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  @bloor@bloor.tw that's really impressive. I followed your migration toots and it's making me very tempted to move to my own servers.

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  Go vote! Fuck Reform.

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  Random but I'm looking for a heating engineer (electrician maybe?) in #manchester who specialises in smart heating (Wiser) who I can pay to help me debug my system. Any recommendations/retoots would be appreciated!

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  My hotel room number is 404 I find this quite satisfying in an odd way. Had to explain it to my partner though.

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  40 it is.

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  The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL is a damned nice phone but the way it shoves AI down your face is annoying as hell. Slowly disabling as much as I can. Still the build quality and screen is fantastic.

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  I built something and it worked - https://sundaylunch.club/ For a long time me and some friends have been doing a Sunday lunch club around Manchester. This is our attempt to start documenting it.

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  Spent the day at a big 3 hosting provider. Most of it was spent internally screaming. If I hear the letters AI again I'm going to projectile vomit. What happened to doing proper work?

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  Lilly gets it

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  I love the fact that the RAF have leased an A330 from Airtankers and it has jet2.com plastered on the side. Nothing beats an RAF holiday! Aircraft: G-VYGL Check out playback of aircraft G-VYGL from Brize Norton to Bardufoss on Flightradar24. https://fr24.com/data/aircraft/g-vygl#3edf06d9

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  Accidentally ran the entire test suite instead of focusing it. Time for lunch I guess.

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  Some initial thoughts on the Kobo Clara Colour: * It's a bit on the small side * The bezel depth is huge and reflects light on the screen in a wierd way * The back is nice * The power button is on the back which kinda makes sense * There's a lot of backlight bleed * The plastic finish isn't as premium as the Kindle * It's quicker than the Kindle * I think I like the smaller form factor * Installing KoReader was as simple as running a script - much easier than kin...

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  ⭐⭐⭐ New Post! ⭐⭐⭐ Rebuilding my digital library https://mikebell.io/posts/rebuilding-digital-library/

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  ⭐⭐⭐ New Post! ⭐⭐⭐ Thoughts on the Kobo Clara Colour https://mikebell.io/posts/thoughts-kobo-clara-colour/

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  [Backrest](https://garethgeorge.github.io/backrest/) is super cool. Trialing it out with Backblaze B2 to backup my Immich instance. I already use Restic to backup my ForgeJo instances but wanted a GUI for my homelab.

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  ⭐⭐⭐ New Post! ⭐⭐⭐ Homelab Update March 2026 https://mikebell.io/posts/homelab-update-march-2026/

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  The amount of spoons I posses is currently lower than the morals/ethics/braincells of Trump. That's to say I'm exhuasted and it's only Wednesday.

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  Just when you think #firefox is doing a bit better