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I no longer drink, don’t have a car and don’t wish to appear in any photos. And despite having been a redditor for 12 years, changing handles frequently for privacy means I’ve been Melbaboutown for much less than that. I’m not sharing any other accounts as the long term ones are doxable.

It sucks that Lemmy is being forced to do this and I wouldn’t even humour it for a second if it wasn’t you guys asking.

Guess if I want to keep talking to you awesome units Molly is just going to have to hear about my calcium pills, gaming off floppy discs as a child, and how I still have the Walkman I owned as a teen. Also Video Ezy and Blockbuster.

Whether the government wants to believe me is up to them.

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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I talked about the first album I ever bought (midnight oil’s 10-1 album), my first boyfriend’s car (1979 Gemini), the first cassingle I ever bought (Suzanne Vega) and my first picture disc (Bros). I feel like if you’re under 16 you wouldn’t understand a percentage of that statement 😆

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I just added my aussie.zone nick to my reddit profile. Considering that account itself is almost a teenager, should be good.

Don’t make me break out my livejournal. I’ll do it. I’m a madwoman.

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- Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Can’t break out livejournal without agreeing to the stupid Russian t&c we all ported to Dreamwidth to avoid. I could get back into that one or Fetlife but Nath might faint.
  
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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Annoyingly I deleted my MySpace, Friendster and all my old school forums are gone
  
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MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I suspect if this comes to a head you can just change instances to one offshore .

If they start blocking tiny websites “not complying” then shit has really hit the fan.

My pet conspiracy theory is that corporations pushed for this so they can collect your ID and even more personal information you should never share with anyone on the internet.

Fuck this law is so dumb

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I might, it’s just a hassle. I can’t be stuffed.
  
  And I find it kinda plausible. Maybe it wasn’t the main driver, that’s the Australian government having a knee jerk response to look like they’re solving a complex problem. But for lucrative data brokers it is very very convenient.
  
  It would have perhaps been better to give under 16s dumb phones and have a family computer room, or just talk to your damn kid about what they’re doing and seeing online. But that doesn’t dump highly sensitive info out to create advertising profiles and sell.
  
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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

gaming off floppy discs as a child

Dang. I’m a little younger than you. We had floppy disks when I was in year 1 & 2, but I remember having a Powerpoint project where some of the kids’ Powerpoint files were too big to fit on a floppy.

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- Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  University was a horror of finding out your assignment was too big to save on the floppy you had picked, and going through your whole stash trying to find one it would fit on, or having to delete some file share game before you lost the whole thing.
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Dayum, you were using floppies to hold multiple different unrelated files? Like a USB today?
    
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    Nath@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Most of us carried around about 10 floppies in a case. I had a fancy case that held 15 floppies and expanded out like a little set of stairs.
    
    Most files we carried around were well under 100kb. We didn’t carry photos around, digital cameras weren’t a thing and we didn’t scan photos unless they were going into a specific file or something.
    
    If I did have to carry a file that was larger than 1.44mb, I used arj to compress it and split the archive into 1440kb volumes. Arj had better compression than zip.
    
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    Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes? Had to get them to campus to print and drop in the department office box to get stamped by 5pm or points off.
    
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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think this was my first game as a little tacker. Text based.
  
  archive.org/details/msdos_Castaway_1986
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    This one’s more my era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombinis
    
    Or: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt-Putt_(series)
    
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    Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Mutha fuckin Zoombinis
    
    It’s on Steam BTW.
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I played those too when they came out
    
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