Notices by yomimono, still on earth (yomimono@wandering.shop)

I’m an elder millennial and I remember feeling anxiety when older, established folks said stuff like “do whatever makes you happy”. In my experience it was never true. I was always being evaluated and if I had fun wrong or made a bad thing I would hear about it.

I think it’s really hard to make that statement seem true. Maybe you have to have a lot of bad art made by established community figures hanging around.

From: @CursedSilicon
https://social.restless.systems/@CursedSilicon/114899888735166987

critics of my packing strategy are calling it “deranged” and “horrifying”. Appreciators are also calling it those things.

as part of selling my house, I have angrily dumped an entire gallon of vinegar into my bathtub while glaring at where the camera would be. I assume this is a completely normal part of the process

I think I’m approaching this whole thing wrong. I’m trying to do it like a normal person and everyone seems to be acting completely irrationally, i.e. also like normal people. I think I need to be approaching this more like an unhinged belligerent computer garbage basement witch, and then maybe everyone I interact with will make more sense.

This was probably a good start

the title of “Glossiest” is awarded to “PowerMac G4”, a computer I bought from a radio station via surplus auction and then hauled home on the bus.

the title of “most actually useful” is awarded to Thelio r2, a @system76 desktop machine I use for normal computer stuff that isn’t weird at all.

when beholding the Cubietruck (or Cubieboard 3), it is immediately obvious that this computer deserves “most surprising Xen hypervisor”. While other computers in the basement may be Xen hypervisors, none of them has executed anywhere near the number of flawless jump scares as the Cubietruck, which has been subject to special security screening on 3 continents.

Next up we have a true-blue old friend, the Shuttle xPC mini-PC graced with a very early 64-bit AMD Sempron CPU. With IDE, SATA, AGP, IDE, USB, plus functioning floppy and CD reader/writer drives, it’s not just a tweener PC. It’s the tweenest.

Nobody is sure who invited this Pentium 4 with no power supply and less than a gig of RAM, which came home in a wheelbarrow from someone else’s hoard that got shoved out on the street. But now that it’s here, we’re charmed by this built-in tower-top CD storage bay, where we imagine many a Sims expansion pack once sat ready. We awarded it “Best Buy (R) (TM)” in honor of its probable origins.

Audience reaction shot

Competition was stiff^W mushy, but the OLPC XO-1 took “worst keyboard” after a last-minute second opinion from my partner. The intent was one laptop per child, but the result is two laptops per yomimono’s basement.

I owe the Compaq Contura 420c an apology. When it came to me, the built-in display did work. I took it apart and I didn’t reconnect the display cable properly, and now it’s external-VGA only. It’s the only computer that is definitely in worse shape than when it got here, and I’m sorry. Compaq Contura 420c, you deserve better.

When you saw the OLPC XO-1, you may have been expecting it to win “cutest”. This means you are not aware of some deep yomimono lore: I bought one of the very first netbooks, the EeePC 701, and I love and treasure it so much. Did you know its soldered-in storage is Compact Flash exposed over parallel ATA? It’s not even in the running for Worst Keyboard, by the way. No, the EeePC 701 is the cutest <3 <3 <3

As I get older I’m accumulating more and more incredible true stories, by which I mean stories that I would respond to with “bullshit, that didn’t happen” if someone else told them to me

what’s this #crossStitch #workInProgress going to say? wrong answers preferred.

One of the many post types I love on fedi is “I made a cool art and/or object! You can find out more and maybe buy it at this link”.

I’m not attending FOSDEM so I would like to contribute this galaxy-brain idea for those who are: everyone in the crowd gets into a loud, disruptive conversation about software licensing with the people sitting nearest to them for the duration of Jack Dorsey’s allotted talk. Do not back down or lower your voice. Your software licensing opinions are correct and this is your chance to convince everyone.

I’m kind of bummed out so here’s a photo of a recently finished #crossStitch project, fresh out of the hoop. The prime number on the border is the recently-discovered new largest prime, which is cool in part because it’s possible to write it concisely. I have no idea whether its discoverer is gay, but I think it’s cool and gay and fun to find primes.

I had to frog a lot on this project, so I’m extra happy to have it finished.

I used to be a huge weirdo for reading at the bar, but now everyone else is just looking at their phone same as me. We won, folks