• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Quiet weekend. Work paid for dinner and a couple of drinks. Happens once a month.

    Glad I’m in a different sector. All the IT places I worked for were awful and tight asses.

  • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
    12·
    3 months ago

    Did you ever give anything away thinking it’s worthless, or that you’ll never use or want it again, and then over a decade later think WHY TF DID I DO THAT I’M A COMPLETE IDIOT?!?!?!?!

    Yeah that’s me.

    Missing my old Macintosh 512K from 1984 with second external disk drive, in perfect working condition. That I now want to tinker with bad, especially now that there are great storage/communications options that can be built for them.

    Retro-computing is EXPENSIVE now.

    </nerdregret>

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      5·
      3 months ago

      The one thing I wanted back from the past is my Intellivision. It may or or be in a derelict shed. Gone either way.

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
        6·
        3 months ago

        I’ll pour one out for it tonight.

        I wish I still had my childhood Commodore 64. Been on the lookout for one for a while now, but even the fixer-uppers are worth heaps. The days of $20 garage-sale specials are long gone!

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      My dad bought a certain brand of keyboard for music, in the 80s, and he’s accumulated many different ones now. I cannot remember the brand/model, but he sold it before I was born and kicks himself for it because 1) it’s worth a lot now, and 2) he said it made the best sound and his current ones don’t come close.

      My dream if I win the lotto, would be to buy him a moog

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
        4·
        3 months ago

        70s/80s audio electronics were so much better, completely agree.

        I luckily DO have my dad’s old hifi setup, the sound is just -chef’s kiss-

          • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
            1·
            3 months ago

            Not gonna lie it’s pretty awesome ☺️ And as a bonus, our 5 year old is becoming great at turning records over for me at the end of the side! Especially the Bluey picture discs 😄

    • Briongloid@aussie.zoneM
      3·
      3 months ago

      As fun as retro computing and gaming is, I’ve found emulation to fulfill that itch for a more reasonable price.

      I use Qemu/KVM with virt-manager, I’m currently playing with Windows XP and trying to get games like AOE2, Warcraft3, etc running on it. Eventually I may get an old white LCD 4:3 monitor.

      Retro handhelds like the Miyoo Mini Plus, Anbernic RG35XX-H & Trimui Smart Pro are cheap and fun portable retro game handhelds, they are becoming very popular and the firmware mods are getting better.

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yeah I’m also well into emulation. VICE for commodore stuff, and omg how good is exodos! WinUAE for Amiga. I still long for the actual hardware though, I’ve got an old DOS machine and love it, though even that is still a bit too “new” (it’s a PII)

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 months ago

      My husband had an IBM Original 286 that he still reminisces about to this day.

      My first computer was an Amstrad

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    12·
    3 months ago

    I just wanted to let everyone know I may not be technologically gifted like youse but I can crochet a hat and make really good sandwiches. Ok.

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Kids requested movie night and they got to pick.

    We’re watching Wayne’s World and I’ve never been prouder.

    It’s such a snapshot in time and still holds up.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    9·
    3 months ago

    I can still taste things a bit but my sense of smell is 0%. Kids are feeling noticeably better though which is great 😅

    In a further twist, instead of our friend giving COVID to Mr P, it may have actually been the other way around. An acquaintance of his wanted to come over and he told them they couldn’t because COVID. Apparently they said (imagine flippant ditzy voice) “Oh I’ve had that for weeks! Can’t seem to get rid of it!” And then proceeded to regale him with anecdotes about people they’ve seen in recent weeks, including their very elderly parents and people we’ve regularly been in contact with! 😠 Some people are just jerks.

  • Cendana@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 months ago

    Wife: “why did you buy three 5pk of Ferrero Rocher instead of a 16pk?”

    Me: “because a 5pk is $5, while the 16pk is $18”

    Wife: <shocked look on her face>

    Yeah usually the pricing structure is the other way around lol.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      3·
      3 months ago

      I used to love all the milk bottles, teeth and strawberries and cream. Either my tastes changed, the lollies changed or a bit of both because I haven’t enjoyed them the same in years. Now I only get excited by dark chocolate coated liquorice or chocolate in general. Anyone remember wine gums? Mum used to buy all that sort of stuff, which nobody in the house liked.

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 months ago

    I’m really tired of the enshitification of clothes. You used to be able to wear, wash, even tumble dry a tshirt for years before it wore out. Now they go out of shape after a single wash. I would happily pay for good quality if it existed, but the extra $ for expensive brands is paying only for the logo, not quality. I’ve had a comedic realisation this is what it will be for the rest of my life, I don’t see clothes quality going back to how it was. RIP my wardrobe forever. Welcome to the future - no world peace, flying cars or spaceships. Just shitty tshirts.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 months ago

    I did not know if you want to share a picture you long press it, download it and it turns up in your gallery. Fffffff…

    Also the man bought me these because I’ve had a hard time finding these

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    8·
    3 months ago

    I had a chat with a recruiter about a job at an interesting place yesterday. It’s a tyre company she described as a ‘christian’ business. I know the brethren are a weird christianity offshoot and like to run their own businesses in safe industries.

    A tyre place back home is owned by the brethren, so maybe it’s the same deal with this place. I wouldn’t work there, but I’d almost prefer the transparency of going to work at a place where you’re expected to act proper around your weird bosses instead of the modern places insisting everyone be friends and not being sure where the boundaries are.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    8·
    3 months ago

    I’m so annoyed. There were recipes I wanted to pass down but I haven’t made them in so long that I’ve forgotten stuff. (Had written it down but the paper is lost to the ether.)

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        5·
        3 months ago

        This was before I was big on internet.

        Also part of the confusion is because I used to double it. It’s ok, I can look up the basic ratios and make an educated guess about the salt.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      4·
      3 months ago

      Every time I see your username now I’m like “thats a man who didnt finish BG3”. And I want you to know it stresses me out haha I’m not mad, just disappointed.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I will replay it one day, but can’t be bothered at the moment. I did get to the underwater prison thing and just irritated with the turn based rescue mission.

        • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
          0·
          3 months ago

          That was tough. That’s about where I started to lose steam too. Worth seeing it through to its end though.

          • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I’ll replay it eventually. Might change classes and shit.

            Honestly Act 2 dragged on too much for me. The whole Shars gauntlet was just meh

            • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
              1·
              3 months ago

              Honestly I found arriving at the city the most tedious part. I just wanted it to be over. And the it was, and you sort of see it as the sum of its parts and it was amazing in retrospect.