David Gallows

David Gallows

@davidgallows.bsky.social

Multi-untalented instrumentalist & vocalist, freelance video editor. <s>maker of cider, drinker of wine</s>, eater of cheese, captain of Pyrates! Netherlands - (he/him) - last of the analogue generation.

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In tech news today, old people getting excited about having a keyboard on their phone again The crackberry crowd never recovered from the death of this style. now they're all losing their minds while the younger crew are like: Why screen so small!?! you press buttons?? it's like grandma's phone!!!

WELL DUH, of course the internet-harvested brain matter is going skew towards this. The LLM dataset is made up of people like me telling you to nuke everything from orbit just to be sure, or nuke it for the sake of nuking it, cause it goes boom! for the past 3 decades. See also: Ion cannon ready.

Silverstone cases, I get it, i really do - retro sells at the moment, or in this case probably vintage. But it's clear that no one involved in the design of this case was alive when we were using 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. and WTF is that power switch?! #pccase #fauxretro

I'd better explain my ire towards the power switch. Back then power switches were directly connected to the PSU, A hard "cut the mains RIGHT NOW!" level affair. it'd be chunky cause it ran 220v. 'soft' power switches came in with the ATX power supply in the mid 90's.

Silverstone cases, I get it, i really do - retro sells at the moment, or in this case probably vintage. But it's clear that no one involved in the design of this case was alive when we were using 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. and WTF is that power switch?! #pccase #fauxretro

and the LCD on the front would display the alleged MHZ of the PC inside, I don't recall seeing these until the mid 90's. You could set it to any number you like by holding down the turbo button. so 69 MHZ was common :P #soiworeanoniononmybelt

Silverstone cases, I get it, i really do - retro sells at the moment, or in this case probably vintage. But it's clear that no one involved in the design of this case was alive when we were using 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. and WTF is that power switch?! #pccase #fauxretro

And back in the age of 5 1/4 inch drives we overwhelmingly used Desktop cases, Tower cases weren't popular until later on, generally the 486 era - we'd moved on to 3 1/2 inch drives and cd-rom drives.

Silverstone cases, I get it, i really do - retro sells at the moment, or in this case probably vintage. But it's clear that no one involved in the design of this case was alive when we were using 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. and WTF is that power switch?! #pccase #fauxretro

I have so many Black Friday offers that I started to doubt that it is actually NEXT Friday. Is November now just "All the crap we can't actually sell at full price" or "this is how much we usually overcharge for it" month?

It was as easy to install as Plugwise said it would be. That is if the Fuckhead who installed the old thermostat hadn't threaded the screw heads while trying to screw them into the BARE WALL beneath. *facepalm*

That's one hell of a rollercoaster, the contrast of funny and sombre hits hard. If you're about my age you'll have grown up watching John in a load of fun comedy films, I gotta rewatch some classics :)

6 months later, who knew regular practice would pay off? 😛 It's taken a lot of work to get here, When I decided to tackle this song, I had to start really slowly - those triplets are killer fast! Am proud of myself for managing to get it in the ballpark! Still a ways to go 🤘

That was an epic weekend :)

Pyrates!@pyrates.bsky.social

Thank you so much Paimpol!! We had a fantastic time with you on all three amazing nights at the festival! massive thank you to all the crews of these stages, the wagoneers, the techs, and the organisation for putting up with our shenanigans for the weekend! see you all soon we hope! 😃

Love this festival 😁 We had two shows called off last time around so we're making up for it this time 🤘

Pyrates!@pyrates.bsky.social

This weekend we're returning to the grand old port of Paimpol! Looking forward to playing these three shows 😁

Singing sea shanties at an enormous maritime festival? With my reputation? Oh right. Yes. That's what I do 😁😁

Pyrates!@pyrates.bsky.social

Thank you Voiles de légende Dunkerque you were amazing, we had a fantastic time! Thank you so much to Het Lindeboom festival and Anne-Sophie for looking after us over the last few days! And XV Photos for taking this photo i hope we'll see you all again soon :) #folkrock #maritimerock #pirate

Episode 7 went surprisingly quickly! We may have gone too far with the title while trying to think of fish puns for the James Pond section. Monkey Island 2 has to be one of the most iconic point and click games of the time, along with everything else LucasArts did in the 90s, Loom was my first one!

Episode 7 of the #GamesMaster #Retrospective is live! We've got cyborg fish, bullet hell mayhem, Aliens, and wrestling! Join us as we continue our #deep-dive into the best gaming #retrotv the #90s had to offer! #retrogaming youtu.be/3lj4wJw1Qo8?...

Ah no, Norm! 🍻- rest in peace George wendt I was a too young to watch cheers when it aired but managed to catch up with it later on. as someone who worked in bars in my youth, there's so much of the show that is just hugely relatable. Especially characters like Norm. Time for a rewatch!

Episode 4 is live, we asked Dominik to read his own lines from his book for this one, being that he's the most qualified man for the task it only seemed fitting 😁

Episode 4 of the #GamesMaster #Retrospective is live! And we've only gone and got the actual @dominikdiamond.bsky.social to do a guest spot! Join us as we continue our #deep-dive into the best gaming #retrotv the #90s had to offer! youtu.be/mTkZcRnULEA

Why. is the internet not provided to everyone for free? All it seems to be now is advertising, and harvesting/selling of personal data, they're apparently making billions. Surely these companies should be paying my bill for having to sit through all the crap I am forced to look at. #isp #ads #free

Episode 2 is up, this one was quite the trip :) Turns out producing is highly enjoyable! We may have overdone it with the thumbnail somewhat :P see you in 2 weeks for the next one! #gamesmaster #newcontentcreators #youtube #sonic #retrospective #videoessay #longform

Episode 2 of the #GamesMaster #Retrospective! Join us a we continue our #deep-dive into the best gaming #retrotv the #90s had to offer! youtu.be/VaOI5OE1n-I #retrogaming #tv #retrogames

There are certain things that I really like about the Netherlands, Still having functional historic mills that still mill and sell flour is one of these things 😁 #oldmill #windmill #netherlands #mill #notroubleatthemill #nooneexpectsthespanishinquisition