Notices by egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social)

@cwebber i live, coward

Hey #Portland #RetroComputing folks: The place I store much of my stuff was burglarized, trashed, and many items were stolen. The most valuable was a NeXTstation Turbo Color.

If you see one floating around, please let me know.

I don't have the serial number or anything identifying, other than the HDD is failed :(

@mcc Sounds just stupid enough to be plausible.

I added a ublock cosmetic filter the first time I noticed these.

You can only download WireGuard for macOS from the App Store. It's free.

You cannot download from the App Store without an Apple account.

You can't set up an Apple account that works with the App Store without giving a credit csrd number.

How is any of this better or easier then clicking a download link?

#buglog

Happy public domain day y'all

"It's a poor craftsman who blames their tools"

yeah i dunno man. pretty sure if i was working at a smithy and the anvils exploded constantly i'd feel fine about blaming them when we fail to meet our quarterly horseshoe okr

Somehow, I've never seen the original Walkman logo until today. Incredible.

Arcade games: insert coin coin, push start, play.

1980s console games: Insert cart, turn on, push start, play.

1990s console games: Insert CD, turn on, wait for loading, push start, play.

2010s console games: Turn on, launch game, push start, mash button through eight minutes of unskippable dialog, play two minutes, mash button through two minutes of unskippable dialog, repeat.

2020s console games: Turn on, get prompted for system update. Ignore it and launch game. Have the game tell you it won't run without the system update. Update the system, which takes five minutes. Wait for console to reboot. Launch game. Have the game tell you it won't run without a game update. Install game update, which takes eight minutes and closes the game. Launch game for the third time, get inexplicable message about some other update, which vanishes before you can do anything. Push start. Get accosted with an overwhelming number of achievements, some which trigger unskippable cutscenes you don't care about. Notice a "+ to skip" button. Push plus, and note that it does not skip anything, merely fast forwards the unskippable cutscene. Repeat achievement/cutscene loop for several minutes. Finally get to the first in-game menu. Select the thing you want. Get a notice that it has to download "previews" for game content. Cancel the download. Select the thing, several levels deep in the menu. Attempt to play game, only to notice that you're out of time for it because it took 30 minutes to even get to this point.

If your take on Mastodon is "it's full of the sort of people who know how to configure WiFi on Linux," that tells me you haven't configured WiFi on Linux since 2009.

Absolutely howling because someone just wrote "bona fide" as "bonified"

@mcc It's a safe assumption that whatever power the owners of a social media site have will be used in the worst possible way.

I still want to completely redo my blog to be less hideous and not run on abandonware, but in the mean time I have blogged a thing.

https://atomized.org/blog/2024/11/24/maybe-later/

@civodul Any chance that Guix would move development to a Forgejo instance?

@civodul Glad to hear that you're open to it. Would be nice to decouple Guix from Savannah, which seems to have problems quite a bit. And I know many (myself included) find the email workflow painful.

@mathowie Companies need to cool it, every new thing on the shelf is a three-way Brand gangbang these days.

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Well that's not good

I see Mozilla is upholding their commitment to "Responsible 'AI'" by [checks release notes] allowing you to embed whatever piece of shit LLM you want directly in the browser.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/130.0/releasenotes/

Imagine if Mozilla was like... good. What if every new Firefox release had good features, instead of instilling a sense of dread as they squander their dwindling relevance chasing absolute twaddle

#TimeSavingTip piss and shit at the same time

Suggestion for what to call bicycles now that electric bicycles are popular: "bicycles" or "bikes."

Suggestion for what to call electric bicycles now that they're popular: "mopeds."