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Oh no, what happened? 😂 It would have been fun to do my own livestream, if I'd had the time or energy. My house ended up weirdly perfectly placed to cover the whole thing, albeit with basic and strictly amateur kit.

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Is it a great timelapse? No. Is it perfectly tracked? No. Is it exactly time-aligned? No. But it's mine. From my front doorstep. Some said "I got nothing by me"...well...physics don't work like that...I can only assume you went back indoors before the maximum... #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2026

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Each photo in this montage is two minutes apart. It was like an extra sunset, and yet some people are posting online that they "got nothing" where they lived...even though they were in the same partial eclipse path, with the same moon, same sun, and same sky? 🤔 #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2026

Montage of eight photos during a partial solar eclipse, looking across the street at the side of a house, a mountain, and the sky, all getting darker then lighter.

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Wasn't great footage, but it was a great memory. I glanced at the camcorder occasionally and moved it manually, but concentrated on enjoying the eclipse with my own eyes, with family and neighbours. Not trying to compete with far better photographers/equipment. #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2026

Montage of four photos of the sun obscured by the moon during a partial solar eclipse.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Brought this camcorder out of retirement for the solar eclipse. Last used in 2015. Still had three-quarters battery when I stopped. Impressed it held a charge at all, after all this time. It's only SD, but it's got a great zoom lens, probably the best I own. #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2026

Panasonic SDR-H85 camcorder on top of a tripod, with a square of solar eclipse filter film taped in front of the lens.

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I posted in our local Facebook group about today's eclipse. Pretty uncontroversial stuff: don't look at the sun except with certified eclipse glasses, here's how to make a pinhole projector. Someone commented "nanny state"... Listen, it's not illegal to look directly at the sun. It's just stupid.

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Rex Caprorum @rexcaprorum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@jamienemeth.bsky.social, I think you'll approve of this

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I'm excited, sure, but it'll be about 93% in Swansea again this time, too?! I'd understand Spain forgetting about 2015, as this time the path of totality goes right through the middle, and you can't get better than that...but from a UK perspective, it's about the same as 2015, no?

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I've seen a few posts getting excited about the upcoming solar eclipse, and referring to the last one being 1999, or that this will be the best one since 1999... ...has everyone collectively forgotten that 2015 happened, where we had 93% totality in Swansea, and clear skies?!

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And here's the teletext art I made for my totally-jumping-on-the-bandwagon video inspired by The Odyssey 😜 (also available on Nemetext p172, which is an intentional nod to the runtime in minutes...yes, I'm that pedantically geeky sometimes 🤣) #Odyssey #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #CRT #Teletext

Pixel / teletext art inspired by The Odyssey film: a trojan horse in the distance on the coast, near where the sand and sea meet, with its lower body and hind legs embedded in the sand, and front legs and upper body raised in the air, akin to rearing.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's just like how my name is pronounced Jay-mee, but people kept calling me Jaym-ee and I just sort of went along with it...huge difference 🤔 Dear me...seriously...Wait-rose vs. Way-trose...you're having a giraffe...that's gi-raffe, not gir-affe 🤣 www.foodbible.com/news/uk-food...

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Waitrose confirms you've been pronouncing chain's name wrong all this time

Who knew there was a 'right' way to say Waitrose?

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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Current status: walking back from Co-op with baguette and naan to settle a frankly rather heated dispute over which can be thrown further.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For now, I just wanted something cheap to prove the concept, so I found this second-hand CF card on eBay, but I'm conscious that this means it already had some wear. I bought a high endurance SD card for my Raspberry Pi server fairly recently after the original conked out, though it managed a year.

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Yes, I'd read that CF was passive, but the penny hadn't quite dropped that this must mean it's natively IDE, by definition. I guess that explains why there's so many pins on a CF card/slot! It's something I'd always wondered, and started wondering about again recently.

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CF seems to be the way to go if you can, from own experience and forums. I'm sure the SD adapter will work in something else, possibly something newer and more easily fooled...many PCs have tens if not hundreds of hard drive configurations they'd accept, but this ThinkPad has about four, total.

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I knew of the concept years ago, when I was researching replacing my dead iPod hard drive (though that was CF to ZIF), which I never actually got round to doing. Finding a sensibly-priced replacement mechanical HDD of the right size is a struggle to say the least, so these adapters are fab!

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A friend donated this IBM ThinkPad 365X to me, saying "I knew you'd know what to do with it!" I tried an SD to IDE adapter, but that was a no-go. The laptop could see some files, but trying to access them made half disappear. Very odd. The CF to IDE adapter, though? Proof is in the pudding!

SanDisk ultra II 1.0 GB CompactFlash card in a 2.5-inch CF to IDE adapter, resting on top of a closed IBM ThinkPad laptop.

Underside of a SanDisk CompactFlash card in a 2.5-inch CF to IDE adapter inserted into the IDE interface inside a laptop.

Microsoft Windows 95 setup screen on an IBM ThinkPad 365X laptop, showing that files are being copied.

Microsoft Windows 95 desktop on an IBM ThinkPad 365X laptop.

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The telescopic support pole that's so easy to install, even girls can do it! 🥳 This online shopping advert appeared in my feeds...*checks notes*...yesterday...in...*checks calendar*...2026 🤦‍♂️ #EverydaySexism

A woman adjusting one of two extending telescopic support poles going from the floor to under a table top, to support the weight of the table. The text reads "not easy to hurt the table, easy to install, girls can also install."

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My needs and wants for a relationship are all the things that have gradually come back to me since I stopped suppressing them to try and make a relationship work.

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not the first time I've connected an old PC to my own dialup ISP, but the first time the PC and ISP haven't been in the same room, let alone on the same table! The theoretical maximum speed is 33.6 kbps (two modems alone can't hit 56k something something), so 26.4 to the attic and back ain't bad!

Photo of an LCD display of a laptop running Windows 98, showing a dialup connection status window above a file explorer window. There is a dialup connection icon (an old-style corded telephone connected to two PCs). The dialup connection title bar says 'Connected to Nemnet', and the window says: Connected at 26,400 bps, Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds, Bytes received: 41,202, Bytes sent: 10,043. The window also has OK, Disconnect, and Details buttons.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The awkward moment when you realise you have zero PCs with known working floppy disk drives, except for the laptop with a FDD in unknown condition that you need to make the floppy disk for 🤣 I did dig out my known working FDD to use on the testbench PC, but there's no FDD port on the motherboard 🙃

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The point is: it's a testbench! I have things I want to test (USB modems, FireWire capture cards, TV capture cards) that are only compatible (at least on a software level) with Windows XP. So right now, I only need Windows XP. I can always repartition the drive later, or even wipe it entirely.

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Only seven months after I put this testbench PC together, it finally has an operating system on it! 🫣 I've had plenty of other things going on, but I was also agonising about how to partition the drive to get the optimum multiboot scenario, and as a result, it was just sitting around doing nothing.

An open-chassis testbench PC sat on top of a VCR, with Gigabyte motherboard, CPU cooler with fan spinning, hard disk drive, a couple of expansion cards, RAM, PSU and power switch visible.

Windows XP install in progress on a small monitor, showing as 45% complete.

Windows XP desktop on a small monitor, with the iconic "Bliss" mountain and sky desktop wallpaper, with no icons except for the Recycle Bin.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yesterday actually felt normal outside, and bearable...true, today's worse, but today comes with a gorgeous breeze...just need it to keep going for...well, forever, ideally...