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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
Location Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Pronouns he/him/eggs/bacon (EN)
Photography https://eh.fauxtographer.ca/@another
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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It’s called puberty, KAREN.
Nathan Fillion meme where he is about to say something then hushes himself
RELATIONSHIPS | OPINION My nephew's voice is so annoying that it literally gives me a migraine. Should I tell my sister? Ask Lisi
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@keyboards Everyone needs a quit button.
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@ZenHeathen I guess iceshrimp (the fedi stuff I am running) doesn't do quote toots in a compatible way with mastodon still. Oh well, I edited in an actual link to the original post now. Thanks for catching that.
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Here's how much I cropped in. I love having a sixty mega-pickle camera.
A tiny screen shot of the whole frame with a very small centre part marked for cropping. It represents the bee-on-flower posted at the top of this thread.
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@ZenHeathen eh.fauxtographer.ca/statuses/7653563130844291233
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After second (and third!) coffee, brunch, and a short walk down the alley I feel much better. Here are some high noon alley flowers.

eh.fauxtographer.ca/statuses/7653563130844291233
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Inconsiderate parking.

At least the closest truck was able to park mostly correct and politely.
Sidewalk blocked by several trucks that have backed into their parking spots with back ends hanging over most of the pedestrian walk way.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@the5thColumnist perhaps but leave room for others to get through. Don’t block entire lanes with the baby carriages built in the style of giant trucks or tanks. I’ll give a little bit of leeway for the doddling old folks with walkers.
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Farmers market was crowded with dawdlers today.

I’m going to carry a bike bell or maybe an air horn next time. Beep beep mother fuckers!

Maybe I need a second coffee before hitting the market next week.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@acf Today on guess-the-object. T-Shirt, frisbee, or flapjack? All this and more, stay tuned.
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@ZenHeathen We had a shamrock flowering continually for over a decade (as in it always had flowers), but it had direct window light facing south. Just let it droop dramatically before you give it more water.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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Come at me, bro. I'm fully caffeinated. Nothing can stop me now.
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@ZenHeathen Intestinal Fortitude levels at maximum and holding.
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@sexybenfranklin @nightdice Technically it's Thunderbolt, but there's quite a number of non-apple laptops that use that for power delivery and display port etc data just the same.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@sexybenfranklin @nightdice Not just portable. I got a 40 inch screen for my better half quite a few years ago and it powers her laptop plus carries display data.
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Out running errands, felt peckish. There was no gas station sushi, so I made do with a gas station egg salad sandwich.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@VickForcella @anthropy A collapsable camp chair was my goto when I did datacentre work. Just ask security to pass it through their equipment trap while you go through the person trap.

BTW, airport level security is next to nothing compared to the datacentres I've been in, fwiw.
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My C= experience started and ended with early Amiga. I had an A1000, and a friend an A500. We mostly played games but also I ran a BBS for a while (Citadel 68K, it read the whole message database into ram and did all reads from that. Only writes went to the floppy).

I have no nostalgia feelings for the C64, C128 etc machines. I have an Amiga emulator I fire up about once a year to noodle around in and that's about it.

The Callback phone does not appeal to me because I never was into the C64, but it does appeal to me because for a while about 5 years back I switched my sim over to a Nokia dumb phone to see if I could get by without all the iPhone conveniences. That didn't last too long.

I'm sure Callback will find it's niche users though. Good for them :)
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@mos_8502 The money is in services and taking a 30% cut of 3rd party sales made on those services. They want none of this kind of minimalist device.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@SecularJeffrey stop training the robot, it won’t end well for us :p
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