I'm led in a field just south of Bath, looking at the sky. I can't remember the last time I was somewhere I could see the Milky Way, but I can pick traces of it tonight. Wow.
Application complete (biometric appointment) on 14 May. I didn't use a priority service.
I received an email from TLScontact who collected the biometrics but nothing from UKVI to confirm the application was complete.
Application was at the end of the spouse - 10 year route.
The application process did not ask for proof that we are still together but I received an email on July 29 asking for the usual set of letters addressed to both of us, which we provided on 6 August. ICheck your email people. This got filtered into somewhere in my email where I didn't see it - I just happened to do an email search for "UKVI" on the 2nd of August and this came up. It said the information had to be provided within ten working days, so if I'd missed it for another week and a half, my application would have been denied!
LR was granted today, 11 August.
I've made just about every possible mis-step through the UK immigration system, but here we are, eighteen years after I first arrived, with ILR. I'm off to buy some champagne British sparkling wine.
What the title says. I want this platform to fly towards Nauvis until it has a full hold of carbon, then return to Volcanus. But the interrupt to return never fires, even though "Allow interrupting other interrupts" is set.
TBH I've never used interrupts before (I use LTN just by habbit with trains and haven't ever needed interrupts with platforms before) so not sure if I'm expecting too much here.
I have a platform which just orbits Volcanus, collecting carbon and sulphur and sending it down to the surface. It's fairly wide (about 270 tiles) because its main point is to gather as much carbon as possible.
To try to improve how much carbon it gathers, I decided to put a single thruster on it and have it slowly shunt between Nauvis and Volcanus. But this has not gone well. If the thruster is full of fuel, it will set off at about 8km/s towards Nauvis. But quickly the fuel level drops and it stops and starts drifting back to Volcanus. Its equilibrium point seems to be where it has about 180 fuel in the thruster. At this point the thruster will run continuously, but the platform won't move away from Volcanus. It just sits there, burning fuel. It never drops anything to the planet, because it's technically still trying to leave, and it will never leave because the thruster will never build up enough fuel to move it.
I was kind of surprised by this. I knew that platforms went slower when the thrusters had less fuel and I knew that platforms need more thrust when they are wider. But I didn't realise that it was possible for a platform to move backwards while the thruster is firing.
I'm not sure I have an actual question beyond "has anyone else experienced this?" Obviously it's just the way the game works.
Drainage works on Crossways Lane has four-way temporary lights. By 8am traffic was backed the whole way up the hill from Dunkerton and all the way from the P&R round about in the other direction.
Scheduled to be there for three weeks, apparently. It's probably worth going through Cammerton and Tunley.
I have a ground water supply that comes out below 5 degrees and can supply 4-5 m^3 per hour for several days without significantly changing the water level. It's not free as such - costs about 5p per m^3 to pump out - but it's not exactly expensive, either. How can I best use it to cool my house?
Ideas floated so far:
Hook it up to an impulse sprinkler and point it at the side of the house with the sun on it.
Go to a breaking yard and get a car radiator + electric radiator fan. Pump cold water into a tank. Circulate this through the radiator with a small electric pump. Duct the resulting cold air into the house.
Any other ideas out there?
I applied for ILR on the ten-year route at the start of April. Biometrics appointment was mid-May. I got an email from TLScontact saying "Thank you for submitting your biometrics, we will now forward your information to UKVI" but haven't had the confirmation email from UKVI to say they have my application and are processing it. Should I worry?
On a tangential note, I've just realised that I can't go on the family holiday to Italy we were planning for August unless this comes through pretty sharpish... Feeling really stupid about now.
I'm trying to install 26.04 server from a live server ISO booted by PXE boot but just can't make it work. The machine is booting UEFI. I've got it to load grub and display the menu. Here's the menu entry:
menuentry "Install Ubuntu Server 26.04" {
set gfxpayload=keep
linux /linux boot=casper iso-url=http://192.168.1.1/ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso url=http://192.168.1.1/ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso layerfs-path=minimal.standard.live.squashfs ip=dhcp fsck.mode=skip interface=enp3s0 ---
initrd /initrd
}
There's a fair bit of rubbish in there that LLMs have suggested to fix it with no luck.
It downloads the ISO but then says:
(initramfs) ubuntu-26.04-live-se 99% |******************** | 2747M 0:00:00 ETA ubuntu-26.04-live-se 100% |********************| 2783M 0:00:00 ETA "ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso" saved done. Unable to find a live file system on the network
Am I doing anything obviously wrong? I used to have this entry which just worked:
menuentry "Install Ubuntu Server 24.04.3" {
set gfxpayload=keep
linux linux iso-url=http://192.168.1.1/ubuntu-24.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso ip=dhcp ---
initrd initrd
}
Do I need a new kernel / initrd to boot the 26.04 ISO maybe?
L'ho studiato da solo da circa tre anni ma ho bisogno di esercitarmi a parlare e ascoltare.
After upgrading to 26.04, it seems that Vim has learned some mouse interaction. Click+drag is now equivalent to visual mode, it seems. But visual mode doesn't automatically copy the selected text to the clipboard.
In theory vim can copy to the * register, which is the middle-button clipboard. That's not ideal, because I've got nearly three decades of muscle memory invested in select-to-copy, but it'd be something. But the version of vim that's installed by default is compiled without clipboard support. So it seems there is now no way at all to copy text from vim to the clipboard.
Ideally, I could just go back to the old behaviour and not bother retraining my muscle memory. Is there a way to do it? A quick google suggested `mouse=nicr` in vimrc, but it seems that disables the mouse entirely, you can't even select text like you used to be able to.
And who on earth thought that shipping vim in a default state where copying to the clipboard is not possible was a good idea?