Deck 16, low grav.

Standard Issue Computing@standardissuecomputing.blog · 5mo ago

how do we explain to a younger generation that Epic used to be a legitimately cool company

Hey, can we Gamestop the RAM/Flash/Storage shortage? Like, collectively start a "CommunAi Datacenters" company or something, sign huge contracts to buy a shit load of the goods at corporate rates, then redistribute it back to the people who just wanna build fuckin computers again?

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

🧵 Back when the internet was cool, I used to collect phrases that sounded like band names. There was a website that would generate cassette tapes with whatever you wanted on it, so I'd make fake tapes for these fake bands. Just found a bunch of them while digging through Google Drive:

GameCube done, next patient up on the operating table… This poor virtual boy has no image in left eye and occasional in right eye But with some VB eye patches, cap kit and iron ready to reflow some joints this will be good as new 👍🏻

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

The Verge@theverge.com · 11mo ago

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

@techconnectify.bsky.social Saw this, got mad, and thought of you.

now watching (via a PS2 as god intended)

Coming to your from the warzone that is Portland Oregon. Yesterday, 1:30pm downtown by the Federal Building and Police HQ: total mayhem! Someone was actually picking up some trash in the park! A couple miles away on Hawthorne, someone was driving a late 70s Ford Thunderbird. Oh the humanity!

OpenAI claims companies must opt-out of having their copyrighted characters & content appear in Sora Legal experts say studios have grounds to sue: “They’re setting up this false bargain where they can do this unless you opt out. And if you don’t, it’s your fault. That’s not the way the law works"

Uh oh! I have a PC on my testbench and I'm gathering benchmark data and B-roll... Who am I???? First Tech Ambrosia video of 2025 finally dropping in October???? Stay tuned!!

Unless RA comes back with a strong reversal of all of this AND a genuine apology I'd highly advise leaving the platform. The fact that it even got this far is absolutely pathetic. They really need to learn about the paradox of tolerance.

TieTuesday@tietuesday.bsky.social · 11mo ago

retroachievements.org/forums/topic... Retroachievements using the "we're just neutral It's not political!" about allowing a romhack with pokemon named "KuKlux" that's a ghost in a hood with the ability "Justified" don't get me started on the "terrorist" pokemon platforming hate isn't neutral

Throwback to lockdown 2020, when I made a woodgrain Xbox One. 😂

Happy Friday Retro Frens, today's aesthetic: Windows 2000 😍😍😍😍😍

I just love all the little weirdo systems in my collection. They make me happy ♥️ That's it, that's the post. #retrogaming #retrocollecting

Casio QV-2400UX digital camera (2001)

The OpenAI flagship data center is in Texas, and multiple other such centers are scheduled to be built here. My electricity bill last month was three times what it usually is. It’s a completely unsustainable situation.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AOL has now ceased dial-up service as of September 30. Let us play the forgotten music...

A late-night experiment in particle physics leads to an experience that's truly... Out of this World. The first truly cinematic introduction to a game that I ever saw. 📺: Another World, Delphine, 1991 (Amiga RGB Scart)

'Demolition Man' on 3DO released on this day in 1994. Jack of all genres, master of none: Stallone's involvement in FMVs shot specifically for this movie tie-in do little to elevate the dire state of its gameplay. As inconsistent as it is ambitious -- a true novelty for the 3DO.

tech used to be fun and useful :(

dorian@doriantaylor.com · 11mo ago

like every upside at this point is some tepid convenience and the downside attached to it is like here have a fascist dictatorship panopticon under a burning sky patrolled by killbots

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

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Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' movies will be released as one film in theaters for the first time on December 5 ⚔️ • Runtime is around 4 hours and 7 min • Includes a new 7-minute animated sequence • Select showings will be in 70mm and 35mm

I remember all the tech people who told me time and again that Apple will just keep refining their face computer and I’m “negative” for saying it’s DOA

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

“These developments signal a broader realignment across major tech firms toward wearable devices driven by generative AI, always-on connectivity, and seamless user interfaces.” From “glassholes” to “slopfacer.”

Cognitive banking. Holistic accounting. Full-contact notary. Dynamic wash-and-fold. Longitudinal sandwich artistry. Strategic soft-serve. Just-in-time hairdressing. Kinetic charcuterie.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

“Cognitive Banking” I’m sorry, what.