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  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzGlitter Bats!!
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    8 months ago

    Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

    Common names include:

    • armadillo bug
    • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
    • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
    • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
    • cheeselog (Reading, England)
    • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
    • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
    • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
    • chisel pig
    • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
    • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
    • fat pig (Ireland)
    • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
    • hog-louse
    • millipedus
    • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
    • mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
    • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
    • potato bug
    • roll up bug
    • roly-poly
    • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
    • sow bug
    • woodbunter
    • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)


  • Runny whites are terrible, way undercooked. We call them snotty here, due to the consistency similarities. Nobody I know likes a snotty egg, glad you seem to be in the same boat :)

    Over easy is fantastic in a sandwich with bacon, but I go for a soft-boil if dipping. Precut toast soldiers when feeling particularly childish.














  • That’s even worse. A an almost literal in-house driveby. It’s not bloody hard to see potential problems.

    This computer has a strange doo-hickey poking out of it that I know nothing about. Maybe I shouldn’t just slap a new OS on it. Nah fuck it. Need to meet planned quota. Send it and run lol.

    There’s a reason our PCB pick’n’place machines run Windows XP. And why that ‘Y2K compliant’ lathe over there is rocking '98. And why that tyre balancing machine at the shop over the road is in the same boat.


  • Bad IT.

    I remain thankful that Win11 is fussy about what it will install on. It needs at least:

    • UEFI boot mode & GPT partitioning of the disk
    • TPM 2
    • Secure Boot capability

    Nixing any one of these will prevent an automatic upgrade, regardless of what group policy etc is in place. On a bunch of new Win10 builds from a while ago, I set them up as CSM/MBR and turned off the TPM in BIOS. Absolutely no chance of surprises there, even if I accidentally mark a machine for upgrade.

    My network is small though, < 50 clients. When the bullet must be bit, I have the time to add the client to the ‘will upgrade’ AD group & go over things with the user(s). Then run through converting MBR to GPT, switching to UEFI and enabling the TPM again.

    After that it takes care of itself and pulls down a load of QoL fixes post-upgrade.

    I don’t think you’re the first nor will you be the last to be smacked with a driveby install that fucks up your equipment, sadly :(