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  hello there

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  I don't mean anything nefarious by this, i promise. i'm just curious for those that picked a new name, i wonder how many choose a name that starts with the same character as their old name or is otherwise phonetically similar

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  "oh, and forget about escaping to your old save file. It's gone FOREVER." Well it's a good thing i made a tarball backup of my save directory before the asgore fight and again after the game mysteriously closed with a return code of 0 on me

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  battlestation thread? i like seeing girls' and other things' and creatures' living spaces. Especially messy ones but all are welcome. (post your desk or computer area or laptop bed or whatever.) (… i, i mean… if you feel like it…) (Please boost for visibility… if, if that interests you…)

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  was mostly on board until "How can you hope to snatch corporate funding if you are perceived as needlessly controversial?" maybe things shouldn't fucking have corporate funding shithead also gimp is fine, it's clunky sometimes but it works and it's fucking fine and i've never NOT been able to do something in it even if the method was stupid RE: https://fedi.aria.dog/objects/f5782f7c-5204-4921-a4d5-f29d2f72939c

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  haven't built firefox on anything but my main desktop (which still takes over an hour and a half now thanks to rust) in years, this is going to be awful

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  things and their consequences that have been disastrous for the human race include but are not limited to: Industrial societyJohn CalvinReactJSNodeJSJavascriptReligion (as a substitute for thought)ConsumerismRoy Cohnthe sunni/shia schism(gestures vaguely at at least a vast majority of forms of christianity as practiced and/or ascribed to) (some quakers don’t seem so evil)DuPont (leaded gasoline) (pfas) (agent orange)3M (pfas)henry fordgeneral motorsprofessional spectator sportsthe united states...

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  man i am so glad i stopped giving a fuck about most video games

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  "gender confirming" gender affirming please, i know my gender and don't need anyone else to "confirm" or ""verify" it

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  i could probably claim ashkenazi jewish heritage and get israeli citizenship but i think fleeing the US for israel is, like, the exact opposite of a good thing

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  "recommend a linux distro?" "(needs to) have an anti ai policy or statement" have fun with that when it's in the kernel already

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  LMK if you want this, anybody. It's a good working early IBM clone computer with some enhancements, like an 8086 instead of an 8088 and a 640×400 bitmapped display. AT&T 6300/Olivetti M24. Pick it up or pay shipping (and a few extra bucks if you want to help someone without a job to move) and it's yours. I'll miss it but it's better off being used by someone else than sitting in a storage unit (which is where I just put it today after being in my apartment for years). Everyt...

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  some day i'll get cancelled over some bullshit too probably, i just hope i'm wrong

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  Sometimes this does not feel like an 80286-based computer from 1986

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  i bet steve jobs would be one of these far right charicatures if he weren't so fucking dead from pancreatic cancer right now

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  TIL google requires you to have a smartphone to open a gmail account now i hope you all die and burn in hell

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  i don't want microprocessors in everything

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  i'll just keep hoping someone recreates floppy disks some day. i know there's a lot of stuff involved, especially with the actual magnetic materials and putting them on a cookie (the disc inside the caddy itself), but it feels like it should be conceivable in a world where people still make cassette tapes and someone is manufacturing nixie tubes again. it shouldn't be as hard as getting CRT manufacturing going again would be.

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  What using linux should be like: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/3-Button-Mouse-6.html What people that should not get anywhere near a computer want using linux to be like: https://www.gnome.org/ (what linux should not be like, but increasingly is)

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  don't always take my posts seriously btw i'm prone to hyperbole and outlandish responses because i find them more amusing and forceful than saying "i don't like x, x is annoying"

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  Been playing a bit more of SaGa Frontier. At this rate I can tell that as long as they don't utterly fuck this up, this is going to be one of those games that I wish I could play for the first time again. Might need to add asellus to my list of favourite characters, even. We'll see. (Sorry about the dirty phone lens)

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  For legal reasons I must state that this chip is in fact blank. I would never do something as illegal and wrong as writing my own ROM chip for hardware I own, that hasn't been manufactured in 30 years, when there's a company (that didn't develop it) which is actively licensing said ROM. #amiga #cloanto #retrocomputing #eprom #grift #cbm #commodore

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  wrench me all you want, i'm fucking right. USB C is a shit connector and I will only tolerate it on phones and stuff that greatly suffers from being larger through-hole data pins or bust. https://soc.megatokyo.moe/notice/Arps6ZcMt1QjDLXcxs

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  Swapping the Citizen OSDE-15G-U floppy drive PCB into the OSDE-13H-U drive chassis I just got worked, as I suspected it would. The PCB just "bolted right up" and all the connectors were in the right spots. Now my PC-98 works again (I'd torn a flex cable for one of the drive heads). Thankfully my enamel wiring (from a separate repair i did to the PCB's) seems to all be correct :p I had to swap the front eject button plastic since the button was bigger on the 13H (meant as a Comp...

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  Probably forgetting and miscategorizing a lot of stuff but here's a PC-9801 series iceberg #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #NEC

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  I'll be saying this until i die probably

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  "These are my parting words to you: Those who give up are doomed!" Basically the main reason I try to do what i think is best. Even if i can't fix everyone else's stupidity and planet destroying consumerism and so on. Full of myself? Most certainly. But also valid I think

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  I don't know if I'd call my criticism of the present state of tech "pessimism," because I am also determined to do what I can to counter what is happening, and I will not default into what is easiest and let the things I hate win. Pessimism implies I think it's impossible for things to get better. I don't think that's true, although I do recognize how hard it will be to change expectations. All i can do is continue voicing my thoughts on the matter in the hope that...