Mike 🥑 @mike@chinwag.org

It's amazing how fast you can get back up to speed on something when you have an internet and search engines and emulators to test things in.

Having to reboot your development environment to try something out was a real pain in the 80s. You kids don't know how good you've got it ...

I'd like to point out here that if you're not familiar with the restrictions of the #C64 that stripe across the middle probably doesn't look like much of an achievement. Trust me, it's cool.

#retrocomputing

As for me, I'm running this because communication technology interests me and I've been chatting to people around the world using 1s and 0s since about 1989.

I'm a professional #sysadmin. I've been working in the field for nearly 25 years and I've been reasonably competent at it for about 10.

I'm a big fan of the old SAGE code of #ethics and operate by it all the time when working, including my hobby projects like this one: https://www.usenix.org/system-administrators-code-ethics

I hope we can all make some new friends here!

Hey, I just wanted to say a quick #welcome to the recent Chinwag arrivals!

Chinwag's reason for existing is to provide communication tools for people, which is something I've always been interested in. I kind of target #Australian users, but welcome anyone from anywhere.

Please read our rules: https://social.chinwag.org/about/more

And our privacy policy: https://social.chinwag.org/terms

There's a basic guide to using Chinwag Social here: https://chinwag.im/social/

If you have any questions or concerns hit me up!

I guess a new #introduction post is in order!

I'm Mike, I run lots of little services on the big, bad internet and they're mostly centered around #communication, which I find is a pretty neat area.

Aside from that I'm into #cooking, #hiking, #camping and #comedy - I run some open mic rooms in #Melbourne and dabble a little in standup myself.

Attached is a picture of my first ever #TV appearance.

https://social.chinwag.org/media/DbqibJ7pObMCgp7zp1s

#introductions #bio #about #hashtags #sotrue #blessed

They should announce a relaunch of Top Gear with all female presenters and we can see if it's possible for Jeremy Clarkson to literally explode.

Seen a bunch of articles flying past lately about how Telstra/Optus 5G services will render the NBN obsolete. The only reason 5G is a viable threat to broadband here is that the NBN was deliberately sabotaged by Turnbull. Fuck that guy.

I wish there was a viable alternative to fucking Jaycar. Today they sold me something that doesn't exist.

Guess what? If someone returns something faulty, it readds it to their store inventory and people can then buy that item via their web store even if it's no longer carried.

I have two monitors, overlapping windows everywhere, I shuffle and resize things all the time for specific tasks but I'm never comfortable with my main terminal window at anything other than 80x24 characters.

Came across our #snail while he was licking the glass.

Every time I fire up a #C64 after working on it, I load Swinth to test it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiHyTJsE3AU

When I was a kid, this blew my mind in some weird way. I remember taking my whole setup into the bathroom once so I could have this playing while I was in the bath.

Damn there's some ludicrously cheap #arduino addons and stuff out there and it keeps giving me ideas.

Action shot of Jenga the #snail at base camp for an ascent attempt of East Rock.

Well I guess I'm done #gardening for today.

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

Hmm, tough decision ...

Torn between the desire to rub dencorub into my painful muscles and my desire to be able to pick up and eat a slice of pizza again in the near future.