I can't wait until peeps start recycling ram off of roached video cards and start selling cut rate dimms

I'm so glad bluesky isn't doing the "your year in review" crap

welcome to the 21st century, little powerpc

TAS drops for this game is starting to enter the drinking game frequency range

trying to see just how fast I can rip through ROUTINE just cleared the mall in a matter of minutes

someone got NetBSD booting natively on WiiU mastodon.sdf.org/@jmcwhatever...

HEFNER.ANS, 1994-07-17 from Hacker Chronicles 2 (CD-ROM)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I've been listening to axe wielding frowny frog music all morning because of all the snow trekking

time for my favorite: street corner and crosswalk slush puddles

the main dev for the flashcart I use came up with an elegant solution to handle games with >8MB PROM (platform limitation) there were two 512KB areas in violentv's P-ROM space full of zeroes their filecarving util splits it in a reliable way now, sans empty space, and cart firmware maps it right

in other news, I think I'm the first person get an OS to boot off a DVD drive on the Thinkpad Power Series

make a Bond movie casual Thundermall

Achievement Unlocked: Hugged a bunch of family without losing an earbud tip

"But what is it all for? So what if conquer Eternia? Will it bring me true happiness, or is it me who has been the fool? Denying myself the love I sorely crave at the hands of someone big... and strong..." Sudden existential crisis Skeletor. 📺: Masters of the Universe - The Super Adventure, 1987

Grand Central's payphone is still out of service

did you forget to update the yules for logrotate

The original Mavis Beacon was, curiously, also a very good typing tutor.

The bold italic helvetica here makes this legit look like part of the SGI/Mac/CM interface for park systems in the original Jurassic Park

There Be Dragons Here It has been an extremely slow and unstable experience so far, but its more or less running off the internal 810MB HDD had to make a new PReP boot floppy via carving the first partition out from OS/2 bluescsi image and patching bytes (need to find OS/2 userland fu to etch)

nothing says Seasons Greetings quite like a good ol' fashioned irc bot massjoin

merry christmas you filthy animals christmas themed v100 animations are up telnet declined.quest 1225

figured out the fu to get OS/2 Warp PowerPC Edition installed on a Thinkpad Power Series 800 it's a cursed Christmas Miracle \o/

fuck everything about this at scale

pronouncing artificial sweeteners like they're named after heavy metal bands

I am typing far too many characters into an editor to ensure that I don't have to type through a stupid dialog box every time I fire up mame on things I'm debugging

Time to fix a Macintosh Portable that was saved by Barbara Nelson. Demo unit. Used for about a year or so, and then stored away all these decades.

always a good day when new Neo Geo titles drop ozzyouzo.itch.io/violentv

I hired Than off the back of his Quake maps, he was the main level designer on mission 7 (Nort Base) and 12 (Harpo’s Ferry). Both awesome maps that pushed the PS2 to its limits. Great guy and fantastic designer.

They're back and the Cookie's Bustle posts are still up; good on Bluesky staff

this is how I imagine the novels read at the grocery checkout aisle

someone should make fire grenade ornaments

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*opens up laffy taffy* Q: What kind of whale was John McAfee's favorite? A: the ones that would humpback *crumples up, throws in trash*

life imitates art, but with real world consequences

time for the annual listening of Savatage's Hall of the Mountain King

I imported my contacts but you were already there

epic rom dump get

for the two people in the world wondering; yes, the IBM P/N 46H5748 is compatible with Power Series Thinkpads

If your phone doesn’t work … call us and we’ll fix it for ya!

shoutout to the spammers that figured out how to use Google Calendar for their SMTP

Sometimes the old technology is the best technology.

cursed idea: plumb your terminal bell to ring a SIP ATA

I'm back on my bullshit

picture, if you will: butte

this is how they make extra virgin sunfire oil

all of my computers are cursed in their own special way

me: I have how many hundreds of megabytes of this dumb device dhcping for how many thousands of hours? also me: guess I should disable dhcp on that dumb device also me again: wait, those log entries compress well. welp.