Cassander

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Doctor of internetology. Elder Millennial. Nicest of the Damned. Award-winning pun-master. Widely regarded as a bad influence. Small Pixel Hater. He/Him.
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Show threadCassander8h ago
Also, @iFixit if y'all could do a "mixed bag" with a bunch of the various spudgers (carbon fiber, glass fiber, halberds, heavy duty), that'd be real cool. They're tough, but the years wear all of us down eventually.
Cassander8h ago

I'm volunteering at a local repair café at my local library this weekend. If you have the capability (time+energy+skills), I strongly encourage participating! It's a great way to meet neighbors for the first time, give back to your community, and poke at things you've never seen before.

I've been doing PC/laptop repair for... longer than I want to admit. Many pieces of my kit come from @iFixit (https://www.ifixit.com/Tools), and they're often the first place I'll check for weird tools for small electronics. I've also picked up a couple of their Minnow driver kits to keep in my bag and car, just in case.

#RepairCafe #RightToRepair #RepairNotReplace #FixTheWorld #RepairTheWorld #BuildingCommunity #LocalLibrary

Visit a Repair Café Near You

Discover a Repair Café near you and bring your broken items for repair. Our skilled volunteers will help you fix them in an eco-friendly way.

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Show threadCassander1d ago

Some of that volume of data is from multiple copies of a single game. For example, I bought Baldur's Gate 3 when it was first announced in 2020, and I've preserved all the various versions that I've downloaded.

And since it's GOG, they're all DRM-free.

Cassander1d ago

After GOG pulled their "site closure" bullshit in 2010 I made a point to download an offline copy of every game I owned.

It's, uh, more than I expected:

Cassander4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/116319484769240808

Let's be real: Donnie Dumbass would only really be interested in the bills under $20.

Cassander4d ago
Cassander4d ago

Eaton, the company known for their data center electrical products and golf club grips, made a coloring book about data centers. You absolutely do not know what's coming.

https://www.eaton.com/explore/_pfcdn/assets/preprocessed/10348/eb02a732-c609-4c02-b5c9-86c0f261c4aa/eb02a732-c609-4c02-b5c9-86c0f261c4aa.pdf

Cassander4d ago

Eaton, the company known for their data center electrical products and golf club grips, made a coloring book about data centers. You absolutely do not know what's coming.

https://www.eaton.com/explore/_pfcdn/assets/preprocessed/10348/eb02a732-c609-4c02-b5c9-86c0f261c4aa/eb02a732-c609-4c02-b5c9-86c0f261c4aa.pdf

Cassander4d ago
James Endres Howell5d ago

"Setting aside the moral arguments—"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and—"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water—"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

CassanderMar 26
I'm no @iFixit guru. But an hour ago I realized my first gen Boox Palma had developed a swelling battery. Now I'm an hour smarter and confident the repairability score is "No/10".
CassanderMar 26
CassanderMar 25

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722

I don't understand why "don't give my words to a billionaire's plagiarism machine" is so hard to understand. These are my words; I am sharing them with you. I am intentionally not sharing them with rich dipshits and their meaning-mulchers. I do not consent to an LLM consuming my thoughts, past, present, or future. Using one of the various planet-burners on my thoughts is explicitly against my will.

#FuckYourLLM