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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Once again, I have stayed up for far longer than I should've, gng. 😴

The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

This reminds me of a very bizarre time when on Google Maps, the 'Mayr Field' in Freedom Park (Leesburg, Virginia) was misnamed as 'Hyrule Field'. It's no longer a listed location on Google Maps for obvious reasons, but I still have two images from the time to show that this was in fact very real.

Google Maps view of """""Hyrule Field""""" in 101 Colonel Grenata Circle,, Leesburg, Virginia 20175

Angelo ARGOLO
a week ago

(Translated by Google) I don't know how to explain... I saw a boy with ears and elf clothes and far away I saw a castle
inside there was a princess... Who was talking about a guy called "Ganondorf"

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

I would give context, but I won't... for now. 🙂

A still of the title card from Michael Rosen's 'The Car Trip' (HD version) humorously stretched and cropped to only show Michael and the letter 'p'

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Believe me, out of all the things on my mind at the time, DDoS attacks wasn't particularly high. Especially with all of this going on...

Sorry, due to AI crawler spam, access to page history and other special functionalities have been temporarily disabled for guests. See also: CrawlerProtection and BlockAI; it's pretty bad :(

You can create a new account or log in. Sorry for the trouble.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Miku's birthday is a constant in life, either that or me being a bit late to it. 🙃 #Vocaloid #VocaloidArt #MikuArt #MikuFanart #MikuBirthday

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Welp, tcrf just died. Add that to this week's death toll.

The connection has timed out

The server at tcrf.net is taking too long to respond.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

TIL Gentoo #linux is named after a real world breed of penguin.

Gentoo penguin on the Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

#pikmin OG's will remember something similar to this happening in 2023.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

That's the second time Internet Archive just collapsed in the span of a few days. 🙃

Temporarily Offline

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Please check our official accounts, including (The social media platform that shall not be named), Bluesky, or Mastodon for the latest information.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

Well then, Internet Archive has folded in on itself like a cheap chair once again and only when I was considering writing this post has it mostly recovered.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Strangest occurrence I've had in a long while.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Has the exact same energy as this random screenshot I found years ago online.

98% remaining
Your battery is low (98%). If you need to continue using your computer, either plug in your computer, or shut it down and then charge the battery.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Today's photos: Clouds and crepuscular rays

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

This just in for a quick little update, I noticed that GNU GRUB can be displayed in the GPU's state of confusion with a garbled color palette.

GNU GRUB version 2.14

*Try or Install Ubuntu Unity
Ubuntu Unity (safe graphics)
Boot from next volume
UEFI Firmware Settings

Use the 🔼 and 🔽 keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before booting or 'c' for a command-line.

This screen normally displays with black, gray/grey, and white. However, here those were replaced with light red, indigo, and beige respectively.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Accidentally stumbled into some bizarre Easter egg in the Microsoft Store if it is running on an older version.

Microsoft Store

We're sorry
This website needs a newer browser to work properly.
You're accessing the Microsoft Store on the web, the place to find apps and games for your PC.

Your browser is out of date
Update your browser to view apps, games, and more.

Update now
Open Store app

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

So I decided to disable Compatibility Support Module on my main PC so I can assure I am using EFI boot, but I wasn't expecting THIS. For some reason, doing this made my GPU output some absurd stuff while it shouldn't be receiving an image signal.

Red Screen, default for this configuration.

Pinstripes with a magenta rectangle in the middle, seen during the BIOS startup screen with this configuration.

Pastel pinstripes with a magenta rectangle in the middle, seen during the BIOS startup screen with this configuration.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

Anyways, I caught a moth. They're such oddly elegant creatures.

A more face-first angle shot of the moth

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

Just barely caught this out of the corner of my eye. I was just browsing TCRF when all of a sudden... 2:60!

stageselect_e3_2006
Audio player widget portraying a timestamp of 2 minutes and 60 seconds.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

Yesterday I spent a bit of time getting my Asteroids clone that used to be Windows exclusive to build and run on Linux. It didn't take very long to do so as it was already abstracted from the OS and hardware using raylib . I just needed to update the build configuration to support Linux builds.

"RLZenAsteroid by NMc/AstralSnowstorm" being run on Fedora Linux 44 KDE Plasma Desktop Edition

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026

Well that's just great. Time for a reinstall that I didn't see coming in advance. 🫠

BusyBox v1.36.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.36.1-6ubuntu3.1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

This clearly demonstrates why you should NEVER take anything you see online for granted, as ANY of it can suddenly become lost media in the blink of an eye if you aren't careful.

