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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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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.

Pyxaron ,
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@foone My brain loves to do that to me all the time.

What makes it even more ridiculous is that it'll map a "smell" to things that do not have one, but it'll map it to things like "a blend of exhaustion, CRT monitor with a distorted line slowly scrolling up and concrete floor", which is apparently now a scent.

It's a bit like BSODs have a taste for me, as in, it's mapped to "taste" for some reason, but it's not a valid flavor. It'll make whatever i'm drinking taste off for a moment tho!

bk1e ,
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@foone linuxthesia

foone , an Random Englisch
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when I finally build my Workbench Keyboard, one of the weirder options I'm going to add is a way to paste pre-loaded text files from the onboard storage.

like you could have texts\serials\windows\win10.txt and you navigate to the that file and hit paste and it just types out the FCKGW- nonsense for you

solemnwarning ,
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@foone I still have the FCKGW key memorised.

JacGoudsmit ,
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@foone So basically a virtual paper tape reader (and punch, I presume)?

foone , an Random Englisch
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the real reason we moved away from them is that IBM never managed to invent an RW variant of the punchcard. They were only Punchcard-Rs

PeterSommerlad ,
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@foone
you could fix some small things with sticky paper tape closing holes. but cardboard was too cheap to care.

foone OP ,
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@nyrath yeah, I'm non-binary, so I know all about that! :)

foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact about microfiche:
One of the first uses of it was due to pigeons.

During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, Paris was under siege and they got dispaches out by using microphotography to make them small enough that they could be attached to pigeons and flown out of the city.

MikeHar94962844 ,
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@foone Don't you mean microfilm? The only microfiche I've ever seen/worked with were larger than a pigeon.

1000millimeter ,
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@foone @cadey why are punchcards lesbian?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Bad idea: an external floppy drive that can appear as a mass storage device of arbitrary size. The way it works is it has a little screen, and you use that to configure how big you want it to be, then it formats the proper number of 3.5" floppy disks.
Then when the PC tries to read a sector that's not on the current disk, the display will just prompt you to insert disk or whatever.

remageFrs ,
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@foone What a grind would it be to defragment that... but imagine the performance benefits!

neilturner ,
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@foone A floppy disk drive of unusual size?

As You Wish Cary Elwes GIF by filmeditor

foone , an Random Englisch
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I like how the ASRock site tells me to update my system by downloading a zip file, extracting it, and putting it on a USB drive or floppy disk

it's 16mb, dude. Which floppy do you want me to put it on? a zip drive? DOES YOUR BIOS SUPPORT ZIP DRIVES?

kawa ,
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@foone That's when you have seven zip disks.

yetzt ,
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@foone @kawa iomega is working on them, but the drives taking 7 different types of storage media are hard to manufacture.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Someone should design an ISA ARGB control box.
Then you can run a TSR to let you reconfigure your 486's RGB lighting scheme at a moment's notice

MrKsoft ,
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@foone Add a VESA Feature Connector and the RGB could be adaptive based on the contents of the screen...

foone , an Random Englisch
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So has anyone suggested the monumental bad idea of running an AI on the ethereum smart blockchain?

Like, chatgpt but every response costs you 230$

whvholst ,
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@foone This is indeed mind-blowing on so many levels...

grishka ,
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How many billions of weights is a minimally sensible LLM again? Good luck putting that into the blockchain. I like the spirit tho.

foone , an Random Englisch
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using a floppy disk image creating tool to create a virtual floppy disk image using a file that I had to load off a floppy disk, so I can put it in a VM and turn it into a PCX, then put that on a real pentium-60 windows 95 PC

sometimes I think I'm going backwards

foone OP ,
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FILES ARE READY

tharo ,
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@foone is that MY disc? (I hope it is :D)

foone , an Random Englisch
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I'm still broke, though I've got a temp job for now: they've not yet paid me, however, and I've had to pay something like 4k$ for two medications, and another 2k$ that was supposedly going to make the 4k$ free.

So any donations would be great. https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

shironeko ,
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@foone Maybe you already know this but just in case, framework is looking for firmware/software engineer, might be worth a try https://jobs.lever.co/framework/36bcbf61-332d-4ab8-8c6d-20fffa1ef506

foone OP ,
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@shironeko good catch, thanks!

foone , an Random Englisch
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for complicated tumblr reasons involving dreaming of classified CIA visual novels, I mocked up a Powerpoint 4.0 slide for government agents trying to seduce transfems.

I thought I'd share it here for retro nostalgia and trans shitposting reasons

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@foone normalize asking people what to call their nether parts. Seriously. There is no right or wrong answer. Some people hate when you use 'feminized words' and just want you to call it cock or penis or whatever normal word. Other people may have one or two specific words that are okay for them. Personally for example half of the words in your post feel kinda humiliating to me.

foone , an Random Englisch
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People are always telling me I'm "basic" but they won't clarify if they mean like qbasic or visual basic or one of the 8bit micro basics?

xanathar ,
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@foone The one and only.

foone , an Random Englisch
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My Pocket 386 arrived! It seems to have basically the same specs as the Hand386, but in a laptop form factor. There's a few new options for managing the video, and the built-in screen isn't as horribly shit this time.

min1123 ,
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@foone Hey, so, I did get one of these, but it has been a massive nuisance ever since. After about 20 minutes of messing with DOOM and stuff the screen corrupted, and then it refused to use the screen (blue), and refused to use it hard reboots except sporadically when it seemed to have wiped its CMOS. Seems you had a better experience, if you found any, can you point me at some BIOS setup resources or whatever docs you found so I can get back to trying to FreeDOS and TCC on it? (Maybe NetBSD 4)

foone , an Random Englisch
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bad idea: A mouse cursor that's not just a simple floating pointer, it's a cat/dog paw... but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it's a really long leg

outadoc ,
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@foone This is the internet I love

dhalucario ,
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@foone Looks like someone made one: https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-cat-cursor

foone , an Random Englisch
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My main problem with the idea of magic where you draw transmutation circles and such is that I am certain that if they worked, I'd be able to build a PCB to cast the same spell.
And now you've got a setting where your toaster works by casting tiny fireballs. Do you want that?

vftdan ,
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@foone
I do

aeva ,
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@foone yeah the choice of material is important unfortunately, can't just make a spell circle out of whatever and call it a day

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