Notices by dan 💾 (billgoats@bitbang.social), page 7

@garthbeagle Such tool. Very bar. Many productive. Wow!

@garthbeagle

Huh. That purple space egg iMac in Romford is *still* up on the ebays. It would probably be a terrible idea, and it wouldn't fit in my bags, but I could go pick it up…

@thomasfuchs 😜

Now I'm having terrible thoughts of converting part of the byre into a darkroom… There's running water in there already.

It won't happen any time soon, but that's a dangerous seedling of an idea. 📸

Putting the cheap aliexpress 35mm film through the Holga worked! :D

Look at that! How ridiculous :D (and ignore the terrible scan job for now)

#BelieveInFilm 📸

It’s blowy enough that I can’t quite stand upright, so the photo is a bit motion blurred… but the #aurora are bright enough that you can see the green through the clouds :D

Don’t know if this is any better of a photo, but the byre was blocking some of the wind so at least I wasn’t thrashing about as much while trying to hold the phone still. #aurora

Online address forms and *required* fields, hey? It's been a while since I last came across one that needed a street name and house number. My address has neither. <insert eyeroll here>

@mac84tv Happy birthday :D 🎉💾🎉

@thomasfuchs Cigarette butts on jellied Spaghetti-Ohs?

That said, it's kind of handy not having to manually set the phone’s SCSI ID number. And hopefully with the move to USB-C we finally won't have to shut the whole computer down before connecting or disconnecting anymore.

Still haven’t forgiven Apple for making the old iPhone connector type obsolete. #RetroComputing

newton tootin'

Oh my goodness, it worked! That message was tooted from the Newton :D here’s how it looked in action. #RetroComputing #newton

A bit of bending and clicking and snapping and it seems fiiiiine enough again. So far. I think.

Still talks to the computer as much as it ever has.

Dagnabbit! You’ll never guess which fool managed to drop a wifi pcmcia card onto the unforgiving stone floor 🤦

At least this was always the temperamental one, not the reliable one. But still. Bah.

I adore that iMessage *still* works on the #3gs and syncs with all the other devices like it’s no big deal. #RetroComputing

Oh yeah, I'd half-forgotten that the UK's not going to have any more 3G networks from next year. Sad times for 3G phones like the 3gs. Not that 3G ever actually ever managed to live up to any of its hype or promise.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/advice/3g-switch-off