Something that perplexes me is like why the heck are NAS units so expensive good lord, looking up an older variant of the one I have (which is 12 years old) and they’re still seemingly worth multiple hundreds, wtf? That’s without drives, mind.

Saw a certain Linux thing making the rounds and like, I’ve been tempted, again, but also every time I try to run it I’ve had to beat the Nvidia drivers into submission and on a machine where I want nothing more to be a casual user and just…play games and do Casual User Shit…nah.

sigh. Welp. Not only did I get this Shuttle at ewaste but I am now the father of a SH61R4. I was looking at parts on eBay and someone had one listed for $40. Saw Shuttle had XP drivers for it and I folded like a cheap card house. I’m gonna be able to build a goddamn house out of these.

“I’m gonna make one final pass through ewaste.” “…” “IS THAT A FUCKING SHUTTLE LOGO”

Decided to make sure Satanicube hadn’t died while in hibernation as I hadn’t really fired it up since VCF SoCal, and thankfully it came right on and worked as it should. I’m just so used to hardware deciding to misbehave after being in hibernation for a bit.

controversial take, here between my general feelings on IBM stuff (god, OS/2 just feels so miserable why would anyone) and a thing that happened that I can't really talk about, probably controversial take here but I would rank IBM stuff lower than modern Amiga. It just feels soulless. All of it.

take me back (or: xodium's trapped in his head again so he had to channel that energy somewhere)

SEGA is never gonna remember that they made Skies of Arcadia, are they? A man can dream…

Oh I feel like I am ascending Greg’s guitar should be classified as a lethal weapon, it’s too good

random note: I really hate that I have such a soft spot for the 4th and 5th gen iPod nanos because they’re by far the most difficult to repair. I DID manage to repair my 5th gen…at the cost of destroying the hold switch ribbon. So I have some level of capability in getting it done, it’s just…yeah.

Also random but good lord if I had holla dolla I might have been tempted to do a trade in with Nikon because they’re offering eBay rates to trade in my D7200 toward their Z line. Only thing that would suuuuck is having to rebuy lenses. Aaaand I’m still kinda not so sure about mirrorless.

take me back (or: xodium's trapped in his head again so he had to channel that energy somewhere)

Really am loving how, as of late, this is the energy the internet is bringing whenever some AI slophead pokes their head out and says something like “generative AI has helped so many people in their lives.” State some examples. STATE SOME GODDAMN EXAMPLES. And they just never do.

Warm take: I feel like phone apps should not be able to see the state of their system-level notifications settings. Because all this has caused is abuse by said apps. “Please turn on notifications, you wouldn’t want to miss anything!” No, I have you turned off FOR A REASON. Go away.

iOS icon theming is kind of a pain but I had to do it in this case.

It’s Real Get The Headphone Amp Out And Listen To Some Good Shit hours

Ahhhh, good ‘ol’ Torment. (Conversation on Discord inspired me to give it a go again.)

I am back making videos with my computer friends! youtu.be/Ueuf7kCDEac

It’s funny how much Apple fans hate Google and swear they want to get away from Google until Apple goes and taps Gemini for Siri. Then they act like oh no, Google and I, we’re besties! We never hated them, how dare you suggest that!

Also, hey, if you like this and maaaaaybe want to support me/encourage me, I put up the full quality download on my ko-fi. It's currently set to "pay what you want" so you could totally enter zero and just grab 'em, but if you want to throw me a couple bucks, it's always much appreciated.

LETS GO JOHN TERNUS

Happy Druaga1 day, everyone!

Also, hey, if you like this and maaaaaybe want to support me/encourage me, I put up the full quality download on my ko-fi. It's currently set to "pay what you want" so you could totally enter zero and just grab 'em, but if you want to throw me a couple bucks, it's always much appreciated.

And here it is: “lightstrands” Shot with a Nikon D7200. Took the .jpg and threw it in Photoshop CS2 and went to town. To prove to myself that I still know The Old Magic.

I’m cooking up something. Something that isn’t using current hardware or software. I’m challenging myself to make something cool with vintage hardware (kind of, my camera is roughly ten years newer than this PowerBook) and I think I’ve nailed it.

Happened across this and good lord if it doesn't accurately describe why I've kinda started to just...not like shortform video sites anymore. This undisclosed ad garbage made tiktok borderline unwatchable and it's kinda there on Shorts too.

