I'm not a heavy Windows user, outside of gaming, so it continues to boggle my mind every time I remember that Windows *STILL*, to this day in 20-freaking-25, doesn't have an equivalent to Preview on MacOS. C'mon Microsoft. Preview is amazing. Make your own lightweight everything-viewer.

This video is a perfect metaphor for how it often goes when I try new things.

When I was a kid in the 80s I remember all those clicks and pops you'd hear when making calls as the physical relays physically connected you to your destination. It was fascinating. I'm so glad this tech is being kept alive somewhere.

I will never not repost 5XB switch ASMR.

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

Reading up on the Steam Machine and it just seems... really underpowered? My gaming PC trounces it, and I wasn't even going for a super high end build. It better be cheap with these specs. 8GB of VRAM, seriously. :/

Heads up, scammers are afoot. Report and block.

I hate that Apple Mail just shows "Yesterday" for an email timestamp and you have to tap to see the time. Plenty of room on the screen to show the time. Lots of annoying little things like this in modern software.

Playing Family Feud in VRchat last night with @bootsgoesbah.bsky.social hosting was an absolutely magical experience. Yeah I know it's kind of old hat for people who have been in VR for a while, but still, that was incredible. I WANT TO DO THE CONTROL BOOTH NEXT TIME

I spent most of the evening in VRchat. I sure hope nothing contentious happened tonight! It's Sunday night right? Nothing contentious happens on Sunday... Oh. Oh no. Anyway I'm going to bed.

This just came on again and it's incredible. Out Run had a vibe that a lot of racing games could never touch. The music was like 75% of it.

BTW, just a note... if I don't follow you despite knowing you and liking you it's probably because you post and repost too much upsetting stuff here. It's NOT personal, and I still like you. I just don't want to see a lot of that stuff.

Honestly fuck Starbucks. They've raised prices, removed a lot of the comfy seating from their stores making them a less viable "third place", and now mistreating workers too? Find your local small coffee shops and support them instead. Everything that made Starbucks great is gone.

I found an (old, apparently!) VRchat where you can play 1993 DOOM. Complete with pixelation and fairly authentic gameplay. AND YOU CAN DUAL-WIELD. Holy hell it's like a dream.

A rare political post from me, because it's relevant today. I like Zohran. Wish I were in NYC so I could vote for him. The fact that he's pissing off right wingers and billionaires to the extent he is means we need him and more people like him in office.

And on the other side of things, if you happen to be doing well right now, for whatever reasons, SUPPORT THE ARTISTS THAT MAKE THE THINGS YOU LOVE! They need it more than ever right now.

Last night in VRchat I got caught up in a large group of random furries basically moving from random world to random world every few minutes and goofing around doing silly things in each world. It was so much fun even though I only knew one person in the group who left halfway through.

I want no AI, ever, in anything I do. No AI upscaling, no enhancement, nothing. I'm worried about stuff like phones using it in their cameras soon (if not already) thus ruining every photo we take. So sick of this. Please stop.

I typo "weekend" as "weeknd" often enough that I have to wonder if the recording artist did the same and was like... "THAT'S IT, THAT'S MY STAGE NAME."

You ever start petting your cat for a bit, but you're pressed for time so you can't do it too long, but you hear the purr motor startup and now feel guilty about stopping? Annie did that to me this morning. Was almost late for work. :)

Anyone else seeing posts not... well, posting?

I need to show this to my bat friends to assert dominance.

@paperfen.bsky.social I discovered your moontails recently in VRchat and I just had to give kudos. I love how you can turn the tail size up to 11. Because sometimes you need your tail to be one larger. :) MY TAIL STOPPED FITTING IN THE ROOM; I got kvetched at by the instance master over it! HEE!

We've always wanted to make cat videos. It was just too expensive to film them regularly back then. :)

My honey jar says "do not microwave" on it. And you know it's because someone tried to. And it exploded. And as they were cleaning up the mess they got angry at the honey company and decided to sue them even though it was their own dumb fault.

Desperately wanting cooler weather. Miami used to start cooling off around mid-October and be nice by Halloween. You'd often even get hoodie weather around now here. Not in the past few years. Climate change has robbed us of weeks of nice brisk weather every year.

Hungry from chasing galactic bounties? Let's all go to...

@coopertom.bsky.social Your mall keeps coming in handy for cute photo ideas. :)

Annie was being absolutely precious in the sun this morning.

I got this cap around 1990 or 1991 or so. As you can see I wore the living hell out of it. No, it doesn't fit anymore; my head got fatter into adulthood. But yeah, another reason I'm enjoying seeing the Jays in the World Series.

Putting on the World Series because last time the Jays were in it I was 16 and rooting for them back then too. :) Yes, even though I'm from Miami. Don't ask.

"Just get 32GB of RAM, memory is cheap." ... Nevermind. (Like I needed MORE reasons to hate this ridiculous AI bubble?)

When you've lived in Florida all your life, anytime you see a picture of any sort of DIY structure or shed or similar, the first thought is how long it would last in a hurricane. The answer is almost always "Not very." I envy places where you can have tons of rickety stuff that stays up for years.

It's like developers and companies have forgotten that you can do stuff like this with a local microcontroller, and using the local network, without needing any cloud components. www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Experimental commission! Info on this commission type over here: www.furaffinity.net/journal/1118...

Artists, this is your regular reminder that Skiltaire are absolutely ADORABLE, have cool and interesting lore, and were created by one of the founders of the furry fandom. There's every reason to draw more of them. Thank you. :)

Experimental commission! Info on this commission type over here: www.furaffinity.net/journal/1118...

Apple's "find my" left behind feature is the most useless thing ever. I'm constantly getting notifications that I left my AirPods behind when they're with me. Why even have the feature if it doesn't work?

Remember, "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. And sometimes that someone else does something stupid.

Why in the heck do I keep getting signed out of Bluesky? And to add additional annoyance my password manager doesn't autofill and I have to auth?

I fully support the use of AI: Actual Introverts.

Of course women don't like the cybertruck. Women only want one thing and that's the Rocinante.

Airing out the house for the first time in months. Here in Miami it's way too damp in the summer and early fall to do that. But today was a bit nicer so why not. Can't leave it that way as it's still too warm but at least Annie appreciates sniffing the air, running from window to window:)

I was just thinking about this reply I made yesterday. How do I remember such vivid details about shit I did 30 years ago, but often can't remember exactly how I set something up a few months ago? I've not installed Slackware since 1996. The brain is such a weird thing.

Just checked and yup, this crap was on. Highly recommend everyone check and turn it off. Ahh, the irony. Buy a nice GPU for a better gaming experience, but it also gives more processing power to the AI. Fuck the AI.

Covid + Flu shot got. I'd like to thank @sailorrooscout.bsky.social in particular for continuing to remind us how important vaccines are.

Using mdadm to create software RAID in Linux is so easy but lord help you if you want to delete an array without remnants causing weird problems unless you basically zero the disks involved.

youtube.com/shorts/yqN2b... I love how Fortnite unintentionally created the most hilarious crossover ever.

"Okay so I made a Slackware boot disk. Now what? AMI I NEED HELP PLEASE GET OVER HERE"