Dave Parry

@alexjsryder @LxJffrs We have an Eero mesh Wifi kit of 3. We got it a couple of years ago when it was £40 cheaper in a sale. There might be a better option around like Google’s mesh kit. If I have any advice: get a purpose built mesh set rather than try to use extenders with your existing Wifi.

@LxJffrs @dvprryDesign did ours - and it’s all pretty good now! Can you help Dave?

Does anyone have experience with Wi-Fi extenders / mesh systems? Need to bump up the signal across my house but don’t really know where to start looking

@JoshuaPHilll Space Karen 😵

Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight

@GWRHelp @Gingeybites I saw an empty cycle carriage and was told I wasn’t allowed to put my bike in it. No one asked about a reservation.

@Gingeybites Hello, cycles can indeed be taken on-board our services, however some types of trains require a cycle reservation to do so - Bradley

My partner gets the train every week with his bike. This morning it was full - but the bike carriage was empty & closed off. He questioned that with the conductor who told him they’ve not let bikes on their trains for 10 yrs & wouldn’t let him on. What’s that about? @GWRHelp

@CaseyNewton Seems risky for your USP to rely on users self-moderating whether their message best lives in one ongoing thread or another.

Telepath, a Twitter alternative that focused on better content moderation that I wrote about in 2020, is shutting down and pivoting to encrypted group chats, per the founders theverge.com/interface/2020…

One of the characters has to spend the whole time looking bored and/or making dice towers. One character keeps going on their phone.

I’d rather it started with 20 mins of standing around making small-talk as everyone slowly arrives, the DM sweating as they hurriedly makes last-minute battle tables, then an hour for dinner. It ends with everyone visibly exhausted but determined to finish the encounter.

As soon as someone invents a stack of pre-printed index cards for (checks notes) less than £34, and a nice wooden holder for said cards for (checks notes even more carefully) below £56, these guys are going to freak.

Another one!

I saw one of these for the years old Two Dots a few weeks ago. It didn’t mention the name of the game so when I was intrigued by the look of the game (not the promise that I had a slightly higher than average IQ!) I was disappointed to see it was the game I got bored of in 2014.

Is there a name for the sort of ad for a mobile game where it shows you a physical version of the game, usually something with text like ‘only people with 120 IQ can do this’?

Puhhh huh, cor, fffft who’s next in the bloody Tory leadership contest? The Devil, aka Satan? Literally The Devil? The Devil Lucifer? Bloody, Satan I bet for leader?

It's taken me 7 months to realise that I can have some nice music in the background of my BSL lessons.

@brad_frost Dead heat between: ‘Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this’ - Notorious B.I.G., Juicy and ‘All up in my eye, you got a Prada Bag with a lot-a, stuff in it’ - Will Smith, Gettin’ Jiggy wit It

What is your favorite hip hop lyric?

Has anyone noticed how a lot of the articles about Figma on @Medium lately have just been (poorly) reworded basic help documents? Does this extend to other topics or maybe just widely used software?

@rostfritt @mrjamesob Apple, the company incorporated in Ireland for tax purposes? Literally an EU-based company selling in the UK for all intents and purposes?

@mrjamesob I can almost guarantee that Apple, who are the only company who want to carry on with their own cable, will sell the same model with the USB-C connection in the U.K. too. Along with anywhere else in Europe and probably everywhere else.

It’s worth remembering that he spends his every waking hour searching desperately for positive things to say about Brexit. It is literally the only point of his ridiculous, made-up job. And *this* is the result.

I love the fan theory that Binks is the true Sith Lord. Absolutely deranged.

For some reason I’m watching Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Wow, it’s aged like salmon in a cupboard. Not that it was good to start with, but between the graphics like a PS2 cutscene and Jar-Jar Binks’ catchphrase ‘how wude’, everything feels stilted.

@Lex_mate You put it in the bin. It’s revolting.

I appear to have grown a mountain of chard by accident, internet, what do you do with chard?

@rostfritt @Wiglette Also, still angry about this somehow, it was not cheap and they were still living there with their shitty old dog. It was during a break from dog sitting. I felt like an unwelcome guest who had turned up to visit during major renovations.

@rostfritt @Wiglette I think the worst one I stayed in was in the house of a Bristol hipster sign painter whose bed was so completely fucked I neither slept or moved without pain for a month. Also no shower, just a shower hose on an unscreened bath.

Back when AirBnB started it was like natural hosts renting out their cute homes and being like, "There's craft beer for you in the fridge!" and now it's someone's 80th rental property with plastic Ikea furniture and it's also out of soap.

@rostfritt @Wiglette I think the boiling blood I would have had at the time probably gave me amnesia about that specific detail.

@dvprryDesign @Wiglette Which made it a true AirBnB experience. Topped off by they suggesting we pay like £300 for an emergency locksmith.