Posts by xodium@bitbang.social
(DIR) Post #AWVJIw3oAbrkfdSuZs by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-06-09T01:18:48Z
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With everything going on with #reddit right now, this is a good of a time as any to remind you:SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE ADMINS. (If you're able, of course!)If you like what they do, consider kicking them a couple bucks. If they have a patreon, consider subscribing. In BitBang's instance, that'd be @ActionRetro, and his Patreon has tiers starting as low as $1.
(DIR) Post #AWpl2KEcsvQ1T4ar1k by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-06-18T23:40:31Z
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14cr2is/alternative_forms_of_protest_in_light_of_admin/good lord, the #reddit clustershag just keeps going deeper.I need to just like, add a redirector rule to Firefox to train my muscle memory away from going to reddit because I don't see them recovering from this.
(DIR) Post #AXDOjXh9Yh0fM8EaSO by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-06-30T02:05:05Z
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Wow, I've had this alt for longer than I thought. With reddit still not backing down, it's time to kiss this one goodbye, too. Was just using this account to lurk and keep tabs on /r/ModCoord, but given that reddit at this point has duodecupled down on their bullshit, it's my last remaining account, and bye it goes.
(DIR) Post #AY5VLbm5eYdxwBIhg8 by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-07-26T11:25:24Z
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0S13_ep34Anyway I did a video on my half of our exhibit at VCF West this year, please go give it a watch!#VCFWest2023
(DIR) Post #AYbCNh6HKCoRCdJSIS by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-08-10T00:29:22Z
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Let's do something fun:What's a potentially controversial retrocomputing opinion that you have? (boost pls?)
(DIR) Post #AYbCNj0KFJEt6kXjIO by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-08-10T01:19:49Z
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To post my own: I hate IBM stuff. I just can't stand it. OS/2, most IBM hardware (save the ThinkPads)...it feels soulless to me, stuff used by suit and ties who have no idea what fun even is and that feeling just comes forward in the products themselves. I think Cathode Ray Dude described OS/2 as "being designed by committee" and that tracks.(I know IBM contributed a lot to the computing industry...but yeah.)
(DIR) Post #AblWde6tbl8kidxnF2 by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-11-13T11:19:54Z
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Anyway back to Cubeposting
(DIR) Post #AcDCNKl9lmfiqYDXeK by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-11-26T21:39:36Z
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So. As an experiment, I'm going to try running Linux as my main OS for a bit. I ask what the best Linux is for someone in my position. Okay, Mint and Ubuntu. Great."Why don't you install it in a VM?"Because that's cheating. I don't want my Linux experience to be something I can just close out of on a whim, I want to be immersed in it. I also want to experience Linux as a "regular" user."But you won't notice any performance loss!"sigh.And then debate on "how people run Linux".
(DIR) Post #AcDCNLcgYlURWZGI5I by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-11-26T21:41:19Z
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I want to experience Linux the same way someone would if they were told "just install Linux alongside Windows on the hardware you already have", or the same way a typical, regular user would run it, as in "not in a VM".I'm not replacing Windows with it, but just installing it to another drive.
(DIR) Post #AcwMGUNxKgL4PuUkDo by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-12-18T11:49:36Z
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What I find interesting, and maybe coinciding with the EU release of Threads? is that there seems to be this big push from “”leftists”” that your vote doesn’t matter and that you should just give up because to vote left is to support genocide, and you should vote third party instead. These posts claim to be the true leftists and anyone to the right of them is a centrist/right winger. You dig down and you find a lot of these accounts are just MAGA in disguise.
(DIR) Post #AcwMGZCnPbNnMkJP1M by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-12-18T11:52:09Z
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Obviously there are people not happy with Biden and I’m not saying those feelings are invalid! But there seems to be a massive misinformation campaign trying to capitalize on people not being happy with Biden and trying to convince people to feel like voting is a wasted effort and they should just stay home, laying the path for fascism to once again win. Don’t fall for it.
(DIR) Post #Ad9EugHM0l7fHQRcnY by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-12-24T19:24:07Z
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Shen Comix posted this and it reminded me I had a Thing to say about Fortnite: I actually didn't mind it...at first. When it was still fresh, and people were new to it.Then the insanity builders got in and made it not fun. I know no-build exists now, but...then it became The Everything Game and that just turned me off massively. And this is before we get to the point that, well, Fortnite probably funded the EGS and Epic's desire to just be absolute dicks.
(DIR) Post #Ad9Euh9wjmn80jzDtI by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-12-24T19:25:57Z
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If you like Fortnite, more power to ya, I guess. I just hate what it turned Epic into. Arguably Epic has always been kinda eh (remember when they left the PC behind and Sweeney called PC users pirates?) but Fortnite *REALLY* set them on the path of being just an overall shitty company, imo.
(DIR) Post #AdEhU32P9ftQVXu8cy by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-12-27T12:40:23Z
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To save anyone else a few hours: hey, want to use beeeeeg drives with #Windows 98? Maybe via a SATA card? Format that drive in a more modern Windows machine with guiformat first, because Win98’s built in disk formatting will absolutely flip its lid on larger drives. In my case I just used an XP live disc and let guiformat do its work and now I’ve got a 500GB drive working fine in 98 as my storage drive for games and the like. The utility: http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm#Retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #AdEhU4sCKauuCT90zo by xodium@bitbang.social
2023-12-27T12:41:38Z
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Before anyone asks: yes I tried GParted with a Linux live disc. Not sure what GParted does but it does something odd with the partitioning/formatting that causes Win98 to flip out when trying to write to the drive. So don’t do that.
(DIR) Post #AhqNlnpOfabZS7xzVo by xodium@bitbang.social
2024-05-13T09:12:02Z
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One of the fun and weird grail items I had been seeking: the #Nokia Lumia 920. Remember #Windows Phone? What a fun time that was. Kinda wish it took off more than it did but of course Microsoft kinda flubbed it.
(DIR) Post #AiIQfeKao1qoY9C4Ia by xodium@bitbang.social
2024-05-26T21:55:35Z
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@foone we can go further, have one of the bots run it through Google translate to some language then back to English before posting.
(DIR) Post #AjVJxlrvY5KQtjKTVw by xodium@bitbang.social
2024-07-02T01:06:04Z
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@foone or I’d complain about T-Mobile being utter trash and then US Cellular would try to court me despite not living anywhere near one of their service areas. Good times.
(DIR) Post #AkfWfTvNoW3TRluuVE by xodium@bitbang.social
2024-08-05T20:38:08Z
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Holy shit. After seeing what’s going on with the Ventoy “community” and Veronica Explains I think I’m comfortable moving Ventoy into my “never touching this ever” list. I agree that something ain’t right about this.
(DIR) Post #Al7hyxoZRjwrZc6JF2 by xodium@bitbang.social
2024-08-19T11:13:09Z
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And today officially marks 35 rotations around the sun for me, wooooo~*unceremoniously reaches for more ibuprofen*