PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 days 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 4 days 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? 5 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Is this a circleblock?
i’m in
- Comment on AGDQ 2026 Schedule 1 week 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!? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That would make a banging remix to Save A Horse, Ride a Cowboy .
- Comment on American exceptionalism 5 weeks ago:
Chsrizard origin story.
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 5 weeks ago:
Not necessarily a shooter, but Out of Sight was a cool take on the Second Person genre, and unusually eerie because of that very mechanic.
- Comment on Looking for HDMI 'dongle' that has a manual disconnect button, so that I don't have to continuously unplug my HDMI cord and plug it back into my TV. 5 weeks ago:
Could you daisychain a pair of them and have a last gen Nintendo console, current gen Ninty console, and your monitor?
Then you could switch your switch to the Switch then switch to the switch two for the Switch 2?
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 month ago:
haven’t got opposable thumbs, have they?
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 1 month ago:
Fourth for Summit.
Say what you like, Summit Squad are nothing if not dedicated.
- Comment on Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License 1 month ago:
git log --no-merge
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 month ago:
Wireback sounds like an AI cover of a Justin Timberlake single.
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 1 month ago:
It’s a bit of a wank article to be honest - it doesn’t even go on to say if the SIM was delivered. Why not wait the extra day and publish the article after it was due to be delivered?
If it didn’t get delivered then it’s easy meat for Trump-kicking, and if it did get delivered then you’d get some sort of review from some other poor fucker daft enough to sign up to it.
Bit of a waste of time really.
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 1 month ago:
In fairness, nobody specifically told me not to kill other folk or set people’s houses on fire or sexually harass folk. What I did have drilled in to me was an idea of mutual respect; personal boundaries; how not to be a complete dickhead (some may say I’ve not learned much at all about that bit); and how to coexist with others to make everyone’s day that little bit easier, regardless of their gender identity.
I can only assume those basic life lessons are either not being driven home as strongly as they should be in modern life; or there’s outside influences drowning out those voices.
I’m sorry to hear that you had some arsehole giving you such poor life “advice” though. I hope it hasn’t defined or shaped your values of intimacy. It’s yet another erosion of (what I’m assuming) are women’s rights from an early age, and it’s bang out of order.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 1 month ago:
I mean, there’s a lot to unpack there and for the most part, it appears to me that your view of policing and mine are vastly different, but you’re entitled to your own view and I’m not arsed one way or the other.
Is it the terrifying, weapon wielding, hark back to the middle ages, violent attack it’s been portrayed by those it benefits to portray in that way? No.
This though? Absolutely not. You’re justifying life-changing violence to fit narrative you’re presenting. If smashing someone - anyone - in the back with a fucking sledgehammer isn’t a “middle ages, violent attack”, then swinging at them again certainly is.
It clearly wasn’t brought just to fuck people up, it clearly wasn’t used at its full potential or there would be officers dead.
I think this is where the disconnect in the logic lies. I’m quite sure it wasn’t brought for violence, but the issue is that the person turned their attention on the cop, and then used the sledgehammer as a weapon. They have made the conscious decision to change their intent from smashing up whatever they wanted to, to intentionally caution injury. Regardless of anyone’s experience using hammers, swinging a bit of heavy metal on the end of a big stick at someone is going to ruin someone’s day at the very least, or in this case, fracture someone’s spine. Anyone who claims that “oh I didn’t think that was going to happen” ought to lodge a special defence of insanity.
All this, and judging by journalists reports, there isn’t any clear evidence of state-sponsored violence to be seen.
Motive or otherwise, some clown has slammed a sledgehammer into someone’s back twice and is now hiding behind Palestine Action’s statement of purpose.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 1 month ago:
I’m not seeing your point here.
Are we supposed to be okay with them not having them? Then, expect them to attend violent incidents with nothing but witty banter to protect themselves with?
I’m not a huge fan of anyone having weaponry to hand but given some of the nastier incidents that the police service need to attend, having a tin of pepper spray and a aluminium stick with the training to use them (or not use them as a case may be) is considerably fewer options that most worldwide forces have.
- Comment on fresh groceries 1 month ago:
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 month ago:
That’s very kind of you, thank you for the crash course - some great pointers!
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer Rebecca Heineman has died 1 month ago:
What a shame.
Their work on the Doom port to 3DO was an absolutely olympic task. It was a shame following the rapid downward spiral of their health.
- Comment on Polling lead by age group, November 2025 1 month ago:
It never ceases to amaze me how useless Labour have been since Blair and Brown took over.
I’ve no issue with their policies - far from it for the most part - but how any party can be so completely ineffective at reflecting their voting base is really quite impressive.
They could have literally sat back after ten plus years of Tory pocket-lining and shithousery, and just road the coattails of “being less wank than the government before” but nah, that would be too easy.
It’s actually a masterclass.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 2 months ago:
Honestly I never opened it. I have a Master System II and in fairness, the difference in game ports are negligible for the most part, so I never really looked at repairing it.
Speaking more broadly, I wouldn’t mind learning how to solder - my skills have mostly been in software rather than hardware. Things like fucking about with a Raspberry Pi and their expansion boards sounds like a right laugh.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 2 months ago:
Game Gear “services” are quite common now - you can get them recapped to solve the infamously troublesome sound dropouts, and most will change the screen to a far more power efficient LCD display as well to let you play at night.
It still eats batteries, but at a much slower rate.
I’m just gutted I left mine in the garage in storage where the damp air fucked it for good
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 months ago:
Perhaps it’s because I grew up with adventure puzzle games and point’n’click games, but GameFAQs was always the nuclear option for me.
I much preferred the Universal Hint System - an approach more suited to nudging you towards figuring out the answer for yourself.
There’s no denying that it was (and is) a fantastic resource though. Hell, I’ve even written a guide myself. One of the last bastions of the 90s and 2000s WWW experience.
- Comment on Day 474 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I got into Poets of the Fall in a big way after Late Goodbye. Their work is fantastic and they’re brilliant live.
I’m glad Remedy have stuck with them over the years, the Herald of Darkness song from Alan Wake II was a banger.
