest set, but you still have to know them. Two could be considered a little tricky. 🗺️ 26 August 2026 5/5 countries in 5/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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Cape Fear is quite ridiculous. Stretched to 10 episodes, half of which is a completely over the top loud melodramatic score over mundane scenes. But Amy Adams, Javier Bardem , Juliette Lewis, Ron Perlman, is a hell of a cast. Plus, Jamie Hector (Mario Stanfield), is now 50, (which is the age Clark Peters was in The Wire), but could probably pass for 35. He’s got to have a painting in the attic.
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Poor today. A bit tired. Should’ve been 5/5. One careless mistake. One *very* silly mistake. 🗺️ 24 August 2026 5/5 countries in 7/13 guesses 🟢🟡🟢🟡🟢 https://whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts
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While I was away for a couple of day, my wife deep cleaned my bedroom and put all the stuff I’d pulled out looking for something back in the eaves. Amazing! 3AM: miaow‽ … … … miaow‽ … … … miaow‽ Any guesses?
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As usual, my time calculator misfired. At 14:40, I figured I’d have a coffee before I loaded the car. I took the coffee outside to drink in between taking out the parcel shelf and seats and getting as many branches and twigs in bags as I could. Then daughter found out I was going. There was a rug and a treadmill to go. It’s about a 45 min drive. At 15:13, I noticed the time was 15:13. Loaded the bags and zoomed off.
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Been meaning to snap this for ages. No traffic today, so I could safely pull over and capture some vexing flagshagging idiocy.
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1,100 miles to the next odometer palindrome.
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Spurred on by @marcoarment urging folk to buy their tech sooner rather than later … an M4/15/256 MBA ordered for the missus to replace her smashed M1. Via Currys. With a work discount palaver, that’s £752. Not sure that the 6% saving is worth the stress of paying out to an e-card, going through the checkout process and not being entirely sure how to do it or if it’ll actually work, but it’s done. That’s £97 saved vs a refurb from Apple (Apple had none, but they were £849 a few days ago).
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Mildly interesting on EU regulation affecting tech. https://youtu.be/JH-DGYD-27A
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I should probably mention that Ebac fixed the washing machine under warrantee without any fuss or bother. They’re not cheap, but so far so good.