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@jalefkowit I briefly did phone support for Packard Bell here in the UK in the early 2000s. We took one to bits in training and I couldn't believe how shoddy they were. The power supplies were well below what I'd expect even at the time. It's a wonder they worked at all.

@drj @nina_kali_nina @mhd I will pay real money to someone who can make CDE work on modern debian

@kat hopefully they'll get the message that this isn't a place for them

@bagder@mastodon.social I've half joked about setting up the Artisanal Coder's Guild before but stuff like this makes me actually want to do it

@devolute there's more than a hint of Designer's Republic there too. Like it

@oleksiy@sonomu.club paging @yaxu@post.lurk.org ...

@davidwilkins@mastodon.online My grandad had one of these, though sadly long before I was born. My memory is a little hazy but I think he told us on a visit to Beaulieu.

@katiefenn that is quite the fare! What a nightmare journey

@davidallengreen@mastodon.green I've been looking for that quote for ages, I couldn't remember enough of it for search engines. Thanks!

@floppyplopper @stavvers Though that could be referencing an older strip...

@mweiss @jalefkowit The craziest thing I remember from that job was the "RPD", residual power drain. If a customer's PC was seemingly dead, no POST, nothing on the screen, we were told to instruct them to disconnect all the cables from the PC and hold the power button down for at least 30 seconds, before plugging the cables back in and turning it on again. When we were told this in training I thought it was complete bullshit, but the number of times I did it on calls and it actually worked blew my mind. I still to this day don't understand how it worked, maybe it was just the process of reseating the cables that fixed it and the 30 seconds was a bit of a white lie to make it seem scientific but yeah, it worked almost every time.

@mossyfoot @ifixcoinops yes! He had a fairly successful solo comedy career here in the UK too. I've listened to the episode with Stewart Lee and the guy who plays Shaun in What We Do In The Shadows, both really good and interesting

@drgeraint@glasgow.social judging by Starmer's letter to labour MPs the penny hasn't dropped yet.

@ms_zwiebel@tech.lgbt I don't have an account so can't see the full list so apologies if you have her already but Ezra Furman.

@babe can't believe it's been another year already!

@foone@digipres.club I had a good idea what it was going to be before I clicked it. I don't think it really counts as a rick roll tbf

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt is that date right? Looks more 1988 to me. Either way it looks pretty cool but would probably be horrendous to actually use

@simoncozens@typo.social yup, they had their one chance with Gorton and Denton and they blew it. Though he might have still lost if they'd let him stand he would have had a better chance than the candidate they went with