Registration wasn't too bad, in the end. Had a nice chat with 2 people. The potentially forced socialising starts tomorrow though, with 2.5 hours of…whatever's happening…happening.
@matigo It makes me quite uncomfortable that you can start something but not stop it. The timeline equivalent of destructive editing, or something.
// @peemee
@sumudu If your daughter has a uni account already, she could log in — it'll be the same system where she would have uploaded a scan of her passport/visa — and see if there's a "Finance" tab or something. There might be a confirmation there. Edinburgh has that kind of system, but it'll depend on the university I guess.
@matigo If their server is efficient in the slightest, 12MB should be plenty to run until 2020!
And 1500 days without a reboot…if only I could have that kind of uptime.
University registration in 45 minutes. Quite nervous, as I always am faced with such situations. That, and I haven’t really interacted with anyone IRL for 2 weeks (minus the necessities of grocery shopping).
@kdfrawg It’s an appealing thought, but only if I can justify that extra 300GBP (which could be put towards a few other things). When the eBay one arrives (it should arrive first, and because it was an auction it’s probably non-refundable), I’ll see if I could live with just the one display — if I can, I’ll arrange for a return on the Amazon one or put it on Gumtree without opening the box.
@gtwilson Texpad is designed for LaTeX but supports Markdown IIRC. Quite a heavy editor.
The easier way would be to used Marked with any text editor (it's just a previewer that can read any text file and has a few export functions). I don't recall if its PDF export breaks footnotes by page properly though — last time I checked, its output was more suitable for continuous/non-paginated formats.
@indigo Apparently we'll get a few showers in the evening.
But it's still warm (18ºC).
// @hazardwarning
Oh my. Looks like the Amazon seller dispatched the monitor without reading my cancellation request. So I’m going to end up with 2 4k monitors‽