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Ed P
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Into gaming, DnD, cinema, books, beer and cheese 🧀. Bit of a nerd. Have been known to play some Elite Dangerous from time to time.

Mundus sine Caesaribus

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#Methuselah #ForTheHose #Canonn

Not neuro-typical
Yup
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Scantastic!
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November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Lol

Yesh, volume of a cone is 1/3rd volume of a cylinder of the same dimensions from memory? 🤔
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oh my gods a hotel with no WiFi - the horror 😱
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November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Same, same & same.

But Hot Hardware is Hot Hardware, what can you do? Any nerd worth their salt would get carried away with that 🤷‍♂️
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Everyone else is essentially middle class, so that's roughly two thirds of the population of the UK. It's more a question of outlook and aspiration than salary.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
For Ruperts it's a matter of family, education and outlook. Actual wealth is irrelevant.

There are far far fewer blue collar jobs than there used to be, but a lot of blue collar jobs are very well paid.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Yes, you don't really "win" Elite Dangerous, that is true, "Pay to Progress" might be a better phrase.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If there was another in-game way of getting a tech broker in your system you could argue that the Dodec is a fancy looking Coriolis, and so effectively a cosmetic item, and as we all want ED to continue to be supported and developed I don't have a problem with cosmetics.
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It's a slippery slope is what it is.

Starts off with cosmetics, then prebuilds, then early access, now permanent paywall for the Dodec. And it's not just a fancy looking station either because it's the only way to get a Tech Broker in your system.

It's becoming a bit "pay to win"
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Sounds like there should be a second part to that sentence.

"...it would be a shame if something happened to it"
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
When my oldest sister was doing computer science at Liverpool University in the 1970s, she had to write a program by hand on paper, give it to an office where people typed it out onto punched cards, then when she got her computer time, take the stack of punched cards down to the computer room.
November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The image on the right looks like a cat in a forest so....

Dark forest quick pounce
Small predator brings swift death
Learn to fear my claws
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
They have started a subscription model that doesn't sound too bad, but over time what is in the free part will decrease and what is in the paid for part will become more necessary for anything beyond basic editing. I don't know this for a fact, obviously, but watch this space......
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Well done! 👍
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM