@pelagikat Ooh, hand-turned! That's a quantum level better than made on a CNC lathe in China.
@pelagikat I saw it and thought crikey, I haven't seen one of those for a long time! My mother had one, but I never saw here do any darning.
@TechnicalKO Haven't fired the Windows one up recently, either. Which, as soon as I've got the new focus adjuster on the big laser fitted, I will need to do.
@engtao Still reminds me of Tangerine Dream, though. Still haven't figured which of their albums Schulze was involved in.
@space_cadet Including the elephant in the room, Nescafé.
@space_cadet After the baby formula scandal, wouldn't touch their shit. Yes, they're evil.
@space_cadet Yeah, chocolate's one of those things when it's morally safest to go for fair trade, or similar. Trying to remember what Aldi's is - not fair trade, but something close.
@TechnicalKO I just make do with Spud Lite (comes from Virginia, I think). Doesn't insulin-spike me like most spuds.
@engtao This is nice, thank you!
Cheap Chinese pump running the outside taps and stuff doesn't like running for long periods - keeps going into thermal shutdown. Would be nice if I could bypass the protection, but what's the chance it's embedded in the motor winding?
Moving it to house duty, and biting the bullet and replacing it with a $400 Davey.
@matt I had no idea that it was still a thing! Thought it had gone the way of old friends like Webcrawler.
@TechnicalKO @ericireland Can't get tommies OR mullet right now. I have some frozen (picking substitution c/o Woolies) basa - Vietnamese fish, fatty, gonna give it a go.
@TechnicalKO @ericireland *tries to remember what being 42 was like* Actually, that was 11 years ago, which coincides with early chronic health shit, so hello from 53, finally found balance between the 3 major OS's, I need pickled fish, and my feet hurt.
Srsly, I've been working with various flavours of UN*X since *counts* 1986, so more than happy to answer any questions that I can.
@mike Blipverts! I remember the blipverts. Used to watch the Max Headroom show, as a teen. Had been watching for a while before the fillum came out.
Here's an Amazon Australia link that the OP gave me, for what he's using: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B08B7R4TKQ/
$20. Ordered! Supposed to work with Mac, so yay! (I also have Win10 and Ubuntu laptops, so well covered).
@futzle He's given me what he used: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B08B7R4TKQ/ $20, delivered.
Listen up Raspberry Pi folk: just got a hot tip from someone on :birdshite: who had just got the hot tip himself: rather than get a monitor just for checking booting, get a cheap HDMI to USB capture device, and watch on another computer. (He showed me a screenshot of just that, including my own tweet).
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