Ruben Schade 🔰 🇦🇺 @[email protected]

📌 Another post I’m going to pin:

If you started following me, I’d love to know why! Please ping me and say hi, it makes my day :).

Took all weekend, but finally got the desk sorted! I have the 32-bit corner, the current corner, and the 8-bit corner!

The nest of upscaler, KVM, and input selector cables is truly horrifying. But it all works!

We’re looking at moving into somewhere bigger soon, so we can have a proper “computer lab”. But super happy for this for now :’)

(And 16-bit stuff like an Amiga or Atari 1040ST would be incredible, but also no space right now!)

#retrocomputing #hashtags

I'm copying my pinned post from Twitter which reminds me of fun times with lovely people. I'd just left an AsiaBSDCon dinner with everyone in Tokyo:

#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD? :'D

This Easter, I’m paying my respects to Mr Jones, my primary school teacher who broke the school’s rules to let my friends and I mess with an ancient Apple IIe while the rest of the class did religion studies.

School policy at the time was to prevent secular kids from doing anything productive, lest we “get a leg up” on our peers.

(When my mum was first diagnosed, he was also the kindest person ever, because of course he was).

Wishing him all the best, wherever he is! I’m back there with him today typing on my current Apple IIe. ♡

Counter showing the number of days since I messed up YAML with a space/tab:

KaTHUNK! [ 0 ]

You know what the worst thing is about having a head cold? I can't smell the beautiful Nicaraguan single origin beans I just ground and brewed into a tasty beverage of encouragement.

Okay, not the worst thing. Way down the list. Still sucks though.

Australian mobile carrier $X just sent us a price increase notice. Good timing, I needed a kick up the proverbial backside to finally move to carrier $Y.

I know when my career has shifted when having a head cold and sounding gross has a material impact on my job.

Webinars, client calls, and a podcast? "Mate, you sound crap, you okay?!"

Just passed a coffee shop in Lidcombe called 1 Litre Coffee.

Mmm… 1 Litre of coffee. ☕️

#Sydney

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Kate is an *awesome* editor. It's not often included by default in KDE distros, but it really should be. Even runs on my work Mac!

I still use Vim/nvi for editing configs etc, but am slowly moving over to Kate for everything else.

https://kate-editor.org/

In my head canon, Jim Bergerac and Tom Barnaby are the same person.

Maybe he changed his name after his Jersey shenanigans. 🇯🇪

Hey, you. Yes, you! Have you bought @brynet a pizza yet? You should, he's awesome.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

Feeling so vindicated for thinking that Harry Potter was a bit rubbish when I was a kid.

I’ve decided to spend more time talking about and sharing things that are awesome.

FreeBSD is especially awesome for storage and hypervisors.

NetBSD is especially awesome for anything old and small, but can still grow with you.

Xen is especially awesome as a Linux hypervisor.

Tribblix is an awesome illumos OS, not just for those nostalgic for Solaris tooling.

OM System (ne. Olympus) still make especially awesome fun cameras.

Coffee is especially awesome for taste and alertness.

FLAC, turns out, is especially awesome when your ears have been fixed up.

This is a non-exhaustive list.

Fingers crossed for @decryption and @beau who’s Qantas flights were both just cancelled. Fun! :/

Getting a lot of spam claiming to be Anthropic saying my Claude subscription is expiring, and to renew my payment details.

It’s obviously a scam, but if you use Claude, your security posture is already compromised, so maybe it’s genius targeting.