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geordie

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Basketball statistician, scuba diver, amateur chef, motorcyclist, language nerd, computer toucher, happy snapper, pretengineer. I am like if James Bond was unattractive, uncharismatic and not misogynistic.

Catholic (religious), cataholic (really into my cat)

The Fediverse's control cis guy. Like that exactly-a-kilogram they keep under a glass hood in France.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

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Had to get packidge myself but...

I FRIGGIN GOT IT

My first brand-new digital camera. Only ever gotten second hand before, even my full frame Sony was second hand.

Fujifilm X-T50 - my first Fuji too. Unbelievably excited!

The X-T50 box, about to be opened.
The brand new, released-this-week Fujifilm X-T50, silver model. Gorgeous damn thing.
The beautiful dials on the top of the X-T50 as it charges.

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@vampiress this is porn.

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Mandatory phishing training. Sigh. Your periodic reminder that generally speaking academic research into phishing training shows that it makes little or no difference, and any difference it makes wears off after about 12 weeks, some people are just credulous and there's not a great deal you can do about it. Conflicting research showing effective outcomes is pretty much all sponsored by security companies including those that offer phishing training.

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I see people like this and it’s all I can do not to say “Steven? It’s Clem Fandango can you hear me?”

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I want HBO. I don't want Disney Plus or Tubi or Tvbbbl or whatever, I want actual HBO.

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@vampiress ELISSA I WANT HBO

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Well this one looks fun**.

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@vampiress there will always be a dude with an opinion eh.

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LBT: Apple very deliberately went with “your next computer isn’t a computer” as a strategy and now they sell a computer and a “not a computer” and everyone is scratching their heads.

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"What's this?"

"A laptop computer."

"Cool! What's this?"

"The exact same computer but we removed its keyboard and its understanding of what a file is."

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@elzbethmrgn @vampiress this is all perfectly fine, I also have big computers and small computers, but I think where the conversation is going is that if you have a computer that is the same CPU, same RAM, same everything, but does things differently and in many ways less, then we have to look at the constantly increasing price of it.

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@elzbethmrgn @vampiress I have a computer that has a 8 core CPU, 16GB of RAM, a custom 1TB SSD and an RDNA 52 CU GPU. It doesn't let you near the OS at all and requires you to just play games, and because this Xbox only plays games, it's under a thousand bucks.

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Oh shit. Beech B200 (I think) is circling Newcastle airport with fucked landing gear. :-/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-13/plane-emergency-incident-newcastle-airport/103838786?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

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@vampiress "breaking news" :\

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If I had a very stupid cat I would call it Braincell.

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@vampiress this absolute brain donor is called Minerva.

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Remember: April is Procrastination Awareness Month

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Apple Watch annoyed me for the last time at least for the next week or so. I think the MP3 player instead of listening to music from my phone is digital detoxing me and the notifications were getting annoying. Old Faithful is back.

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@vampiress fingerguns

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Got what every girl needs - a 386 palmtop.

ADLIB, VGA, and a positively palatial 2GB of solid state storage.

The only three things that'd improve this thing so far are:
Inbuilt PS2 socket for a mouse
SB16 card
Game port for a good joystick.

I'd also like for a built in 3.5" drive.

Just defragging my CF card. As you do.
The Prince of Persia’s splash screen in glorious VGA.

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@vampiress is there going to be Prince of Persia?

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@vampiress oh!!! No my app updated and now puts images in a carousel. I had to swipe to see it!! POP!!!

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@vampiress that and Flashback

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The show made me prep to play again over the long weekend.

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If you aren't caught up on the state of Boeing lately, John Oliver covered it, with bonus camel-fucking jokes. [32m] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc

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@vampiress Elissa my sincerest gratitude for drawing my attention to this masterpiece.

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One day I am going to sort out my dry goods shelves and get rid of all the half-used obscure processed grains and such that "don't go off”, and it's going to be great.

