Notices by James Mitchell (wotsac@mastodon.social)

@DosFox

Hey @mac84tv - any chance you can help our vulpine mad scientist of the classic Mac out with some pics and Mac Bottom ROM dumps?

@Infoseepage @morrick LCM added a Star very shortly before the end. I wish I could have played with it so much more. It was both familiar and responsive in exactly the way the Lisa a few stations down from it wasn't. Just an absolute joy in my brief use of it

@hosford42 @actuallyautistic

Ouch. Very real.

@ai6yr Himbo is absolutely a natural category

@mekkaokereke @james the VC rug pull is coming, but the Mastodon rug pull is present and perpetual. This post is only exemplary of, not particularly special:

https://tenforward.social/@guinan/113504465711601745

- small instances are perpetually being fucked by the big ones.
- your social graph exists at the whim of every damn site it touches
- and we get a "you're doing mastodon wrong" for using it the way that even the algorithm averse ex twitter person wants to use it

@mekkaokereke @james I'd go as far as saying that the fediverse is kinda shit in ways that are invisible to the majority of the people who thrive here. The mix of deep survivorship bias and folks who are actively abusive to keep things the way they like it means that Mastodon will never be the network to fill the niche that Twitter and Bluesky fill

@ryanhoulihan the sheer quantity of damage that Sorkin has done to the liberal mind with his wishcasting. He should have gone to The Hague

@platypus i saw this on bsky and had to share asap

@thomasfuchs Favorite would have to be Non-folding

[4] Non-folding (TRS-80 Model 100, Z88. Short, wide LCD integrated with keyboard)

Though I'd kinda like to make a definition that extends to the Epson PX-8 somehow)

@thomasfuchs gotta admit that car looks really sharp in Chicago Police livery

. @mac84tv @ActionRetro quick question: am I liable to go to hell if I carve up a semi-functional iBook g4 12 for a weird project?

@thomasfuchs @MLE_online we had a US and developing wild version of the Astra here - I think it cut off in '92 but... I thought it was kinda neat and if they hadn't all both rusted away and failed in various catastrophic ways I'd have really loved to build as close to a fast astra as I could make

@mac84tv as someone local to them, I don't know what you're talking about.not a clue.

@mac84tv wait... what are you doing at RePC?

@thomasfuchs like... with a jagged stick wrapped in barbed wire or something.

@thomasfuchs

I'm SURE that it didn't happen just because Mac OS hung and the computer had to be powered off. That NEVER happened

@thomasfuchs creating software, any software, is an affront to god

@thomasfuchs I'm thinking of fully interactive environments:
- Usagi Electric
- Curious Marc's lab
- Adrian's Virtual Basement
- @foone 's storage unit

Explore! Troubleshoot! Assemble! Play!

@thomasfuchs my money right now is on Newton as a comparison. 10, maybe 15 years early, an intriguing experiment that has enough going on to keep it alive for a while.

@thomasfuchs you know they made a portable version - the ZF-161? Much bigger. And heavier.