nickt
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Grumpy Ops Bloke. Desert Driver. Many old computers.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Or about 3 double-decker buses for the length of 171 footy pitches.
Comment · 1 month ago
Box. Amateur. Talk to me when you have a filing cabinet full of cables with bags labelled “SCSI”, “IEE-488 (Commodore)” and “DIN”.
At least my past self was good enough to bag and label.
Comment · 2 months ago
In screen savers, scroll to the bottom - and click on the easy to miss "Show All" on the right side. You should see Afterglow in the expanded list.
Comment · 3 months ago
The should give a one year window and pop round on some random afternoon. Bet they’d look a bit more like a space where work gets done then.
Comment · 5 months ago
At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton and Darlington clearly operated a similar model of moving goods and passengers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa...
So I’d argue that they were moving first!
Comment · 5 months ago
You should probably get a cheap IoT camera to keep an eye on that printer!
Comment · 5 months ago
In the UK (and a few other places) it’s “Mothering Sunday”, the day you honour the church where you were baptised, or your mother church.