Mike, First of His Name · 4 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name · 4 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

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October 22, 2022While it’s been something that was obvious to me for for a very long time, it was only a month ago I was officially diagnosed with ADHD by an actual psychiatrist. Now that my diagnosis has been validated and impostor syndrome is a thing of the past, I am finally going to start talking about how it’s been living with ADHD. [...]

Lerderderg Gorge Circuit

July 10, 2022When I left home on a slightly chilly Saturday morning, my only plan was “go for a walk somewhere” and I knew in the absence of any sudden inspiration, I was going to head in a Lerderderg-ish direction, mainly because in my head I love saying “Lerderderg” as if I’m the Swedish Chef. I did … [Read more …] [...]

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@mike

Admin of Chinwag, 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, 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.

I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here.

4 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

Went outside to snap a few photos of the moon, and wow it looked pretty clear, but the amount of haze was huge.

I really need to make some time to go out into the middle of nowhere with a bag of camera bits.

Getting some OK results, considering the conditions. Nothing worth posting though, you all know what the moon looks like, I hope!

Mike, First of His Name · 2 days ago

2 days ago

Mike, First of His Name

I'm glad this thing worked, I really like the industrial aesthetic of this thing. The RAM and SSD are fixed, though. It's got 4GB of memory and 32GB of storage, and that's all it's ever going to have. This isn't useless, but it does limit the applications it can be put to.

Anyway, that was me spending some time figuring out how to reflash the ROM of a Chromebox that'd been Enterprise locked and couldn't be put into developer mode!