Love seeing all the tech-y people on Mastodon but do feel a little out of my depth, every time I log on someone's posting about quarking the gibblets of their custom-built gaming Flurgatron 3000 and trying to get it to run at 764 bloops per fnurk

@Ciaraioch

An exquisite description of Kubernetes. 😎

@sean Had to immediately google that
@Ciaraioch @sean real tech people know kunernetes isn’t real - it’s just what people say to sound busy:
Me: “I’m doing k8s!”
Them: “Oh I better leave you to it then!”
@Allyn
Someone: "I'm doing k8s!"
Me: "Cool! How many Kates at once?!"
@Ciaraioch @sean
@Allyn @Ciaraioch @sean having worked with software developers whose bread and butter heavily involves Kubernetes, this is very accurate.
@Allyn @Ciaraioch @sean also related to Kubernetes are other buzzwords like Docker and containerisation. Neither of them have anything to do with cargo ships.
@Ciaraioch This is a big mood because while I do have my own server that's like the cap of what I can do, heck I don't even have push notifications.

@Ciaraioch 764 bloops per fnurk

Those are rookie numbers 😉

@BenartyComputer @Ciaraioch I'm jealous, I'm rocking a 5 year old Flurgatron (2 models back) and just wish I could hit that many BPFs!

@Andres4NY @Ciaraioch

You need to get the liquid helium cooling attachment to get more out of it

As a bonus, it also makes your voice go squeaky

@Ciaraioch ... yeah, but have you seen what happens when we try to draw hands?

@Ciaraioch

No worries. I did corporate IT development and support for many years but still feel out of my depth as soon as someone talks about their niche tech.

Also I'm an artist, so I feel more comfortable with fuzzy logic than crunchy logic.

@Ciaraioch My one has 47 Gobbleblops of Ramory and a squalid state drive.

@Ciaraioch

But they all had to start with something simple - maybe you could just try OpenSCAD to design a bracket that you 3D print to install a custom board which you designed, so you can run a Linux distro which you compiled from scratch?

@Ciaraioch There's all kinds. There's futurebird nerding out about ants, multiple photographers, bikers, people cook stuff, crotchet, etc. Heck, there's even some pilots, people staring at space or sending stuff there, experimental physicists and doctors (usually not experimental).
Also, while what a bunch of people do may be overwhelming in the depth... Noone knows everything. Even in a single area of computering there's pretty much no way for a person to know everything. [1/2]
@Ciaraioch So embrace and share your interests, and admire those of others, and use it as a way to learn interesting stuff, nerd out, or just chat with random people abou random things :) And be secure in your knowledge that there's a bunch of stuff you know how to do that many others don't. 🤘
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@viq @Ciaraioch

Exactly this, we're always learning.

As soon as we become a specialist in our own area, we're also bewildered by some other special interest that we haven't had time to explore yet.

We love all the experts excited to explain their stuff and share it at a level that others can understand.

@viq @Ciaraioch And Ruth Mottram is currently posting work pics from husky-driven sleds in the arctic ice. It's an absolutely wonderful place.
@Ciaraioch
Excuse me, bloops per fnurk is a synth term... Have those gaming squooks taken something of ours?!
@Ciaraioch Given the audience here, I'm sure at least 90% of this crowd has experience with retro encabulators... But I'm going to post one of my faves anyway 😊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
Rockwell Retro Encabulator

Latest technology by Rockwell Automation

YouTube

@Ciaraioch

I reached my 'peak technical' in 1982 when I learned that half a byte is a nibble. I decided that would be sufficient for a career in IT.

@Ciaraioch Flurgatron 3000? Sure if you're made of money. I'd be lucky to get my hands on a Flurgatron 200 Mini in this economy.
@Ciaraioch yes, reminds me of the Flux Capacator (?) from Back to the Future

@Ciaraioch 84.71% of them would probably die of happines if you asked them what is a fnurk and let then explain it at length.

