PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on AltaVista? 2 days ago:
I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on “Quake III news” or “Subaru Impreza owners club” or such like.
SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything’s just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.
- Comment on Recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine 2 days ago:
It’s just missing an extra bollock and you’// have yourself a massive TP dong. nice.
- Comment on Learn how to use Windows 95 with Jennifer Aniston and Mathew Perry. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 3 days ago:
whatcha gonna do
when lemmymania runs wild
on you?
- Comment on The danger of not thinking it out before you act 1 week ago:
A very cold one in winter.
- Comment on Art imitates life 1 week ago:
- Comment on M4M 1 week ago:
- Comment on "Hey Butthead what if this place is like, the manifestation of all our sins?" 2 weeks ago:
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yeah, but, there’s like chicks here
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- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I used Windows XP fairly extensively then switched to Lubuntu while learning about Windows 7. My workplace moved from NT4 to Windows 7, and then to Windows 10 which is the only versions I’ve had serious exposure to.
My only real experience of Vista and 8 has been installing it on folk’s devices, patching them to a current state, and Ninite-ing them full of handy applications.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Nah I agree, but if every incremental release was included then you’d need a 55" monitor in portrait orientation to see them all!
I’ve not really thought about the Star Trek films. I enjoyed them all (even Nemesis!) with the exception of ST4: The Voyage Home.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
I’m afraid I can’t speak authoritatively on the subject, however taking a step back - MS do have a record for driving hardware uptake with their system releases.
In theory it’s not a bad thing - Unreal and Quake II (among many) requiring 3D accelerator hardware largely drove PC gaming into the lead for cutting edge graphics - but the type of hardware MS have been requiring has always been a bit of a clusterfuck - a prime recent example being the supposed requirement of a TPM board in a Win11 computer.
My anecdotal experience is that Vista - while pretty - is a bit of a bloatfest regardless of what hardware you run it on.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Would it? If I’m already a user on a local device, surely my parental code would suffice and turn a ludicrous process into a one (and a half) step processm
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Ah I remember upgrading from 98SE to Millennium Edition and it was just ass. That said, I reformatted and installed Me and used the 98 SE to pass the upgrade check, and I had very few issues with it. Shit like System Restore was gash - in fact, any of the new tools installed with Me were awful - but I just effectively used it as 98 Third Edition and it did the job nicely for me.
I agree that 95 was a big - if not monumental - step up in graphics interface driven OSes… but the first few releases were unstable as fuck. Whether it was horrendous shutdown issues because ACPI support was super flaky at the time, to trying to run com/com as a command to insta-bluescreen the system. The latter is so much of an edge case though that I almost cut myself typing it.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Jesus, my son wanted to add a classmate as a friend on Xbox Live last night. It should have been a two step process from a parent perspective: Authenticate, then authorise (though the lad was delegated the task of the latter technically).
When he tried to add the friend, I had to:
- Enter my parental code (fair enough);
- Enter my Microsoft Account password because it was apparently a transaction involving personal data;
- Scan the QR code to do this on another device (admittedly optional);
- Enter the email address of my MS account;
- Enter the 2FA code emailed to me;
- Stop the passkey creation process;
- Confirm that I didn’t want a passkey;
- Skip the age verification;
- Turn off the personalised ads
Just so he could get to the point where he could select “add as a friend”, what the actual fuck
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
Yes… and no.
Microsoft’s operating systems have been very hit or miss - certainly their consumer operating systems - with the classic rule being "every other one is decent.
Windows ✅ Windows 2.0 ❌ Windows 3.11 ✅ Windows 95 ❌ (but in fairness it was a good crack, OSR2 was decent) Windows 98 ✅ Windows Me ❌ (unless it was a clean install, the upgrade was horrific) Windows XP ✅ Windows Vista ❌ Windows 7 ✅ Windows 8 ❌ Windows 10 ✅ Windows 11❌
The more business focussed OS’s like Windows for Workgroups, NT5, and 2000 were rock solid in fairness.
Their business practices have always been shady as fuck too. Embrace, extend, extinguish is firmly burned into computer hobbyists minds.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
Russian Roulette.
Test for nat20’s by using a semiautomatic handgun.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
Like an Uno reverse in alternative medication form.
- Comment on quack 3 weeks ago:
IMPULSE9chunksofbread
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
The Passport was actually a really decent phone but the jokes did get old.
“When are you going to wall-mount your phone?”
“fucking hell that will kill someone if you drop it”
“you don’t need to send that text, that person can fucking read it from here!”
etc etc etc
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad you mentioned the bugs. I was slowly leaning towards it but I’ve done my fair bit of… “unpaid beta testing” for one lifetime.
I miss my BlackBerry phones. The Titan range was cool but buggy as well. If they could just do a Nothing phone with a QWERTY keyboard, I would literally buy one overnight.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa? 3 weeks ago:
As pleasant as that looks, it matters not to me.
I ask my barber for the “full works”, sit back, and close my eyes for half hour listening to whatever generic chilled dance playlist he’s got going on YouTube. It could be a dude, a woman, or anything in between - it matters not.
When he slaps my shoulders and says “ok boss, what do you think?”, that’s my cue to get up and leave.
It’s my brief moment of indulgence every other month or so.
- Comment on When you pick the wrong designated driver 3 weeks ago:
If the designated driver goes rogue, then it’s on them to pay the taxi fare home.
Expensive (probably) but simple.
- Comment on Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 3 weeks ago:
I was surprised that two thirds of folk here think to be fair.
I gave up thinking years ago. I got bored of the smell of burning.
- Comment on cr(ule)ime 4 weeks ago:
Is this a circleblock?
i’m in
- Comment on AGDQ 2026 Schedule 4 weeks ago:
I can’t say there’s anything that really jumps out at me aside from may e the presumably mirrored Super Mario World…
…but Argick running a non-Sonic game? Sure I’m up for that!
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
Sorry friend.
If your data was occupationally-sensitive or renders you vulnerable to financial ruination, it’s time to move to a recovery phase and see if modern data recovery specialists can work their voodoo.
Remember: never run experimental commands (you or a GenAI) in a live environment. See how it breaks things in a test environment first - if it shits itself, you may even get to learn how to fix it before rub ing the instruction on live data.
Anecdote time! A good friend of mine drove his car to a mutual colleague’s place once because the wipers were about as much use as two chicken breasts on metal poles. He says to our colleague “Hey Foxy, I hear you’re good with cars, can you fix these wipers for me? The rubber seems to be in good nick but it’s not clearing anything”.
“Sure thing,” Foxy proudly announces, “I’ll get to work”.
Foxy strips the wipers down, one component at a time, before dusting his hands off and walking away.
“What’s going on, Foxy? The thing’s still in bits!” my pal says.
“No idea,” says Foxy, “not a fucking Scooby mate” and goes back inside, leaving his wipers and actuating motor in about fourteen pieces on the roadside.
So much for being good with cars.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 1 month ago:
I mean, I can’t really talk, I’m still working away at undergrad level; and I’ve got all the social media clout of the average housebrick.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 1 month ago:
You are absolutely right, but how are you going to make a fire Twitter post if you can’t engineer a situation like this? 🤔
- Comment on On Ploughing 1 month ago:
That would make a banging remix to Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy .
- Comment on American exceptionalism 1 month ago:
Chsrizard origin story.
