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Edinburger here. It's troubling that Edinburgh Live is considered a more reliable news source than... Well... Just about anything really.

I dunno. Sometimes I feel like I could really do with rate limiting my brain.

Acoustic glazing in the bedroom. 48dB noise reduction.

I found the SSD swapping very useful on my framework. I have been working with a legacy codebase this last year and needed to test whether I could migrate the dev environment from Windows 10 to 11. Swapping that SSD made it easy and low risk to do that. I've since upgraded from 1TB to 2TB, using Clonezilla and an external enclosure. Again, swapping the SSD out made that feasible, cheap and easy.

I got my 11th gen Framework a little over a year ago and love it. It's my daily driver. In that time my work has mostly been game dev on a legacy codebase, so I've exclusively been using Windows 10/11. I don't get many (any?) issues. I use an external GPU (Nvidia 2060OC) and that works great. I used to get freezes that I eventually traced to power saving in the Nvidia drivers, but that wasn't Framework specific.

I've replaced / upgraded the SSD multiple times. It's super quick and easy to do.

I got the "DIY" version, but it was mostly prebuilt. The LCD did develop a fault very quickly (within a week) a horizontal line across the display, but Framework shipped me a replacement screen pretty quickly, and swapping it was quick straightforward.

What I would say is that the screen does feel a bit flimsy vs other laptops.

Anyway, I'm a massive fan and am considering upgrading my mobo to a Ryzen one.

Oh, buy 4 USB C expansion cards plus extra ones. I got 2 USB C a USB A and an HDMI and to be honest, that was a mistake. Shipping (from Taiwan) makes it a costly to buy a couple more cards, so I wish I got 4 USB C plus the others.

I've had this on Voyager and Android since the days of wefwef with anything other than the default font sizing.

I once worked for a company who had an accountant who used a gaming laptop. They didn't play games, but it was the only decent one they could get with a number pad.

Given the cluster of sacked misogynists at GB News, perhaps they should also have Committee A and Committee B reviewing their shows and presenters.

I really enjoyed The Quarry. Although I killed pretty much everyone.

Ooo. I haven't listened to most of those, might to give them a go. I did enjoy The Doctors Daughter though. Jago & Litefoot probably still my favourite BF spinoff.

I haven't used Twitter much in years really. But after switching to Lemmy during the reddit API debacle I thought I'd give it a go and am really enjoying it. I've set up a ton of filters to block out stuff I don't want to see, and joined a couple of instances for two different personas. I'm not using the official mobile client. On Android I use Tusky and Megalodon. Tusky is my daily driver and feels like how I remember the Twitter app from 7 or 8 years ago. Megalodon is nice for cross instance discovery, but has a couple of UI quirks that prevent me from using fully. My SO uses Ice Cubes on iOS and that looks pretty sweet. Personally I found the switch comparable to Lemmy. It took me a month or two to build up a good number of active people to follow to get to the stage of having an interesting feed. It also seems to have got a lot more active in the last week. When I have dropped into Twitter it's a dumpster fire on top of a cesspit. I don't think I could go back. I'd absolutely recommend giving Mastodon a go.