in case anyone'ss interested in an update on this as I've seen interactions on this old skeet lately:Five Below offered a $25 tablet last year, and it's horrible, but charming. Its only job atm is as a dedicated PDF reader for breadmaker recipes and running one game incompatible with 64 bit android

My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.

deathgenerator.com

Morbid curiosity got the best of me and I bought the $25 Android tablet Five Below had for Black Friday. My favorite detail is you can see the exact outline of where the motherboard ends and they tapered in the shell to save 5¢ of plastic. It plays OSRS/Goat Simulator though so I'm happy with it.

It's great that the Discourse™ right now boils down to someone saying "it's wild that ice cream in moderation is relatively good for you as a snack, and even weirder how mad some people get when you mention it."

Followed by one guy getting unreasonably mad about it

yeah

I may be personally biased because I work in tech but a LOT of the individual engineers are fundamentally decent people who are also skeptical of how this stuff is being used

but they are not the decision makers, and the bosses have used the last couple years to aggressively limit their power

ME: posts “i am going to overdose on gas station dick pills and use my boner to vault my body into a volcano”

SOME DIPSHIT WHO JUST STOPPED RIDING ELON MUSK’S BABYDICK IN THE PAST MONTH WITH NO LESS THAN 60 FLAG EMOJIS IN THEIR BIO: that’s not physically possible

“bluesky is an echochamber” dude i want to go on social media to talk to my friends, vent about work, and look at taylor swift. the goal was never to be inundated with crypto scams, porn bots, and engagement farming assholes paying to have their rage bait boosted

This is probably too niche an opinion for most people to care about, but looking at SSDs made me realize we really need to come up with a max height standard for heatsinks on m.2 drives. Lookit this ridiculous thing, that's not fitting in half the spots they pot m.2 sockets these days.

I’m not quote posting Frum but the important thing to realize about everyone telling you that you have to seek out and engage with people you fundamentally disagree with is: no you don’t

that’s not your job, that’s not your responsibility as a human, you can just… not

Me, two years ago: ooh, a bug in my SSD's firmware causes it to go read-only prematurely unless I apply a patch? Well I've downloaded the fix now so I'll get around to it next time I reboot or whatever.

Narrator: He did not, in fact, get around to it.

Gonna be a fun weekend fixing this.

This is how legends are born

if you were really ready you'd have bought the white nikes and got on the spaceship behind that comet, wtf did you think that shit was here for

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

And there are still people out there telling us the Cthulhu mythos 'isn't real'

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

Aight I'm just gonna say it: I'm tired of pretending Dave & Buster's isn't one of the best ways to blow an evening with some good friends. I don't know who convinced me it was "too dorky" to suggest as an activity, but that stops today.

Over on Mastodon, which has a Kind of Person, I made these images to attach to help people manage replies.

Album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F

I really wanted an invite code to be part of the cool kids' table here, then I realized I didn't have much to actually say 😅 Ah well, nice to be here y'all!