Gareth @nomiddlename@mastodon.online

@janbeta for some reason I’d never watched any DS9, but I started recently - up to partway through season 4 and I’m loving it. Got to say, Quark is my favourite character in all of Star Trek so far.

@billyjoebowers that’s one of those films that I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever seen all of - I’ve watched it from various points when I’ve been flicking channels, but never sat down and watched from the start. Top Gun is another one, never seen the start of it.

@70sscifi No! Don't shoot the pink space octopus, it's too cute!

@reidrac @jonnypencils using CWs for things you don't think your main audience/friend-group would be interested in is something I've seen a few people do. Politics posts, mainly, but it could be for anything. I don't think I'd unfollow someone if they occasionally posted things I wasn't interested in, and I might see something interesting that I wouldn't have thought to look for.

@reidrac @jonnypencils maybe put it behind a CW if you're worried? I wouldn't be bothered myself, I love playing cyberpunk 2077 lately (just as an example) as well as all the old stuff.

@JacksonBates Best response would be to make no changes - if there are no requirements, either business or security (e.g. out of date deps), then leave it alone. That probably won't get you the job, though 😀

My cheap Kogan mechanical keyboard arrived. It doesn’t feel as solid as the Akko (behind it in the picture), but it feels as nice to type on and it was only $17. The blue switches are a little noisy, but not horribly so. I’ll keep using it for a day or two, I think, before moving it to the family PC and going back to the Akko.

If you're in Australia, and you want to dip your toes into mechanical keyboards (metaphorically, although I guess literally is fine too), then take a look at Kogan who are selling what looks to be a decent budget mechanical keyboard for just $17 (get the First free trial for free shipping). They have a full-size kb too, and a small range of different switch types. I ordered one just to see what the blue clicky switches would be like compared to the oranges I'm using. https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-tkl-rainbow-rgb-mechanical-keyboard-blue-switch/

@Tattooed_mummy @billyjoebowers ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

@melsbells it was nice to have something lighthearted and fun, especially as we slotted it in between two intense episodes of Stranger Things - a chance to breathe out and calm down.

So last night’s voyage down the Wikipedia rabbit hole brought me to “Questprobe featuring the Hulk”, a Scott Adams text adventure game from 1984. I’d forgotten this existed, but just reading the title brought back a whole load of memories. I don’t remember it being a great game, like most text adventures back then the puzzles did not always make sense. The limited graphics were good for the time though. #c64 #retrocomputing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questprobe_featuring_The_Hulk

@allc64 The assembler + vm in the browser is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.