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I'm not even sure how I pulled it off! Was down in LA and lowballed a seller and they...accepted? They were only asking $700 initially. Up here any $700 Epilog would be gone in hours. Not listed unsold for weeks.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 14h

A lot of the CO2 fun is the power increase is pretty significant. They're rated on power output whereas diodes are typically rated on power input.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 14h

I managed to pick up a Mini 12x24 45W for $500. Part of the Legend Series. Having one of the newer Fusions with the camera would be *amazing* for being able to do indexing and whatnot with the camera. But man, are they expensive.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 14h

One day I may even move into 3D printing!

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 14h

Back in my ~laser cutter era~ now that I have the Epiilog. Because wow does this machine *slap*.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 29/09/2026

Worth noting this is *not* my car I'm just the person brave enough to hop in and drive a free car from LA to Sacramento. We'd actually got over 200 miles without issue before...this. 40 miles in 8 hours, before towing it.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 29/09/2026

But don't worry you can just fix your car in a parking lot if you believe

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 29/09/2026

and we discovered it was "out of gas" just below half a tank because, of course, the fuel pump is no good, too.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 29/09/2026

until it didn't, 30 miles later.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 29/09/2026

If you aren't fixing your car on the side of interstate 5, are you living?

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 28/09/2026

unironically aliexpress is better for this stuff ime

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 28/09/2026

Someone left a cabbage at our maker faire booth

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 21/09/2026

Somehow this got better with a trackball. Like, way more usable than a mouse or trackpad.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 21/09/2026

Trying to learn autocad (2D) and this is one of the most infuriating programs I've ever tried to use

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Simulacra of a Girl @gewt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

odd phone i found at ewaste. 500-set with retrofitted touch tone dial pad bell system property stamp intact. not modular

near as i can tell, 500-set telephone retrofitted with touch tone display. bell system property badging. not modular

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!

WE SEE NANCY’S FACE.
SH IS SMILING AND VERY HAPPY
TO SEE EVERYONE
NANCY WISHES YOU A HAPPY FRIDAY

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 17/09/2026

(KDVS is the UC Davis radio station)

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 17/09/2026

My favorite DJ Shadow lore is he was a KDVS DJ in the 90s.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 16/09/2026

I'm very much not religious at all, but I can admire good gospel vs "klove slop" style music. Stuff in the style of TL Barrett actually slaps and you can definitely tell the influence true gospel had on music. White Person Klove Slop never will be influential.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 16/09/2026

I was misshipped a pair of Big Flush Cutters and I didn't realize Big Flush Cutters were an option.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 15/09/2026

Cool the mounting holes more or less work. A silkscreen issue over there on the left but that's whatever. Just need the rest of the parts!

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 15/09/2026

I miss when my fastrak transponder went beep

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 14/09/2026

Looking like a total crackhead buying an 18 gallon tote of cable from a recycler. But I want to make power stringers! And these are all 7' sections of 10/3!

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 13/09/2026

A fun fact about the Ernest payphones is they don't use a rechargeable battery for programming like Elcotel or Protel; they use a pair of Dallas NVRAM chips.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 13/09/2026

Welp after a year it's lost the programming again. At some point I should repair the Dallas chips.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 12/09/2026

For those of you who complain about like 1080p feeling crowded after moving to 1440 or whatever: Have you tried turning off UI scaling? I feel like most of y'all are running default 125% or whatever and that's your problem.

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(🖬🖫). ₍^. .^₎⟆ @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 11/09/2026

Never Forget - Tad Cronn (2001, Bryce 3D)

its a bryce rendering from 2001 with a muscle guy in tattered jeans, with chest painted in american flag holding up a sword cursing the sky, the twin towers burn behind him wile 3 bubbles show.. george w bush, a soldier? and firefighters carrying a cask from the rubble. there is a giant waving flag behind everything, and red text 'never forget 9-11-01' above. a single cheesy photoshop lens flare is placed on the sword.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

Actively looking for more drums to do more colors with this thing. We can use you.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

Thankfully both @clintonoddfellow.bsky.social and I are familiar with the type of machine this is and how to run it.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

Also working on getting the drum cleaned up a bit. Running random stuff through is working but might need to open it and alcohol off the dried ink. Also bought new ink, at least it's cheap for this. Master cutter also was faulting at one point but opening and cleaning seems to have fixed that.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

Can you believe this thing has 3.3 MILLION pages on it? It definitely got used. Still working, but we're currently still debugging *everything*. Think we got the paper separation adjustment fixed finally so it doesn't just jam immediately.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

(We found another machine for sale)

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

discussing ways of doing multiple colors I like this idea

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

I bought a Risograph and now I'm looking at buying *other* paper handling equipment I'm just going to start a printshop at this rate.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

The real fun of How It's Made is seeing how much industry there really is in Canada

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

And the excuse is always something like "One part got too expensive" or "I'm working on a new design [8 years ago]"

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 10/09/2026

One of my favorite parts of Vintage Computing is people will release something, make like one batch, then never-ever make another or release the files.

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Chris Satterfield @compgeke.com · 08/09/2026

It wasn't listed in the spec sheet, but excitingly the projector here supports XTP input natively over the ethernet connector. That was a cool menu find.

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