carlsson

WOOO HOO!!

Congratulations.  Is that keeping pace with inflation?

More of an adjustment of newly employed salary as I changed workplace in January.

I've had micro-switches under left mouse buttons either stop working or malfunction completely completely. One came with my computer, the other was a Logitech that I bought when the Asus' left button no longer registered any clicks. In other words, you have my sympathy.

Ironically I was cleaning out the dust from my Bathrooms heater lights last weekend. Always good to do that one before their's a fire. 

Yeah. While I can be rather fast with my movements sometimes, I don't worry that dust in the scroll wheel will cause my mouse to catch fire.

Twitter, Facebook, various news sites... So far the weather forecast hasn't gone political but it might be a matter of time.

Oh,  I hear you.  I was just curious how you'd answer...I always thought of Yahoo comments for some reason...

While I re-signed up to Twitter this year, I knew from Past experience not to type a thing to follow a certain contest, though as soon as I did, they stopped using it.

Someone they were following though posted an entry on there with some of the entries for the contest, one of those they hated, though the entry ended up doing alright, I played the entry and thought it was quite good. I then looked at another entry which they played which ended up with quite a decent result, though once I had it completed in 30 seconds, there wasn't much reason to go back playing it. I posted a direct message with my videos of it, though didn't get any reply.

 I also got into some sort of trouble on VCF because my 8-bit Z80 running at 4Mhz with 160x200 screen is more powerful than their 8088 at 4.77Mhz with 160x100 sceeen, barely coping with one Sprite onscreen! At least, that was the excuse I got from 2 people! Please! 

I just think a Social Media platform is the last place to gather Historial facts, though that doesn't mean I'd rely solely on Wikipedia. Wikipedia does source it's facts, though it's important to source material from other places just so all the places been checked weren't all leads from a Wikipedia page.

A quick Google Search and I found a video 'Birth of the Intel 4004', which is a 100 minute presentation and the text alongside talks about the 8008 being introduced in 1972. https://www.i-programmer.info/history/machines/3345-birth-of-the-intel-4004-the-first-microprocessor.html?start=1

A good researcher should use alternative Search tools though, just for the same reason of not obtaining information from one place. 

It's possible to pickup misinformation by using multiple tools, though hopefully this is why it's important to find other sources from alternative places.

Another little observation I noticed from your post is when people begin talking about Seasons, ideally it's better to have Month/Year because a Season is never the same relative to your location, I don't know if Wikipedia are doing that, though it just seems to be a bad practice that people get caught up in.

I just watched a whole video about a guy,  let's call him Malex Bones who comes up with headlines,  hopes his team can let's say, "prove" his "facts",  cares not at all whether they do or do not...Then ends his show by asking his team how much money they made selling products while people ate up whatever he was saying...Hopefully people know,  I'm talking con men here not politics...

I suppose wear and tear grinds them down. Also the guy wasn't able to honk the horn so I got a remark but it works for me.

I know some states require "inspections", but I live in one that doesn't...(Yay!)

Although some vehicles over here;  I have no idea how they are street legal.  There's still requirements, etc,...This one guy drives what must be a truck platform (like a FORD F-150 underneath) but he put a Suzuki Samurai body on top of it (in the middle) and a bunch of metal for a long makeshift hood that extends most of the way to the front.  He painted it with a rusty red spray paint or primer, and the whole thing just looks like ass.

In the USA, trucks have to have mudflaps reaching within 9 inches of the ground. (unless they changed the rule)

It is one of the things, although minor, that has to be checked by the driver for the pre trip inspection and post trip inspection.

What,  did he eat Swedish food? 

HAAaaaaa!

Joke

Get better, stat keeper. 

Is there a reason why your left leg is swollen?  (Well obviously there is a reason but do you know what it is?  lol)

Yup, I just replied in the photo thread.

By the way, I'm going to stay one more day just to be safe. If there was a nearby medical station where I could visit thrice a day to get my temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, give blood samples and get my antibiotics, I could be elsewhere and productive the other 90% of my awake hours. But yeah, that is not how healthcare works. Also I understand many other patients need more continuous supervision and treatment than I do so my case may be different in that matter.

