FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

There was once a computer expansion standard, popular in the '90s & featured mainly in laptops though used in some desktops as well, called PCMCIA.

PCMCIA is a computer acronym that, of course, stands for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms." :V

Someone needs to make & sell removable SSDs openly standardized as 3-inch (7-cm) square wafers, together with removable SSD receivers (internal & built-in on laptops and tablets!), that look & work just like floppy disks & drives from days gone by.

The convenience of USB thumbdrives, without the drawbacks of laptop dongles, tiny & easily lost media, & "Which one of these stupid things did I put the files on!?"-itis.

Pictured: 3-inch square wafers of the past as real-world disks & TV props.

Whenever a Windows closes, another Linux opens

well, sure enough, but here's the funny part: the Euro was pegged at 1 US dollar… in 1950

}={ - - - >•<

the Ukrainian operation on NordStream is a classic example of it being easier to ask for forgiveness than for permsision

You remember that time DRAM manufacturers were caught acting as a cartel to fix prices and the fines were smaller than the profit they made as a result? You're never going to guess what happened next!

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site."

I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome.

All along there have been people who see everything you love about the internet as an unfortunate design oversight, something to be fixed. And they've been working for decades to make it happen.

oh god there's a company called Reflect Orbital that wants to launch tens of thousands of satellites with mirrors on them to allow illuminating 5km-wide zones on the earth in the middle of the light by reflecting sunlight

this is terrifying

@piegames
Falsehoods Pragrammers Believe About Names at it again https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/

Story in two acts

Relatable
#opossum #meme #memes #humor

Thirst trap

🦊using the "Dream Viewer" you can visualize different possibilities on the given line and place in dream markers. When you're done, you can put them on the playfield for reals

(this is our version of Squeakross' "Logic Assist" feature)

#indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker

Did you know that Microsoft applied for a permit for a warehouse in southern Sweden - and once they had built the "warehouse" they declared they were going to host a datacenter there with diesel backup generators?

I mean, we hear this happening all the time and so let's hate on data centers, right?

The difference is that this is Sweden, and we don't accept that shit. They were not allowed to run their diesel generators, had to purchase battery power instead and in the end they closed the data center down since they couldn't win this fight.

That's how you deal with it.

(They are now using other datacenters in other locations in Sweden, fully compliant with the laws, with renewable energy and not using water for cooling as far as I can see)

big cat laundromat

i didn't know about this a couple hours ago but it looked like a good excuse to draw something i can actually finish

#makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2025