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   emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 04:02:26 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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   things that would have blown child me's mind, an ongoing list:

   - future them can not only afford to just waste 2GB of space building firmware for a trackball, but forget to clean it up for months without having constant "your machine is out of space" warnings

   - future them wound up using a trackball that needs 2GB of space to build its firmware

   - future them wound up using a trackball at all

   - surprise, you're not a boy

   - under the floor is just another solid surface that is less aesthetically pleasing and comfy to stand on. it is not an infinitely deep hole. you will not fall into an infinitely deep hole in the floor and die

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 04:02:27 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     there is probably a neat filesystem thing that'll let me share the data of all the copies of that and just overlay the minor changes I make to each one

     but also I live in the future and we measure drives in terabytes now

     somewhen in the past, child me is sitting there wondering how anyone could ever fill up a 3GB hard drive

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     emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 04:02:29 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

     it blows my mind how big fully-built source trees are for embedded stuff

     I have several copies of the QMK source, at 2GB each, each of which produces at most tens of kilobytes of stuff to flash onto a microcontroller