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  A bird outside just chirped in a way that sounded exactly like the Quake secret sound. Wild :bec_smile:

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  Having a little debate with my wife @Astarael -- To you, of the following, what of the following most closely matches your understanding of the term 'window shopping?' If other, or if your answer has nuance, please share in the replies! <3 :boost_request: :pixelheart:

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  Lurkin' and starrin' on this fine Friday afternoon :-) So sorry, notification-receivers[] :bec_grin:

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  Why do we postfix tone markers (or anything that serves in that capacity; e.g. emojis) to denote the tone of the preceding sentence? Surely prefixing said markers would be the more logical flow? I say and write that, and yet, prefixing feels wrong.

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  Peak Friday vibes are single-step debugging through the #Heroes3 binary to deal with the CD check, because I can't be assed to keep the CD in the drive on the 98se box. @Lunalucardrose20 any pointers? :bec_grin:

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  Community chat shenanigans reminded me just now of a recent interaction wherein someone said, of the recent Star Wars installations, "K-2SO is overrated". Excuse the whole hell outta me, but what? Absolutely not.

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  A little work kvetching here, but willing to be contradicted by people in the know: It is my experience that there are only two tiers of physical access control integrators: certifiably high-security operations, and everyone else. ...and my ongoing ~2 decades worth of experience with varied providers of the latter category is that they all seem to be awful without exception. #PhysicalSecurity #AccessControl #Security

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  And my lazy day was going so well :bec_huh:

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  That was an extremely high quality nap. What a rollercoaster of a day, hey? Tragically for some of you, this does mean I'm back to menace your notifications. Sorry not sorrryyyyyyyy :bec_grin:

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  In the service of totally overdoing some #Dreamcast #RetroGaming, I've successfully patched the #DreamPi gateway to be less useful. Buckle up, because this is a kinda long post with little in the way of delivery. :bec_smug: Normally the DreamPi throws its modem into voice mode, plays a dial tone to fake out the dreamcast, listens to the digits dialed, and then switches to data mode and kicks off a handshake. Stays off-hook the entire time. This makes sense if you're using an electrica...

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  The composite->HDMI adapter presently being used for the dreamcast is actual hot garbage. It's smeary, stretches the signal to widescreen, has an ever-present OSD element for some reason, and imparts a godawful hum and hiss on the audio. In its defense, it was dirt-cheap. What's that? The console natively supports output as VGA? At least with some titles? And the cables are readily available and inexpensive? Self-solving problem, that. OSSC, my beloved, it's time for you to...

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  Good mooorning Fedi! It's a french press kind of morning, mayhaps? ☕

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  Looking for some tunes today? Go check out @labr at https://stream.labr.online/ New-to-LABR DJ DatGurlCurly on the decks live now!

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  Express genuine enthusiasm so often that others never wonder if you mean it.

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  Hardest decision of the morning yet: Windows 95 or 98 for this retro-gaming machine? Been a while since I had to think about that one for real hardware; usually the kit is much older and it's an easier choice :bec_smile: Gonna ruminate on that one while making some coffee. #retrogaming #Windows95 #Windows98

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  Jack in and join IRC. For the Aesthetic. For the Chooms. For the 'Net we were promised. :bec_grin: #RetroNetworking #RetroComputing #IRC #OtherNetworks #Windows98 #Windows98se #Windows9x

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  Okay, okay. In the rush to get exciting retro computer things working, the lab has become a mess. Let's remedy that before playing with toys again today.

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  The subtle thrumming of rain falling off the roof makes for an eepy ety

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  You may be entitled to special dispensation.

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  Who decided that double texting is bad? Somebody weird, I bet you.

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  Finally, a mess of RGB SCART cables has arrived. Let's get funky with the OSSC and some retro consoles. #retrogaming #scart #ossc

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  Hey, you, reader: Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!" Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites. Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share...