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Bob Beaker

@bbeaker@toot.community
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Retired tech worker.
Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook.
Part time transvestite.

He/Him/Tart

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Joined March 20, 2023
Location:
Hampshire, UK

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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Jun 01, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community

Anyone have any idea how long gov.uk scheduled maintenance is likely to take. It's been three days so far.

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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 30, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community

Oops forgot to prep for tomorrows repair cafe. As a reminder based on tonight's "what's coming" email, need mains lamp components, quartz clock drives, random Singer sewing machine parts plus test material and cotton, a random shredder switch and Aspen 2 fuel (two stroke). Oh and whatever it takes to fix a vacuum cleaner.

Should be an interesting Sunday.

Of course that's only the pre-booked.

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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 28, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio
@Ea5iyl@mastodon.radio @oz1lqo@techhub.social The second chip is a V20 processor, pin and instruction set compatible with the 8088 but up to 50% faster execution at the same clock speed. Of course by the time the V20 came out many of us were moving on to the 80286.
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 22, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community

Wow, went to clean my teeth and looking out the window a buzzard was perched on the corner of the patio just twenty feet away. Just looked at me and in no kinda hurry flew away. They are big birds when seen against something to give you scale.

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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 17, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community

Repair Cafe starts in two hours. Guess I better get out of bed.

Four repaired clocks to return. I really must stop bringing work home.

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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 17, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange
@crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange The ONE weird thing about cats! Just ONE?
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 14, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @penguin86@social.ichibi.eu
@penguin86@social.ichibi.eu The other thing that just sprung to mind if the wires are of unknown origin. Copper covered aluminium?
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 14, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @penguin86@social.ichibi.eu
@penguin86@social.ichibi.eu At the risk of teaching grandma... You are aware that flux used in soldering, whether applied separately or as part of the solder medium is an acid? It's an essential part of the soldering process but should be removed after soldering. Any residual flux will slowly eat away at the joint especially around any imperfections. I use IPA and a stiff brush to remove flux residue. No clean fluxes are available but not usually at the DIY level.
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · May 06, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @infobeautiful@vis.social Speak for yourself, I regularly weigh myself in stone and pounds, a little mental arithmetic to convert to straight pounds. Then of course if I need it divide by 2.2 for kg. Then again I can still convert "Seven and six" into "new" pence in my head as well. Depends when you were born I guess. Oh and C to F, and inches to cm....
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Apr 24, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community

@enriquericos@mastoart.social Depends if you like sob stories. "It belonged to my dear departed dad that we all loved, then we threw it in a damp garden shed for 30 years".

If you're looking for repair techniques and info there's precious little of that.

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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Apr 21, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
@niconiconi Depends on the MCU and signal of course, but that GPIO will add stray capacitance and anti-static protection diodes to the supply rails.
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Apr 14, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @cmconseils@mastodon.social
@cmconseils@mastodon.social Beautiful
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Apr 03, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @cazabon@mindly.social
@cazabon Welcome to the world of #fixing things. For me it started as "well I I've fixed a few of my own things", to "I once fixed my grandfather's clock" to "you know about clocks", to "you're the clock man". Learned things and done things I wouldn't have dreamed of a few years ago. Still learning which is what I like.
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Jan 21, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @infobeautiful@vis.social
@infobeautiful@vis.social Once again I'm an outlier.
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Bob Beaker @bbeaker@toot.community · Jan 14, 2026
Bob Beaker
@bbeaker@toot.community

Retired tech worker. Beekeeper, gardener, maker, baker and cook. Part time transvestite. He/Him/Tart

toot.community
Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop To think that NASA is only 3 days away from being exactly where they were 17th October 1968. I'm just old enough to remember the Apollo 8 launch which was still a couple of months away at that time. Had my Airfix Saturn V model ready for dismantling as the launch progressed.
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