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Alasdair

@lumsden.uk

Retro computer enthusiast ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Fellow human ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป Personal account, views are all mine (for better or worse) ๐Ÿฆ„

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This had the cleanest and most professional user interface of the lot, before XP Infantilised it. Fond memories!

17.02.2026 18:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Confused - shouldn't people be using MariaDB these days?

17.02.2026 16:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
13W3 connector with 3 RGB coaxial insert pins

13W3 connector with 3 RGB coaxial insert pins

13W3 is where it's at

12.02.2026 12:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2,200 dog attacks against Royal Mail staff in 2024, thats 6 per day

11.02.2026 17:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Things like this are why I switched to @kagi.com and @proton.me

11.02.2026 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

YYYY-mm-dd or bust

09.02.2026 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The first time I played this I thought I'd made a mistake, like maybe I bumped the crystal against the sides, and reloaded a save game over and over

09.02.2026 19:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I imagine this would strongly depend on the specific collection of girls or the collection of boys, you'd want an extremely large sample size and repeated experiments before drawing general conclusions.

09.02.2026 19:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks very cool! Which environment and model did you use?

07.02.2026 10:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whoa, I had no idea that existed :-) Thanks for sharing!

31.01.2026 20:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow, how cool! Lemmings for the C64. Will have to try this ๐Ÿ˜Ž Played a lot of Lemmings on my Amiga 1200 back in the day

31.01.2026 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Used to play it with my mum and dad. Required patience to figure it out! Very fond memories

31.01.2026 10:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the UK you can pay ยฃ2.99/m (and something similar in Europe) to remove adverts from Instagram. Makes it much more pleasant. I imagine (hope!) doing so drops that figure significantly

29.01.2026 22:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

I actually have blocked the news section via a custom ublock filter because of all the awfulness going on in the world:

! Hide News tab in Kagi search results
kagi.com##.nav_item[href*="nws"]
kagi.com##a:has-text(/^News$/)

! Hide the News section/widget if it appears
kagi.com##.news_results

25.01.2026 13:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good on you, if only more people did the same. People need to vote against anti-customer business practices with their wallets. Also, MariaDB has been out for over 15 years so it's not like people have to go to Oracle for MySQL - they can get a compatible DB from the original team.

23.01.2026 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great advert. Shame UK confectionary can't say the same thing. It has all shrunk, with premium quality ingredients swapped for HFCS and Palm Oil. The worst offenders are Roses and Quality street, Christmas staples, with foil wrappers and tin boxes replaced with plastic ๐Ÿฅฒ I want a time machine!

18.01.2026 19:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now I want a CNC machine big enough to make this

17.01.2026 12:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sony needs to do a massive comeback, resurrecting the best of their designs over the decades and combining them with modern technology to produce something that's new, relevant yet retro inspired. I'm sure people would go crazy for it.

17.01.2026 12:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Office being renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot was the last straw for me. Microsoft have turned highly anti-consumer. It's a shame the entire business world depends on MS Teams ๐Ÿคฎ

15.01.2026 12:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An Amiga 1200 in a black case attached to a Sony Trinitron 20" CRT monitor and a Dell 4k monitor, with Civilization displaying on the CRT and CaffeineOS displaying on the Dell.

An Amiga 1200 in a black case attached to a Sony Trinitron 20" CRT monitor and a Dell 4k monitor, with Civilization displaying on the CRT and CaffeineOS displaying on the Dell.

A screenshot of CaffeineOS's About page showing it is running on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B as part of a pistorm32lite, with Kickstart 45.57 and Workbench 45.3, 2MB chip RAM, 512KB slow RAM, 1804MB Fast

A screenshot of CaffeineOS's About page showing it is running on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B as part of a pistorm32lite, with Kickstart 45.57 and Workbench 45.3, 2MB chip RAM, 512KB slow RAM, 1804MB Fast

An external Gotek, a large MicroSD card to put CaffeineOS on, and a MicroHDMI->HDMI lead so my Pistorm could finally be plugged into my monitor. Gave Civilization a spin! Now all I need is A1200.net to finally ship my CD32 keycaps (been waiting 7 years now) and the setup is complete.

30.12.2025 10:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Laser is where itโ€™s at. Inkjet is just a vehicle for Big Printer and the Ink cabal.

28.12.2025 09:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Given the rate of improvement of Gen AI we are incredibly close to being unable to tell fact from fiction, and that genuinely terrifies me. The only mistake I can see is the unreadable garbled text on the lower part of the box.

28.12.2025 09:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love how Europe is somehow a threat to US Democracy due to supposedly having restrictions on free speech yet the USA is actively censoring documentaries.. how does that work exactly? Can a MAGA supporter please explain? Iโ€™m confused.

28.12.2025 09:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They seem fine at picking up dust and they get quite dirty over their lifespan. I live next to a building site so my main issue is dust. Not sure how good they are at pm2.5 and VOCs, your millage may vary!

27.12.2025 13:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve got Levoit units and they certainly suck up a lot of dust, and have a mesh pre-filter you can vacuum clean. My fav is the Vital 200s, quite hard to get in the UK but itโ€™s a great size/throughput. I have a 100S which is great too. Plenty of cheap 3rd party filters also which keeps costs down

27.12.2025 12:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gameboy?

26.12.2025 15:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An exclusion of hermits

26.12.2025 15:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mine just turned up too!!! Just in time for Christmas, how magical ๐Ÿ˜Ž

21.12.2025 16:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œDo not eatโ€

19.12.2025 14:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rev 6.1 would suggest you're right

16.12.2025 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0