I know a few older people who have smartphones, and while they can use things like Twitter or Facebook on the phone, if you told them that you were installing an app, they wouldn’t know what you meant.

They’re the type of people who were never interested in computers, and used them as appliances, possibly never needing to install things themselves. As they moved to phones, they either get their kids or the shop to set them up.

They understand using Twitter on the phone, but don’t really understand the concept of how it works.

I don’t know, you can get Photoshop and Lightroom for £10 a month, which is very cheap when you compare it to a night out or a takeaway, and at the moment, they’re better than the equivalents.

I do need to have another look at DaVinci Resolve though. I’ve heard loads of good things about it, but it was overkill for what I needed when I last tried it :)

She’s brilliant 🙂

I keep forgetting to buy anything of hers though because my brain translates her name to Fern Britton, and I think of the wrong person 🙈

This is a massive part of the problem here in the UK too.

I just checked with Google Maps how long it would take my wife to get to work tomorrow morning. In the car it would take between 45 minutes and an hour, but public transport would take an hour and 52 minutes, with 29 minutes of that taken up by walking to bus and train stops. She would have to leave the house before 5:30 am, whereas the car would give her another hour in bed.

At the moment we’re under a yellow warning for rain too, so she would need to take waterproof clothes and probably a change of clothes too.

Until things like this are improved, it’s easy to see why lots of people still take the car :(

I’ll keep an eye on them, thanks for the heads up 👍

I’m a big fan of just carrying around one charger

Off topic, but I bought a handful of magnetic cables and a few different ends to match our devices, and now one cable works for charging everything.

It has the downside of not letting you connect the device to a computer, but because they’re magnetic, they’re breakaway cables. My kid has walked away with their tablet after forgetting to unplug it, and nothing bad happens 👍

I think I sat next to him on the bus once

I can’t decide if that would be too sweet with the apple sauce base. That might have to be an experiment :)

That’s a good point. I haven’t cooked anything with apple that could go soggy for years, so I hadn’t thought of that. Pulled pork and apple pizza is sounding nice though :)

Why is apple a bad idea? Apple with pork and cheese is delicious :)

Brilliant 🤣

Wasn’t that an Oasis song?

I don’t know, I find that my hyperfocus doesn’t kick in until I start doing something

Back in the forum days it was the wink 😉

Yeah, I’ve got my fingers crossed for tomorrow night. Good luck 🙂

Just remember that you might not see anything with the naked eye, but a camera will pick up the colour. Last time, I was able to get out, and once my eyes were used to the dark, I could see faint grey lines and waves in the sky :)

I really hope you’re right

It’s a good article, but very generous. I live in the valleys, and there are a lot of racist people here. They obviously won’t admit it if you ask them, but talk to them in the pub, or read their Facebook posts, and you’ll see the truth.

It genuinely makes me sad to see how accepted it is here these days

This is the real reason why 4chan users are not seen in public

Thanks for replying :)

I managed to get it working with the answers from @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me and this link:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-permanently-mount-a-drive-in-linux-and-why-you-should/

I must have been testing it when you answered :)