billgoats

billgoats , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I've realised what ChatGPT is!

It's Yahoo! Answers (rip, gone too soon) combined with Google's 'I'm feeling lucky' button.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I wonder how hard it is to make a fake USB printer.
Like, a printer that takes any printout and goes "yep, that printed just fine" but nothing ever comes out anywhere

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

You're never gonna believe this, but it turns out I'm gonna need to build a new keyboard

18+ foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I finally figured out what's wrong with my dryer!
There's no drum to put the clothes in. This is a rookie mistake, Samsung.

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Why doesn't microsoft make Recall take pictures with your computer's webcam too?

billgoats , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Oh wowwwww! Here’s something from a very specific era: a blobby graphite external FireWire CDRW drive. #RetroComputing

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

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I just have to say: Mastodon is better than twitter or X or bluesky or whatever.

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Here's an interesting "keyboard" for sale on aliexpress: It's a deconstructed keyboard matrix!
You can just plug in arcade buttons or whatever to each pair of pins.

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A fun side effect of being anosmic is that sometimes I think I smell something, but it's just the nasal equivalent of phantom limb.
The best part about this is that because the smells I'm supposedly smelling aren't real, my brain doesn't seem to think they should be limited to things that would make sense to smell; you know, physical objects with distinct odors.

I just smelled slackware.