The Silver Fern

@Billy-Tell said in Formula 1:

I see Keanu reeves has taken up racing. Won’t want to be dropping below 80 km/hr.

Oct 5, 2024  /  News Keanu Reeves crashes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in pro auto racing debut Keanu Reeves crashes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in pro auto racing debut

Hollywood star Keanu Reeves made his professional auto racing debut in an event in which “The Matrix” star crashed at famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway

@Machpants said in Google drive:

Yeah I'm sure I could figure it if I was there, very hard from Screenshots. Either keep all your files in Google Drive, or nothing in Google Drive and point the add folder bit to all the folders you want to sync - then to work online with them you'll need to go to 'computers'
Just quickly could you expand the My Laptop and the My Drive and screen shot. I am pretty sure you will have the 'documents' folder in both. Which might be confusing google, dunno

Fuck me, I think I've cracked it. I unwittingly had a document folder hiding in plain sight amongst a bunch of duplicate files. And that was the one where the updates are going (checked the location on the newly synced file and there it was). Deleted all of the copies, and I'm left with one set of files, under Computers, that I assume can be used either online or on PC, and they will be synced. Thanks for the help mate, a box of virtual beers are on their way. Anytime you need advice on my specialist subject don't hesitate to ask 🙂

@antipodean said in Xmas Memes:

@booboo they should be available every day

Mrs Boo's hot buns.

@MajorRage said in Barnes autobiography:

I'm certainly one for thinking rules shouldn't be set for the lowest common denominator (Which they are), but you also can't keep your head in the sand when your changes are blatantly not working. We saw 3 yellow cards and a red in the world cup final for fucks sakes. How can it possibly be explained that the changes are having an effect, when 4 people got sent from the field in the biggest game of their lives for indiscretions? The only thing you can do is actually change the rules and/or the way it's refereed to try and reduce controversy.

💯

WR do themselves no favours by not acknowledging their preferred course of action is clearly not having the desired effect and worse, is ruining the game.

That being said, it would help if the TMO wasn't a 🤡

@canefan no

Sky Sport now is only sport.

I saw the headline yesterday but the article didn't open so I just assumed it was Stransky! Geez

@canefan said in Embedding photos:

Just tried again. I can see a slide but it doesn't seem to want to move when I either swipe the line or the icons. S22+. UPDATE: I can only seem to access it by going to landscape view

The spoiler and help buttons don't move, you need to slide the bar from anywhere to the left of them.

@Chris-B said in Black Caps coach 2024?:

@ACT-Crusader Wow - Stead's really fashioned an extraordinary record.

I wouldn't have picked him to have been statistically more successful than Hesson.

Hesson built the team that Stead inherited. Of course his record since the WTC reflects a changing of the guard and long-term injury absence

For those who didn't watch game 5 (like me) the team wore black armbands for this:

@pakman unseen? Hardly. Still evident v Japan

@stodders said in Serena Goooone:

@MiketheSnow said in Serena Goooone:

@Machpants said in Serena Goooone:

Serena Williams,Luis Alberto Rodriguez,Gabriella Karefa-Johnson  /  Aug 9, 2022  /  tags Serena Williams's Farewell to Tennis—In Her Own Words Serena Williams's Farewell to Tennis—In Her Own Words

“It’s the hardest thing.”

And I'm spent

She's spouting that if she was a bloke she could still be playing

Fuck off

As in men are allowed to compete for longer, or that her genes are discriminating against her?

Well she'd have been pregnant less often.

Better today - yesterday I was hitting page loading issues.

@Kid-Chocolate and decided to become a citizen of Kazakhstan because they gave her funding to play. Good on her I say.

Now if the Aussie they love to hate wins, a cherry on top for this non-Grand Slam…

@Toddy said in Roland Garros 2022:

Nadal into the final after the semi final was cut short with Alex Zverev injuring his ankle.

20 seconds in - looks sore

Such a shame. It was shaping up to be a good match

@Bovidae said in NCAA championship game:

@ACT-Crusader Who have you got to win it? UConn?

It would be great to see a first-time winner.

Really hoping Florida Atlantic. Love how they play and they are the unlikely F4 team, even though 3 out of the 4 are playing in their first F4.

That Miami v UConn game is a flip of the coin matchup. Both can catch fire. UConn have dominated their opponents in the tourney with all winning margins 15+ points. The switch has flipped since that heartbreak loss in that Big East semi to Marquette. Sanogo and Hawkins are tough covers because not only can both score but they pass well.

@nzzp said in Winter Olympics 2022:

thread derailing, but hey

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Anna Bolic, I beleive, old old news 😉

@Kirwan said in Slow speed?:

@Duluth said in Slow speed?:

just gave it a restart

Plugin with a memory leak?

You called?

Or did you?

I don't remember.

@antipodean said in Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab:

Science fiction coming to life:

Where do you insert the warp core

Liam Lawson gets totally ripped off in the final race of the German DTM championship. Leading the title race with an almost insurmountable lead, gets taken out of the race by the second placed driver in the title race early, then the two leading Mercedes slow down to allow the 3rd runner to overtake and win the race and the title. Lawson probably should have tried to stay out of trouble tussling with the second placed driver at the start, but I don't know what you can do in such a crowded field.

Lawson will have to console himself with a F1 junior trial at the end of the season

@Kirwan said in Vodafone TV:

@nzzp said in Vodafone TV:

@canefan if you only watch sports, consider SkySportNow. I've been using it - not perfect, but some really good features.

happy to post more on pros/cons if anyone is interested

Yes please.

righto, SkySportNow.

Pros:

on demand streaming - anywhere with internet and you get sports. It's awesome quality is about 1080P I think- is really good with fibre 'on demand' means you can watch any programme from the last 24 hours can skip backwards or forwards - but not fast forward/rewind casts a high quality (but at the expense of skpping forward/backwards) Cost: $25/month if you pre-buy a year support NZ Rugby and Sky (who, despite their muppetry sometimes are a force for good in sport watching)

Cons:

You can only watch 'on demand' after the programme is finished (in theory). In practice, can watch up the last 2 hours of live broadcasts (so if you open it, make sure you don't see or hear the scorea nd click backwards it's all good.... up to 2 hours. This has caught me on American Football games which last 3-4 hours sometimes. only 24 hours to watch things before they disappear

Overall, pretty happy with it to be fair. We have fibre and unlimited data, as it will chew data at higher quality. Option to scale back if you're out which is nice. No regrets so far!