Simulators, like x-plane or flightsim, and I think some driving sims can use lots of monitors. Like 4 monitors for the cockpit windows and another two for control panels etc. though you need a hench pc and graphics set up to do this at a decent frame rate

The rest of the world should take this approach. If everyone just plain ignored and ghosts the US’s emissaries it would be pretty funny.

Well your username checks out, in a horrible and all too believable way. Are you an actual biopunk writer, or do you just like making strangers on the internet gag on their cereal? It was viscerally well done, either way

Surely there are a few folk on the Heathrow flight path that want to write something like “Piss off you fat orange wanker” on their roof. Maybe one letter on each roof, for deniability’s sake

I was thinking exactly that, especially with reference to our government and shady organisations, that truly could have gone either way

Interestingly, banned in the EU, China and India. Not so in the US or Australia. Nasty stuff - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat

I’m going to have to watch that, based on the trailer. Really stupid in a great way. I accidentally watched Sharktopus the other day, and I need something to burn that out of my head, so this looks perfect

I suppose that they’re using all the available resources to build drones for the conflict, but I’d definitely choose a Ukrainian FPV drone over a DJI or other Chinese drone if they were commercially available, both to support the Ukrainian economy and to buy within Europe

Jurassic Bark

Fuck and indeed yeah. I don’t know how I’ve not run into them, they’re proper

I have a few of those, but the Mokin hub suggested by u/Fubarberry above is exactly what I was after, I’m trying to get it to be as tiny as possible.

Meshtastic network is a communication system that doesn’t rely on mobile phones. Have a look at it, it’s simple, secure, cheap, and rapidly growing

His party today is trying to destroy the NHS.

Now I want to know what these slang sayings are

How much transparent plastic do you have as a building material in your house? Because we already have a non-plastic alternative - it’s called glass. And that’s what ALL the clear surfaces are in my house envelope.

For fucks sake, leave that nonsense to the US, sort yourselves out

Not quite over my Brotato fixation, but also got the ultimate Borderlands 2 edition with all the DLC in the sale for very little, so I’m falling back into that pretty hard. Also picked up Cult of the Lamb, though I’ve not given it my full attention yet

I’m lucky to be old enough that “Pirating” for me was one of those twin-tape-deck stereos. I miss physical media, and in all honesty I’m still mad a Minidisc for not becoming the universal format. They were way more futuristic than an iPod. My cousin putting his headphones in me, sat in the back of an old pickup, and playing me Tail Gunner by Iron Maiden when I was maybe 9 is still burned into my brain - his Walkman had EQ sliders in the front, which made it the coolest tape player ever pretty much!

Obviously my tastes were pretty cheesy to start with, but by the time I was 17 I was sneaking off to see Biohazard, and, over the years, having heard bands like Killswitch and Gojira pop up and fit into niches in my brain that I wasn’t really aware of existing is still as satisfying in my 40s as it was as a teen.

I reckon that those first heavy bands you find imprint themselves on your teenage brain. I remember taping the Radio 1 Rock Show while I was asleep, and then playing it back and hearing Monster Magnet and Machine Head for the first time. That opened a door in my 13 year old brain that’s never been closed since

I would add Radio Fip into the discussion, French, eclectic as hell, with many channels (though I pretty much only use the main one)