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Regular joycon Switch controllers don't work well as they're individual devices with individual bluetooth connections, so you're stuck with using one at a time. At least, that's what I found trying to use them for an emulator. I imagine official Switch Pro Controllers work, but I bought an 8bitDo as the remapping seemed flexible and they come in various styles.

That would be exactly right. Yeah, that synonym not obvious, but all works neatly.

Ah yes, that's nice. I like those setters who are willing to bend the Ximenean rules. Guardian ones seem to do this from time to time but can't think of an example right now.

Quite enjoyed this from Saturday's Guardian. Got the last few letters, then the definition, then worked out the rest of the wordplay:
Clownish crack, then some dialogue with question from Manuel (12)

Hole number? Bit punny, but I've seen worse.

If you’re after tapes, I have around a hundred or so. Almost certainly filled with some Irish folk recorded off RTÉ by my dad about 20 years ago. Happy to send a couple your way for few quid to cover postage.

I’ve also restored similar analogue devices, VCRs and reel-to-reel, so not quite as fiddly as cassette but I might be able to answer questions if you do open it up to fix.

Had to resort to pencil and paper. One of those words you forget about.

Result is ballerina’s dress audibly split around a low level (3,5,3,3)

Yeah, ground anchor and an Almax chain from when they were still in business.

Not DIY, but I've got a green-roof type thing with open sides. Partly because a full metal shed wouldn't fit, but also to avoid the condensation problems of them and plastic covers.

Staring at that for ages. Always forget to check for that trick. But -3 because pig-headed pride.

She should talk to Mark Cavendish, they’d get on. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/banana-phobe-swedish-minister-paulina-brandberg-leaked-emails

-2 but didn’t really get the use of ‘block’ to mean what it means here.

I hang my northern head in shame that I got that one early on.

Ah, damn. It should have remembered it all, no? Good work anyhow.

I can recommend today’s Guardian prize cryptic as a pretty accessible one. https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/29536

The question mark at the end helped, I was concentrating on wordplay too much.

I have been so snooty about wordle and worldle and so on up to now, but now it’s crosswords and I’m hooked.

3 under.

I’ve gone for the aesthetic approach in a similar situation. Not enough space for a metal shed, nor enough foliage to make it look nice, so have a green roofed thing with an open side from Bluum. Huge chain and ground anchor, but no attempt to hide things.

Will just have to see how it plays out. 😬

Not just the BBC. 22,000km/h is going to be quite the headwind.

If you’re on an iPhone, Railboard is pleasingly efficient: https://www.railboard.com/

If it's the KDP uploading process you're testing, from memory I think the book's internals can be done with a .docx file, so maybe just fill the body with placeholder text. You could then upload with a mock-up cover image, check it and then remove from publication. From memory it's a pretty quick process to remove it. I highly doubt there's a real person checking contents, so a book filled with nonsense is unlikely to be flagged in the way existing literature might be.

Yeah, not the quickest thing to setup, fiddly soldering and heat shrink.

With my front rack I use a removable section of cable with bullet plugs at either end. Take it out, reconnect and cable is now a rack length shorter.

For rear I have similar points to break it near the fork crown, but that was mostly due to internal routing meaning I had to use thin wires inside and needed to join them where they emerge.

So you could make a break/join point nice and neat for no rack and add the cable back in when required.

Personally think this an improvement over the last one. But as ribbons soften in exactly the right frequency range for cranked amps, might just be that. Love a ribbon.

I think this is a quick pivot to Charli xcx supporting her, declaring this to be KH's brat summer. I did not spot it and had to be told, but I am so far from their target demographic.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jul/22/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme