Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Roses are red
Violets are blue
This line doesn't rhyme
And neither does this one

Just got a call from one of those tech support scammers (they're pretending to be from OpenReach now)

"Can you press the windows key and r please"
"I am but it's not doing anything"
"Can you press the start button?"
"I'm not seeing anything like that"
"When you look at the bottom left of your screen do you see a window?"
"Nope"
"Okay, go to hell"

I was going to play along and see if they cottoned on to this being a linux box but they cut it off early

Tempted to lean into the "I'm a goddamn wizard" thing

I mean, my solution to problems more often than not involves complicated incantations in strange languages known to few (bash scripts) and trawling through forgotten lore (forum posts from a decade ago about how to fix shit)

All I really need to add is a hat

something I really want to see come back into fashion around these parts, automats

It's a whole wall of little cupboards with fast food type things in, you put your money in a little slot at the side of the thing you want, the door opens, and you grab your food

Absolutely no human interaction required!

tiny hedgie!

I love this channel

Making knives out of various things

"hm... could do with a mould for this one, let's bodge together a vacuum former from random shit I have lying around"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUCEMjhsvaU

How to find a good instance:

Do you like friendly fluffy queer furry places?

Yes: https://computerfairi.es
No: somewhere else I guess

I am blissfully unaware of the current discourse and I'd quite like to remain that way

True facts: @maple doesn't use an alarm clock, she has a script on another computer that sends her a wake-on-LAN packet when it's time to wake up

The furries have invaded mastodon in much the same way the romans invaded that city built next to the river Tiber in Italy

I'm pretty sure I've been making references to the fediverse being "Animal Crossing: the social network" from since then as well

Always funny seeing people who joined the fediverse in one of the twitter exoduses... exodi... exodes... whatever acting like they're the first people to turn up to the party

I got here in april-ish of '17 and I'm far from an OT (original toota), people have been having fun here for ages

I'd be posting pictures of big hedgie but she's gotten into the habit of hiding in the back of the cafe

You can't see her back there but you can hear all the munching noises

medium hedgie and tiny hedgie!

I haven't actually watched the video, but from one clip I've seen Joe Rogan was talking about mixing tobacco with weed as some amazing thing he was "turned on to"

Fucker, were you really so goddamn rich as a kid you had enough weed to smoke without having to pad it out with tobacco?

Sometimes I have to feel sorry for Torvalds, certainly not often, but sometimes

He "accidentally booked a family holiday to Edinburgh" the same week as a Linux conference he had to go to in Vancouver and the Linux Foundation decided to move the conference to Edinburgh so he still has to go

Bastard just wanted a damn holiday

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005308.html

The local under-10s rugby team is collecting donations by standing at end of the local tesco checkouts and offering to pack bags for everyone

By which I mean everyone is giving them money to stay the hell out of the way while we pack our shopping

Oh fuck off

https://www.masterblock.ch/