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Nagaram
@nagaram.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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Tech/history/politics guy, still in his Elon hate era.

"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum." - Lucretius

Ask me what my plans are for my home server

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Found this at an Acquisition and I've never felt such a range of emotions.
IT Nightmare fuel. its a Cat5 Ethernet cable spliced onto an extender using some nice quality Wago Style connections. unfortunately this un-twists my twisted pair Ethernet cable and causes Problems TM hence, why I was rewiring this store.
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This meme made me realize you can count to 16 on 4 fingers if you're a fucking NERD
Three nerdy looking dudes walking into a bar. lead one holds up two fingers and says "three beers" the joke is he's counting in binary where a 11 equals 3 since its two active bits.
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Me after 3 weeks of meditation
A dramatic zoom in on an older man, wide eyed and engulfed in tears. His expression is not one of distress but one of beautiful understanding. Frank says "Oh my God. I get it." a feeling Mac's real father failed to grasp as Mac's interpretive dance "coming out" ceremony comes to an end. Truly an iconic moment in our cultures zeitgeist, the moment Frank Reynolds temporarily over comes his homophobia to feel the whole pain and triumph of Mac's heart. Knowing this performance is crushing the side of Mac who has longed for his birth father's approval all his life. Knowing that the Mac he's tolerated for all these years is finally becoming his true, still barely tolerable, self. We still reference this moment when absolute clarity through art and compassion overwhelms us.
October 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I'm used to seeing motorcyclists with those action cams on them now.

But I saw this older guy on a Harley with a Sony Handycam mounted to his helmet.
picture of a 2012 Sony handycam. the one with a rotating fold out screen.
August 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Final update for the server build!

I got my Cables and Kits order and its CLEAN.

Now to actually use it
10 inch 52pi Deskpi rack with 4 Raspberry pis on the top rack, a row of patch panels with 4 Ethernet cables running to the pis, a switch with all lights blinken and 3 Thinkcentre mini pcs the back of my mini rack with all the cables for the Pis and mini PCs managed and with one tail of cables coming out of it. the cables that provide power and data to the rack are all zip tied together to make one tail to make pulling the rack out of my entertainment center easier. one more view like the first one but inside my entertainment center. The red LED power lights from the PIs make this look much cooler.
August 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Does #Canada have Gideons?

I like to take their bibles when I travel. I used to just deface them, but I think having a big stack of them is way funnier and more rewarding of my travels than miles or hotel points.

#atheism #atheist #anti-theist
a stack of 3 copies of a brown pleather bound "Holy Bible" found in hotels. These are King James Bibles left by an organization called the Gideons or Litterers if you're inclined.
August 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I've been doing water colors again. I used rain water to paint a scene from our rainy drive and the beaches of lake superior reminded me of the beaches of Algiers as Albert Camus described it.

