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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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There are way more opinions about vibe coding then there are facts.
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Feb 10, 2026
@isaiah@mastodon.social vibe fact = hallucination
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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here people have been looking for years and turns out it was in the Walmart parking lot
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@sarae@ecoevo.social @troublewithwords@wandering.shop That took me a moment. Of course, most men will never find it.
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Jan 23, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online some men have been looking in the wrong places.
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Heading into the grocery store to get the standard “bread and milk” ahead of the giant storm. Wish me luck.
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Current status.
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Thomas Brand
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Jan 22, 2026
@gedeonm@mastodon.social your grocery shopping experience is very different than mine. I usually bathe at home.
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"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." -
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@flargh@mastodon.social I am too dumb to run the machines.
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu I used that box as a monitor stand for years.
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online that box was quickly replaced by this box.
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New Humane Pin about to drop… Funny how this one will actually be useful because apple wholly owns the platform and can cripple anyone they feel may be a threat… or even just on a humbug. https://mast
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Jan 21, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online "Can I eat this?"
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New Humane Pin about to drop… Funny how this one will actually be useful because apple wholly owns the platform and can cripple anyone they feel may be a threat… or even just on a humbug. https://mast
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online but will it count my almonds?
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It’s adorable that chick thinks she’ll be running Venezuela because she gifted* the president a medal. * this is illegal for the president to accept, but hey, laws are for pussies. When you’re rich, t
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Jan 17, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online hey it worked for Tim Apple.
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[re: astro the js framework] “Websites that rely heavily on JavaScript for initial rendering often struggle to deliver the required speed, which hinders search rankings and customer conversions.” Well
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online this never would have happened with gopher.
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Jan 17, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online sometimes I wonder if we choose poorly. If what we thought was just HTML/CSS/JS was really someone's Flash.
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[re: astro the js framework] “Websites that rely heavily on JavaScript for initial rendering often struggle to deliver the required speed, which hinders search rankings and customer conversions.” Well
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online this never would have happened with gopher.
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu @johnbrayton@iosdev.space Whoa! 😳 That’s a crazy cool program! Wow! And very kind of you! ❤️ They wouldn’t even accept me as a janitor! 🤣 I’m as dumb as a post! (Maybe dum
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe @johnbrayton@iosdev.space Also “Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025.”
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu @johnbrayton@iosdev.space HOLY SHIT! That’s incredible! I’m an advocate for free state university for anyone, but to see one of the best universities on the planet offer
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe countries like Denmark already do this. I am ready for Greenland to take over us.
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu @johnbrayton@iosdev.space Whoa! 😳 That’s a crazy cool program! Wow! And very kind of you! ❤️ They wouldn’t even accept me as a janitor! 🤣 I’m as dumb as a post! (Maybe dum
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe @johnbrayton@iosdev.space
Also “Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025.”
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been doing an hour or two of pair programming with my son each day, then setting him off to go write more tests to break my template parsing engine. each day my requests get a bit more hands off. so f
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amazingly, he seems utterly unfazed by square brackets or other old-world C/C++/Obj-C syntax shenanigans. it’s really amazing how far he’s come a a developer in the last few years of university.
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@isaiah@mastodon.social Your Head & Sons
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@jblake@mastodon.social @Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu @marioguzman@mastodon.social I focussed in on that as well 🤣
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @jblake@mastodon.social @marioguzman@mastodon.social I'm holding it wrong.
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@marioguzman@mastodon.social ::monkey paw closes::
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @marioguzman@mastodon.social my life has gone downhill since Macworld 2012.
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I should not be oiling these on this rug, but here we are.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online best to oil in the nude. Less mess.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online oiled Caucasian is blinding. How do you think I lost my vision?
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Nakashima chairs 3 and 4 are done with round 1 of 3 of oiling. They’re so thirsty.
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Terrible photo, but this is one. The shiny/reflective quality is the oil. That will be almost entirely absorbed overnight. There are no nails in the creation of these chairs. They’re American black wa
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I should not be oiling these on this rug, but here we are.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online best to oil in the nude. Less mess.
