m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@teratology @f0x @kirby
No, I mean that thing on my picture — it's just a motorised nail file, makes using it less daunting than a regular nail file. Which is important when it comes to super-fine filing/polishing because you don't even see whether you're doing something or not — until you're done 😄

@f0x @kirby @teratology
These things are rather cheap — mine is a good one, but I still got it for free by participating in a giveaway of a supermarket chain that no longer exists.
The most expensive part in them is these replacement nozzles, especially the fine-grained one.
It's not recommended to use it too often though — it might make the fingernails thinner and easier to break.

@f0x @kirby @teratology
I have this portable nail polishing thingie and there was a time when I used it often out of being bored — this made my fingernails look like those of a girl on photos, even without applying any nail polish 😂

@theorytoe
I wonder can they at least roll it back to earlier state — to the one that was the result of them training it on actual books 🤔

@xarvos @wxcafe
My thoughts exactly — I would rig it so they would NOT hire me, but so that they still somehow let me know this 😂

@donw @glyph
I've had experience working for companies in which HR was utter cancer, but technical departments were nice — but it was more than a decade ago, long before stuff like this of course.

@theorytoe @shrimp
When your cat's brain has transcended its shape and form to a point it's now considered a village in England 😆
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbrain

@theorytoe @shrimp
O-o-oh 😲
So that's what catbrained means — not that your brain is the same size as that of a cat, but that it's an actual cat 🫠

@shrimp
Wrinkoneko 😹

@kaia
It's a pity they didn't take this joke further and only few verses exist 😢

@gray
Yeah, Breloma.m0xEE.Net is hosted on a Mac Mini actually, it's very easy to tell when someone boosts my post — I can hear its fans spinning up 🤣

@gray
My MacMini has definitely seen interesting days — I've been even using it for audio recording when jamming with my friends, today it's hard to believe that we could pull it off, we've been recording two analog instruments, such as bass or guitar and mic, and a bunch of midi devices — the UI of Mac OS X got completely unresponsive, beach ball all the way — but the recording went on flawlessly 😲
Early Intel Macs weren't nearly as good at multitasking!

@gray
There was a community effort to make a modern PowerPC laptop, but I'm not sure it even made it to the prototype stage and nowadays it would take way more effort to make such a machine usable: Go isn't supported very well — even though you can get a working toolchain with gccgo, a lot of modules can't be built without quirks, Node.js doesn't support PowerPC anymore — most likely due to V8 no longer being maintained, Rust works fairly well, but you might still run into problems.

@gray
Big Endian PowerPC is also poorly supported in Go, 32-bit isn't supported at all and a lot of software is in Go nowadays 😩

@gray
Yeah, it's truly sad that PowerPC failed to take off as mainstream of at the least, enthusiast platform. I still use my PowerPC machines, my own Pemorla instance is running on an old G4 MacMini as you probably know, and I have a PowerMac G5 too.
Sadly, the life of these machines seems to be coming to an and, there seem to be bad and hard to catch bugs in kernels newer than 6.1, which make them run unstable.

@gray
But I have updated most other software in Debian it had — it even has a more or less recent GCC on it, I wasn't cross-compiling it and built it natively — took me ages 😂
I even had to use swapfile on external USB drive, it slows down to a crawl when you do this — but it was worth it, with gccgo I can build some nice software on it natively.
Oh, speaking of Go, almost forgot — it hosts Bloat too!

@gray
Sadly, it was the time when most of the development ceased. I got an Xbox, so it wasn't very useful.
Later I've found a way of using it completely headless as a VPN box and proxy — and this is where it truly got its second life, I still use it in this role, but as you can see, it does so much more now.
It's still running old 2.6 kernel with backported network subsystem, I've never found a way to append device tree and make 3.0 boot on it.

@gray
Sadly, their machines, neither ARM, nor PowerPC ones, didn't get as much community love as Raspberry Pis did.
TBH, it took me years to finally start using my EfikaMX after getting it — so there simply was no way for me to return it 😂
It didn't play well with my TV and I didn't have other HDMI displays at the time. Later I've figured out a way to work that around an I used it as a makeshift media center with TV, it had a web-based remote for Totem in Python.

…it's also connected to an amp and has cmus running on it, so I use it as a digital music player (that 5 Tb drive comes in handy), and I have a web remote for cmus too — so I can control it from phones and other such devices without having to resort to ssh, it has minidlnad running on it — so I can watch movies directly from it on DLNA-capable devices, such as abovementioned TV.
And now it hosts a dedicated ioquake3 server with CPMA too!
All that on just 512 megabytes of RAM 😲