16.317% of them could come up with a chitonic scroll to auto regulate your fnurks in such a way that you never need to quark your magovian manually anymore.

But you have to know the starting endocrination of your main Flurgatron rather well.

@afreytes @Ciaraioch preach, I can't stop talking about my biphasic probability generator.
@afreytes If I'd a penny for every time I heard that

@Ciaraioch

That's okay, I'm pretty techy and that's how I feel often.

Sometimes people need a place to talk about their ideas, and hopefully, without a poisonous algorithm (not an algorithm in general, but a bad one) bringing us to the lowest common denominators, we can surface these ideas enough that one day we understand them.

@Ciaraioch I know the feeling. After buying 72 different O'Reilly books I think I know what a flurk finally is, but I can't get mine back into its carrier. It insists on running around the house at 33 blorgs per kilofurbish and I just can't catch it. Maybe it'll get tired and I will catch it tomorrow. 🙏
@Ciaraioch 764‽ That’s an incredible bpf! Who was it? I need to see this!
@Ciaraioch Increasing the annular confinement beam will let you floop the pig an additional 50 megajoule!

@Ciaraioch

I love this. You all know who you are!

@Ciaraioch And here I was thinking that a Flurgatron was the distance(in metres) that a snail can cover in 1 year. Also known as a Lite Year and to be confused with a Light Year
@Ciaraioch If they could just use a universal hashtag, like "#TechieTalk" or something, we could all just filter it out.
@Ciaraioch meh, real tech-y people are in the multi-K bloops per fnurk range. As someone who identifies as tech-y, don't take us too seriously.
@Ciaraioch I am a techy people and I am also completely out of my depth 
@Ciaraioch I had to install the Spoingler plug-in first.

@Ciaraioch

Look at it this way; we have computer nerds to spare here. Do your thing.

@Ciaraioch I like spamming certain nerd singularity hashtags and demanding help.

Can't say "ex-tech support who can't fathom Linux" is anything but bizarre to all who encounter me though.

Avoid infections! You do not want Long Covid. I genuinely feel stupider post-infection.
Wear a good reusable respirator like Omni Mask, Flo Mask, or CleanSpace HALO, to save waste from disposable KN95 or FFP3 masks.

Also LARCs (like IUS, arm implant, vaginal ring, patches, etc), drink water, stretch, pet a cat, yada yada.

@Ciaraioch You can tell people who have only just started experimenting with modern Flurgatrons. We now use milliSniblets (mSb) as the performance rating. A one-Sniblet (1000 mSb) rig is damned impressive and normally achievable only by nation-states or Fediverse tech collectives of at least 1,000 autistic trans catgirls. Only antique Flurgatrons rate their turbocapacity in fnurks.

How dare you!

Nobody has ever exceeded 512 bloops per fnurk without risking serious data corruption.

764 indeed!  

@Ciaraioch

@Ciaraioch let us know if you ever need any explanations about quarking computer things. we're happy to talk about quarking gibblets, entrails, or gravy.

@Ciaraioch I'm a tech person, and sometimes I feel the same.

Maybe I understand what the toot is saying. Maybe not. But it's so far above my level it's kind of irrelevant.

@Ciaraioch Don’t be intimidated. It’s totally okay if you’re happy with 31.7 bloops per fnurk. We don’t judge
@Ciaraioch I just bleep past those posts at speed. Kind of how I edited my son’s final paper at Uni: fix the #english and ignore the equations. I used to call myself an engineer, too. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Ciaraioch People trying to get a Flurgatron 3000 to run at 764 bloops per fnurk are hopeless optimists.

440½ bloops per fnurk is absolute max by design. 🤣

@Ciaraioch A lot of this is documented at reddit.com/r/vxjunkies, a very helpful and not overly risk-averse gang. Five of them will give you seven different ways of getting your quaquaversal Spenglerians below 7 pi/3, if you catch my drift
@Ciaraioch an open secret in the industry is that even they don't know what they're doing