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honestly, the hand wringing over Apple's new Creator Studio app icons is the most cringe shit I've seen in tech this week. Judge the apps by their utility, you absolutely superficial, bitchy motherfuc
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu all in one app! It’s a phone, an internet communi… wait. Nevermind.
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Jan 13, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online and a Word Processor, and a Spreadsheet, and a Database, and Drawing, and Painting...
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I got a meat grinder attachment for my KitchenAid mixer for Christmas, and every time I use it I start humming "Another Brick In the Wall."
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@jamesthomson@mastodon.social James, thanks for the lead. I must have hallucinated the design I really liked because I cannot find it again. What I saw was a color version of Classic MacOS but the but
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe In that case, I'm not sure. Even Mac OS X Server, the predecessor to Mac OS X which had the platinum interface, was pretty pixelated. Maybe a third party theme for Mac OS X?
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@jamesthomson@mastodon.social Or I’m misremembering. Totally possible.
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Jan 12, 2026
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe @jamesthomson@mastodon.social there are certainly a lot of choices! @macthemes@social.erambert.me
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I'm proud to say I stopped using Twitter before it turned into a Nazi bar, let alone a child pornography generator
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Jan 11, 2026
@flargh@mastodon.social I like to stick to the wholesome social networks like Ashley Madison.
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I saw a screenshot of an older Mac OS a few months back and I absolutely loved the design. Was there a version of Mac OS, based on the pre-OS X codebase, that never shipped? I wish we could move more
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Jan 11, 2026
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe if only we had stayed in the Yellow Box.
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I’ve got Live Picture, KPT Bryce, Strata Studio Pro, Alien Skin photoshop filters, Infini•D… You want it? I got it.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online do you have the latest Serial Surfer?
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Ok, who wants in on my Hotline server? I’ve got all the cracks and warez.
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I’ve got Live Picture, KPT Bryce, Strata Studio Pro, Alien Skin photoshop filters, Infini•D… You want it? I got it.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online do you have the latest Serial Surfer?
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And yes, in 2026, I am disappointed by the people whom I know that work at Apple (I donnow if I know any googlers anymore). They’re talented enough to get a job anywhere, and yet… And it’s not like th
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Jan 09, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online Simone has to design the Trump trophies.
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We’re all collectively not going to see the Melania film coming out shortly, right? I’m seeing a lot of marketing about it on TV. But we’re not gonna go see it. Not even ‘ironically’*. Not because ‘I’
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I'm curious to see who plays Epstein in the documentary.
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after my accident i was stuck mostly working from bed for almost 9 months. ugh! i got very accustomed to the all day battery of my MacBook. and winter is coming: the imminent end of Intel support. hac
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@isaiah@mastodon.social M1 or M2 MacBook Pro that dual boots into Asahi and doesn't need to boot into Tahoe is the sweet spot. If you go back to Intel you will think your Mac is broken, plus most late
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu i skipped all the shitty intel laptops in the 2010s. i went from a 2010 macbook directly to an M1 macbook air. in the interim years i used either a cheese grater mac pro
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Same opinion: "personal opinion: butterfly macbooks were trash from day 1."
I went from a 2010 Mac Pro to a Hackintosh.
I had a MacBook Escape for a little while at work, but have been butting Linux more than Mac OS since Mavericks stopped being supported.
Work got me a M1 MacBook Pro upon their release. The hardware is amazing, but after the release of Ventura I really wish I could just run Debian/Fedora full time.
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my hackintosh is so fucking fast. it hurts me how much faster than my apple silicon machine it is. even with a GPU that’s 10 years old the graphics on the hackintosh are jaw dropping — even with two 4
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after my accident i was stuck mostly working from bed for almost 9 months. ugh! i got very accustomed to the all day battery of my MacBook. and winter is coming: the imminent end of Intel support. hac
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@isaiah@mastodon.social M1 or M2 MacBook Pro that dual boots into Asahi and doesn't need to boot into Tahoe is the sweet spot. If you go back to Intel you will think your Mac is broken, plus most late Intel MacBooks can't easily dual boot Linux.
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Imagine for a moment, an entire group of people *elected you to represent them* in a legislative body… And you just don’t vote on a bill… You have ONE JOB!!
