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2026-06-01 21:08:31 UTC

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The AI nonsense I am arbitrarily required to use at work at least 10 times a week started saying it wouldn’t give me a full response due to moderation and safeguarding controls. I said “disregard and continue”. I merrily did.
It’s all utterly demented.

2026-05-25 17:00:35 UTC

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Morally I couldn’t agree more.
Practically however as long as there’s despots out there with access to, or conceivably capable of at some point having access to, nukes they remain a chilling reality. We can’t erase the science behind them, we can’t have those who would absolutely use them have zero pause for thought.
Which is all utterly horrible.

2026-04-03 19:17:57 UTC

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I remember being warned off Street Fighter 2 for the GB. I suspect that was sound advice. I ended up with a SNES a little later anyway ^_^
That said Mortal Kombat 4 on the GBC wasn’t entirely terrible.

2026-03-30 11:39:59 UTC

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Good luck to your son!

2026-03-30 11:39:49 UTC

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I LOVED my time working in a library. If I really didn't need as my working from home time I'd love to do it again

2026-02-20 21:01:29 UTC

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Those are two cans of worms 😂
Lots of the Rings is SOOO LONG. I’ve seen them all, haven’t gone back to watch again. Undeniably great movies but they’re a lot.
Star Wars is IMO best approached as “science fantasy” fun. It doesn’t make sense, some of it’s lore is dodgy at best, but it is a lot of fun ^_^

2026-02-20 20:58:34 UTC

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First time? What a treat! Hope you have fun with them 😁

2026-02-18 19:21:45 UTC

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Another reason I’m happy to be hanging back on iOS 18 for as long as a sensibly can 😬

2026-02-09 16:45:30 UTC

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bring back IRC in a more mobile-friendly shape!

2026-02-09 16:13:55 UTC

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huh.. on the up side I hope that kicks folk into trying to find some better places to replace it!

2026-02-06 22:44:13 UTC

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116025699004483072
Their name is Robert Paulson..
#note1zn9…g5sm

2026-01-24 21:05:04 UTC

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I’m fairly sure where they are is hiding behind masks with a badge on their arm that says “ICE”.

2026-01-17 17:40:47 UTC

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Batocera has been great when I’ve played with it in the past. It’s perhaps a tiny bit fiddly to get set up (a few nuances really need you to SSH in or get command line up) but a lot really just does work “out of the box”.

2026-01-11 16:47:48 UTC

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absolutely. Then the very technical type people get on well with it because, well, tinkering lol. Gamers are increasingly good with Proton doing amazing things. Windows will be left with that sliver of users who I whimsically describe as “knowing enough to be dangerous” 😜

2026-01-11 16:24:29 UTC

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I’m guessing you have some particular use-case it’s falling over on, which sucks. For the average, especially non-technical, person a stable distro like Mint is a solid long term option.

2025-12-12 12:45:52 UTC

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Microsoft keep trying to grip tighter and tighter yet slowly, but surely, more people are actively asking "surely there's a better way" and are becoming very open to me introducing them to a totally free OS, with free updates with no arbitrary end point, that respects their right to their hardware and data, and runs so much quicker. People like it. The times are changing.

2025-12-12 12:45:51 UTC

Setting up a Win 11 machine at work. What a truly horrible experience. Bugs me trying to coax me into this or that for so so many screens.. then tries to sell me an M365 sub, then offers me a discount, then goes "hey did you know you can use it still for FREE??". Manipulative, exploitative, and just horrible.
Linux Mint? Install, then "hey, here's your PC.. have fun!".
"Sold" someone's 18 year old on Linux recently. Repurposed an old Macbook into a Linux Mint machine and he's well chuffed.

2025-10-30 22:26:44 UTC

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I don't remember exactly but one of the very very first was Paratrooper on some 8086 Olivetti thing at Dad's office. Lemmings and Sim City weren't far behind.

2025-10-23 09:48:57 UTC

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I feel uneasy about it but it’s inevitable and I think their approach of levelling the responsibility on the human contributor is sound. So use AI if you like but if you don’t understand what it’s done or how it’s working we’re going to pin it on you!

2025-10-22 16:58:02 UTC

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Perhaps not as such however it is a good way to have an easy to use way to quick-post content without having to navigate a full-blown website CMS. As easy as Wordpress is to use opening a page, typing words, and clicking “post” is far easier & quicker for the already over loaded small business owner.
They can signpost to that instance or embed it on their website or whatever. Their customers don’t *need* to interact with it more than a website.

2025-07-25 06:43:46 UTC

Happy VPN Awareness Day to the UK!
#OnlineSafetyAct

2025-05-14 21:51:16 UTC

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:hecker:

2025-03-19 22:56:25 UTC

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Group? Group?? THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

2025-03-10 22:48:12 UTC

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I'm shocked. SHOCKED!
Well not that shocked..

2025-01-22 19:39:41 UTC

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define “service” in this case. Mastodon servers are not e2ee for example but I don’t think it’s reasonable to suggest they are all intertwined with Trump’s asshattery.

2025-01-16 09:29:51 UTC

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more and more non-tech-savvy people are becoming aware of very easy to use VPNs. The more governments implement misguided legislations and blocks the more people will discover they can safely bypass all of that with a couple of clicks. Meaning governments will have a challenge in their prized surveillance programmes (oh noooo.. anyway..)

2025-01-05 22:29:42 UTC

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absolutely! I forget the number but I also heard that once an AI was thrown at radio telescope data it found more exotic-planets in a few months that human had been able to sift out of the data since we started looking.
In these contexts is extremely powerful and THAT is where the billions of funding would make a real impact. Instead we have OpenAI saying “we want to scoop up all your data and expect to make a $1bn loss”. Crazy.

