Chinwag Posts

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 have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Spent far too long looking through tiny on-screen menus on my audio recorder trying to find out how to turn on phantom power for the inputs before realising there was a physical switch for it on the side.
Technology has broken me.
The Technics stack is growing. After shuffling parts around between a couple of disfunctional CD players I've got one that's mostly ok, but a bit picky about what discs it'll play back happily.
The sweet spot seems to be commercial pressings from the early 2000s which I don't actually have many of, so I guess I'll need to hit some second hand shops soon, haha.
It may just need some tweaking of the many adjustment pots, but I'll save that for some time when I've got the oscilloscope out.

Going to spend the weekend installing NetBSD on everything because at this point why not?
I'm pretty sure this post is a joke, but I guess we'll find out on Monday.



folks!