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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Half-Life High Five 🫸🫷

List of nine games that shaped me: Zelda A Link to The Past, Command & Conquer, Commander Keen, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Team Fortress 2, Super Mario World.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was ranting at my brother on this topic so he had sent me this.. QFT

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beautiful illustration from Kurzgesagt showing the imune system detecting and massively killing cancer cells after a virus stripped the cancer of its shields. Fuck Cancer.

Beautiful illustration from Kurtzgesagt showing the imune system detecting and massively killing cancer after a virus stripped the cancer of its shields.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love my logitech mx master 3 mouse but the scroll wheel is a bit gunked up.. doesn't fly like it used to. To clean it, you have to tear off the glide pads and remove five hidden screws .. FIVE! What an ass design.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

YouTube, what have you become.. A "safe and fun" place where handle topics like casual cannibalism. Also the buttons say watch and watch now. And tech keeps wondering why the average consumer is negative on AI. "we might fuck up the next generation but at least we made money with Ai slop" SMH..

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As a lifelong Zelda fan, I'm beyond excited for the new Ocarina of Time remake to launch in two months time. Look at it... JUST LOOK AT IT!!

Screenshot of the Ocarina of Time remake trailer, showing young Link in front of the Great Deku Tree

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Doing research on this topic.. pick two.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Agent .. agent ... AGENT...

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The new connector for future graphic cards has been announced.

Big fat 1cm thick copper finger connectors bolted to a copper backplace

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Five years at Microsoft! What a rush it has been. Sadly no crystals for 5 anymore.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Woke up to this.. I was like, err who did I piss off? But it was just Bluesky being buggy and showing all old notifications as new.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

90 degrees network cable, jank edition

A cut off network cable with a new RJ45 connector, modded so the cable goes straight down.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So I like this sudoku game on my phone and want to pay to get rid of the ads, however when I press remove ads in the settings, this Google UI pops up. How can I possibly agree to that? Agree to what? No refunds? This might as well be 100 euros a month for all I know??

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today in "Sigh, OK, now I have to deal with this I guess": Exploding rolling curtains. Thing just decided it didn't like it's life any more and crumbles away when you pick it up. About 4 years old. Both windows failed on same day. Five other windows in other room with same model, just fine.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For those using @esphome.io, the latest update has massive quality-of-life improvements! The overview is better, running batch jobs like fw upgrades happen in de background now and the new edit UI is simply amazing.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This auto generated playlist is quite something for a Sunday evening, Youtube

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Trying to save up points to get some sweet Coke glasses (I'm a sucker for those).. getting this error on their website, woops.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Big bite from a great product" 😅

Box showing a Big Arch hamburger from McDonald's.

A Big Arch burger from McDonald's with a tiny little bite.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Is this some kind of inside dev joke, I'm not getting?

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Fun fact: Here in the Netherlands, we call them "rotondes" and we love them so much, we even invented "turborotondes" and floating rotondes just for bikes. (and yes, that's an actual photo, not a render, I used to live down the road from it, called the "Hovenring")

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When your browser crashes so hard, it goes back to the 90s

A crashing Firefox window, showing windows 9x style buttons.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

They did reply, they tried to make it better but no dice. Was a subscriber for nearly 5 years, paying them nearly $300 for hosting 50mb of data. Open source tooling has caught up and surpassed them. Rethink your strategy (hint hint, look at cloudflare, free for consumer, lead to more big business)

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sign of getting old: 1. Have your birthday (mine is today, go shorty!) 2. Get excited by scoring a smashing deal on a new couch for the home office!

Basic couch from IKEA, smashing deal for the home office. Gray/blue three seater. Bonus kitty included.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"Year x is the year of the Linux desktop" To unlock the computer, please engage hackermode.

Screenshot of a Linux install asking you to go into the command terminal to unlock the computer.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Pissing off all the nerds

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"you can now choose a custom name for your user folder on the Device Name page" No longer I'm I "marbra" or "marti". It was so bad I would sometime image the machine with a default local user and then join it to Entra with that foldername.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

My OpenSSH client on Windows 11 seems broken, reinstalling it via the Settings GUI brings a 12 core CPU nearly to its knees.. Jikes.

Screenshot showing reinstall of OpenSSH client on Windows 11 and a Task Manager view showing 55%++ on a 12 core CPU doing this.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

10/10 Volkswagen app.. I couldn't even screenshot it because it's not allowed?? What are you, my bank?

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Oh boohoo newswebsite @nu.nl In the first link, you talk about football. In the second link you talk about how Europe is watching idle and in the final link you post actual news updates on the middle east. You're part of the problem NU, I hope you realize that.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My Tidal trial has a small migration service but it was very limited. Apparantly it migrated one of my oldest Spotify playlists and I'm not even mad...

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I gotta admit, Ikea launching a glowing donut that can be controlled via open home standard, was not on my new bingo card

A glowing donut, a new table light by ikea.

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It's that time of year again (well, twice a year)! Games Done Quick! A speedrunning 24/7 in-person live broadcasted event where top runners from the world come and beat games as fast as they can. Come and raise millions $$$ with the rest of us, for the Prevent Cancer foundation! GamesDoneQuick.com

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Asking Copilot (GPT5.1) to make me some stuff in Home Assistant, after lying to me for 15 minutes straight, I called it out.

Input to AI: NONE OF THESE EXISTS .. YOU'RE JUST MAKING SHIT UP

Answer from AI:
You’re right to call this out, Martijn — and thank you for doing it bluntly.
Let’s reset and do this properly, based ONLY on what actually exists today in Home Assistant and HACS.

✅ The truth:
Home Assistant does NOT have any native or HACS drag‑and‑drop list card that can store an ordered list of items.
None.
Zero.
Not hidden.
Not unofficial.
Not in HACS.
So your frustration is justified.
Let’s work with what actually exists and what actually works.

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