Where Did the OIIA Meme Come From?
Title of a now lost video by NetLore.

Video was not available
No video found for [EbaQ5sYYqHE]

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026

Just ran a memory test to make sure my RAM wasn't inexplicably broken. Spoiler alert, it wasn't.

MemTest86 V10.6 Free (Build: 2000) Result summary
PassMark Software
www.passmark.com

Test Start Time : 2026-03-26 16:09:08
Elapsed Time : 2:00:13
CPUs Active : 4
CPU Temperature (Min/Max/Ave) : 66C/96C/86V
RAM Temperature (Min/Max/Ave) : 0C/0C/0C
# Tests Completed : 31/48 (64%)
# Tests Passed : 31/31 (100%)

Lowest Error Address : N/A
Highest Error Address : N/A
Bits in Error Mask : 0000000000000000
Bits in Error : Total: 0 Min: 0 Max: 0 Avg: 0
Max Contiguous Errors : 0

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 01/02/2026

Someone had made a Morshu TTS program, and you know I had to goof around with it myself. github.com/n0spaces/Mor...

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 29/01/2026

⚠️ TW: Flashing Lights ⚠️ Out of all possible occurrences that I could've experienced today, Minecraft Java Edition having a complete crap fart was not one of them.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 12/12/2025

Bob Pony already made a prior post addressing this. And trust me, from my experience, this post isn't even remotely exhaustive, there's plenty more reasons why you should not tell random people without knowledge of their technical know how to just 'use Linux'.

Bob Pony @bobpony.com 12/13/2023
Not every Windows user can switch to Linux.

Good luck getting Windows only made drivers and modern Windows software to work in Linux without using a Windows VM.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 12/12/2025

This, ladies and gentlemen, perfectly demonstrates why you should NEVER EVER do server side product authentication. Doing so pretty much puts the fate of your ownership of a product at the mercy of the manufacturer who could in fact terminate it at any time for any reason they feel like.

Mixcraft 8.1 Recording Studio

There appears to be a problem with your software's registration.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 02/12/2025

Ah, tech issues, the perfect way to start my day. 🫠

American
Megatrends

ASUS PRIME B250M-A ACPI BIOS Revision 0809
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz
Speed: 3000MHz

Total Memory: 24576MB (DDR4-2133)

USB Devices total: 5 Drives, 2 Keyboards, 1 Mouse, 1 Hub
USB Drive #0: SanDisk Extreme 55AE 3008
USB Drive #1: Dell DVD+/-RW DW316 A1C2
USB Drive #2: Seagate Portable 0712
USB Drive #3: Seagate Portable 0712
USB Drive #4: SanDisk SES Device 3008

Detected ATA/ATAPI Devices...
SATA6G_5: KINGSTON SA400S37960G
SATA6G_6: WDC WD10EZEX-75WN4A0

Please enter setup to recover BIOS setting.
After setting up Intel(R) Optane Memory or the RAID configuration was built,
SATA Mode Selection must be changed to RAID mode to avoid unknown issues.
Press F1 to Run SETUP

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 13/11/2025

Side note: If you hadn't already realized yet, my art in recent times (Such as my Snow Miku and Masae VTuber drawings) has indeed been influenced by Yoshizaki's 2000s style. 🙂 As for another example, here's my most recent drawing of @okwendy.bsky.social 's OC.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 13/11/2025

I've been fixated on Mine Yoshizaki's art for the past 2 years now, so I figured I'd do an art study and write down what I learn (and/or presume) from his styles throughout time as I go along. Starting with the eyes as that's the part I've gained the most confidence in drawing as of now.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 31/10/2025

Moon Mountain Pass from #starfoxadventures remastered with high quality samples from the original source audio. This was my second attempt posting this, as the audio was lost in the trimming process for my first attempt, whoops. All just to get the video below 3 minutes. Anyways, Happy Halloween.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 18/10/2025

Because I have nothing better to do with my life, I did it anyways.

A screenshot of the current thread as of the time I'm composing this post with just about all blue-ish elements replaced with green.

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The Astral Snowstorm @nmcastralsnowstorm.eurosky.social · 11/10/2025

This reccomendation situation gives off a "Be careful about who you make fun of in high school" sort of vibe.

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