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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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emsquared, to random
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I'm unprepared for this sudden outbreak of bright sun in . I'm actually shielding my eyes. Like some sort of light averse mole.

losttourist,
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@emsquared Ahh you can't fool me, I've seen with my own eyes that Glasgow can have bright clear days.

And the Clyde can be as smooth as a mirror sometimes!

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It doesn't happen often but every so often there's a glimmer of good news.

"Wind power has overtaken gas as the UK's largest source of electricity"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65557469

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Although it's worth noting that's on average over the last three months. There are days (such as today) where wind contributes almost nothing to the UK's energy requirements.

(Image is a screenshot from https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/)

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Springwatch is coming back!

"Springwatch returns to BBC Two with three weeks of live programming from a brand new location - RSPB Arne in Dorset"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/springwatch-returns-rspb-arne-dorset

atomicpoet, to internet
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Interesting observation about social media “fun”:

Some people think #Bluesky is “fun”. However, I find it anxiety-inducing and stressful. I’m not the only one who thinks so. A few autistic people say the same thing.

#Calckey seems “fun” to me because I can make it be what I need it to be. For example, it’s nice that I can create antennas devoted to my special interests.

@fediversenews

losttourist,
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@ConserveChange @pussista @atomicpoet @fediversenews
It is rather strange that I can (among other things) Mute, Block or Report you or any other user I don't follow right there from the post, but I can't actually Follow you!

losttourist, to random
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Taking life at a slower pace.

A canal boat is passing along a channel that is barely wider than the boat itself. That's because this is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, part of the Llangollen Canal in Wales. It carries the canal over the River Dee almost 40 metres below. Not for those with a bad head for heights!

losttourist,
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@DarkSheepArts Thank you for the compliment.

And yes, it's high up! I suffer mildly from vertigo so it was quite a challenge to go out along the walkway there, but at least there's the railing. I don't think I'd like to navigate it by boat.

This is the view from below.

losttourist, to random
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Absolutely bonkers. This is for a banking website!

losttourist, to random
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I'm going to have a go at recapping this Spectrum+ that I acquired the other day. Wish me luck, it's the first time I've attempted something like this.

losttourist,
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First one done. I'm delighted with how straightforward it was. The old cap came out cleanly, one of the pads was even left empty of solder. A touch more solder on the other pad and a ping of the solder sucker, and both were clear.

Anyway onwards and upwards, let's hope the remaining 10 go as smoothly!

losttourist,
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Completed! And it works!

A huge thanks to Phil from https://www.retroleum.co.uk for selling the capacitor kit AND for having excellent clear instructions on the website for how to recap a Speccy.

Also thanks to @admin for screaming STOP! when he saw that I'd soldered the first capacitor in the wrong way round. I took it slow and steady after that and no more cock ups.

The physical placement of the capacitors could have been done slightly more neatly, but they're all there (and correctly oriented) and the soldering was easy and nice and neat.

All in all a good job and I'm quite chuffed with myself. Now to play the games!

A Sinclair Spectrum+, external case
A television showing the initial screen when a Spectrum 48k is first powered on. It is a white screen with black text near the bottom reading "© 1982 Sinclair Research"
Manic Miner!

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    losttourist,
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    @ianbetteridge That red wall that they "demolished".

    Looks like it's been rebuilt.

    mattrobertson, to random
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    I see you but I’m not touching you

    losttourist,
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    @mattrobertson I'll see you & raise you

    losttourist, to random
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    Today we has mostly been going for walks and hikes through the beautiful Derbyshire Dales in the southern part of the Peak District.

    A trail through a steep V-shaped valley. In the foreground are many moss-covered rocks and boulders while trees and wild garlic and visible a little further away.
    A picture-postcard view down a Dales street. On one side of the road is a row of terraced cottages built out of yellow Derbyshire limestone, while on the other side of the road there is a churchyard. In the distance beyond the town a large green hill can be seen. This is Bakewell, Derbyshire.
    The remains of the Magpie Mine, a 18th and 18th century lead mine located near Bakewell in Derbyshire. The image shows the mine's winding gear, a semi-derelict stone building which used to house the steam beam engine for the mine pump, and a tall stone chimney.

    Loukas, to random
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    This map of coronation parties is a good tool to see how royalist different parts of the UK are.

    At first glance it's obvious what a southern/midlands English thing it is. https://coronation.gov.uk/events/#event-result-count

    losttourist,
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    @Loukas Ahh well done to my home town, , proudly not giving (much of) a fuck

    losttourist, to random
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    Cornwall to north west England is a long, long drive, especially on the Friday before a long weekend.

    So on the way home yesterday we decided to break it up by going to visit Glastonbury. We've never been to Glastonbury town before.

    Anyway, I now have the answer to the question "what happened to all the hippies".

    We enjoyed it though, and the views from the top of the Tor are amazing.

    A mural on the side of a house. It depicts the head and shoulders of a woman with large roses covering where her hair would be. She is holding an animal's skull, perhaps a sheep's skull.

    losttourist, to random
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    Judging from this, I remain yet to be convinced that our entry this year is going to do as well as last year 😂​

    mxtthxw, to random
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    In Grange Hill Tucker had a friend who looked a bit like Bea Smith from Prisoner Cell Block H. What was his name?

    losttourist,
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    @mxtthxw Are you thinking of Alan? (Humphries, apparently, although I confess I had to google the character's surname).

    losttourist, to random
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    🎶 You know where you are? 🎵
    🎶 You're in the jungle, baby! 🎶

    Or at least, as close to it as you can get in the UK.

    A waterfall rushes down behind a cluster of tropical trees and other plants
    A plant with vivid red flowers
    An high up shot from inside the tropical biome at the Eden Project. Many trees and plants can be seen beneath an artificial canopy.

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    losttourist,
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    @anathema_device They're appearing on every server (e.g. I've woken up this morning to see this in my notifications)

    losttourist, to random
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    Anyway sod it. I'm in Cornwall amd if the world is going to end, this is the place to wait for the apocalypse.

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