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MildredHubble

MildredHubble

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  • MildredHubble
    I had a try at making "Fat Rascals". They are a kind of fruit bun sold at a place called Betty's in York here. Mine look a bit mutated but hopefully they will still taste nice! Here's mine...
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    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Thanks! @Angular Chap :-) Betty's are world famous for their cakes, especially the Fat Rascals! My girlfriend loves their mince pies too. I don't think I've tried the ginger shortbread. But anyone that visits York has to visit Betty's tea rooms and shop! It's basically the law at this point :-)
    Angular Chap
    Angular Chap
    Yep, I hear the line is usually out the door and down the street! The client that sent me the cakes lives in Essex and gets up at who knows what o'clock in the morning just to get there for it opening!
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Yes! That's very true! There's usually a line round the building and a second on in the opposite direction to go into the shop! Back when I was a kid, I rarely saw a line to get in, but these days it's the norm, and particularly these last ten years it's been the case :-)
    MildredHubble
    I'm watching Dr Who. Not a big fan, but it was kinda cool they included a non binary character in the first episode. Then the second episode started and Dr Who is fixing the crash landed TARDIS whith a "Console" which is actually an Amstrad CPC 464! I should recognise it, I own at least 4 of them lol! :-)
    MildredHubble
    Got this quirky looking CD recorder for my dad for Christmas...
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    th-1879513048.webp

