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jordan

@jordan@sometimes.social

Subversive suburban #Chicago #dad, computer mage, and jaded tech industry trench-digger.

Anyone is free to follow, if I don't like you I'll just block you.

I use lots of profanity, which I do not CW. Sometimes I talk about marijuana, which I usually CW. I almost never post lewd stuff; if I do I will always CW.

MINORS: Please don't talk like I do here, or do the things I talk about doing when I was a minor. Don't do drugs.

WARNING: I am neither serious nor professional on this account.

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The strange thing about living in Australia is you're used to terrible, nocturnal screeching things, many of which fly. You're used to spiders as big as your hand, or ignoring one of the 10 most deadly snakes turning up while you're walking around the block. You're used to, on a hike, running into furry things as tall as you hopping around the place while carrying their young in flesh pouches.

But raccoons? That’s so weird. They're real things? For serious? That rummage through your garbage?

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@vampiress I'd see them regularly when I lived farther from the city, but I rarely spot them since I moved to and later adjacent to Chicago. I think the coyotes eat them.

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My first job out of high school was assembling and repairing PC compatibles for a computer store.

I sometimes think of making a game about that. It starts in the ‘80s with the advent of PC clones. You have to buy the parts, assemble and configure them, and sell them. As time progresses tech gets weirder and faster until you’re installing 3dfx cards etc.

Part retail store sim, part computer repair sim.

I’ll probably never make that game… but it’d be cool.

jordan ,
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@vampiress Reminds me of how the selection of planes available for purchase changes over time in Aerobiz

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archie and jughead at tenagra

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@RikerGoogling Veronica, her arms open

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38% equal for the wombat charge or the boomerang brutality!

So, which is the lie? A short thread…
https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/112578041979107983

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@vampiress Yet another proof of the old adage: every safety regulation is written in blood

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Oh this one's going to be a banger.

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@vampiress Spear of Destiny is the only historically accurate one, as far as I know

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This evening's Hot Take before I sack out:

I really like the Pentium II "Briefcase" form factor.

I liked them when I was assembling computers in the '90s, and I like them now.

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@vampiress Always gave me Sega Genesis vibes. So much harder to wreck than all those tiny pins on other processors.

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Okay folks, it's time…

…time to put on "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba!

jordan ,
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@vampiress I like "Give The Anarchist A Cigarette"

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Please enjoy this year's proof of bird

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    jordan ,
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    @vampiress Thought it was a meth lab until I saw the logo

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    @vampiress Huh! That hadn't occurred to me either, although I passed out of the dating world before Tinder was really a thing

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    Not mine and found too far from its origin for me to know who to credit, but too good not to share

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    @vampiress That guy is still alive? I thought Jordan Peterson took his job.

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    @vampiress I would loan you my dog, who is a specialist in possum murder, but of course our possums are a completely different animal than yours

    jordan ,
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    @vampiress Ours are basically 12 pound tree rats with poison resistance and the ability to feign death. They’re immune to rabies, at least, so you don’t have to worry about that.

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    @vampiress Ours won't fight unless cornered, but I would not willingly fight one. The dog, on the other hand...

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    what is skeletor’s ethnicity

    jordan ,
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    @RikerGoogling Andorian

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    The most impressive thing about the Steam Deck is that they built a portable Linux device that can be reliably woken from sleep

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    @vampiress Like 49% of me is "ooh let's hack the shit out of this thing" and the other 51% is "fucking chill, it just works, leave it alone"

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    @vampiress Been eyeing up my wife's KAVU mini sling bag and thinking the Steam Deck would fit nicely in there

    jordan ,
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    @vampiress Mmm it just barely fits but it's really wedged into there, no room for a case or a shell or anything. Next size up (4 rope strap instead of 3 rope strap) would definitely fit though.

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    @vampiress The bigger one would definitely work; the mini is 16 inches, the regular is 20: https://kavu.com/collections/rope-bag-line/products/rope-sling

    (We had one of the bigger ones but someone left it where the dog could get it while it had snacks in it and now we don't have that bag anymore)

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    holodeck vs holodeck pro

    jordan ,
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    @RikerGoogling The Pro is waterproof, that's probably the one you want

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    C'mon, this can't possibly be comfortable, can it?

    Kerby is a Jack Russell/French Bulldog/Pug mix. In this picture, he has his front legs hooked over the back of the couch, as if he is bellied up to a bar. His back half is twisted towards the viewer, straddling one of the couch cushions; one of his legs is stuffed down between the cushion and the back of the couch. His eyes are closed in an apparent expression of blissful relaxation.
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    @vampiress Gemini always seemed real gatekeepy to me... like, if you hate shitty webpages you could always just not make shitty webpages

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    @vampiress I dunno, maybe a market that they won't let anybody in to unless they knew they had to get a special hat first from the special market hat vendor. I feel like anything I would want to publish via Gemini, I'd want to put up on the web as well, and then I have to deal with two markup formats, and anyone who is capable of running a Gemini client is also certainly capable of running a web browser, so why bother with it at all? I'm already making myself inaccessible enough to the "normal" people by being here :P

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    @vampiress I kinda do think it's a bad thing? I think there's a difference between "I choose to exist in obscure and unpopular places, which anyone could choose to wander into but mostly don't" versus "I'm going to create a technology that is deliberately inaccessible and unappealing to novices and non-technical people." I think that treating computer skills as somehow different or special or more important than other types of knowledge causes a lot of problems; I don't necessarily think that everyone that uses Gemini thinks that way and I don't want to name specific people, but I know that some of the people that are very heavily invested in Gemini are also very heavily invested in that way of thinking, and it taints the whole thing for me.

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    jordan ,
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    @vampiress If you have a shell account on doo.dad, you also can log into rss.doo.dad ;)

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