Frantic Freddie

@8_bitter
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Retro computer nerd. Arch Linux user. HD-DVD collector. 11m radio user. From County Antrim, Ireland.
@praetor What Proton products do you have? I have the Unlimited package and it's up for renewal also. I'm holding off for the Black Friday sale to see what offers are available.
Received an email from #perplexity inviting me to download the new #comet browser.
Great!
Clicked the link... "sorry you need to be using Windows or MacOS"
WTF? Could you not have said that in the email you sent me?

Been fighting with youtube for several days now. It was freezing all my (computer) videos at exactly 1:00 minute. Mobile apps played just fine. I tried disabling my ad blocker and VPN but still no joy. Then my son told me his laptop was doing the same...
Turns out that (for some unknown reason) Pi-Hole was black-listing
jnn-pa.googleapis.com

Once white-listed everything was good. No idea how this happened - I didn't update Pi-Hole or any of its associated packages. Oh well...

@electron_greg Don't feel that you should "apologise" for anything. It's that time of the year. Not the "Happy Holidays" time but the Merry Christmas time. 👍

That is a great piece of hi-res art.

@grumpygamer Learn from BTM86's experience and don't do this again!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C5bDRu1Uq9c
BTM86 Goes Outside! 😲

YouTube
@martin_piper Ooooh now this sounds interesting. Thanks Martin.
@thunderbird So one year on and you have managed to put in a "skip this step" link on the page asking for my address!! YAY!
I was able to donate without giving away my personal info. Thank you.

You know what I really hate..

when someone goes to your archive.org profile & downloads some of your files & posts them on their own website. They also "forget" to give credit to where they got them from.

I uploaded many scanned documents for #Dosoft tape & disk utilities. These were very hard to find documents but not crediting the source is a shitty thing to do.

My archive.org profile is PETSCII. Anything posted there is original material scanned by me. My stuff is on the web & FB groups.

My weakness is old magazines. A really bad weakness to have, as magazines are one of the worst things to collect. They take up so much space and weigh as much as lead. However for some reason, that doesn't stop me.
My current collections include:

Your Commodore inc Your 64
Commodore Horizons
Zzap!64
Commodore World (complete)
Input (complete)
ITEC (complete)
The Home Computer Course (complete)
The Advanced Home Computer Course (complete)
Commodore Computing International
Commodore User

HELP!