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for how much minidisc is constantly labeled a "failure" that "never took off", i think 21 years is a pretty good production run for a media format

another pixel portrait going out to Cass of @BadGameHOF@twitter.com / badgamehalloffame.com/ ! i couldn't decide on a background, so this one gets two variants!

you can get portraits like these and more if you just head on down to maple.pet/commissions !

a large language model sees a turtle lying on its back on the sand. why is the large language model not helping the turtle

i founded computer fairies roughly this day 6 years ago, give or take initial federation growing pains. in the first week we had an issue with the host, which i managed to fix through ssh from my phone while sitting at an university class, which made me feel very badass indeed

i'm electively no longer part of the staff but i'm glad i started this corner of the internet and i'm delighted it's still existing to this day

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today computerfairi.es is 6 years old and going strong! thanks to our admin @arielmt and mods @LaserScheme and @troubleMoney for keeping the dream alive

this is supposedly an issue with intel wi-fi cards and the fact that linux has a wi-fi power saving mode that's not meant to be used but ships as enabled anyway and yet even disabling the power save doesn't fix the issue because linux is bad

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thinkpads and linux a match made in heaven if heaven is rebooting every 30 minutes because linux decided you suddenly don't actually have a wi-fi card

if you thought that "let me google that for you" was annoying, just you wait until all computer software from now on is just missing basically every feature, and the stock answer becomes "ask the LLM to work out how to do it idk"

at least here i can tell elon musk and jk rowling to go kill themselves

and also all transphobes for that matter, go fucking molest yourselves with barbed wire

i don't think mastodon is any better than twitter at all and i think the people here are just as bad i just have nowhere else to go

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Computer Fairies

Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!