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Hot take! 

Light the blue touchpaper, then retire to a safe distance.

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Devine Lu Linvega

#plan9

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Is everyone on another instance an NPC now?

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Pandora

(+) meta 

One of the weird things here is that a lot of people misunderstand the federated timeline. They think it represents the whole world, or some subset of it. It's not. It's just the world your instance knows about.

There's actually whole worlds out there in the fediverse that are nothing like our world here.

When we talk about how "mastodon is so awesome," what we're really talking about is our little corner of it. And that is something I love. :)

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dani little ponie :dani: :transgender_flag:​

people are giving and receiving Headpats at incredible speeds ... and it is all thanks to the humble computer chip

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Now @Lumb@lamp.institute

*most of mastodon piles into the box*

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I have an old 286 with both FDD sizes I needed to clean up anyway. The HDD was already formatted & empty, so I installed DOS on it (verifying my DSHD floppies work), & I'll bring in a bunch of DSDDs to make one bootable & sneakernet the installed OS over.

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Aw, crap, these are DSHD disks, and my PC's only drive is DSDD.

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Jess

We need more spaces for trans masc folks. We need them to feel welcome, and we need to support them, especially during their transition.

Even I admit I could be doing better. I keep trying to. I want to learn more about it, not just through medical documentation, but experiences of people who have gone/are going through it.

Call me out if you feel I'm ever being insensitive to something trans masc folks go through, please!

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My sandwich of 5.25" MS-DOS floppy disks order came with a free side of 512 MB RAM stick because MS & eBay require all OEM software to be distributed with hardware. All it's missing is a bottle of Jolt.

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Cursed image? Blessed image?

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I have a 1.6 GHz desktop computer made in 2017 that takes longer to pass POST than the 4.7 MHz desktop computer made in 1981 that it's a long-descended clone of. I don't know where we went wrong.

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Spell check & grammar check can't catch every error journalists make.

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"It appears that Liu may have gotten hold of the hotel chain's data when a developer accidentally uploaded part of its database on GitHub." zdnet.com/article/chinese-poli

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Devine Lu Linvega

I fell down a hole I might never crawl out of.

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LB: Langoliers, skill level, "That wasn't a nightmare, *this* is a nightmare!"

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WritingPrompts

You get on a plane and fall asleep after takeoff, but when you wake up, everyone has mysteriously disappeared and you are the only person on board. No one is flying the plane.
#writingprompts #writing

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Well, that's a new one... I left it alone for a while, then when I went back, it was doing this weird coloring thing. I started a game then took a photo:

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Tilted Goldeneye carts aside, computers generally don't like it when parts of the memory map suddenly go missing.

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I can see why the RAM pack is bolted on now. The case top standoffs look okayish, but the case bottom standoffs that are supposed to meet the motherboard & let the screws hold it on are completely missing, filed & sanded down to nothing. The motherboard is now so misaligned that the pack is actually suspended in the air, held on only by the edge connector & the weird support bracket. Any movement of the bracket makes an edge connector pin break contact.

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