Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 75

@emily When I was working full-time I used to get a migraine EVERY weekend. It was ruining my life, it took me a while to realise it was because on Saturday morning I was able to start relaxing and not worry. Then I'd be worrying about Monday coming around...

@paragate @lizardsquid @maple Who are you again?

@lizardsquid @maple Not for the poor buggers on minimum wage who have to pick them off everything

@Graham_Mitchell Thanks! Slaithwaite is a bit out-of-the-way for me but I'll check it out if I am ever passing by that way. :)

Yum

It's really hard to find local grocery co-ops in an area (like the Unicorn in Manchester) because a Web search just comes up with local branches of The Co-op supermarket.

Is there anything like Manchester's Unicorn in West Yorkshire?

@ZaneSelvans One of the things I liked about getting it from a UK eBay seller is that he knocked me some money off for having it shipped with a blank SSD and no Windows licence. Those ones all seem to come with Windows!

@ZaneSelvans @ntnsndr Also, I didn't realise Lenovo sold refurb ThinkPads directly. I'm probably in a different country to you, but I had to go via an eBay dealer to get mine. It came from some megacorp where they throw their computers out every few years whether they work or not.

@ZaneSelvans I can plug my Android (Motorola) phone into the computer and have it appear as a removable disk drive, so I can send podcasts or other files to it that way.

I'm not into music organising software enough to know if any fancy syncing systems work, but others will probably know more. :)

@ZaneSelvans @ntnsndr Good choice! I've been using a refurb ThinkPad X220 with Debian as my daily driver for a few years now and it's never skipped a beat.

I'm not sure there's any particular phone or network that works better with Linux.

Fun experiment. It took two clicks to find this page on the New Zealand Government web site: https://www.govt.nz/browse/nz-passports-and-citizenship/changing-your-gender/change-your-gender-on-your-official-id/

I still haven't found the equivalent page on the UK Government web site, but there is a big banner on the front page about why we're bombing Syria.

On the radio, they're doing one of those features where they ask schoolkids random questions and get cute answers.

Tellingly, none of the children seemed to know what Twitter was. "Is it like a wi-fi?" "It's like eBay but an app." "You can buy stuff on it."

If I owned Twitter shares, I'd sell them on the strength of that. If the next generation of users aren't aware/interested in your brand, you're toast.

@dajbelshaw There's an advert on ITV at present that leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see it. It says "AXA are funding groundbreaking prosthetics research". Obviously this is welcome research, but why are AXA funding it and not say, a university or the NHS?

@necrosis You missed the part where the robot arm picks up the little train and throws it across the room just because it can.

Heaven Knows I'm Agile Now

> More interested in Lean-agile Delivery? Let Mike Joyce, Head of Delivery at Sky Betting & Gaming, walk you through how their tribes use agile working to deliver ideas to tight deadlines

And there was me thinking he was in the Smiths all this time.

This advertorial for a #Leeds tech conference appears to be written entirely in buzzwords. And it's called "Tech Edge".

https://leeds-list.com/discussion/this-new-digital-conference-will-lift-the-lid-on-innovation-agile-development-and-the-future-of-tech/

@dominicduffin1 I've tried to like Vivaldi, but whenever I try it out, it feels like there are too many little rough edges and 'paper-cuts'. It also feels pretty slow compared to Opera and even Firefox. Has it improved at all in recent months?

@mkwadee Well spotted! I can see it out of the window here, along with Holme Moss and Moorside Edge. :)

I love BCB Radio 106.6fm out of Bradford. (Not to be confused with BBC.) They do so much great work with local communities and provide some interesting and varied programming.

But their audio quality is absolutely awful and getting worse! It's been distorted on FM and online for months and I'm finding it harder and harder to listen. Is it me, or does this sound shocking? http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/player/index.html