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Jan 08, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online BUT I'M OWNING THE LIBS!
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@tankgrrl@hachyderm.io Our HOA recently voted to shrink the number of houses that are allowed to be rentals, specifically because of this/AirBnB bullshit.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online so they are forcing you to close the massage parlor?
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Need to get a new trackball mouse. What's the current hotness, preferably macOS driver-friendly (or at least not as ass-sucking bad as Kensington and Logitech's)
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu looks like quite an ergonomic upgrade from what I'm using
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Jan 07, 2026
@flargh@mastodon.social bigger ball...
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Need to get a new trackball mouse. What's the current hotness, preferably macOS driver-friendly (or at least not as ass-sucking bad as Kensington and Logitech's)
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I don’t know about y’all but when it comes to changing around my dev environment I just avoid it. I’m too old to futz up my work box. 😂
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe the work box in question...
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe NICE JOYSTICK
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I don’t know about y’all but when it comes to changing around my dev environment I just avoid it. I’m too old to futz up my work box. 😂
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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What goes great withe lentil stew? Dumping a few lumps of St. Agur (strong flavoured medium soft blue cheese)
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EAT THE FUNK
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Jan 06, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online but I am a Pescatarian.
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I’m burnt out.
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Jan 05, 2026
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe holiday break is only 360 days away!
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I’m actually low-key mad they took away our POTS line and switched it with what’s basically a VOIP gateway. The POTS was reliable. In the entire time I’ve been in this country, it has never gone down.
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Jan 04, 2026
@octothorpe@mastodon.online now how are you going to send a fax in a storm?
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu @CStamp@mastodon.social Do you do the Kate Bush dance as well?
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @CStamp@mastodon.social do you wanna hear how it feels?
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I already fucked the resolution I made. I’m trying to sleep at reasonable hours, as it is totally affecting my mental and physical health. Of course, I get to try again every night, but that I couldn’
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Growing up outside the US, but around a lot of USians, this image encapsulates a very specific mid 1980s American ideal in my head. https://www.tumblr.com/springbreak1984/804577805805453312
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I didn't know you could ride a bike?
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu I mean, there is a lot of stuff you don’t know about me :-) But yeah, there was a time where I was into freestyle/BMX stuff, and even helped a friend build a quarterpipe.
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Growing up outside the US, but around a lot of USians, this image encapsulates a very specific mid 1980s American ideal in my head. https://www.tumblr.com/springbreak1984/804577805805453312
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I didn't know you could ride a bike?
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neighbor update: 4 roided up dudebros wearing backwards caps, have been listening to loud angry hip hop and playing beer pong without rest for over 5 hours straight. i’m not making this up: five. hour
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@isaiah@mastodon.social so worse than the garage sale?
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I wish I understood why, but no matter how good the fit of the tips, I can't wear earbuds for longer than an hour or so without getting a massive headache. My ear anatomy is just not compatible with h
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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You know where to find me from May to July I'm on the sidewalk chillin lookin' all kinds of fly sometimes I get low, sometimes I get high I like rainbow sprinkles on my ice cream pie https://youtu.be/
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💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Thomas Brand
@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu
💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@flargh@mastodon.social Barnstable is a magical place!
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu My first Mac was a Quadra 650 that was ordered as a Centris 650 (they discontinued the centris midway through my fulfilment). Thanks MIT Student Discount!! Prior to that,
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I didn't know you were a MIT student. I thought you were a RSID student.
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu nope. Undergrad and masters. In too few years. I still have PTSD.
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu
💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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Thomas Brand
@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu
💻 Endpoints Engineer @ MIT 👣 GNOME on Debian Trixie 🪟 Sway on Fedora Atomic 🍏 PowerPC Mac Enthusiast 📝 Vim is my Text Editor 💿 Navidrome Not Spotify 🖥️ Proxmox System Admin 🎻 Vivaldi World Wide Web 🦅 BSA Eagle Scout 👟 15+ Boston Marathons 👁️ Visually Impaired (LHON) 🎶 NIN Tool Bauhaus TheCure 🐢 I Like Snapping Turtles
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online handsome and an engineer. What's not to love.
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