PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Technically the truth 1 day ago:
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2001
- Comment on Never gonna loosen them laces 3 weeks ago:
How am I going to wreck the heels of my trainers or give my fingers ungodly numbness and pain then though?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I was going to say something similar. Step One sounds like a lot of effort if you’re going to do Step Two anyway.
- Comment on Know when you are appreciated 4 weeks ago:
Not nearly on the same scale, but one of my favourite photos of me in a proud moment is me kneeling beside a local beach holding an oversized PR cheque for two hundred quid (my back-of-a-fag-packet maths suggests that’s around US$266) for a charity I ran for.
Now, two ton is next to fuck all in the grand scheme of things, and I was only expecting my colleagues and pals to empty their pockets of smash; euros; washers; and the odd Drachma into the tub - but for folk to think so highly of me and break my own target many times over in an era not too far after the credit crunch… well even now I look back and think “fuck yes past me, you did a bit of good there bro”.
Granted, I’ve given more in monthly GAYE donations (lol) off my top line in UK taxation dodges than that figure, but I absolutely get how the opposite is true - a relative minnow getting a cash boost that guarantees their R&D (and livelihoods too) for another fixed period of time.
Fuck yes. (sorry for the anecdote.)
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 4 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat. My other half has been stuck with me for nearly twenty years now and bigger and better things have come up that have needed the money spent on it.
The bit of paper will come in handy if one of us kicks the bucket though, or even when it comes to claiming certain tax allowances in the UK. I just want to make sure they’re sorted financially when I end up brown bread, and proving their connection to me is going to me one of the last things on the list in the immediate aftermath of a bereavement.
I’m not arsed one way or another about it though.
- Comment on This is the E3 trailer of Half Life (1997) 5 weeks ago:
Mouse look was revolutionary.
I tried to play Half-Life Uplink with the right directions of looking mapped to 789, 4 and 6, 123. It wasn’t very intuitive.
That said, I played Quake 1 with lookup and lookdown bound to PgUp and PgDown, and Quake II on PlayStation with lookup and lookdown mapped to L1 and R1.
Looking back, that was a wild few years.
- Comment on he got himself a job working boom mic with a film crew 5 weeks ago:
Now that’s something I’d have expected to see a wave of now, and a comm called jesuswithajob or something. lols.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In the late 90s, there were some monitors in our library that had some serious grounding problems. You could literally touch the screen with one finger, touch your victim with the other hand, and have your pal repeatedly turn the monitor off and on rapidly at the physical spring-loaded switch - and at some point, they’d get an uncomfortable-but-not-painful shock.
Highly entertaining, guaranteed a bollocking, and after that it was back to the degaussing CHUNNNNNNNGUNGUNGUNG sound. Satisfying as fuck.
- Comment on Pens in Space 1 month ago:
My first thought was: “I must try this”. I need to read my house insurance policy first.
Curiosity got the better of me when I waved an alcohol wipe over an open flame. There’s still a dark mark on the office carpet tile from where I had to stamp it out
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
That’s beautiful. I love a bit of personal standards to fuck someone else’s day up.
I typically change my responses on the form to Calibri if using MS Office. It’s not enough to pique anyone’s interest, but it’s different enough to spot what I’ve added to a form rather than the usual Arial additions if you’ve been told about it.
Someone at my office tried to say I’d said something on a form when I hadn’t, and took great delight pointing out the slight difference in typeface on the field that wasn’t my edit.
It’s satisfying as fuck coming back at someone with receipts.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 1 month ago:
My job is half field based, half desk based. That, and I study part time too, so the simple unhelpful answer is the same: I don’t.
Recently I’ve taken to building a list of five or six games I’m interested in, booking a week or two off work in the summer, buying a month of Game Pass and just hooning through the games, and if I’ve got any time left then I’ll smash through some Doom WADs and that’s me.
Otherwise, I try and stay away from screens and try to read or run more.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A colleague of mine is a nice bloke, but proper stuck in his ways.
He’s done well for himself, lovely family, and has saved enough to treat them all to nice holidays across the world… but all he does is eat burger and chips while he’s there.
He’s been across Route 66, been to Rome, Paris, and some of the Baltic states… even been on cruises to faraway places, but trying some of the amazing local cuisine is just a step too far for him.
It’s wild. That said, he enjoys himself so good on him I guess.
- Comment on It's the law! 1 month ago:
She does it well, though.
- Comment on London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, Huawei ban 2 months ago:
Or worse, the US telecom franchise 😭
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
On the topic of sharpeners, those battery powered pressure sharpeners are satisfying as fuck. They’re shit and invariably snap the nib, but they’re the sharpening equivalent of shoving a Q-tip in your ear and having a good rake about.
Or if you’re all about the procrastination, spending a few minutes every lesson at the classroom sharpener like this one brings back the nostalgia:
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
Every day’s a school day.
In fairness, it’s nothing short of sheer voodoo what they managed to do with the simple copper loop. As usual though, it was the rural communities that felt the pinch (and the gains) more than most though.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
Yeah, people using mobile phones to contact businesses wasn’t really a thing, partly because mobile usage was still taking off when I was in the biz, but mainly because calls to freephone numbers weren’t actually free (or included in package minutes) at the time.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
The chances of it being the filter were stupidly low, and I don’t think I ever had a case of the filter being at fault - but it was one of those potential issues that would make a customer look stupid (and £120 lighter) if BT tipped up and declared it a customer equipment fault.
In newer homes (at the time), there were NTE faceplates that had a filter built it, with individual ports for telephone and for data telephony cables. They didn’t last long though. Maybe they were stupidly expensive in comparison, maybe BT could see the fibre future and stopped producing them.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
When I did tech support for a UK telecoms firm, that was the easy way to fuck off an awkward customer with any kind of connectivity problem - stability, speed, whatever. Generally, people’s routers were connected to the same NTE as the landline.
“So what we’re going to do, is replace the ADSL filter, see if it’s a gubbed filter, it’s a nice cheap and easy fix. Can you remove the filter from the wall socket please?”
click
Beautiful.
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 2 months ago:
I was talking about my primary-school age kids teachers, and one of them says their next teacher will be Mr Smith.
“He’s old,” they said, “he must be at least fifty”.
I said “nah man. Mr Smith is probably only a few years older than me, early forties I reckon”.
They had me with “no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”
- Comment on that about 1/1000 of your phones RF power output, and the distance is 384400km 2 months ago:
Two thirds of a million kilometres under good conditions and at a precise angle to get a picture of goatse moontooth’d to my phone
Welcome to 2025!
- Comment on Memories 2 months ago:
I miss those toolbars. Static, everything in it’s place, easy to remember.
These dynamic “ribbons” do my head in. Thankfully, I only really have to use Office in… well, the office.
- Comment on Equations can't hurt your feelings 2 months ago:
I don’t work in mathematics but my work strays into another STEM field, but every now and then I watch this short clip of Sir Andrew Wiles and think “fuck me, maybe it is achievable”.
Absolute legend, that man.
- Comment on Michael Sheen buys £1m worth of people's debts 2 months ago:
Doesn’t matter which of the home nations you follow, that is two and a bit minutes of pure inspiration.
- Comment on Something something sexual tyrannosaurus 2 months ago:
That’s a wingman and a half.
- Comment on Me getting ready to deal with all the bungholes that exist outside of my basement 2 months ago:
ARE YOU THREATENING ME???
