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To be fair, I’m mostly about Craig Charles as well. His funk and soul show is a genuine highlight of my week while I’m cooking.

As for other shows; Jarvis Cocker has just come back on Sunday afternoons, which is very welcome. Also, Cerys Matthews on a Sunday is great.

Just a note to add that if OP does dig in to HDM, bear in mind that there are only three books. There are three more books masquerading as a continuation of Lyra’s story, but they can be safely disregarded as they are a nonsense.

The thing with streaming services for me is the complete lack of humanity. Don’t get me wrong, I sub to Apple Music and use it quite a lot, but when I’m cooking dinner and want a person playing music to me, making recommendations, and just chatting away, there’s no substitute for human-presented radio.

Algorithmic recommendations are fine, but there’s something about clicking with a piece of music that someone has encouraged me to check out.

Yeah, every day. BBC 6 music is where it’s at.

If watching a recorded theatre performance from the comfort of my own sofa counts, then The National Theatre’s presentation of The Importance of Being Earnest, which is wonderful.

In terms of seeing a live performance while in the actual theatre then it would be Rocky Horror back in 2019.

Edit: Just remembered that we saw Wicked in London in December 2025, before we saw the movie. That was fun.

They didn’t. As far as I’m aware they bought the competition.

Waze serves a slightly different purpose to Maps, being a friendlier face that’s more of a driving GPS than Maps is. And while they don’t really market it as a Google product, people will use it thinking it’s a good alternative to using Google or Apple.

Waze is owned by Google.

Same here. Trouble is, those aren’t “savings”, the price with the card is now just the price. If you don’t have a card, you have to pay an inflated price. A privacy tax, if you will.

Yes, but it’s not currently hooked up to anything because we don’t actually use it.

Ea-nāṣir, merrily flogging low quality copper to unsuspecting punters. The rotter.

When using Sunshine/Moonlight to stream games to our Apple TV, you can guarantee that if it begins to stutter it’s because Windows is downloading something in the background.

Cheap shit from 2014.

Funny enough, I installed Win11 on a friend’s HP convertible laptop today.

A 2GHz i3 and 4GB RAM, and it was still entirely usable. Not powerful by any means, but a fine socials browser, YouTube viewer, and document writer.

I’d have preferred to put Debian on it, but it wasn’t my call, so I did as requested.

My shatner’s bassoon has been fucked since 1997.

Trouble is, it was never broadcast in any hi-res format, and certainly never released on one. At best you’ll find it on DVD.

Don’t forget Brass Eye.

“Security footage of a paedophile disguised as a school”

I was introduced to President last week. Their tunes have caused significant damage to my Good Headphones.

It’s Charlie from Busted/Fightstar, right?

This episode of the Memory Palace

I made my own podcast at the time and hearing this episode genuinely caused me to stop and wonder whether there any point in carrying on with it, because I could never produce something as beautiful.

Also, this mini documentary about Nick Drake.

It’s an incredible piece of work. The sound design is stunning.

Edit: Meant to ask, what’s the show you enjoy, OP?

Hetzner for my VPS Mullvad for my privacy

My wife’s 4K monitor died a few months ago. They’d been pondering a new one anyway, so that forced the decision.

So I took the broken one to work and asked my electrician buddy if he could run a multimeter over it.

One 8p capacitor later and now I have a 4K monitor as well.