Weasel

we're doing it again

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perhaps i have not introduced this part of the net to PonderSlab; this is a Thinkpad T61 from around 2006. it's got a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, a 250 GB SSD that I added myself, and it's currently running FreeBSD 15.1 because I got bored.

It's more usable than I expected it to be in this setup; there's some things I have not figured out yet, but it seems comfortable with LXQt.

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i wish this resulted in a working binary, but there is apparently a 20 year old known issue that prevents this from compiling under FreeBSD

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the occasional hobby of mine: forcing old computers to do things that max out CPU usage

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datarama

Something I occasionally think about, and then proceed to be horrified to my core, is this:

A Raspberry Pi 4 *vastly* outperforms an Amiga 4000. Or a Symbolics XL1200. Or an SGI Octane. A typical microSD card is *much* faster than a Seagate Cheetah Ultra320 SCSI HDD you might have found in a high-end Unix workstation back in the day.

But the Pi 4 is barely able to run modern-day office software or browse the mainstream web. The microSD card is mostly considered a slow piece of junk (which it very likely is, though for other reasons than its performance).

What the fuck are we even doing here?

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Andrew

@mhoye so sad how prevalent busphobia is, even in the lgbtq community

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i think i have multiple friends who look exactly like this guy (and may have been one of them at some point myself)

re: mas.to/@gifs_bot/1174555069313

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GIFS GALORE

PEOPLE/TREV2.GIF

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Low Quality Facts

That's so interesting.

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eri :lq: :3do:

in 2026? god, not really

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eri :lq: :3do:

new fedi banner unlocked

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__ct__4LunaFv

it's fascinating watching a movie and noticing all the things that later movies clearly borrowed from it

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1bit

Macintosh b&w art, random pick from my collection day 11

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Macintosh Themes

IZA Dark Tuned - Takashi Izawa
macthemes.garden/themes/79375d

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Weasel

So (cough) remember how I said I needed to quit taking in more Golfshrine inventory? I packed up the shelf contents into boxes? ...That just got a bit more complicated, because I somehow still took in more inventory. Acquisitions and news in this month's update:

netizen.club/~wildweasel/updat

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rar is win

(boost pls 🥺)

i NEED a person who owns the winrar bag.
like, not in the romantic sense,,
i just wanna have a photo of it with the ikea rat plushie placed on top of it. i can arrange the details, ship the rat to you, pay for the shipping, whatever. i just need the photo

picrel

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moshboy

dudes with attitude, title screen, nes (1990) mobygames.com/game/33166/dudes

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Misty

Kicking off a new series over at CD-ROM Journal: covering Daiso’s ¥100 ultrabudget game series. Just how much game can you even get for ¥100? You’d be surprised! There are some really interesting stuff in here - for less than a dollar a game, it feels like they couldn’t afford to be picky. cdrom.ca/games/the-game-series

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Adelie

@joe Argh, I can't find the size (11px maybe?), but I've been using Departure Mono for a few weeks.

The website is...intense, fyi.

departuremono.com

github.com/rektdeckard/departu

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