displaced.co.uk
British person who fixes old computers and makes things. Forced to write software and do DevOps stuff for money. Will quote Spaceballs at you until you forcibly stop me. Does a book club.
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I just want to scoop up all my favourite people and put them on Nebula so I’d never have to open YT again.
(To be fair, quite a few of my subscriptions are indeed on there. But not all — RIP @teamtriplejump.bsky.social)
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Woah. I spent years in EDIT.COM building my ultimate CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and I’m only learning this just now. Makes perfect sense though!
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To do:
- Figure out how to make clicking the knob switch between LED patterns in the WLED playlist.
- Get a bigger 140mm fan with native PWM control and even more LEDs to make a turbo version!
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Makes me think of that poem by Maggie Smith “Good Bones” The last two lines always kill me.
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Will be there with bells on, metaphorically!
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Absolutely love building little (and some not so little) kits like this! I’m gonna have to go get one.
(My favourite kit was this built-from-scratch clone of a ZX Spectrum (a 1980s British home computer)
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When I was visiting a friend in the US, she made sure to take me to Target a few times. We had fun, despite neither of us being mums, because we’re both goofballs.
I did prefer Publix though. Felt a lot like our Waitrose stores in the UK. The ‘British Food’ section was adorable (& genuinely good)
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I know, right?! Thursday-morning train-cocaine in *this* economy?!
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Blimey… the original post’s replies are so nice!
Was fully expecting to see the usual “ew, gross — none of it” along with some comments about dentistry.
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Acorn and the support from the UK government and the BBC managed to change the world.
This magic tablet in my hand has ten ARM CPUs.
And Acorn realising that 'fuck it we'll do it ourselves' was a massive shift.
Sophie Wilson is a true genius.
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The Ship Song — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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Thanks! On the mend, but grumbly still. Oh to sit! And recline! Hehe.
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As someone nursing a severely bruised (hopefully not broken) coccyx for the past week-and-a-half, the joy of a good, comfy sit is massively underrated!
Will give this a listen... maybe once I've recovered.
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Oops. Lost the link to the thing:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The drive I’m greaseweasle’ing with needs a bit of TLC. I’m not too familiar with 5.25” drives, but I’m presuming the top spindle-clampy-thing should turn freely? ‘Cos this one don’t!
Greaseweazle was fun to learn. All came together once I learnt how to use the step parameter!
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Violent explosion at level 8?!
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Ooof!
Keeping this image in mind has (so far at least) saved me from any mishaps!