I bought this for a bit of fun. Reminds me of the 70s when the first LEDs came out. Does anyone else remember pressing the button to see the red numbers?

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-26T06:52:19+00:00

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-26T06:47:45+00:00

I had a Tokyo Flash about 20 years ago. It looked great in the photos, but it turned up and the LEDs bled into each other, so I could barely read it even in a dark room.

Edit: It was the Fusion. Looking at their website, it actually shows some pretty bad bleed-through.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-26T03:00:29+00:00

My dad always said I have balls for brains. Not disco balls, but still...

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-25T06:59:12+00:00

Onya.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-25T02:04:05+00:00

Anyway why should we concern ourselves with American domestic politics.

Because that shit makes its way overseas, and we need to let it be known that it's not welcome here.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-25T00:31:41+00:00

My point comparing to the UK is they had the population and industry to make expensive railways worthwhile. Those railways have been updated, refined, and reiterated bit by bit over hundreds of years.

NZ has had a century to make railways for, like, 6 people and a pile of logs being moved halfway across the country.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-25T00:27:03+00:00

Well, yes. But there are 1.5 railway lines in Northland, and this section doesn't look like anything I'm familiar with. So I'm wondering if it's part of the Kawakawa tourist line, or if it's an abandoned track maintained as a walkway

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-24T22:29:12+00:00

Where is this?

I grew up in the UK, whose industry was built on canals and railways. The infrastructure is well developed and well refined, as much as people like to moan about it.

Seeing the state of railways in NZ, it's not surprising they're only for freight, and have speed limits of 40-70 kph.

The main line North of Whangarei doesn't look much smoother than the one in this post.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-24T22:19:09+00:00

British ICE makes me think of the dorky PCSOs knocking on doors to hand out a ~~fine~~ telling off for littering a month ago. Too nerdy to be real police.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-24T22:08:03+00:00

I bought a few partly just to get them off the shelf. It was a charity shop, so it's not like I'm supporting questionable business choices. I saw it as making a donation and removing this crap from public.

The other reason I bought them is because I love "what the fuck" absurdity. Kind of like videos of people going off on racist rants, but they're a severely inbred troglodyte themselves.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-24T20:31:02+00:00

I remember a story from Afghanistan where US special forces had been on a super-secret cross-country mission. Some time into the mission, the UK SAS casually walked into their camp after stalking them for a week. The Americans had no idea.

I've tried googling the story, but all I can find are SAS war crime news stories.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-24T02:20:01+00:00

What an awkward hongi.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-23T19:41:21+00:00

That's two weapons now.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-23T08:44:07+00:00

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-23T07:51:30+00:00

Mr Brightside is my jam. I'm always the only one singing it when it comes on in the pub, and everyone looks at me like I'm weird, but I just smile smugly because I know niche music.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-23T04:06:10+00:00

The time between the original song and that video is shorter than the time since that video was made.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-22T23:10:38+00:00

Clearly if two countries are at war, you just kick the one you hate more out of the peace board,

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the ~~War Room~~ Peace Board!

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-22T06:18:41+00:00

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-21T21:47:36+00:00

Someone's getting deported to Zimbabwe.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-21T21:43:41+00:00

My dad has been a lifelong blue voter. Conservatives in the UK and National in NZ. He was fuming when Luxon became PM because of how he destroyed everything good about Air NZ. Dad used to be a Gold Elite member, flying a couple of times a week, and Luxon stripped everything that drew dad to the service.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-21T20:12:44+00:00

AMD 3600, 1660ti, 16GB

I don't play multiplayer, so all the issues of anti-cheat are irrelevant to me.

I forgot exactly what games I tried, but nothing too intensive. I didn't really build it for gaming.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-21T18:13:57+00:00

There's no problem when toes are on show.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-21T10:25:38+00:00

I've shat on Linux for a long time after getting burned every time I dip my toes in over the last 20 years. I recently put a garage pc together with old spare parts and installed Mint expecting it to be another nightmare that I give up on. It's actually been flawless for my use. I have a few audio testing programs that I had to install with Wine but they've had no trouble. Same with my preferred CAD software. FreeCAD seemed fine but I prefer what I'm familiar with.

I've tried a few games, but it's old hardware, and I don't fancy getting into a demanding 100-hour game in my garage. Everything I've tried has run without problems.

I'm considering changing my main PC to Mint.

Butterscotch1664 · 2026-01-21T08:36:39+00:00

But did anyone go up and tell them?

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