The Long Walk was as good a movie as it was a book. Loved it. #cinema #thelongwalk

So if I use Aurora Store to install/ update my bank app I get a "You did not use Google Play Store. Please reinstall and see your bank" and then I cannot do any banking/payments digitally or get cardless cash out unless I have the Gstore version. This is pretty much the only reason I can't fully […]

Who managed to get an Acer touch pad working again? Me and an LLM, that' who!

Absolutely no idea what I am being told. Hshop Mario Maker 3DS has a glitch me thinks.

I work with 3 attractive men. Faculty meetings are a constant battle between me paying attention and daydreaming about doing things with them...

Wheeee! Modded the 3DS and hShop is amazing! Love the Nintendo homebrew world. Massive shout out to FunkyScott on Youtube for all his excellent tutorials.

Bought a new 3DS today. It is Japanese. Thankfully I also have my Aus 3DS and a translate app to help me work it out. As soon as the SD cards arrive it is homebrew CFW time!

I still don't know what the first two lines are for Blur - Song 2 "I got my head shaved / By Oh-cha moh-chay" will always be what I hear...

I just learned that Paul Simon was 160cm tall.

Phone died. Lost my 2FA for Facebook. Apparently they need my passport to reopen my account. My account has a different last name and my profile pic is a Ninja Turtle... Good luck #2fa

New phone... Second time in a row my phone has broken unexpectedly. 3 accounts locked behind 2FA... Sigh.

Back at work (teaching chemistry) after the summer break. Within 2 days I am already have shit sleep and waking up through the night. My job is low stress and I am supported. Why is my sleep affected?

Hold up. The NES had a dance mat?! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pad #nes #nintendo #powerpad

When your home-made gnocchi is bang on. #littlewins

Johnny Depp.

I have had nothing but good things to say about Infomaniak. Free is good and emails are encrypted. Suite does all that G and M suites can.. https://www.infomaniak.com/en/special-offers #infomaniak #email #degoogle

So... What is a non-bloatware, Microsoft Office alternate that I can use to edit and see files on my home PC? I need them to be highly compatible with Microsodt though as that is what is at my work. Not WPS Office! (Still deleting folders in regedit)

Like.. I am in regedit and looking for file association strings.. The fuck. Not gonna lie LLM is making this a lot easier for me. I am of course checking it and critically thinkig about possible implications. #wpsoffice #uninstall

Holy crap. WPS Office is a freaking nightmare to uninstall! Uninstalled it, seemed fine. Opened a document and it opened up again! I am deep in a forum/post/LLM assisted process of uninstalling. #wpsoffice #bloatware

Let's make a deal.

Back in Bangkok. 15hr day of travel. Will probably stop BKK-SYD-BRIS and swap to BKK-Singapore-BRIS. That 9 hr flight is brutal.

So my SD card for my 2DS seems to have self-wiped all the games I had installed. I did mod it about 3 years ago and have not changed it since then. All the subfolders seem in order but no games. If I go back to the root folder the DS will then become non-responsive after I move across to a blank […]

So... The lollies (candies/sweets) called UFOs/Flying Saucers, who knows them? Cannot just be me. I am at a BBQ with 7 other adults born 70s/80s and I seem to be the only person who knows them. They are rice paper discs sealed over a massive pile of sherbert. #lollies #candy #sweets #nostalgia

Playing TZ again. Slowly getting closer to 400 million. Managed 8 door panels. Still have not been "lost in the zone".... #pinball #twilightzone

Mother-in-Law ate the cookie I loudly said I was saving for my afternoon tea, for her morning tea. Gutted.

"Fastly" is also 100% a word 🤣

Jaws is fastly becoming my new fave Stern pinball machine. #pinball #stern #jawspinball #jaws

My 11 y.o. is with us at a pinball free play event. Just overheard: "Watch that curly haired kid... He's a fucking shark" So proud. #pinball #proudparent #bpac2025

Australian Womens Pinball comp. https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/195935/matches My first big event. #pinball #bpac2025

OMG. Mortal Kombat II looks so good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdC5mFHPldg And! Johnny Cage preview! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alVyFX7iQg8 #mortalkombatii #johnnycage

Doug is that much of a prick... Who proof-read this 🤣

Found at the park today! Crocheted, thumb hole hand warmers. #random_acts_of_crochet_kindness Kindness #raock

Signed myself and the boy up for the Stern Insider accounts. No need for it in Thailand but while we are in Oz, might as well chase those achievements! #sternpinball #pinball

Second watch of Jurassic World: Rebirth. Even better than first watch. The audio was so good that when the Rex roared, the chair vibrated and I got goosebumps #jurassicworldrebirth

Found a Goldeneye and Doctor Who (sadly out of order) at a local brewery. I do love a surprise pinball machine. Thankfully only $1 a game. #pinball #hiphopbrewery

Here's Hopeakuula Arcade's main room. Located in Kouvola, Finland, this hobbyist run, not for profit arcade has been welcoming the pinball-curious folks since 2011. Mostly run by yours truly and my partner in life and crime, Quester, we aim to keep pinball alive […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Getting obsessed with Arkanoid. First time playing it with the paddle controller. So much better than controllers/joysticks. Currently can make it to level 3! #arkanoid #arcade #gaming

Living in Bangkok means pinball is pretty much non-existant. Back in Australia for 5 weeks and visiting our mate who has been storing our machines. Me and the boy, 3hrs straight on TZ. #pinball

Had my first, real "the internet is shit now" moment yesterday when 7/10 websites I went to were AI that seemed useful until they then spammed me with an AI girlfriend ad, said I was lucky Google searcher for the day, and said my phone was infected with a virus. DDG did not catch the redirects […]

Watching old Big Bang Theory. It is so cringey now...

Wedding anniversary today! Currently kid free, staying at the hotel we got married at 9 years ago. Checked in, some Afternoon Delight, a nap and now what... 🤣

The Excel World Championships as an eSport.. Where was my ticket? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/microsoft-excel-world-championships.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes

Gosh I have missed playing pinball. 2 years of minimal play has meant I am def not playing well though. If you ever come to #brisbane check out #thepark #netherworld and #pinballhaus for your #pinball fix.

I tend to only use my DS Homebrew when I travel. The bumpers to drift on Mario Kart seems way easier than on any other console. It is running very slow to boot though. Do I need to upgrade from the 2022 edition? #nintendods #homebrewds

Windows 11 just wiped my Ipod Classic. 20 years of music... Gone 😭 I feel nauseous... #fuckyouitunes #fuckyouwindows

Really want a deGoogled phone but I have bricked 2 trying to do it myself. Can't seem to find anywhere in Thailand where I can buy one from... #degoogledandroid #grapheneos #thailand

Heading back to Australia for a visit. I have scheduled 6 trips to pinball establishments. Gonna play so much to make up for the lack of it in Bangkok. Might even enter the BPAC Women's Comp which happens to be on #pinball #bpac #bnepac

My 11 year old challenged one of my friends (35 years old) to a Warhammer III game and schooled him. "Wow. Your Mum was not exaggerating. Best of 3?" #gaming #totalwarwarhammeriii #proudmum

Fallen down a tech rabbit hole. Today I learned about translator headphones by TimeKettle. Anyone using them?! #timekettle #translation #headphones