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always seems to be the case that a rare really cool retro computer i want was only produced in the thousands of numbers and a white male youtuber has one of the only surviving ones

My mother in law found this when moving house and now it’s mine! It’s a Panasonic PenWriter, a typewriter that’s actually a pen plotter! Can’t wait to try it out, but I don’t have much hope for the pens still working #penplotter

android firefox nightly i'm begging you to let me paste images into a compose box that supports it

just got access to a switch and ring fit adventure for the first time today and it's nice that it's more encouraging and less body shaming but the workouts are way less gentle too

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has anybody modded Wii Fit/Wii Fit Plus to remove the body shaming in it yet? :boost_ok:

be nice to devs that make art games or experimental games. they’re making it possible so you can shout “go away mom i’m playing art” instead of “go away mom i’m playing games” when it’s time to clean your room.
you’re welcome.

after finally getting some decent flux and picking up the pieces i abandoned several months ago, i think i've finally managed to reflow all the broken solder gremlins that kept my visor eyemodule from working properly

@terinjokes i remember places calling avatars "profile picture" sure but i don't think i've come across anyone shortening it to "pfp" until the 2020s

Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.

mastodon.de/@ErikUden/11387936

What a weird coincidence.

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@vxo i don't think it even has an option for an iris or nd filter, but a failing gain circuitry is likely

@earthshaking it is, and it does seem to react properly when pointing it at a bright light

is there anything i can measure to be able to tell?

i really wish i could somehow modify the firmware on these and allow for manual exposure instead

i have a Sony Mavica FD-71 that's working but taking pictures much darker than an FD-75. from what i can tell they're ostensibly the same camera with the same sensor hardware only with/without manual focus. has anyone serviced these models? is there some aging component that can be replaced to make the pictures not as dark?

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