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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I plugged in my external DVD drive for the first time in about 15 years to go through some old discs, and I found this in it! And it still works!!

A holographic Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 install CD. The holographic layer has decayed significantly.

Windows XP Pro text mode setup application running in a VM on an Apple M2 Max Mac Studio, installing from the CD directly

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

Pro tip: If you’re flying economy on a long flight, get one of the seats with a stowable infotainment display. When they do meal service, you can turn the display into a second tray for your device to enjoy uninterrupted access to media that has not been censored

A 15” MacBook Air balances precariously on the infotainment display of a Boeing 777-300ER, with a tray of aeroplane food sitting on the real tray in the foreground.

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2025

I see your “eating beans” and raise you “reading a broadsheet”

An image of a man reading a broadsheet newspaper in a theatre

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Qt's localisation is pretty good, but we can go deeper...

Redefining the QColor [US English spelling] class as QColour [Commonwealth English spelling]

class QColour : public QColor {};

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2025

Brisbane being the unofficial furry capital of Australia had some interesting consequences

A leaflet for Brisbane Plumbing and Drainage. Their mascot is an anthropomorphic dog drawn in the typical furry art style

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025

Seeing the correct phonebook colours be forgotten to time by zoomer journos really hits different after watching through all of Frieren for the first time this weekend

A screenshot of an ABC News (Australia) article which reads “In previous decades, pollsters could simply dial up a landline number from the Yellow Pages…”

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025

Wasn’t expecting a candlelit Indian takeaway dinner for my birthday, yet here we are.

A table set for six to eat. In the middle are 5 takeaway containers of curry, and three candelabras

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2025

There are generations of kids now who would look at these and 609-to-RJ11 adapters the same way Xenophon and the Ten Thousand looked at the cuneiform tablets of Nineveh

A pair of Telstra-branded ADSL line filters, manufactured by C10 Communications

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2024

No matter how many times you see these things happen, they hit just like the first time you saw them

Dio's stand The World appearing before Jotaro and Star Platinum in the OP of the final episode of Stardust Crusaders, just before Dio stops time in the OP for 10 seconds

The Citadel begins exploding at the end of Half-Life 2 just as the Gman stops time

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2024

Literally nobody ever on the face of the Earth: Me: haha KDEGINA.so #kde

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2024

Can’t say I’m surprised tbh, the go card machines still run WinCE. #queenslandrail #qr

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James Calligeros @chadmed.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2024

Most of the time, I consider it a very bad thing that work is too stingy to buy me the things I need to do my job effectively (things like a working computer). Sometimes, however, it means I can buy myself whatever I want and claim it all as tax-deductible work expenses 🙃