@vxo "fashionable though it may be, please do not wear the backup media outside of the office"
Notices by Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club), page 2
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 17:25:22 JST Tim 🎮 -
Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 11:08:08 JST Tim 🎮 @foone phew, thanks
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 11:03:31 JST Tim 🎮 I needed a FAT-formatted flash drive to scan stuff to and this was the closest option to hand. That's normal, right?
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 00:31:04 JST Tim 🎮 I think I'm becoming utterly disillusioned on tech stuff lately. I'm hugely aware of the "you like stuff you grew up with" and "you have less patience for stuff as you age" biases, but even so...
Streaming is shit.
Searching is shit.
Researching is shit.
Shopping is shit.
Troubleshooting is shit.
My phone is shit. Autocorrect, touchscreen keyboards, Bluetooth, AI, Android Auto, Spotify, all shit.It's not even capitalism or consumerism, I'm just tired of arguing and fighting with things I own.
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 03:30:37 JST Tim 🎮 It's Friday night, it's cold outside and I'm still working on that whole social life thing, so here's a long rambly thread about the 15-pin PC gameport and its historical significance, because it's something I want to practice writing about at length (if anyone was silly enough to give me a PhD for something, it'd be for this nonsense).
Feel free to mute this thread if that's not your thing - or if it is, bookmark it for later, or prepare to be en-knowledge-ified!
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 11:07:21 JST Tim 🎮 @foone @NanoRaptor I shall combine the two via hyphenation and become Timothy Sidewinder-Thrustmaster, Manette de Jeux and Dark Prince of the Gameport Era
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 10:59:31 JST Tim 🎮 @NanoRaptor to fit this account's theme, it would have to be Sidewinder as IMHO that's the coolest word ever used in conjunction with a gaming controller, but it'd be shouted over the cacophany of people yelling "Thrustmaster!"
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 09:09:11 JST Tim 🎮 @foone does it absolutely have to be one contiguous sheet, or could it be made up from individual tiles of smaller ones? Is this for some kind of planning purpose or do they need to be seamless for aesthetics? Thinking of the approach I took with my 3d printed pixels, I'd probably experiment with printing a ton of gridded pages in A4 while heading to the shops for foamboard and a decent guillotine - that way you could also precisely set/control the size of each square.
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 11:17:28 JST Tim 🎮 @foone I could play Commander Keen with this
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 14:45:14 JST Tim 🎮 @foone time to dig out the Standard Galactic Alphabet font
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:17:30 JST Tim 🎮 @foone @NanoRaptor more technology should be named for its ancestral heritage. USB is now the High-speed Gameport Interface
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 12:49:08 JST Tim 🎮 -
Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 11:59:59 JST Tim 🎮 @foone are you being spied on from the 1800s again?
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 14:24:37 JST Tim 🎮 @foone ok, I kind of want to buy this and make an arcade cabinet but for text adventures with it
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 20:01:10 JST Tim 🎮 I'm proud to announce the first public release of #Thrixels, my system for #3DPrinting pixel art! After several months of work, I think it's finally ready to inflict on other people - please give it a go if you're interested, and let me know how you get on with it.
https://www.printables.com/model/843125-thrixels-a-system-for-3d-printed-pixel-art
Boosts, suggestions, and any other feedback would be highly appreciated!
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:09:42 JST Tim 🎮 @foone @cinebox @helvick IMHO the worst part of most wireless input devices is that they aren't Unifying or some similarly solid protocol. Bluetooth's great when it works, but confoundingly awful where it doesn't. Logitech should've licensed Unifying to everyone else forever ago and turned it into a reliability USP. (Did you know USB3 devices put out enough RF interference to screw with low-power 2.4GHz stuff plugged in near them? Try a short USB extension cord, it'll change your life.)
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:57:15 JST Tim 🎮 @foone you could approximately test this at an aquarium with an underwater tunnel
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 07:52:46 JST Tim 🎮 @foone at some point I'm going to properly research EDID and set up command line scripts on my main PC and a little keypad to quickly switch my monitors to different inputs digitally. I hate having to dig around in menus with crappy invisible controls to do it
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 07:06:39 JST Tim 🎮 Made a small difference in the world today: My several-times-daily "myGov Alert" phishing emails now point to a different URL, because I took the time to report it to the foreign domain registrar it used and they killed it. The new one has now also been reported, and the whack-a-mole continues.
(The site hides behind CloudFlare, surprise surprise, and I have zero faith in them doing anything with any reports beyond copying them verbatim to the people who run these scams, which is just stupid).
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Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 14:21:58 JST Tim 🎮 @foone I wonder if anyone ever made a gigantic light box for photography with Construx - that's going to be the first thing I build with these.