No more half-braised sugar-free organic tapioca maize packets taking up space!

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@vampiress let me know when you do. I’ll be inspired to throw out dried marjoram from 2003.

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I'm luke-warm on the John Wick films generally. Love bits of them, other bits feel like they outstay their welcome.

But I do love two things SO much:

  1. They love video games, and it shows not just in the action scenes but in the nature of their worldbuilding - hidden hotels, weird currencies, etc.

  2. Stahelski and to a lesser extent Leitch have absolutely put the nail in the coffin of Hollywood’s obsession with Shakeycam action sequences.

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@vampiress oooh! Number 1! It always felt like that hotel was a no PVP area you start in, in so many games.

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The washing machine is pretty fucking marvellous if you think about it. It’d take fucking ages to hand wash all this shit.

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@vampiress ours broke and the new one took two weeks. I have a young child. The amount of trips to a laundromat was unspeakable.

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:drake_dislike: Ban April Fools for making misinformation worse

:drake_like: Ban April Fools because it’s unfunny

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Question: pretty much the entirety of The Whitlams' creative output is Tim Freedman's hagiography of Melbourne, so why is You Sound Like Louis Burdett an expressly Sydney celebration of bullshit?

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To the point where "I Will Not Go Quietly" includes the lyric "I don't believe in Bondi, I don't believe in rugby league"

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Ignore me. Mastodon enables my pointless stream of thoughts to get typed out and exposed to other people.

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@MattHatton I mean yes, but that parody was dumb because heaps of his music is all about how Melbourne is better. Such as in the song literally called "Melbourne" including the lyric "in love with this girl and her town as well"

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@vampiress @MattHatton maybe this is instructive. Who among us wasn't a perfectly reasonable Sydneysider momentarily dazzled by Melbourne for reasons.

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@MattHatton @vampiress Newcastle is Sydney No Sugar™

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@vampiress @liamvhogan @MattHatton to be reasonable, it's easy to pick a baby back up but groceries go fucking everywhere.

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@MattHatton @vampiress mmm. Wollongong has a basketball team.

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So my MUD now supports multiple players moving between locations, saving and loading the players and all the stuff you’d expect. It’s now I realise I have C- fantasy fiction writing skills and just describing a room well is very hard.

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I did the starting point, an infirmary where the player has ostensibly been taken to after being found. I read back the description and thought “this reads like an Amazon Unlimited fantasy novel half written by ChatGPT that was one of three the author self published that day.” Then I thought “Oh. I’m not good at this.”

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@vampiress Python.

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I love* that some AI tool has decided to suggest an entire-ass fantasy game in my code where I'm just describing a storeroom.

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@vampiress all of them. Every poor bastard's repo.

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    @vampiress Dawkins doing anything ever is nominative determinism. He’s not clever, smart or insightful, he just enjoys upsetting people.

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    The taxi industry has scored $271m in a class action against Uber. This is expected to mean taxis will be able to be finally fitted with their 7th, 8th and 9th EFTPOS terminals.

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    A place down the road is advertising a Ramadan lunch special and I suspect it’s possible they don’t know what Ramadan is.

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    @vampiress where do you stand on Battletech? I keep meaning to ask you about this and keep forgetting.

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    @vampiress I always found the TTRPG way cooler than the computer games.

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    @vampiress NAILED IT! slaps thigh

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    In today’s news;

    • rampant inequality and crony capitalism continue to run completely unchecked, sucking the joy out of every aspect of human existence

    • inexplicably, wastewater surveys reveal people are doing prodigious amounts of drugs

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    Wife: What are you thinking about?
    Me (out loud): We need spreadable butter and the bread’s use-by is tomorrow…
    Me (internally): If you take the consonants out, Celine Dion is E-I-E-I-O.

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    I'm not saying I know for sure that this Teams meeting is an ambush but I'm pretty sure if I tried to fast travel right now it wouldn't work.

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    @vampiress 16 bit voice “Wormsign”

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