Notices by malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech), page 4

ATX is such an outdated standard. the power connectors are chonky. the data connectors are chonky. it's so fucking 90s. everything is bigger than it needs to be. yet, there's a charm to it, and not just that, it's actually a good standard in so many ways, and i'm really sad because we will likely never have a standard that's so commonplace and so consumer-friendly as ATX again.

like, everything about it is modular, whether it's the PSU, the CPU, the cooling, the GPU, the front panel connectors, the case, the storage... you can buy a dell desktop and put in an ASUS GPU and HP RAM and samsung SSD and move it into a thermaltake case and it will be very happy to have received its new and improved hardware. every connector, whether data or power, is specially keyed so it is literally impossible for you to fuck up unless you are using adapters. even the 2x5 connectors are keyed! you can't put the USB 2.0 plug in the audio socket! the motherboard won't let you! and these are durable and flexible connectors -- not rigid and bespoke as most ribbon cables are. it's so user-friendly and modular and repairable it's beautiful. we are never going to get anything as good as this ever again.

yes, it is theoretically more efficient to put memory and storage and compute on the same chip. but that doesn't fucking matter if you're running 8 different versions of chrome. congrats you're now running for 4 hours instead of 3. manufacturers don't integrate everything onto one chip in the name of performance, they do it in the name of vendor lock-in. still, this seems to be the way everything is going, and it's sad that this era of being able to swap parts out in your PC so easily is likely to be over in a decade or two.

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 08:16:47 JST

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who's that goth girl sitting in the lobby on her phone. it's me

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 05:31:56 JST

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collar arrived 👀

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 04:48:31 JST

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@NeonPurpleStar so, containers?

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 18:42:30 JST

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doll

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 14:47:35 JST

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my posts a year ago: (some horny shit about getting pegged or smth idk)

my posts now: oh, to be a whiteboard, constantly being rewritten and erased to suit your Owner's needs,

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:30:35 JST

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calling you a /18 subnet the way ur fuckin classless

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 15:00:18 JST

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rust programmers having an existential crisis when start thinking about failure states for their program, and they realize that anything can panic, even things that don’t return a Result, and that things can even abort without panics, or experience sudden power loss, leaving I/O in a corrupted state, and that there is only so much error handling and recovery that can happen, and

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 15:41:26 JST

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we have created a new notation for integration

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 06:32:18 JST

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RE: https://village.elrant.team/notes/9t4ncn6attbe01ca

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 05:29:58 JST

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i found this in my memes directory and i'm pretty sure this was related to something i did

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 06:32:20 JST

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feel like i have a better pulse on german hackerspace meta than san francisco hackerspace meta, and im a person who goes to a san francisco hackerspace

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 03:02:19 JST

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if you followed me for code stuff, unfortunately you will have to deal with my shitposts

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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 16:16:27 JST

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