In all the trashing on Amiga I’ve been doing lately I do have to extend an “I see you and appreciate you” to those old-school Amiga fans who just hate what has happened to it, with costs ballooning and the shitty practices that come with people sensing “oh, there’s Money™ to be made here!”

Seeing discourse elsewhere: Yeah uh, can we NOT artificially inflate and drive up the value of vintage tech, please? Because we don't want to attract the Money People here. We really don't. I've seen that event horizon crossed in other places already and it effectively kills the hobby it happens to.

Been working on a train game! It's gonna be a cowboys vs aliens vibe, and originally I was only going to have flying saucers. Unfortunately somebody asked about tripod fighting machines, and I couldn't NOT make one. Uuullaaaaaaa.

Yeah, that poor thing was backstabbed. No stress on the wiring or anything though, it was all on the contact point between the plug and outlet. All done and looking fresh.

Had a post break containment in a big way last night and I just decided to delete it because the boomerposting was starting and I just don’t want that energy on my timeline.

So I decided that tonight I’m done with stubbing my toe on my bedframe so I was going to move my bed back into the corner of my room. Which has an obscured outlet that’s connected to my air conditioner. Yeah, uh, good thing I undertook this endeavor because holy fuck.

*sits down* Listen, Xfinity, I don’t need you cold calling me because I hadn’t finished activating my service yet *because the damn SIM card hadn’t arrived yet.* Because when you do this, and you have someone do it in the thickest accent I’ve heard, my brain is automatically assuming “scam”

guys I would like to announce I am pivoting to AI and my chatbot is just a video feed of Rootie staring at you through a screen and smiling with a threatening aura as your prompts go unanswered now give me a billion dollars

Something really interesting is that I got an iPhone 12 Pro today (that’s pretty much permalocked to an MVNO which is why it was free.99) and it was still on iOS 16. But the better part? Went to look at updates and it prompted me to jump to 18 alongside 26. Lmfao. 18 all day bros.

So I’ve been saying for a while that I’ve been wanting a Samsung device so I could play around with @pikaole.bsky.social’s adorable themes…and oh my word they’re amazing. Kinda jealous over here on my iPhone.

Another quote post because I was wrong about chamber heating but FauxHammer’s video pretty much convinced me the P2S was the right choice here Like, the dual nozzle system comes with so many asterisks it doesn’t really feel worth the trouble.

I blame @celgen.org for this.

lol so I guess Bambu is releasing the X2D somewhat close to the P2S price wise and people are freaking out over buyer’s remorse and I’m just over here like I don’t really care lmao If the X2D had chamber heating maybe I’d feel some remorse but it looks like it doesn’t so meh.

You could get one of those gentrified AlphaSmarts. Or, idk, you could just buy a retro laptop for cheap cheap and it’ll help you focus because you can’t do modern anything on them

Was wondering why this took ten years to update. Turns out the ISO I had on hand was for the friggin RTM build. Oops.

Okay before I finally hit the hay Seeing as I’ve got a quick swap bay in the XP Shuttle now

Oh yeah. I brokered a trade to get this: a fresh out of the box Pixel 6 Pro. Was kinda floored when it prompted me to upgrade to Android 16, never knew Google extended support for these phones. Been wanting to keep up with things on the Android side, so.

Oh, this printer’s got the jokes. Funny guy.

So yeah I guess those used CPUs from China are the real deal. Only way I could get a Phenom II 945 for cheap cheap. And it works! Providing a nice 4000ish point uplift in 3Dmark05.

Tomorrow comes.

Gonna quote this saying I’m also in search of a Bambu AMS (not the lite) so if you’ve got one of those that you’re willing to trade…

“Hey, in honor of Artemis II doing the thing I should name the unnamed 98 Shuttle after a space shuttle!” *decides to name it after whatever shuttle launched closest to its release date* *checks the date* *the SB61G2 released in 2003* Uh. Yeah. Let’s not do that.

Republicans did some heinous shit. Anyway check my paid substack where I wrote about how this is the Democrats’ fault

While I will gladly point out who’s pushing these 3D printer ban bills, good lord that’s not open season to say some of the most misogynist bullshit I’ve ever seen in my life. We can be better than that. (Didn’t happen here, happened on another site)