Thanks !

Jaguars can be tough to fix.  A capacitor fix, usually from when a Sega Genesis power supply is used, is a bit tough.   But what goes out too are parts of the chipset.   Seen many Jaguars in the wild, and they are usually display pieces that long since stopped working.

A friend of mine who works as a professional electronics repairman requested some experiment items to practice surface mount soldering. He got a couple broken consoles donated of which I think he managed to repair all so far. PS4 etc. If the donor doesn't want it back, he may keep it or sell for charity. At least a serviced PS4 holds some value compared to a PS3 unless it is the first model.

Kinda want a PS3 original at some point.

But the PS4, hands down, is an amazing console.  Loved the games and we've used countless hours of streaming services.

You should have walked by and said (Sylvester Stallone voice), "STELLA!"...

Of course then you'd probably be explaining 2 references afterwards,...(heh)

Let's say if I had the option to either go to work today or spend the morning in a hot jacuzzi, the second choice would have been preferred.

Here, they sometimes call concerts "gigs."  I don't know if that term is used in Sweden. 

Sure, but a gig to me is more like a rock band in the local pub, not a concert with 30-50 people where we also are the arranger, not booked by someone else to play.

We have gotten this BS in the USA for years now.  With our federal "prime" rate almost at 3.25%, the point of a savings account has been lost.  With years of this now (really since 2008), I'm afraid that it has likely punished less-complex investors quite hard.  All it took was the highest inflation rates in decades to get them to raise it by 0.5%.  At least that is what everyone expects to happen later this month, but it will still be about half what it was in '07.

What's a wordle?

Mastermind but with 5 letter words. The type of game has existed for 30-50 years but a recent slick implementation made it into an Internet phenomenon.

Yes, I remember Typing in this game Masterword circa 1990 on my Amstrad CPC 464. It's got all the traits of Wordle (Multiplayer & 5 Letter words with letters even lighting up & points within 9 guesses) and yet the Amstrad community wants a game called Wordle!

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=13860

@jgkspsx: Interesting - I'd never heard of that before.  Appreciate the pointer; will look into it more deeply.  Thanks!

@x=usr(1536) Well I don't think normal people will like it...So...Yeah you should be fine haha...

What's Mozart doing over there?

He's decomposing.

Apparently they've got their telemetry back in shape so one can enable HTTP/3 again but it sure was a worldwide problem and who knows if it will return?

I just gave you your 20,000th rep point. 

Thanks! I noticed I was close to that marker. Funny that it would happen over a browser failure.

I go with the greater need...Money's tight but for me sugar is a must for coffee (and Splenda)...Granted I also try to have a can of olives ready too...And always have a back up of both.   Oh also black olives or green olives?  (I like to have both on hand).

Black olives. I'm not entirely out of sugar so perhaps I'll stock up on that next time.

Man Carlsson,  it seems like you have done an unbelievable amount of work here!  I don't know where you find the time.  Great Job!!

I was up until 04:30 AM night to Thursday. Fortunately yesterday was a bank holiday so I could recoup sleep in the day.

Well,  I sure  hope people appreciate it!  I found it interesting...I ..Well, I should be asleep 2 hours ago actually...But I got in a 2 hour nap earlier so I'm hoping my sleep won't suffer too badly.  Seems like some days I don't need as much anyway

Did I ever tell you about the cross eyed girl I dated?

We broke up, just didn't see eye to eye...

Besides...pretty sure she was seeing someone on the side

I feel this sentiment.  It's crazy how quickly it seems to have snuck up on everyone.

I'm with you. I don't know why it's different this year, but I've been thinking about "after Christmas" and the Springtime rush I have every year at work sine Thanksgiving, but now it's almost here and I don't think i got the most out of it.  We did all the usual stuff, maybe not as much, just extra busy at work and even moreso at home.

or have no christmas until COVID is history.

Based on true events at work?

You bet!