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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I was a Unix #sysadmin for 25 years and I'm slowly recovering.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Next time I see a Pentium 4 machine listed for sale as "vintage" I think I'm either going to flip a table or crumble into dust.
Hey @mrc and @Nikolai_Kingsley remind me next time we get together that I have this idea for a song called "never give way to a Tesla" thanks.
Hey folks, what's the best format to supply for a self published ebook these days? My gut says EPUB should work with anything easily enough right? Is there any kind of desirable feature it's lacking? Don't intend any kind of DRM or anything, just something people can easily put on their dedicated book devices from their preferred supplier.
Extra question! Is there anyone out there who would actually want a PDF if any other option at all existed?
Trying to find a reasonably priced audio mixer with a specific set of features and nothing is quite exactly what I want, and have now reached the point of going "Well maybe I could build my own. I mean really ..."
That's when the Thought of Doom enters my mind. I know even as I think it, my descent into madness has begun. The phrase that must never be thought has been thunk. My fate is sealed.
"... how hard could it be?"
I'm not exactly going hard on the job applications, but it's feeling like I'm not getting much response from the ones I put out there. Can't help wondering if it's the fact that my "education" section of anything I submit is pretty much blank.
Half tempted to put an unrelated to the job, but total BS, entry in there just to see if people are filtering on "just have a degree in something" even when stating "or equivalent experience". 🤔