GoOnASteamTrain

@GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml

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GoOnASteamTrain ,

Hull, England for me! I went up as a student and stayed another year, partly because I loved the city and wasn't ready to go home.

There was a great vibe, music venues, free museums and galleries, felt safe, and loved wandering.

I saw the rougher bits too, but it didn't seem to different to most places. On the whole, the centre was way nicer than I expected, and there was a lot of cool community things people were running.

GoOnASteamTrain ,

I loved the cross-platform approach Kenny has taken, it is stuff that will be useful for years, and stuff like this is tricky to find resources for. :)

Saved for when I am at the "user" stage of my game, beyond "yay saves now work" and the lower level code :)

GoOnASteamTrain ,

I can second this! For me it meant that I could finish my game of modded fallout new vegas, and connect to my work's microsoft vpn nonsense (IT support didn't fancy trying it on Mint but that's another story!)

I now have a personal OS that I like, and a windows partition for those few things that I can't be bothered to troubleshoot.

So far the list is just those things and the Unity Engine as Visual Studio debugs better than code in my experience. :)

Having the option to flick back is great :) In the XP days, I loved the WUBI(?) tool that let you install ubuntu dual boot as an exe, but I think that's not a thing these days., :)

GoOnASteamTrain ,

Oh fantastic! :) Thank you, next playthrough I will get things going on Linux in that case, as that's new to me! :) Like a fool I tried nexus mods vortex in Wine initially because I didn't know better!

GoOnASteamTrain ,

I just set up a nice little wallet of cds :) it makes me happy to do, and some of the stuff isn't on spotify :)

GoOnASteamTrain ,

Of course!

I have a few in the car, but this is today's project! :) This case has been with me at least a decade judging by the fact I used it to cart music to play in the Oxfam shop while on the till.

https://i.imgur.com/aqomdjU.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/PhZaBEN.jpeg

In case of curiousity, this week's music was things I like but haven't listened to in ages!

  • Yuck - Yuck
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows
  • Neil Young - Unplugged
  • Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death
  • R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
  • Wet Leg - Wet Leg
  • Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
  • Mogwai - As the Love Continues
  • Mojo (Magazine) - Sub-pop silver jubilee
GoOnASteamTrain ,

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GoOnASteamTrain ,

Darn it, I popped into this thread to suggest Thumb-Key, and was beaten to it by the maker of the keyboard!

Thank you for making my phone usage much faster and enjoyable (written using Thumb-Key of course!) :)

GoOnASteamTrain ,

Mine was the Nirvana 'best of' album, closely followed by "The Back Room" by The Editors after seeing them at my first gig! :)

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to Asklemmy
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What should I add to my '90s website?

So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.

Some of the most important elements are already in place.

Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!

In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.

(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)

You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/

There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I'm looking for suggestions.

The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?

Second, it's just not going to be complete without a guestbook.

Third, any webring suggestions?

Fourth, what's the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?

Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I've added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.

UPDATE 2: And added even more gifs, an amazing Amiga demo, and a ton of links.

@asklemmy #tech #webdev #neocities #technology

GoOnASteamTrain ,

Signed the guestbook :)

I think it could do with a very literal under construction image, with some sort of machinery- every website seemed under construction at the time!

Something like this?!

GoOnASteamTrain ,

That looks great, wishlisting tomorrow definitely! I miss simple racing games, so sounds like my cup of tea! :)

Hehe my lemmy client saw the game's name as a link, and it went to a strange redirect thing! Here's a link to the game if it helps anyone :) https://www.beamng.com/game/

GoOnASteamTrain ,

Thank you for sharing this! I have enjoyed thumbkey for a long while, but it's lovely being back on qwerty to try this out :) at minimum it means I have a keyboard to offer when other people use my phone! :)

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    GoOnASteamTrain ,

    Thank you for mentioning /e/os, this is the first I've heard of it and it looks like a nice open source os without making using it a chore! 😁

    I might give it a go over the weekend once I've backed up everything. 😊

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