Free idea that would make you VERY RICH: A thing that goes in the HDMI plumbing between my telly and my Whatever that senses when I'm watching a blu-ray remaster and deteals it

Local Goodwill had a pallet of computers for $45 All different eras in a big mixed up chonk, beige Pentium 4's to newer stuff, might've worked out to about $1.50 per computer That plus a few Ventoy flash drives with Mint on them could set up a nice wee solarpunk raccoon computer shop and I'm […]

[art nudity] This is like if someone found out about furry pornography from an indistinctly overheard conversation on the bus and decided to give it a go

(haha I'm just all fluffed up 'cause in the last couple weeks the Vibe around windows vs linux has Noticeably Shifted, there's a Feeling In The Air and I can Taste it) (I'mma go back to not linux posts)

Linux: spending hours of your precious and finite life trying to figure out how the fuck do I make it do the thing Windows: spending hours of your precious and finite life trying to figure out how the fuck do I stop it from do the thing Computers in General, man

🦝 "Fucking Linux people," he Linuxed Fossily

Oh no, I just realised Linux Mint is good

Friend of mine is finally sick of windows enough to ask me about linux so tonight I'm gonna turn up at their house with an old laptop with a new mint installation while wearing this

Me: 🦝 Spooky season yay, can't wait to watch Doctor Terror's House of Horrors (1965) starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and a House of Horrors Doctor Terror's House of Horrors (1965): 🚊 I hope you're ready for a horror movie that takes place on a train 🦝 fuck's SAKE

[fedi] Seeing CW: Inflation and... hesitating

Good news! #chatcontrol has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way […]

If you're reading this thread and thinking 🐇 ohhhh, my Thing isn't Important enough to run ADS for, it's just a silly little hobby, 🦝 🦝 you, specifically, are who I am talking to

I really think that people who haven’t been poor should not give money or frugality advice to poor people. The problem with poor people isn’t money management or knowledge, it’s the insufficiency of money. This goes for anyone who wants to help people on food stamps navigate this situation […]

Idea: karaoke event where singing in tune is prohibited, you Must do it badly, these are the rules, good singers will get booed off stage under show of thrown beer mats, if you want to sing beautifully then do it at home, we are here to fuck up

I need to extract certain information from a bunch of images. I'm a Python developer, but know little about this niche. Can somebody suggest particular toolkits to start with? The problem: The placement of flippers on pinball machines has a rich history. There are thousands of different pinball […]

Man oh man have I got some Opinions about the whole #FrameworkLaptop mess but it's all messy and there's nuance and it might be too much of a Post for right now 🦊 nuance about whether they fucked up? That's disappointing Dan, there's not much room for shades of grey when you're dealing with - […]

nobody tell them, this is just for us

[Incredibly lewd joke that only pinball freaks will get] Sharpied on my belly at 11am: "Free Use" Sharpied on my belly at 11pm: "Free Use."

🦝 YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME YOUR AD 🦝 YES YOU CAN SEE WHITE AROUND EVERY PART OF MY IRIS, FORGET ABOUT THAT 🦝 YOU HAVE TO MAKE A 468x60 PIXEL BANNER AD IN JPG OR PNG FORM 🐇 jesus oh jesus why 🦝 SO THAT WE CAN BRING 🦝 THE INTERNET 🦝 BACK

@[email protected] oh hey, we also run silly semi-parodical non-commercial banners on our blog. so i shall jump in and say that anyone interested who's willing to also make 728x90 and 300x250 ones should send those sizes to us. (see https://mothvertising.moth.monster/ for info)

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business. Make it colourful and cool looking like […]

LB: wanted to bring folks' attention to #postmarketos, because it really is a very interesting and promising project. Lightweight Proper Computer operating system but for phones. Installed it on my PinePhone and it's... honestly very chill and nice? Like, if your phone that's a computer was […]

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

One of my yarnsellers (bottom row, center) drew bunny versions of everyone who works at my shop and i swear it wasn’t even my idea

[A lewd and silly story from a long time ago] Remember ringtones? In the time between mobile phones that went BEEP and the current societal compact that phones should be on vibrate and never make a sound, custom ringtones were big business. I worked with a guy whose ringtone was the Roobarb […]

agh can I post yet

Fucking up a radiator job so wildly that I've got transmission fluid in my hair

Well I tried a VR racing game today and now I'm doing my once-per-decade "Holy shit I forgot that I like racing games" Thing

Here's my Element's plastic panels after a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and paint thinner, brushed on, left to sit a couple minutes then buffed off. Took 20 years off them, easy. Check out the bumper and running board beneath this panel for a "before" example […] [Original post on retro.social]

my university email webapp's automatic correction makes a cowsay blush

nobody here has a normal relationship with technology

Looking at whatever hot new internet thing and going "I'll get the next one" like someone grumbling into an overcrowded lift

She's short, energetic, and willing to do whatever it takes to make her friends happy, even protecting them with her life Commission for Charm Nugget I did a good while back, she was honestly really fun to do and I'm still really glad I had the opportunity to […] [Original post on wetdry.world]

lb: very good do check it out

It's 2026 and you wonder what your friends are up to. You tell the app on your phone to go and get everyone's most recent news. Jim's phone takes a sec to load because his wifi is crap in the garden, and Alex's phone takes a sec to load because their wifi is crap in the workshop, but nobody […]

Aaaalllll that, ...for *that*

that was so not worth it

CHRIST FINALLY the ereader thread

I've seen shit play out on here like 🦝 This author's ebooks aren't compatible with my ereader 🐹 To fix this problem we must first dismantle capitalism

oh shit there's Clothes Shops For Dads, someone else was looking for that one

Yes I'm boosting my old toots as I go through all Subway Tooter's open tabs again, this time I'm tryna find the ereader thread

[Anybody else do this] Y'know when you're doing this big multi-step DIY project that involves doing many things and getting parts and tools and materials and you're holding all this stuff in your head and you notice how much of a big noisy scrungly mess it is up there, all the thoughts and […]

Got a mate who recently lost a very dear cat. They want another, they're not quite at the "looking" stage, just barely at the "keeping an eye out" stage, so I said hey check out this local cat cafe They deal in, like, B-grade cats, y'know? Slightly wonky cats? […] [Original post on retro.social]

Randomly thinking about how the golden age sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon drove a bulldozer for a while and during that time all his sci-fi stories had bulldozers or allusions to bulldozers in them

@ifixcoinops 🦘 ohhh right, the CROMPS, why didn’t you say so

Altered Beast was the second arcade board I ever owned and to this day the ending still delights me Look at that, dude's all "Yeah sorry, I had to turn into this wolf thing to come rescue you" and Zeus' daughter is all "No no no you're fine, no trouble, all good"

Slightly worried about October 2025 doing to Linux what November 2022 did to Mastodon

Every time you see me boosting my old toots it's because I'm going through all of Subway Tooter's open tabs trying the find the ereader thread or the mousetrap thread of the bollock-mashing-bike-bar thread and I think I've just got to accept that I need a website

🦝 Anything plus internet equals controversy so thick and gnarly it requires an hour-long conversation to explain to a normal person 🦝 Name literally any object no matter how innocuous and there's internet drama about it 🦝 Hell I bet I could come up here and say "Anybody heard about the thimble […]