Posts by jamesholden@mas.to
(DIR) Post #AS5ON6dL3ystVYsX4q by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-01-27T18:44:22Z
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Just designing a little retro-styled Gotek enclosure to match the #bbcmicro #retrocomputing #3dprinting
(DIR) Post #AS5ON8S4Ir3d9BcYmu by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-01-27T19:21:43Z
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Now we’re getting somewhere #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #3dprinting
(DIR) Post #ASZjrtnrs4X1c6sCH2 by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-02-11T08:02:02Z
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@Br3nda @publius @pluralistic Hmm, mine doesn’t have one. It’s an older model, but a decent brand (Bosch). I’m not sure the one in the office has it either.
(DIR) Post #AUikAvH4S2ukQmsJbk by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-04-16T19:21:20Z
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@internetarchive Paging Techmoan! Get yourself on Mastodon, old chap.
(DIR) Post #AWqQR7tXzvwuYYg8cS by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-06-19T09:10:43Z
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@EU_Commission Yes but due to #brexit we negotiated an even better trade deal with U…. Oh, apparently not.
(DIR) Post #AYbEMpTysFlGop7B6e by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-08-09T21:16:40Z
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Mastodon dog friends! Name this beautiful #bordercollie pup! She will be going to live with a friend of hours very soon. #dogsofmastodon #dogs
(DIR) Post #AYrTtZYePmQPy2qUDY by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-08-18T08:42:09Z
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Oscar has gone to stay with his nephew Milo for a few days, and has already stolen his favourite spot on the sofa. I don’t think Milo is very impressed. #bordercollie #dogsofmastodon
(DIR) Post #AZV6qeNlGYiR29GLwG by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-09-06T19:59:02Z
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@lowqualityfacts I love how they see the whole “you have to pick a server or even self host” but that’s literally step one of getting an email address. Idiots.
(DIR) Post #AZjuUzj4wRU1K0zeIi by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-09-13T23:21:20Z
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@lowqualityfacts Same happened to my young son on holiday once. After dinner the kids club staff gave out award certificates to the kids in front of an audience. “Well done Brian” it read. They couldn’t understand why we were laughing so much!
(DIR) Post #Aa4MtlYOwvlgwVrfYO by jamesholden@mas.to
2023-09-23T20:13:44Z
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@lowqualityfacts #Mosstodon is calling you
(DIR) Post #AhI7iX1mkf12LVtfJg by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-04-26T20:34:22Z
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@rms It’s incredibly easy to anthropomorphise non-sentient things. I wrote a program to schedule charging my home battery given input data regarding solar panel production, weather, time of day etc, and the plan it outputs is considered and logical. It’s tempting to credit it with rational thought when describing the behaviour, but it’s literally just some if statements and maths.
(DIR) Post #AhmaBe0CFKGZKEGc3E by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-05-11T13:14:42Z
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@thelastpsion it’s always a tiny bit jarring when I come across late 90s to early 2000s IBM kit because it featured heavily in the beginnings of my IT career. I put literally thousands of those on corporate desks back in the day.
(DIR) Post #AhmufvOQ9Oft24JWWO by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-05-11T17:04:17Z
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@thelastpsion A bit later than me. We deployed at lot of 300 GL but we had a 4 floor call centre full of PC 330, the ones with the sliding door. I built a boot floppy to auto detect the hardware and pull a Ghost image. That way, the hardware support guys could try that, and if it didn’t fix the problem, they could swap the machine out.
(DIR) Post #AiTckXaMJydkpg7a1g by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-06-01T07:34:44Z
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@foone we have a big crate of them in the back room at work. Totally useless because the dongles are all gone. Infuriating!
(DIR) Post #AiiEeu4xJPtVNuyZYu by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-06-08T08:46:09Z
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@ActionRetro Sylvania? The lightbulb people? 😳
(DIR) Post #AldrFmKKWlIJVtlZZY by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-09-02T19:34:20Z
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Tonight’s task is installing Windows 95 on the 486 card in my RISC PC. #acorn #riscpc #riscos #win95 #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
(DIR) Post #AldrFo7zpacJ6E0kcq by jamesholden@mas.to
2024-09-02T20:59:46Z
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First lesson learned: Don’t let it probe for network and multimedia hardware. It go boom and you have to start again.
(DIR) Post #Ayco1NGXITsmAKLiSm by jamesholden@mas.to
2025-09-27T07:47:52Z
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@foone This idea sounds crazy until you remember that the “taking a photo” sound your smart phone makes is a short audio recording of a mechanical camera shutter and film advance motor drive.
(DIR) Post #B2nYtboKiEeq31YHbc by jamesholden@mas.to
2026-01-29T23:27:34Z
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I am baking bread. This is bread 3.0. Versions 1.0 and 2.0 were like concrete, but still got eaten. Latest version seems to be better, and about double the size. Fingers crossed! #bread #baking #breadmaking
(DIR) Post #B2nYthNG1oZ5ImvkEi by jamesholden@mas.to
2026-01-30T00:05:42Z
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This is much better than the previous two. Fresh baked, still warm bread is absolutely delicious. #bread