flambonkscious
@flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 1 day ago:
No, there’s dozens of different floppy drive faces. I recognize their round eject button on the left. The thing on the right is the activity LED.
You’re right it’s during the messy HP/Compaq time when they held on to the brand. I remember them from my desktop support days. I thought it was an 8300 but that’s wrong
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 1 day ago:
Nah, isn’t that an older Compaq with a floppy?
- Comment on U WOT M8?? 4 days ago:
Cahm on engerland! Score some fackin goaals!
…Bangs on drum…
- Comment on U WOT M8?? 4 days ago:
That explains the magical dance required to connect things - too many dialects/accents and historical bad blood (with just about everyone)
- Comment on A 65,000 year old neanderthal drawing from Spain's La Pasiega Cave has been reconstructed 5 days ago:
This is brilliant - great work and great funding success!
- Comment on Is there a tool where I can compare multiple copies of the same file in different directories / hard drives to check if files got corrupted? 6 days ago:
Is it?! That’s fantastic!!
- Comment on Is there a tool where I can compare multiple copies of the same file in different directories / hard drives to check if files got corrupted? 6 days ago:
The windows tool Beyond Compare is exceptional for passing huge directory trees and hi highlighting the conflicts, letting you drill into the file content and insoect line-level changes (assuming the content is understood, does OK with images and documents but certainly better with text, code/scripts)
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 1 week ago:
Oh wow - Now that’s interesting! It’s a home, not just a vehicle
I love it!!
- Comment on Mandala coloring 1 week ago:
Is this another goatse throwback?
Its missing the ring is all…
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know there’s a lot of flimsy assumptions behind the sentiment…
Curious question, though: is your vehicke important because of what it enables (maybe lifestyle or just a car-oriented city) or is it a status symbol or some core part of why you are (are you a driver or something?)
Its odd to me one would be so important but I’ve always ridden bikes as well as seeing them as a tool and been fortunate to live in a small city with token public transport, so I’m just on a different part of the spectrum, really…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
These are amazing! Having just played through 4 recently I can hear him
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 1 week ago:
And that’s why we have car insurance - you could have put everyone out of their misery by crashing into it
- Comment on Classics 1 week ago:
Wow, that’s brutal!
I had a flatmate at one time who walked past my room, sick his head in the doorway
and said
"Your mother just rang, she said she wishes she aborted you in the 2nd trimester"
- Comment on Classics 1 week ago:
What the hell is going on with the scale in this graph?
Please explain.
- Comment on oh no 1 week ago:
I have no idea what you’re talking about but there’s no way I’m wading through that stomach churning despair and horror again. It was an amazing story but the number of scenes that made me want to cry and scrape myself clean in the shower was far too many
- Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 1 week ago:
Playing the long game, ay?
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, by if they work at Starbucks, they’re not baristas
- Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 1 week ago:
What are you waiting for?
- Comment on Depends what you're on. 1 week ago:
Rad! I’ll keen an eye out when travelling (yeah, right…)
- Comment on Depends what you're on. 1 week ago:
Is the ‘apple’ part good to eat?
- Comment on spending 2 weeks ago:
I got shitty AI gallows vibes from the guillotine but hard to be sure here…
- Comment on xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I had assumed it was all fantastic fictional fluff. Really interesting to learn there’s a grain of truth behind it
- Comment on Two sides to every story 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s a novel take on things
- Comment on End my torment 2 weeks ago:
That’s awesome!
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 2 weeks ago:
Lovely story… I’ve just found out my healthcare organisation gets its corporate branding wallpaper from an anonymous read blob storage (which I think I can get access to).
The temptation to fill this with dick pics on my last day is more than I thought. Not ready to retire yet, unfortunately!
I also hand a workmate when we were both young and this guy was a hot headed young Russian, he’d monitor the borderware firewall logs and counter hack people probing it (back in 2010…). so on his last week I was really worried about what timebombs or other traps he may have set. Turns out the guy was a complete professional (which shouldn’t have surprised me, really - he hated the management but loved the team and wouldn’t have done anything to hurt us)
- Comment on 😋🔫 2 weeks ago:
Snooker comps (technically its a bow tie, but why let the details get in the way?)
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah! Where was this a year ago?
Cold bean shots rule
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
Holy crap
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
- Comment on Safety first 2 weeks ago:
That classic!
I remember seeing in town a bunch of people smoking right next to a gas main in the walkway under their building (so not huge gas pipe, I think it ‘just’ served the building). Natural selection and all that…