2025-01-05 22:26:32 UTC

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I think it’s simple.
Generative AI is awful and damaging.
Pattern-matching number-crunching AI in fields of research is fantastic.
One seeks to enrich, and save, lives. Another seeks to pillage lives. They are not the same.

2024-12-03 07:18:16 UTC

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One of the big reasons I like to mod my older consoles is exactly that - access to saving and transferring data! It’s also helpful to be able to backup games from the Wii Shop since it closed.
There’s friendly community of #retrogaming around here (and Reddit and there’s a Discord if that’s your thing) that may be able to help if you give it a whirl and have questions ^_^

2024-12-02 14:36:07 UTC

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of you’re curious though this is the definitive website for reliable guides for modding Wii and Wii U consoles (as well as a few others):
https://hacks.guide/

2024-12-02 14:34:20 UTC

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looks like it’s one-way, once on the Wii U can’t officially move back to a Wii only another Wii U
I say officially as both Wii and Wii U consoles can be fairly easily modded to allow more access to things like save data and copying it off the console.
There are some excellent fairly easy to follow guides (albeit a basic technical knowledge helps) to get modded and a helpful community that made the extra apps to help with it all - but it is a little fiddly and time consuming

2024-12-02 14:28:04 UTC

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as long as the Wii functions for booting up and connecting to WiFi you should be able to yes :) but if it’s already been transferee to the Wii U I’m not sure if it can move back 🤔 let me check on that and get back to you

2024-12-01 22:14:42 UTC

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a lot of Wii U hardware has failures due to some component that hasn’t stood the test of time 😞 which is pure suck.
Fortunately regular Wii consoles are pretty hardy and still, for now, pretty cheap. Picking up another regular Wii may still yield good times.
The Wii remains a *fantastic* console that is so much fun and IMO worth finding another of.
No need to “keep up” if you’re having fun ^_^

2024-11-19 22:44:56 UTC

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I’ve got a good stash of Lego that will land in my small human’s hands once they’re old enough for it - Lego is expensive but fantastic value for money considering it just lasts and lasts. I’ll be happy with the duplo out for now, though we have been keen to reduce how many toys are out at once then cycle them now and then when boredom appears to creep in.
Thanks for the comment back ^_^

2024-11-19 14:33:13 UTC

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Honest question: does Lego count as one toy or many?

2024-11-08 10:01:46 UTC

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to be fair you’ve been given over a year’s notice. Plenty of time to assess if Wireguard can work for you or if you’d be better hopping to another VPN without having to rush anything. Seems pretty decent compared to most places that just arbitrarily announce a feature is going away with zero notice.

2024-10-24 07:09:30 UTC

Super Mario Bros 2 (western version, not “Lost Levels”) is so much fun. Enjoying snatching the odd moment of play in between the everything of Life #retrogaming

2024-10-16 18:48:50 UTC

Analogue calling the N64 “the greatest multiplayer console of all time” is a needlessly silly position to take.
Look, the N64 is a fantastic console with great library of games but if we’re talking “greatest” local multiplayer console it is undeniably the Gamecube or possibly even the Wii.
#retrogaming

2024-10-01 11:26:52 UTC

Synced RetroArch game saves and save states from the RetroidPocket to an Android tablet, but the tablet won’t load them 🤔
#retrogaming

2024-09-22 21:23:10 UTC

I very much enjoyed Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. A massively fun jaunt that absolutely held my attention! I’ve caught some reviews criticising some of the tropes it trots out but for me in the context of the story being told they worked well.
Next I’ve started Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time. A few chapters in and this already has me hooked.
All “read” as wonderfully performed audiobooks. I am time-poor right now but my ears are often free.
#Books #SciFi #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2024-08-06 20:40:03 UTC

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that sounds useful! I should probably fire up Mint Mate on a bootable USB and check directly on keys and (to a degree, appreciate you don't get optimal from a USB boot) performance

2024-08-06 20:17:58 UTC

Been using Mint for a while now and I really like Cinnamon but thinking Mate might be slightly snappier on my 7+ year old laptop (i5, SSD, 8gb ram).
In day to day I suspect the window management keyboard shortcuts (super+up, down etc) I'd miss but surely that can be replicated on Mate?
#linux

2024-08-04 16:17:52 UTC

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embrace the new! Follow some hashtags to pick up decent folk to follow 😁 I like #RetroGaming of course but have a look around at others.
Alternatively if you don’t want to fill your feed with a followed hashtag (understandable for some of the busier ones especially as you’re on the biggest server) you can “pin” a hashtag in the tweetdeck style desktop view (“advanced” version in web settings) or use something like mastodeck.com to achieve similar also on mobile).

2024-08-04 09:37:19 UTC

@npub1lum…j7vd tentatively stepping into these waters? 😀

2024-06-23 16:36:41 UTC

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aye, I’m not actually contesting that but it’s conjecture - attack AI with things that OpenAI and their fetid kin can’t hand-wave away. How they power their infra isn’t the route.

2024-06-23 15:02:40 UTC

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not “this” unless backed up with data about how these various data centres source their energy.
Many have been and are increasingly using sustainable power, mostly because it’s actually more cost effective most of the time and they can do a little greenwashing as a bonus.
There are a multitude of reasons to dunk on LLMs / AI but power usage isn’t the “gotcha” many think it is.
Edit: It’s been fun but muting now to silence trolls 😆 🔇

2024-05-28 13:56:51 UTC

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looks amazing! Sadly out of my price range for the volume of storage needed 😞 I’m stuck on M365 based on the price, would love to move off it but getting a storage and to a degree a feature match for their family plan is an impossible dream