Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Just got a call from one of those tech support scammers (they're pretending to be from OpenReach now)

"Can you press the windows key and r please"
"I am but it's not doing anything"
"Can you press the start button?"
"I'm not seeing anything like that"
"When you look at the bottom left of your screen do you see a window?"
"Nope"
"Okay, go to hell"

I was going to play along and see if they cottoned on to this being a linux box but they cut it off early

@softgoat also you'll see betting shops (pictured below) all over the place for sports betting and fixed-odds terminals

(which are like the console video game version of going to a casino)

Oh, and there will be fruit machines in every pub and motorway service station

@softgoat oh yeah, regulated, but legal

Adverts usually for bingo during the day, sports betting and online casinos at night

@maple I'd also suggest buying yourself some nice cheese or something with the excess

@maple in a robot wo-orld
life in silicon
is... something that rhymes with silicon

@frummidge oof, sed in there as well, truly the dark magicks

Tempted to lean into the "I'm a goddamn wizard" thing

I mean, my solution to problems more often than not involves complicated incantations in strange languages known to few (bash scripts) and trawling through forgotten lore (forum posts from a decade ago about how to fix shit)

All I really need to add is a hat

@Jo I'm most impressed by the engine in that

"We tested kevlar, carbon fibre, and metal gears but it turns out the lego ones were better"

@maple ooh, those are hella cool

@maple hi maple! i'm sam!

something I really want to see come back into fashion around these parts, automats

It's a whole wall of little cupboards with fast food type things in, you put your money in a little slot at the side of the thing you want, the door opens, and you grab your food

Absolutely no human interaction required!

@maple no way to do it in any of the standard browsers

I've heard of something called Dago Browser which will let you do that I think

@vantablack for a second there I thought you were saying you were accelerating your ears at 4g

@hfrazey they really aren't cooperative with the whole photo thing

A lot of the time now they're right at the back eating the food so I can't get a picture due to insufficient light

tiny hedgie!

@maple @djsundog you have released a few kickass tracks in that time

I love this channel

Making knives out of various things

"hm... could do with a mould for this one, let's bodge together a vacuum former from random shit I have lying around"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUCEMjhsvaU

How to find a good instance:

Do you like friendly fluffy queer furry places?

Yes: https://computerfairi.es
No: somewhere else I guess