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billgoats

@billgoats@bitbang.social

Cats, retro-computing, clipart, and photos of the sky, I guess. Live, Laugh, LocalTalk. he/him.

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billgoats, to retrocomputing
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It very desperately needs a wash, but if ever there were a hat that screamed out ‘nerrrrrrd!’, this is that hat.

billgoats, to retrocomputing
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Oh wowwwww! Here’s something from a very specific era: a blobby graphite external FireWire CDRW drive.

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Huh! Now there’s a blast from the past.

taber, to random
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Wikipedia

billgoats,
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@taber why do these particular twelve grapes somehow feel forbidden,,,?

billgoats, to random
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I’m on a boat! As the old saying goes.

billgoats,
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@vga256 yup!

billgoats,
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@vga256 absolutely gorgeous!

billgoats, to random
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Trees and water!

billgoats, to random
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The Guardian: are heat pumps more expensive to run? https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/13/are-heat-pumps-more-expensive-to-run-than-gas-boilers

Me, just the other side of my first winter with a heat pump (with oil rather than gas, mind you): no!

The house has been consistently more comfortable, too. Turns out I really like how it runs at a lower temperature longer compared the on-scorchingly-hot-then-off of a gas/oil boiler.

Not to mention how much the cats adore the giant warm-but-never-hot radiators :D

billgoats,
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@penguin42 That is... an unexpectedly awkward question ;) Oil you buy per litre on the open market when your tank runs low, and prices flail around like you wouldn't believe. I'd typically stick £150-200 aside for it each month.

billgoats,
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@penguin42 You’ll have to look that one up. I was also needing to replace a major part of my system as well anyway, so had the decision of whether I’d be tied directly to fossil fuels for another 15-20 years or not too.

billgoats, to random
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They’ve replaced no smoking with no laptops or iPods! 🚬

ActionRetro, to random
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Were there any old phones that could browse WAP over wifi?

billgoats,
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@ActionRetro maaaybe the Nokia n95? It definitely had a weird WiFi implementation.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Thought oh no someone dropped a pig trough on the road accidentally but then realized I just saw my first CyberTruck in the wild

billgoats,
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@thomasfuchs I can't wait to see one round these parts... I'll bet they wouldn't last a week before corroding into a pile of dust in the salty wet air :D

NanoRaptor, to random
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It's always a pleasure to open an addition to the collection and find it's brand new inside.

billgoats,
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@NanoRaptor risk of fire 😜

billgoats, to random
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and all in one

billgoats, to random
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Anybody want a shiny sticker or five? I might have gone overboard with an order 😜

Round shiny stickers that say Live Laugh LocalTalk

billgoats,
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@lathamgreen I had one once upon a time. They scrape off such a huge percentage for commission and charges and card fees and and and and… Can be worth it for decently priced crafty stuff; absolutely not for a silly sticker ;)

billgoats, to retrocomputing
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Had a poke round Orkney Wireless Museum, and found another good reminder of why you always need to check up on your capacitors.

billgoats, to retrocomputing
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Nope, very definitely not ready for the internet.

billgoats, to random
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Down with hard drives.

billgoats,
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(it's really disconcerting to have old computers without the grinding hard drive sounds to reassure you that they're still thinking and not just frozen)

paulrickards, (edited ) to RaspberryPi
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I’ve been rebuilding a installation that supports my classic Mac habit 😄

I used to use the awesome image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like . But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.

I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a 2 hat for devices.

billgoats,
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@paulrickards I found the same thing a couple of years back. CUPS is handy and convenient, but MacPalette is so much better.

billgoats,
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@paulrickards does AppleScript let you send a click to a specific coordinate? assuming the dialog is always in the same place, a wait and then a click where OK is could maybe work.

billgoats,
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@paulrickards that’s looking so much better!

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