    Not a photo of the actual one, but the one I got is identical. It's intended for the Education market and it looks a bit weird but it's actually pretty darned good! :-)
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Oh forgot to mention, the one I bought doesn't have the cassette deck lol! :-)
    MildredHubble
    I'm going to watch Time Team until the screen falls off my TV. Anyone that tells you that you can have too much of a good thing is wrong. Trust me! :-)
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    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    @Forest Cat Cool! There's loads of old episodes on YouTube and they seem to be making new ones for YouTube rather than TV now! :-)
    Forest Cat
    Forest Cat
    They are making new episodes? :D That's great. It's difficult to watch that show and not think of Baldrick lol Tony Robinson seems to be such a great guy.
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    True! They seem to have rotating presenters in the new shows. But there's plenty of Tony Robinson ones to watch and he's in loads of other documentaries on YouTube too! :-) He's always good to watch I think :-)
    MildredHubble
    Ok, YouTube is serving up four Ads in a row now! This will not do! I'm trying to watch Time Team and I keeps in getting interrupted by several minutes of Ads! Grrrrrr!
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    wards
    wards
    If you use a vpn for say.. India and pay for YouTube premium you can get it for a couple of £/$ a month. Zero ads :)
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Interesting! I guess I'd have to set up a VPN on something in-between my Roku and the router. If the Ads are as bad as they have been tonight, I will either do that or look into some sort of as blocker/filter.
    wards
    wards
    The vpn part is just for the subscription purchase you don’t need it after that, if you are interested and want some help pm me :)
    MildredHubble
    ChromeOS is hot garbage! It's had lots of bugs that I could overlook, but a login loop?! Nope! That's just a bit more than I will tolerate. The only thing I could do was agree to have it's local storage wiped and it still didn't fix the problem! It's getting windows or Linux installed on it very soon.
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    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    ... Then it said I could login but it would erase the local storage, so I took the loss only for it to go back into a login loop. I found out the fix was to enable developer mode and then wipe the tablet, then reinstall. That's actually about 40% of what you'd need to do to install windows or Linux so that's now on the list!
    Judge
    Judge
    Kirk: Spock, what do you make of Chrome?
    Spock: Captain, I believe it should be called pot metal.
    Kirk: I think you're right, Spock.
    Spock: Affirmative, Captain.
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    I'm currently reinstalling everything, I lost my Linux apps (the Linux Chrome OS ones) so I'm piecing it back together. I'm going to give it one more chance then hack Ubuntu onto it if it's still causing frustration. The device is great! The OS, not so much :mad:
    MildredHubble
    Back in the olden days, one of my favourite early Sunday evening activities was tidying/organising my room while Time Team was on my TV on Channel 4. I've just discovered there's loads of episodes on YouTube! I find them so relaxing and reassuring somehow :-)
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    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    They do reconstructions of things they find in the excavations. Sometimes it's weapons, other times it can be musical instruments. I seem to remember they discovered and replicated a Genghis Kahn composite bow at some point and it was ridiculously powerful.
    Outdated
    Outdated
    The one I remember most was the reconstruction of a trebuchet, at first they built one on a solid platform but it only achieved a very short range. Then they put one on wheels, as they were historically, and the base being able to shift back and forth as it loosed tripled the range.
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Yes! I remember that one too! Actually that came to mind first but I wasn't sure if it was Time Team or Scrap Heap Challenge. I used to enjoy that show, I think they were in the same slot at different points in the year.
    MildredHubble
    Been getting some Christmas shopping done :-) If buying 6 sets of reading glasses for my Dad who is perpetually breaking or losing his counts as a proper gift? :-)
    MildredHubble
    Uh oh...
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    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Land line and internet just went out :-( Thank goodness for smart phones! Lol!
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Well, I hope you get it running soon
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    I tried power cycling the router, the phone is just dead silence :-( It's been pretty stormy here so I'm guessing maybe the wind has knocked something out. I was looking forward to streaming some Star Trek, guess I will have to watch a dvd like a Neanderthal!
    MildredHubble
    After feeling pretty rubbish the last week or so, I finally managed to focus and modified an iPod mini to give our friend this Christmas. This one was super easy so it didn't take long. I kinda wish it had kept me occupied for longer, but I will take the win :-)
    MildredHubble
    Went for my blood test today and they also check my weight. I always feel very sensitive about it when they start recommending they refer me to a dietician. I've lost quite a bit of weight and I don't sit around eating cheese burgers and chips all day. I'm active as I can possibly be. My meds cause the weight gain. And they know that full well!
    MildredHubble
    No luck with this iPod. I got the CF card today, it worked as far as letting me restore the software onto the ipod. Thought I had it all working, then I find out that it won't sync with iTunes! Dammit! So looks like I will be performing surgery on the CF to SD converters after all. Hopefully that will solve the problem :-)
    MildredHubble
    Couldn't resist disassembling the SD to CF converter. I suspect I could copy the firmware from one board to another. There's a chip on the board that looks like a EEPROM and has the code FH25VQ40C but I can't find a datasheet on it :-(
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Ah interesting! I've found a chip with GD25VQ40C and it's data sheet says it's a 4Mbit Flash IC. So the FH25VQ is probably a copy! I will probably try reading the chip tomorrow with my Programmer. If I can read and write to it and the converter still works afterwards then in theory I should be able to copy the chip from the working unit. Fingers crossed! :-)
    MildredHubble
    Tried to modify another iPod 3rd generation with an SD card to CF adapter to give as a gift to my dad for Christmas. Unfortunately the adapter must have a different firmware or something as it just refuses to work. Kinda irritating. I ordered a proper CF card. Hopefully it will work and I'm not throwing my money away! :oops:
    MildredHubble
    I think I just found my next electronics project! It's called the PiStorm. It plugs in to an ATARI STe and uses a Raspberry Pi to emulate a super fast processor. I think I should be able to carry out the soldering :-) I have to order 5 PCBs from PCBWay so on the small possibility anyone else wants one let me know :-)
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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Okay, l have zero idea what you said,bit it looks radical and involves electronics, so it's gotta be great.
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    @Aspychata thanks! :-) I suppose I could post my progress, maybe make some videos and it might make more sense when you see it in action. Assuming it all works of course :)
    S
    Slime_Punk
    I love devboard projects like these! It kind of amazes me everyday what you can do with them :D
    MildredHubble
    Ok, having a weird "Mandela Effect" moment. I've been familiar with the cover art for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells since I was a young child and have owned both the vinyl LP and CD for decades, and I've never once noticed the sea and crashing waves at the bottom of the cover?! Very strange!
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    Slime_Punk
    I have weird MEs like that all the time. Sometimes it's hard to notice all of those little details in everything, or at least that's my explanation of it lately!
    Rodafina
    Rodafina
    @MildredHubble
    But now, I am sure you will notice it every single time. It's hard to unsee interesting details.
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    @Rodafina You are absolutely right! I can't not see that detail now :-) I always remembered it as flat sky, no sea, since I was 3 years old! That's basically 4 decades I've missed that detail! :)
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