Freespirit Graham.

My father used to book acts for a local club, and this guy played there once. He was awful. There’s no nice way to say it, he just really wasn’t very good. He played and sang songs that nobody recognised, and did it badly. To make things worse, he was paid, but went around with his hat at the end of the set asking people for money. Needless to say, he didn’t get a good reception.

About a year or so later, my father booked another singer, and it was the same guy going under a different name. The music night was popular, so there was a decent sized crowd already there when he walked in, and quite a few of them remembered him. My father asked him what he was doing there, and he said that he thought it was worth a try.

He was told to leave without playing, as the people who remembered him were already annoyed, and weren’t the type of people to suffer a fool kindly.

If you haven’t been back yet, it might be worth emailing them instead, and getting a response in writing

As well as your chosen languages, select Undetermined too. Some Lemmy clients don’t automatically select your language when you post or reply, so if the user doesn’t notice, their reply is classed as undetermined rather than their language.

Choosing Undetermined as a language option lets you see those posts and replies 👍

Pizza Hut - Domino’s - local takeaway - Papa John’s

The Pizza Hut does fantastic pizza, but doesn’t deliver, and is too far away to get takeaway from.

Domino’s is ok. They do decent pizza, but have been getting more and more stingy with the cheese, and are hideously expensive.

The local takeaways all use the same supplier, and the pizzas are average. They can be amazing from time to time, but that’s the exception.

Papa John’s opened here a few years ago, so we tried it. The pizza was so bad that none of us finished it

I’m not sure about things like changing timetables. I know that a lot of places have published timetables that can be added to OSM, but I don’t know if they can be automatically updated or if they would have to be done manually.

In case you haven’t already seen it, MapComplete has a cycling layer that lets you add details to the map. The data is added to OpenStreetMap, so it benefits everyone too 🙂

Street Complete has a map with an overlay that looks kind of like the Pokemon Go map, but it has lots of different icons where it needs more data. Tapping an icon will give you a question based on the icon type, and will be something like ‘what is the road surface here’, or what is the number of this building '.

It’s pretty easy to use, and if you don’t know the answer, or are not confident about answering it, you don’t have to.

Like you say, with OpenStreetMap itself, you don’t get questions and you add things directly to the map manually. It can sound complicated, but you can do anything from adding a single node (a dot) and marking it as the tree in the town square, to drawing a box and labeling it as a building, all the way up to adding bus routes and power lines, like one person on the Discord is doing around Wales at the moment.

As long as the thing actually exists on the ground, you can add it to OSM, and you can do as much or as little as you like. Any detail is better than no detail 👍

StreetComplete is another good app for adding details to the map, and it lets you select the type of things you want to add 👍

What’s that Skyrim meme again? ‘Ah, you’re finally awake’?

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What, like ‘put your fingers here, here, and here to play a chord’. That’s how you learn to play guitar too

So how did you think you were going to be able to play the guitar? You have to learn an instrument to be able to do anything with it.

I had the same problem. Luckily for me I found out before they went past the 30 day?* window, so I was able to renew and then transfer them away.

*I can’t remember the exact length of the window, but I think that’s right.

Still, don’t they require ID and phone number and shit these days ?

I’ve got no idea. I haven’t had to do either, but I’ve had my account for years, and pretty much only use it to keep track of birthdays.

I’ve used marketplace a few times for buying and haven’t had to add any extra info, it just connects me with the seller through Messenger. I’m in the UK if that makes any difference.

Would a virtual machine work for this? Set up a minimal Linux distro with a browser and set the browser to delete cookies on exit, then only use it for Facebook. VMs are not perfectly secure, as I understand it, but I can’t see Facebook tunnelling its way out of one.

Not on your lives, MI5

That’s a really good idea, thanks for the link :)

That’s a good idea :)

Whether it’s true or not, veganism is associated with self righteous people, and also with complicated diets and the lack of nutrients nonsense. Plant based food isn’t, and sounds like it’s something that you can just pick up while you’re shopping, rather than trying to figure out what you’re supposed to do with quinoa and tofu.

Brilliant, thank you :)

I’m going to give it a go over the weekend and see what happens :)

That looks ideal for me too, thanks for the link :)

Do you know if it works offline? So if I start an ebook or audiobook then lose my internet connection, can I carry on with the book?