losttourist

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster

Toots usually tinged with 80s-flavoured music & nostalgia, retro computing, and more modern electronics.

Straight, cis, LGBTQ+ ally.
#childfree

All toots here auto-delete after 6 months. tfr.

Interests:
#80smusic #1980s #80s #TOTP #BritishTV #cooking #RaspberryPi #catsofmastodon #piano #RetroComputing #8bit #Arduino

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Bez_Lightyear, to random
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fucking hell, a random French bloke appears

losttourist,

@Bez_Lightyear that was life in pre-brexit britain for you.

Oops a little bit of politics there, my name's Ben Elton, Mrs Thatch, goodnight.

losttourist, to random

You can say bad things about Saint Etienne if you like. You'll just be very, very wrong.

losttourist, to random

Bit of class now.

losttourist, to random

If I wasn't watching I think I'd have said this is someone like Atomic Kitten rather than Ace of Base. I assume their star was very much on the descendant at this point.

losttourist, to random

What a song. Well deserved to be at number one.

losttourist, to random

That's a very subdued outfit for Madonna. Looks like she's just popped out of the nearest Starbucks.

Were there Starbuckses in the UK in 1994?

losttourist, to random

I remember Lambert & Butler.

losttourist, to random

Ugh just in time for Bryan Adams.

But more than worth it for Bonnie Raitt. What a voice.

losttourist, to random

Evening all. What did I miss?

losttourist, to random

I might be a little late into tonight. I'm sure you'll all cope 😆

losttourist, to random

If I had been asked, I would have guessed that "antennas and propagation" might be a one-semester course as part of a university electronics degree or something.

I would never have thought it's such a wide subject that not only does it result in a large conference centre being booked out for days, but that is the 18th such conference in this part of the world alone.

How humbling and amazing it is to realize how little of the seemingly mundane world around us I'm actually aware of.

losttourist, to scifi

Just found out that Vernor Vinge has died. What a shame, he was a true science fiction pioneer.

brucelawson, to random
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Oh blimey

losttourist,

@brucelawson No apostrophe in "repairs"? Bloody amateurs.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    @GossiTheDog

    petealexharris, to random
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    Work are letting us try out this monitor, which looks like a joke image begging for a caption, but is actually a real thing somebody thought needed to be made.

    losttourist,

    @petealexharris I quite like that. Big enough that you can have your code window in the middle, a browser on the left for looking things up / stealing from stackoverflow, and fill up the right hand side with chat apps, Mastodon, and other similarly important stuff.

    craiggrannell, to random
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    Atari having fun with PR boxes again. The tiny snag: they’re not sealed. So when I pulled this out of its container, on which there was no handy arrow, the 400 Mini fell out and slid across the office floor. No harm done, mind. Mini-consoles are nigh-on indestructible.

    losttourist,

    @craiggrannell LOOK AT THAT 70s WALLPAPER THO!

    losttourist,

    @craiggrannell There are quite a few photos of me & my sisters as children in the 1970s and in the living room there are the most hideous mustard yellow & chocolate brown curtains you could possibly imagine.

    I keep meaning to scan in some of those old pictures but get mildly traumatised every time I look at the decor!

    mxtthxw, to random
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    losttourist,

    @mxtthxw Isn't that basically any Android tablet? Although I guess you'd want it in a phone-sized form factor rather than a great big book-sized slab.

    losttourist, to random

    I am delighted to announce that you are highly unlikely to find AI images on this Mastodon server due to the fact that I don't really how to generate them and have no interest in doing so.

    losttourist, to random
    nixCraft, to random
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    Forget sleek USBs! This clunky device was once the pinnacle of tech. Why does that look like a toaster?? 🤔

    Animated gif of an 8-inch floppy drive loading/reading the disk

    losttourist,

    @nixCraft Look at the size of those SD cards!

    losttourist, to fediverse

    I remember when this was all fields (or at least just a couple of million strange people - very strange in some cases, you know who you are!)

    losttourist, to politics

    It's still 9 months or something away, but already the US Election is causing me to bounce up & down on my mute button like Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout.

    people: I have copious filters to hide your stuff from my timeline, so if it gets through you're probably not following Mastodon/Fediverse best practices.

    Put stuff behind CWs. Use hashtags. Don't deliberately mis-spell names.

    I know you might feel this is the most interesting, vitally important election ever, but many of us don't have the mental space or desire to process a constant stream of fear and fury.

    Play nice, please. 😄

    losttourist,

    @jfmezei Yes it does & welcome to my mute button

    dgar, to random
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    followed @mastodonusercount and put the bell on, because they want to see when Mastodon hits 15 million users.

    Such a nerd.

    losttourist,

    @cowman @dgar @mastodonusercount Imma get 244 friends to sign up (lol like I've got 244 friends!)

    losttourist,

    @cowman @dgar @mastodonusercount 264 anyway. Maths is hard.

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