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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 19h

I feel myself growing more interested in computers again now that I've found out about bootleg junk NOAC-based laptops which lead me to find out about the BOOK386 and now I want both of them for my pile of weird and unusual laptops. They're $300 and $220 respectively so, you know, one day, but still

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They call it Star Fox 64 because that's the amount of times they've remade it

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you're reading a story set somewhere the author isn't from and then the author slips up and you instantly clock them. There's multiple TADC fics written by Brits and I can tell because in one, Jax talks about taking her A-levels, and in another Zooble calls themselves knockoff Meccano.

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Indie! @indiealpa.ca · 28/09/2026

Ok I had to get the DS version too for the Rasta wolf

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My family is convinced I'm going to throw out my back with my 27" Trinitron, but in reality I've never so much as gotten a sprain from it, I make sure to engage in proper posture when picking it up and lifting with my legs. On the other hand,

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The most surprised I've been recently was expressing anti-AI sentiments and getting backlash for it in a communist space.

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Wubbles @wubbwarg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI comic

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✨Amethyst 🔮✨ @amethystcrystals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To anyone still defending Zohran Mamdani at this point, I urge you to think about the fact that those anti-genocide protestors are real people with lives, not to mention, they are going way more out of their way for Palestine than Mamdani has ever done.

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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Oh the wondrous things that could have been.

An edited version of the Suikoden screenshot showing Final Fantasy VII rendered in the same style. The screen shows the famous "this guy are sick" scene.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Computer Clan @computerclan.com · 25/09/2026

Ahh, old-school Apple boxes with lifestyle photos. ❤️

An old Apple iBook box (I think around 2001-ish?) featuring a close-up photo of a person wearing a denim jacket holding the white laptop. On the flap above the photo there's old Apple icons for iMovie, iTunes, iTools, and AirPort.

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow, Ida Red is way harder to sing than you'd think, Bob's a motormouth for sure.

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I absolutely loathe diskette images, man. Why the hell is it still just as hard to deal with them as it was in 2008. I should be able to mount this .img file, copy some files over, unmount it, and open it up in 86box but nooooooooo it can't possibly be that easy because it's legally mandated that

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

the easiest, simplest, and best LLM policy is still, and will forever remain, "no, fuck you, don't use it".

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Mac Themes Garden @macthemes.garden · 24/09/2026

Granite Ocean - Simon Lawson and Words Unlimited macthemes.garden/themes/677677fb1aa…

A preview of the Mac theme "Granite Ocean" by "Simon Lawson and Words Unlimited"

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chirping bird @chrpngbrd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is incredibly fascinating and the implications this has for treating neurological diseases like ALS is enormous. two minute read. amazing stuff. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

med.stanford.edu

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 24/09/2026

I appreciate things like Steam mandating AI slop disclosures because I've learned that some people are about as trustworthy owning up to pushing slop as predators are with consent. Funny how those two things seem to fit together.

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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why is 1200 pixels so short? 1080 is still the default and yet 1200 pixels is barely enough for two embeds on Discord... I have my 4K monitor set to scale equivalent to 2400x1600 and it's so much better so it's not like I'm spoiled by 3840x2560 or whatever (I mean, I slightly am).

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have lovingly given my 8400 GS some Arctic MX-4.

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Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

to all the guys who can't remember a thing about your early life but can still play all your favorite childhood video games from muscle memory: pghrt.diy

pghrt.diy

A Practical Guide To Feminizing HRT

The futile attempt at answering every possible question for someone looking to trans their sex.

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Frozen Ocelot @frozenocelot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once again a reminder. Don't give them a damn thing and CANCEL YOUR NITRO!

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wish to answer some of the greatest questions of our time: What IS with these homies dissing my girl? Why DO they have to front?

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why are these Chicago traffic cops so insistent on killing themselves just to arrest me, even if I'm going 129 in a 25 in my 99 Eldo and got into several t-bone and head-ons before, there isn't anyone on the road + the jumped bridge, while sick, did take out a cop car that wasn't nearly cool enough.

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Currently downloading just about every story off ffn that I've ever read just to have backups of a lot of the stuff that helped to form who I am now in case it ever does go down, and possibly to try to rediscover who I used to be, especially before my mid-late teens radically changed me.

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Huh, I just noticed I have a lot of MSI cards. I don't know why, I don't really have brand loyalty to them or anything, but I have an MSI: 8400 GS GT 640 GTX 660 GTX 970 and maybe one of my Radeons?

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Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca · 19/09/2026

It's almost that time of year again 🍂

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Truer words have NEVER been spoken

"bossa nova sounds so good when you dont have a bitch in your ear telling you its elevator music.mid"

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hardware market so fucked I bought a GeForce 8400 GS

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And so I've now taken in my very shiny and new-smelling GeForce 8400 GS I ended up winning for an uncontested $10 (including shipping and tax) and am gonna be throwing in my FX-6100 box to serve as minimum hardware for framerate qualification for Age of Rail... if it gets over 120 on this it's good.

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah I have AGP Accelerated Graphics Port

Joytech Apollo Radeon 7500 SDR. I own a card exactly like this. It's roughly GeForce2 GTS-equivalent, only slightly worse because NVIDIA was the king of compatibility post-2000.

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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

all the love you gave away will find its way back to you

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some fun phrases to start fights at your next function: "Yeah, I'm a pick player" "Systemd isn't really that bad" "I like my chicken medium-rare"

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big fan of when bands put on historical fashion to play music that is decidedly not of that era. E.g.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbKj...

youtube.com

Paul McCartney & Wings - Goodnight Tonight (Remastered Music Video)

YouTube video by Kitsu Beatles

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's my policy to NEVER, REGARDLESS OF MANUFACTURER use any "built-in" apps of a television. The set comes out of the box and is never directly connected to the internet. But seemingly that's not even enough if a TV is scanning for unsecured networks to connect to. What's the fix, Faraday cages?

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 08/09/2026

I wish people understood things

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 08/09/2026

I know this sounds crazy but I think we have too many products

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April Showers @bringmayflowers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Someone lied to me in like 2013 that widow's peaks were a male thing and I only just realized that I've totally seen cis women with widow's peaks before. Like Marilyn Monroe.

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