Bobby Moss @bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks

I’m also not oblivious to all the trailing cables. These tubes and cable ties have been sat on a shelf for months waiting for me to find time to fix it. 😅

There is one glaring thing that needs fixing in this picture... 🤔

My new plan is to swap my Mega Drive back in but find a way of making it look not terrible on a modern TV. 😅

The Dreamcast will move back upstairs. As I have a VGA cable on its way in the post I could keep it on a shelf and connect to a CRT for light guns or modern TV as and when I want to use it. 👍

I reckon adding this Toast real-wood cover to my Nintendo Switch’s base helps it fit a bit better into my living room. 😁

(As you might be able to guess from the colour of the joycons, I bought the Pokemon Let’s Go version so it’s covering pictures of Pikachu & Eevee!)

This boxed copy of SimCity Classic for Windows finally arrived from the US!

I’m guessing it had been left in a box in a garage for a while because it arrived with a layer of grime and smelt strongly of gasoline. But that wasn’t anything some damp kitchen towel and spraying a fine mist of febreeze over it couldn’t fix 👍

Seems legit...

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssss!

Answers on a postcard if you know how this happened.

Apparently one very specific strip of skin on my thumb decided to die.

As an aside btw, if you’re in the market for a second hand Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis if you’re in the US) always check the top label of the round bit.

If it doesn’t say “High Definition Graphics Stereo Sound” then you have one of the later models where they economised on a cheaper sound chip.

It’s not that noticeable to the casual gamer, but if you listen to samples of audio from both consoles for some games you will notice the difference 👍

...and this is what Micropolis looks like. 👍

@bobstechsite I couldn’t find my ski gloves to build a snowman. But I think this is better 🤣

(One photo has a table with 14cm of snow on top of it like a giant pie, and the other has a slice I cut out of it with a knife)

In better news THERE IS SO MUCH SNOW IN MY GARDEN! 😍

I’m going to be going out into it shortly to pick up groceries. Wellies, hat, glovers & multiple layers would be the order of the day methinks.

It's fair to say the iPhone 7 I bought second hand to replace my dead Samsung Galaxy A5 is "well used" 😂

It's nothing a good case can't put right though, so I'm not disappointed. £199 isn't a bad price either.

So, as masto.host and others confirmed the "High Contrast" theme isn't broken, it's just so similar to the stock Mastodon theme it's hard to tell you've even applied it.

Maybe it's just me, but when I think of "High Contrast" these colour schemes are what springs to mind 🤔

I hope my rod was everything you wanted it to be 👍

Right, have now set custom CSS to make my instance more accessible.

To copy the theme in my screenshot, first set Mastodon (Light) theme in user & site settings.

Then in Settings > Admin > Site Settings > Custom CSS you add:

a{text-decoration:underline !important; color:darkblue !important;}

You can select the colour value you want from here if you're still using the default dark theme: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp

For those interested in how to get to the "Mastodon Light" theme btw, head to Settings > Preferences > Site Theme.

I would be genuinely intrigued to know if the "High Contrast" theme works for other people, because it doesn't work on my instance.

I've revised my LibreOffice customisation regimen today!

Step 1: Install libreoffice-style-sifr, head to Tools > Options... > LibreOffice > View then set the icon theme as "Sifr Dark"

Step 2 (NEW): In both Writer and Calc: View > User Interface > Single Toolbar

Screenshots below are for LibreOffice 6.1.4, which I installed through Debian Stretch backports. Gnome theme is Adwaita Dark.

Right, this pile of nostalgia is what my insomnia produced as a replacement. It'll do for now! 🙂

*in a Northern Irish accent* give meh daughter beck nay. Eh hev a very perteculehr set of skehlls! 😂

I re-did the "more articles" picture for Bob's Tech Site so it'd use my new profile image as a base, but it seems to have acquired Liam Neeson's nose for some reason 🤔