Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 5

PSA

"Floppy disk" (with a "k")
A single thin and flexible plastic disk coated with a magnetic medium, inside a plastic shell. Yes, all variants are floppy disks, including 3.5", 5.25", 8" and some rarer variants. Removable.

"Hard disk" (with a "k")
One or more hard platters [usually made from metal or glass], coated with a magnetic medium, inside a rigid, air-tight shell. Usually not removable.

"Optical disc" (with a "c")
A single rigid plastic multi-layered disc with one or more metal layers that contain data. Most don't have a shell, though some variants do. Removable.

The disk/disc distinction is by convention.

@lcamtuf car while charging

@jaypeach53 that said, there can be incompatibilities, even of cards with same specs from different manufacturers. that's why buying a lot (as in one listing with many different cards) makes it more likely to get cards that work.

if you're using ebay, you can put in a saved search for "cf memory card lot" and look for _auctions_ (not "buy now")

@jaypeach53 CF cards are often surprisingly flexible. I have cameras from the 90's which are perfectly fine with 2GB, probably would take 4GB as well (FAT16 file system which these cameras use has a 4GB limit in most implementations)

It’s weird that people who are super into trains dislike cars because trains are made up of multiple cars

#badummtss

@gloriouscow Dehanced Graphics Adapter

Seeing photos of people huddling at conferences and also reading about how on average people had COVID 5 times since 2020

Fascinating stuff

@Migueldeicaza keep the meme around for when he invades Greenland

@bastardsheep if you eat that cheese, the fridge won’t be the only thing running

@Q3fRtMU0WFxfK2M @mberacochea you’re welcome to look at the other replies to my post

#caturday

Tucson, January 2026

@mberacochea they’re financially supporting right-wing extremists

For the love of $deity, please stop recommending Framework computers.

@randywalters @jdlh Framework is financially supporting projects run by right-wing extremists, just so you know. There’s unfortunately a few of those in the Linux world.

See:
https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

@jaredwhite @vkc Funnily enough people get very opinionated when they encounter opinionated design

@floppy Fwiw I mean 90% being friendly and welcoming and supportive as human beings to other human beings and 10% maybe the software quality

Here’s a dare: next time you feel like you have to really tell someone on the Internet that they’re wrong, post something fun instead.

@RandomDamage yeah I don’t mean regular banter

…or at least in addition to replying. Small steps!