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Lawrence Micallef
@el_em
Technologist, IT geek, broadcaster at @cambridge105, amateur photographer and radio ham M0LCM, IT infrastructure manager in Cambridge. Opinions my own.
Cambridge, England Katılım Mart 2008
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giving away a random merch/swag package to someone who completes this one-question survey and replies to this tweet with #ForGlory
👉 steelseri.es/surveyyy
thank youuu
(will choose someone and reply/DM them for info early next week)
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Edit: Bad news, way too many grifters spamming us. This account is now private until cash giveaways are done. This giveaway is specifically for the nerdie homies — not random beggers.
Hello, it is giveaway-number-25 (we have 5 days left, we gotta get rid of this stuff)
Our friends at EngineOwning hooked us up with a pretty penny. We'll be giving 7 people $1,000 on PayPal. Comment below for a chance to win.
This isn't a joke.
- Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours.
- We will DM winners.
- If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected
- If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize
- You must have PayPal

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Just got a great BLACK FRIDAY deal on new car tyres @blackcircles - check them out at blackcircles.com /#buyblackcircles
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hey @DouweEgbertsNL trying to report a manufacturing fault with some Tassimo pods but your website's contact page is broken @tassimo_uk

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97% of #amateurradio licence examinations taken online at home via remote supervision/in a club. Following Syllabus v1.6 intro on 1 Sep, new exam question bank will only be online. From 29 Nov we'll stop taking routine bookings for paper exams. Full info: rsgb.org/main/blog/news…

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@sysadafterdark @Notsogodboi I'd add a few more SCSI controllers and go one per disk to slightly improve performance
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Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative:
Notion -> Appflowy
Zoom -> Jitsi
Jira -> Plane
Airtable -> NocoDB
Vercel -> Coolify
Heroku -> Dokku
Firebase -> Pocketbase/Appwrite/Convex/Supabase
Shopify -> Prestashop
GitHub -> GitLab
Slack -> Mattermost
Salesforce CRM -> ERPNext
Dropbox -> NextCloud
Mailchimp -> Mautic
Trello -> Wekan
Docusign -> Docuseal
Calendly -> Cal dot com
Datadog -> Prometheus
Google Analytics -> Matomo
Microsoft Office 365 -> LibreOffice
Asana -> OpenProject
what else?
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@DrTADM @92jamiemcgovern Having just had Coronoid Process of my Ulna repaired on Friday, yep, extra metal is good but hurts lol
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@92jamiemcgovern I wondered if the ribs were secretly asking for metal. I think the confusion is because all bone should be reinforced.
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@jongaunt @Morrisons Seems Cambourne, Cambridge @Morrisons is doubling self-disservice checkouts. Always have bagging issues, have waited up to 8 minutes for a staff member to clear it to finish. This and their new totally crap entrance barriers that try to crush shoppers too, or refuse to open!
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Self checkouts need to be scrapped. Nobody wants them and they’re impersonal and not much quicker. Good to see @Morrisons realising this. I’ve never met anyone who prefers them and I’ve worked in supermarket. What’s your view?
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I had a phone conversation today with a very nice young chap from Pakistan. This is how it went:
"Hello, how are you today?"
"I'm very well thank you for asking, how are you and more to the point, WHO are you?"
"Madam, my name is Sanjit, and I'm calling you from Microsoft.”
"Microsoft, is that a city in Pakistan?”
" No Madam, MICROSOFT, the computer company. I'm calling to tell you that we have found a problem with your computer.”
"REALLY, that's quite concerning.”
"Yes Madam, it can become very serious indeed but thankfully I will be able to fix it for you.”
"No, I meant it's very concerning because I don't HAVE a computer.”
“You don't?"
“No.”
"Ahh, it must be a problem on your laptop Madam.”
"Don't have one.”
"Ipad?"
"Nope.”
"Tablet?"
"I have none of those things. As a matter of fact, I don't even have a telephone.”
After a few seconds of silence he said "Madam, you are lying to me now!"
I said "Well, you started it!!" and put the phone down.
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