#alttext
a water color of an orange sand beach with black rocks. A sunsetting sky covers the other half of the canvas. This was inspired by a letter a the end of Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus". He writes about the beaches of Algeria where he lived and how beautiful the orange beaches were despite their black rock quarry and its litter on the beach. He mostly wrote about the native Algerians and how they partied away their youth on the beach. However he worried about their future as many spent their young years on the beach not preparing for old age or caring for the elderly. It was always hard for me to determine how much of this is romantic colonialism or him trying to make an honest criticism. I don't know if ye could differentiate the two. But Camus's beautiful language that he used to describe the beach did stick with me for some reason. A green landscape with a distant mountain. Dark clouds loom over head threatening more storms. This was based off a picture I took of a dairy pasture here in Wisconsin. I liked the vibes of it. Green and Stormy. Just as I like it. I like being in greeny nature like my native Kentucky. I've been to deserty mountains and tropical beaches, but the green tunnels and the rolling hills have always calmed me. Storms also make me feel a sense of nostalgia. It has stormed every single year I've celebrated my birthday. A divine sign? Or a happy coincidence? It doesn't matter. What matters is the rain brings me back to my childhood. back to peace.
August 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This is always a fun exchange I have in gun and carry communities
Interaction on Lemmy where a use posted "You know, you could avoid all of that by not carrying a gun. Seriously, what the fuck are you so afraid of? Have you considered a blankie or a soother? It must be so stressful to be terrified all the time." I replied "Queer person with a Mexican name in a red state. Fascists. I'm scared of fascists" and they responded with "that's fair"
July 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Ani, is in fact, Grok/Ani, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Grok plus Ani. Ani is not a waifu unto herself, but rather another companion of a fully functioning Grok system.
a picture of the Ani avatar for the twitter LLM Grok. It is a anime style image of a blonde woman with pale skin and a goth inspired strapless dress. she is holding up a finger as if to stop someone mid sentence to "um actually!" them. This was all shamelessly stolen from some guy on twitter too. I just don't respect them.
July 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This is honestly so blatant it feels like a Phishing test I would send someone.
Mastodon . @mastodonsupporting@sfba.social (@Nagaram Security Notice: Confirm Your Mastodon Account We've implemented new policies that require all users to verify their accounts. Your verification appears to be pending. Please confirm your account here: & mastodon.netprocesse.com/mx/x/... Unverified accounts risk limited access. Warm regards, Mastodon Support Team PRI IR PV )
July 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Still thinking about him. RIP Paul
Paul Harrell, a firearm, wilderness, and self defense education YouTuber, sitting on an old fallen tree with patches of snow around him and a crutch on his left side. It is a bright and sunny day. The sky is a picturesque blue with a dotting of clouds. In the background you see a landscape of the Pacific northwest, first a line of what I believe are Douglas Fir trees. then further back is a lake on the left of the image with a foothills of more trees on the other side. The image is a screenshot of Paul's final upload "I'm Dead"
June 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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He asks you out on a coffee shop date, when you meet him he immediately sets this up and starts banging out shitty python code while complaining about Michaelsoft and Gaagle like the devil.

Does he get a second date?
scene: a coffee shop table with a Thinkpad T14 propped up vertical with a terminal window showing a Neofetch screen with the PopOS logo. Below is a portable monitor second screen showing the worst python code you've ever seen. to the right of the screen is a London fog with oat milk (because I have sad tummy). below that is a thoccy keyboard and an ergonomic trackball mouse.
June 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Found a spam email in my public email's account that was trying to sell me, the lighting manager apparently, a catalog of lighting equipment.

This is how I reaponded

That's the address to CISA's office
Yes, I would love the latest product catalog. Do you need my address to mail it to me? Nagaram Smithson nags@thinkstoomuch.net CEO of Thinks Too Much Publications LLC 245 Murray Lane Washington, DC 20528
May 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New copy pasta just dropped

oh poor baby🥺🥺 do you need the robot to make you pictures? 🥺🥺 yeah? 🥺🥺do you need the bo-bot to write you essays too? yeah??? you can't do it?? 🥺🥺 you're a moron??🥺🥺 do you need chatgpt to fuck your wife too?? 🥺🥺🥺
microblog post from @peterokii shared to fuck_ai@lemmy.world by flamingos it reads oh poor baby🥺🥺 do you need the robot to make you pictures? 🥺🥺 yeah? 🥺🥺do you need the bo-bot to write you essays too? yeah??? you can't do it?? 🥺🥺 you're a moron??🥺🥺 do you need chatgpt to fuck your wife too?? 🥺🥺🥺
April 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Man, I really wish I was happy as a software guy. I really do wish I had never fallen in love with hardware. What the fuck am I going to do with this?
Picture of my server including 2 GPUs 1x 4060 8gb and 1x 3060 12gb, AMD 7302p EPYC CPU with 128 GB of ram, 37 TB of storage, 5tb SSD and 32 TB HDD
March 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM