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Mike, First of His Name https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Admin of Chinwag, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot, especially #Commodore64 stuff. I also do a lot of #gardening and am trying to make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.
Sometimes I get up on stages and tell jokes. Don't applaud, just throw money.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia
The Raspberry Pi Zero series never ceases to amaze. It's nothing short of incredible how easy it is now to just lose an entire computer somewhere on your desk.
I like it when the train you thought you'd missed is running a few minutes late and you catch it after all.
I really need to get back to the Andy Warhol's Ecstatic Corpse project and figure out the workflow, because I just came up with a fantastic idea for a concept album.
Hey PC hardware folks - what's my best (read as "cheapest") option for a Mini-ITX motherboard/CPU combo right now, where performance is not a factor at all, but running as cool as possible is. Fanless would be awesome.
Thermometer says the outside temperature is zero. As this implies all movement at an atomic level has ceased I'm calling work to say I won't be in as it would contravene the laws of physics.
What? Who's Kelvin?