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Gen X survivor who appears to have made a career of building and troubleshooting things. While I live in Texas in the US, please don't hold that against me.
pronounshe/him
careerprocess control engineer
hobbiesbook binding, FOSS development, ttrpgs

Every time I open the SPARCStation 5 that @mike gave me to add more memory or check something, I’m struck by how beautiful it is.

Look at this SBus card! Just LOOK at it! The clean layout, the ceramic ICs, the names of the designers on the top.

I love my retro PCs because I grew up with them, but this sort of hardware is actually special :’)

this riscv cyberdeck looks exactly like the sort of riscv handheld I've been dreaming of for like, a decade now, and it appears to already be available

https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-r-01
#riscv #cyberdeck #uconsole

Just finished _Gideon the Ninth_ by Tamsyn Muir, enjoying it thoroughly.

The description "Lesbian necromancers in space" illuminates the setting created here as meagerly as a keyring flashlight with a dying battery fills an auditorium in a power outage...

I'm committed to finishing any further books in the series, if only to learn of the arcane apocalypse which turned our world into this magic-infused scatter that makes Warhammer 40K feel buoyant and optimistic.

#TheLockedTomb #GideonTheNinth

@RogerBW It's almost as if they assume people no longer read their End User License Agreements or even any text the installer presents...

Theirs is the service they are most concerned over.

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Improvised Radio Theatre with Dice Episode 120: "You Could See Coronation Street From There" Roger and Mike return with their tenth anniversary episode of discussion and deviation.
#RPG #Games #Podcast
https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/episode-120-you-could-see-coronation-street-from-there/4555
Episode 120: You Could See Coronation Street From There

It’s our tenth anniversary! So as a special exception to our usual format we talk to each other. We mentioned: Moldvay Basic D&D, Car Wars, BattleTech, RuneQuest, Starter Traveller, Rolemaster, Demon Internet, Dircon who ended up as a brand of Claranet, Dark Conspiracy, Cyberpunk 2020, GURPS, GURPS Reign of Steel: Will to Live, GURPS Disasters: Meltdown & Fallout, the Dorsai books, Shimmin Beg, More Games Than Time, Whartson Hall, Ribbon of Memes, Lojban, and David Langford. Micha...

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Today’s drawing is One Last Duty
Give her what she really wants this holiday season. Death to the patriarchy, an ancient tome of curses from the forest witch, the hearts of her enemies, and deep pockets in every dress and pair of pants.
The world is indeed full of things we cannot currently explain, but that doesn't mean that the answer must be "Aliens!"

@RogerBW

This looks ideal for many nefarious purposes! Thank you for sharing.

#ePub #CommandLineUtilities